Book · Other fiction
Iron Gold
by Pierce Brown
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Iron Gold, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 600
- Reading time
- ≈ 10 h 50 min
- Checkpoints
- 21
- Genre
- Fiction
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read Iron Gold?
At 600 pages, Iron Gold is a long book. Expect about 10 hours 50 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 22 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 9 reading days. For a book of this length (600 pages or more), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 6.4 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day22 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)9 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 21 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 29
- Checkpoint 2, page 57
- Checkpoint 3, page 86
- Checkpoint 4, page 114
- Checkpoint 5, page 143
- Checkpoint 6, page 171
- Checkpoint 7, page 200
- Checkpoint 8, page 229
- Checkpoint 9, page 257
- Checkpoint 10, page 286
- Checkpoint 11, page 314
- Checkpoint 12, page 343
- Checkpoint 13, page 371
- Checkpoint 14, page 400
- Checkpoint 15, page 429
- Checkpoint 16, page 457
- Checkpoint 17, page 486
- Checkpoint 18, page 514
- Checkpoint 19, page 543
- Checkpoint 20, page 571
- Checkpoint 21, page 600
In Vread, Iron Gold is split into 21 checkpoints, one every 29 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 21 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 Iron Gold: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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