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A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start A Room of One's Own, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 138
- Reading time
- ≈ 2 h 30 min
- Checkpoints
- 4
- Genre
- Fiction
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How long does it take to read A Room of One's Own?
At 138 pages, A Room of One's Own is a short book. Expect about 2 hours 30 minutes of reading to finish it, based on 250 words per page and an average reading speed of 230 words per minute. A fast reader will go quicker; a careful read (or reading in a second language) will take longer.
At 30 minutes a day, that is about 5 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 2 reading days. For a book of this length (under 250 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 4 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day5 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)2 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 4 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 35
- Checkpoint 2, page 69
- Checkpoint 3, page 104
- Checkpoint 4, page 138
In Vread, A Room of One's Own is split into 4 checkpoints, one every 35 pages or so. At each checkpoint, a question covers the passage you have just read: a correct answer validates the step, and your progress moves forward like a training plan.
The challenge: validate all 4 checkpoints through to the last page. No giant quiz at the end, no summary to copy out: short questions along the way that prove the book was actually read. It also works as a reading quiz to check your understanding before a test.
Also available in French on Vread.
Example: the checkpoint 1 question
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
What food, served with custard, does the narrator call "an uncharitable vegetable" during the dinner at Fernham?
The answer is in the text: reply in the app.

Public-domain work. The answer, and the following questions, unlock in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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