How Long Does It Take Me to Read a Book?

Depends on the book. As an example, I read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in about 5 hours on a trip to Disney World when I was 11. I read one of those old early 90s RL Stine Fear Street books in about 2 hours when I was maybe 8 years old (I remember because we were visiting my grandparents and my grandma bought me a whole big bag of Fear Street; I read the first one in about 2 hours and my mom was like, “Those have to last you, you know?” And my grandma was like, “No, I’ll take her back if she manages to finish them all before you go home”).

But now I have a job and bills to pay and writing to do. And even then, it depends on the book. I read the entire Raven Cycle in approximately a week if you subtract the time it took for the books to arrive. I read A Court of Mist and Fury in less than 30 hours and it’s 622 pages long (and I had to take notes because it was a library book). I read Throne of Glass in about the same amount of time even though it’s 200 pages shorter.

But I’ve also been working through Delusion’s Master for the last 2 months and it’s maybe ¼ the size of ACOMAF. I’ve had to start, stop, and restart Eye of the World at least six times (I finally caved and bought the audiobook). I read The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in less than a day but took several months to get through The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland.

It just depends.

What Are All My Books in My Background?

Here's a list of the books in my background. I've read (or written) all of them. From left to right, top to bottom all the way across:

1) Garnet - LA Knight
2) Goddess of the Night - Lynne Ewing
3) The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
4) The Princess & the Bear - Mette Ivie Harrison
5) Into the Land of the Unicorns - Bruce Coville
6) Radiant Darkness - Emily Whitman
7) Scarlet - Marissa Meyer
8) Pride and Prescience - Carrie Bebris
9) Weetzie Bat - Francesca Lia Block
10) Alice in Zombieland - Gena Showalter
11) Heaven's Bones - Susan Henderson
12) Lady Friday - Garth Nix
13) The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale
14) Fortune's Fool - Mercedes Lackey
15) Masque of the Red Death - Bethany Griffin
16) Violet Eyes - Debbie Viguie
17) Nevermore - Kelly Creagh
18) Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz
19) Black as Night - Regina Doman
20) East - Edith Pattou
21) A Company of Swans - Eva Ibbotson
22) Sisters Red - Jackson Pearce
23) Dearly, Departed - Lia Habel
24) Entwined - Heather Dixon
25) Matched - Ally Condie
26) Sweetblood - Pete Hautman
27) The Vicious Deep - Zoraida Cordova
28) Splintered - AG Howard
29) Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier
30) Abhorsen - Garth Nix
31) Heir to the Shadows - Anne Bishop
32) A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
33) Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
34) Terrier - Tamora Pierce
35) In the Forests of the Night - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
36) Sabriel - Garth Nix
37) Deerskin - Robin McKinley
38) Remember Me - Christopher Pike
39) The Quantum Rose - Catherine Asaro
40) Dreadlocks - Neal Shusterman
41) Glass - LA Knight
42) Beauty - Robin McKinley
43) Ice - Sarah Beth Durst
44) The Looking Glass Wars - Frank Beddor
45) Sea of Shadows - Fuyumi Ono
46) Spindle's End - Robin McKinley
47) Perfect Chemistry - Simone Elkeles
48) Eldest - Christopher Paolini
49) The Thirteenth Princess - Diane Zahler
50) Obsidian - LA Knight
51) Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
52) The Iron Thorn - Caitlin Kittredge
53) Fever - Lauren Destefano
54) Once Upon an Autumn Eve - Dennis McKiernan
55) A Countess Below Stairs - Eva Ibbotson
56) Crossed - Ally Condie
57) The Blue Mirror - Kathe Koja
58) The Wild Orchid - Cameron Dokey
59) Divergent - Veronica Roth
60) Firebirds - Anthology
61) Reached - Ally Condie
62) Obsidian - Jennifer L. Armentrout
63) Onyx - Jennifer L. Armentrout
64) Misty of Chincoteague - Marguarite Henry
65) Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
66) The Sleeping Beauty - Mercedes Lackey
67) Delirium - Lauren Oliver
68) Pandemonium - Lauren Oliver
69) Calling - LA Knight
70) The Gray King - Susan Cooper
71) First Test - Tamora Pierce
72) Sunlight & Shadow - Cameron Dokey
73) Psyche in a Dress - Francesca Lia Block
74) Violet & Claire - Francesca Lia Block
75) The Midnight Dancers - Regina Doman
76) Red as Blood - Tanith Lee
77) Cinder - Marissa Meyer
78) River Rats - Caroline Stevermer
79) Belle - Cameron Dokey
80) Lioness Rampatn - Tamora Pierce
81) Garnet - LA Knight
82) Goddess of the Night - Lynne Ewing
83) The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
84) The Princess & the Bear - Mette Ivie Harrison
85) Into the Land of the Unicorns - Bruce Coville
86) Radiant Darkness - Emily Whitman
87) Scarlet - Marissa Meyer
88) Pride and Prescience - Carrie Bebris
89) Weetzie Bat - Francesca Lia Block
90) Alice in Zombieland - Gena Showalter