About This Book
Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.") The New York Times best-selling author’s time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country’s lack of progress on racial reconciliation “I lost an arm on my last trip...
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Reading Time Estimates
7h 18m
slow reader
180 WPM
5h 16m
average reader
250 WPM
3h 46m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 78,925 words📅 11 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
5 h 16 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
5 h 51 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
8 h 46 min
Audio 2x
4 h 23 min
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- 📅11 days reading 30 min/day
- 🚇11 commutes of 30 min each

