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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Little Women, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 449
- Reading time
- ≈ 8 h 10 min
- Checkpoints
- 19
- Genre
- Classic
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How long does it take to read Little Women?
At 449 pages, Little Women is a fairly long book. Expect about 8 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 17 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 7 reading days. For a book of this length (400 to 599 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 5.3 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day17 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)7 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 19 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 24
- Checkpoint 2, page 47
- Checkpoint 3, page 71
- Checkpoint 4, page 95
- Checkpoint 5, page 118
- Checkpoint 6, page 142
- Checkpoint 7, page 165
- Checkpoint 8, page 189
- Checkpoint 9, page 213
- Checkpoint 10, page 236
- Checkpoint 11, page 260
- Checkpoint 12, page 284
- Checkpoint 13, page 307
- Checkpoint 14, page 331
- Checkpoint 15, page 354
- Checkpoint 16, page 378
- Checkpoint 17, page 402
- Checkpoint 18, page 425
- Checkpoint 19, page 449
In Vread, Little Women is split into 19 checkpoints, one every 24 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 19 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
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
What does Amy March spend all her money to replace with a larger bottle as a gift for her mother?
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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