
Book · Thrillers and mysteries
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
by Haruki Murakami
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 336
- Reading time
- ≈ 6 h 10 min
- Checkpoints
- 9
- Genre
- Thriller
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage?
At 336 pages, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is a fairly long book. Expect about 6 hours 10 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 13 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 5 reading days. For a book of this length (250 to 399 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 4.7 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day13 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)5 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 9 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 37
- Checkpoint 2, page 75
- Checkpoint 3, page 112
- Checkpoint 4, page 149
- Checkpoint 5, page 187
- Checkpoint 6, page 224
- Checkpoint 7, page 261
- Checkpoint 8, page 299
- Checkpoint 9, page 336
In Vread, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is split into 9 checkpoints, one every 37 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 9 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.
Illustrative example
What a checkpoint looks like
A short, precise question about the pages you have just read: a character, a place, a choice.
The answer is in the text: reply in the app.

This is not a question from Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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