What is the shortest amount of time it's taken you to finish a book?

[Aiden (The Book Scourge)]

The Gunslinger and Flowers for Algernon only took only a day for me to read them.

[[deleted user]]

4 hours. several books dont renember exactly which book but yepp

[Nina]

I read a lot of books in just one day, for example all the Vampire Academy books. But I think the shortest amount was yesterday, when it took me only 4 hours to finish Mayhem :)
Yeah I think this is the power of procrastination :D

[[deleted user]]

It took me 4 hours to finish Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

[Sara]

45 minutes to read The One and Only Ivan

[Fishface]

I think I finished both Jonathan Livingston Seagull and In Colder Blood in under an hour.

[Olanrewaju]

Can't be sure. have read a lot of books in less than 12 hours.
The one I am proud of is Harry Potter Book 6 which I read in a cumulative 10 hours give or take within a 13+ hours period.

[Ashley Marie]

I read THE HATE U GIVE in 7 hours.

[[deleted user]]

The Fault In Our Stars in 6 hours.

[BookThief]

I read confess in 6 hours. I finished it at 6 in the morning!

[Beagle Lover (Avid Reader)]

60 minutes to read The Spell of Twelve by Rob Smith. (A children's book, but hey, you asked!!!), (^_-)

[curleduptoes]

An hour. Twilight i think. Twas fun.

[annesofie]

well i used to read extremely fast and finish anything in a few hours - i read the selection in like 3 hours for example. but now i read so slow idk what happened, a few days ago i read for 6 hours straight and only read 170 pages

[Alex]

3 hours to finish Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and 4 hours to finish the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay

[Angela]

3 hours the Outsiders.

[Betsy]

2 hours

[[deleted user]]

1 hr to read Unwind

[Maritina]

Less than 12 hours. It used to happen a lot when I was reading shorter books or had more free time.

[Aakash]

3 hours to complete the 'cursed child'.

[Michael]

15 minutes During the Dance by Mark Lawrence. (It is a short story).

[Mills]

Leah wrote: "It depends how long it is.
I've finished a 300 paged book in an hour before. And it would probably take me 5 minutes to finish a 12 paged first grade book or something like that."

Exactly. And the age range. A toddler's book might only take a few minutes.

[Sasha]

Depends on the genre and length.

I can finish a 100-200 page poetry book in under an hour and I read a 400 page novel within about 2-3 days.

[Julia]

Aakash wrote: "3 hours to complete the 'cursed child'."

Me too, I think. First time I read a book in a day. (I just had to get it over and done with; it was that painful for me.)

Also read Among the Hidden in a few hours one day.

[˙⋆✮ Anny ✮⋆˙]

I once read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in about 3 hours

[Melliott]

I frequently read a book in a day. Depending on the length, of course!

[OliveTree]

im a notoriously slow reader but i finished the third five nights at freddy's book (The Fourth Closet) in one night in one sitting. I'm not sure why, for some reason it really hooked me I guess, which is weird considering I'm not exactly its target audience

[OliveTree]

heres my review of that if you're curious https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[_sniper.force_]

2 hours.
300-something paged book.

[Melanie (aka DarkBeauty73)]

Isra wrote: "30 mins, 259 paged book, im a fast reader with nothing else to do"

wow good for you, not being sarcastic either. wish I could get anything read at this point.

[[deleted user]]

I can read a 350 pages book in 4 hours.

[Caroline]

Well, it depends on the length, but a few years ago, I read a book that was around 250 pages in two days. You speedy readers will laugh, but for me, that was a record. I can't read for hours straight. I start to feel antsy and..."stale." I have to get up and do something else.

[ElsaMakotoRenge]

It depends on the kind of book. Obviously some cute picture book takes much less time to read than a 400 page novel. Then there’s manga, sometimes I’ll take a long time to read a volume because I’m spending awhile just enjoying the artwork; other times I’ll just breeze through the story.

(And it depends if I’m enjoying the book or not, it takes me longer to get through books I don’t like much.)

[Hazel]

I read Worlds Collide in about four hours. I also read The End of Olympus (Pegasus 6) in a little over that.

[Lasar]

I've read a 400 pg book in an hour once (can't remember which one, but it was really good!) and quite a few 300 pg books in 2 hours.

[Hazel]

I also read four of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books in a little under two hours I think.

[Colca]

Wow, a bragging conversation… That's what the world needed. I myself am a really slow reader - I can manage at most 150 pages a day… so 2 days.

[Caroline]

Colca wrote: "I myself am a really slow reader - I can manage at most 150 pages a day… so 2 days."

Two days for a single book is very fast. In my observation over my years on GR, I'm one of the slowest readers here, reading on average 20 books (paper, no audio) per year. In the eyes of non-GR people, that's a colossal amount. I don't know how everyone else is finding the free time to read so much and so quickly.

[Lasar]

israʕ •ᴥ•ʔ wrote: "hello my fellow fast reader, nice to meet you."

lol I do read pretty fast

[˙⋆✮ Anny ✮⋆˙]

I once read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in about 3 hours (it was a reread). But I haven't been able to read a book in a day ever since.

[Cassie 'The Thinker Go Go Go Go' Mis. Roben Goodfellow'\Isabelle Lightwood]

a day.

[Brittany]

Around 8-10 hours

[Colca]

Caroline wrote: "Colca wrote: "I myself am a really slow reader - I can manage at most 150 pages a day… so 2 days."

Two days for a single book is very fast. In my observation over my years on GR, I'm one of the sl..."

That's so comforting to hear! This is just a very depressing topic to read, because nearly everyone on goodreads reads so fast. The last time I checked, I can read about 20 pages per hour (which I know is really slow). Meanwhile people write how they managed to read a 300 pg. book in one hour.
20 books per year sounds just about the right amount I read.

[Caroline]

Colca wrote: "Caroline wrote: "Colca wrote: "I myself am a really slow reader - I can manage at most 150 pages a day… so 2 days."

Two days for a single book is very fast. In my observation over my years on GR, ..."

Colca, you and I definitely aren't alone. I think those who read about 20 per year are less likely to talk about it (or participate in the challenge) because we feel kind of, well, ashamed (at least I do) since we're surrounded by so many who read 100 or more. But the fact of the matter is, 20 is an excellent number to read in a year; it's much more than the average person reads. A significant percentage of people don't read even one book a year and haven't read since they were in school, when they were required to. Also consider the role audio books play. I'd probably get through at least double what I do now if I listened to audio books. Anyway, it's really not a competition, and readers absorb their reading in ways that can slow down or speed up that reading.

[Readasaurus]

I've read a book in 20 minutes but it was only 100 pages long

[~☆~Autumn]

Matilda took me one afternoon.

[~☆~Autumn]

israʕ •ᴥ•ʔ wrote: "last night i finished a 789 paged book in 4 hrs. i myself was surprised, but it was a really good book"

What was it as I would like to read it too?

[Razvan]

~☆~Autumn♥♥ wrote: "israʕ •ᴥ•ʔ wrote: "last night i finished a 789 paged book in 4 hrs. i myself was surprised, but it was a really good book"

What was it as I would like to read it too?"



me too..

[~☆~Autumn]

israʕ •ᴥ•ʔ wrote: "it's called Keeper of The Lost Cities, it's a series, and all the books are really good, and the book i just finished was the one that came out two days ago, Legacy"

Thanks! I will see if the library has it. I love YA.

[Stephen]

I read Doctor sleep by Stephen King in 8 hours.

[[deleted user]]

Took me 10 min. To read a magic tree house book when I was 6 and 45 min. To read KOTLC.