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Book 4 of The Wheel of Time · 1992

The Shadow Rising

by Robert Jordan. 984 pages, about 18 hours to read. Rated 4.1 out of 5 by 79 Open Library readers.

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How long to read The Shadow Rising

At 250 words a minute, the average adult pace, The Shadow Rising takes about 18 hours. That assumes 275 words a page over 984 pages.

Your paceTime
150 words/min (slow, or reading aloud)30 hours
200 words/min23 hours
250 words/min (average)18 hours
300 words/min15 hours
400 words/min (fast)11 hours

In the series

All 15 The Wheel of Time books in order

Fiction · Good and evil · Fiction, fantasy, epic · Fantasy fiction · American Fantasy fiction · Fantastic fiction