An average reader would take five months, 15 days, 21 hours and 44 minutes to read the 500 “best books of all time” according to The Economist magazine.
The 500 works were defined according to the website thegreatestbooks.orgwhich compiles information from more than 300 book recommendation lists from press outlets or review platforms to determine which ones appear most frequently.
The site’s “best books of all time” list changes regularly as new nominations are added and counted. To conduct this survey, The Economist used the first 500 books that appeared on the list on July 1 as a basis.
Check out the top 10 below and the 500 books in the The Economist website.
- “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, by Gabriel García Márquez (7 hours and 40 minutes);
- “The Great Gatsby”, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2 hours and 51 minutes);
- “Ulysses”, by James Joyce (14 hours and 54 minutes);
- “The Catcher in the Rye”, by JD Salinger (4 hours and 36 minutes);
- “1984”, George Orwell (5 hours and 35 minutes);
- “In Search of Lost Time”, by Marcel Proust (3 days, 3 hours and 47 minutes);
- “Lolita”, by Vladimir Nabokov (6 hours and 5 minutes);
- “To Kill a Mockingbird”, by Harper Lee (5 hours and 35 minutes);
- “Moby Dick”, by Herman Melville (11 hours and 59 minutes);
- “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen (7 hours and 15 minutes).
A single Brazilian work appeared on the list: “The Alchemist”, by Paulo Coelho, in 308th place (and with 2 hours and 51 minutes of reading time).
The calculation of time that resulted in five months, 15 days, 21 hours and 44 minutes was made based on the website howlongtoread.comwhich estimates the approximate reading time of various books based on the length of audiobooks.
The average reading time for an adult is 300 words per minute.
Of course, this period of time does not take into account other needs of the average adult such as: sleeping, working, bathing or just resting the eyes.
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This content was originally published in Reading the 500 best books in the world would take just over 5 months, says magazine on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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