Books to read in under 4 hours

Average estimates use 250 words per minute. Open a book to test your own pace.

• The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1) by Stephen King · 3 hr 48 min at 250 wpm
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut · 3 hr 32 min at 250 wpm
• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells · 4 hr at 250 wpm
• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli · 2 hr 18 min at 250 wpm
• Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne · 1 hr 30 min at 250 wpm
• The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi · 2 hr 46 min at 250 wpm
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll · 1 hr 46 min at 250 wpm
• Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie · 3 hr 8 min at 250 wpm
• Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley · 3 hr 48 min at 250 wpm
• Poetry by Oscar Wilde · 2 hr 53 min at 250 wpm
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut · 3 hr 18 min at 250 wpm
• The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick · 56 min at 250 wpm
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens · 1 hr 54 min at 250 wpm
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson · 1 hr 42 min at 250 wpm
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling · 2 hr 13 min at 250 wpm
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare · 1 hr 56 min at 250 wpm
• My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir · 3 hr 50 min at 250 wpm
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling · 3 hr 23 min at 250 wpm
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk · 3 hr 16 min at 250 wpm
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius · 3 hr 2 min at 250 wpm
• The Mist by Stephen King · 3 hr 23 min at 250 wpm
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two by J. K. Rowling · 3 hr 39 min at 250 wpm
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald · 3 hr 13 min at 250 wpm
• Poetry by C. S. Lewis · 1 hr 46 min at 250 wpm
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse · 2 hr 37 min at 250 wpm
• A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle · 2 hr 53 min at 250 wpm
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury · 3 hr 4 min at 250 wpm
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison · 3 hr 34 min at 250 wpm