Book · Historical fiction
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Midnight's Children, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 775
- Reading time
- ≈ 14 h
- Checkpoints
- 22
- Genre
- Historical
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read Midnight's Children?
At 775 pages, Midnight's Children is a doorstopper. Expect about 14 hours 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 29 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 11 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 day29 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)11 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 22 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 35
- Checkpoint 2, page 70
- Checkpoint 3, page 106
- Checkpoint 4, page 141
- Checkpoint 5, page 176
- Checkpoint 6, page 211
- Checkpoint 7, page 247
- Checkpoint 8, page 282
- Checkpoint 9, page 317
- Checkpoint 10, page 352
- Checkpoint 11, page 388
- Checkpoint 12, page 423
- Checkpoint 13, page 458
- Checkpoint 14, page 493
- Checkpoint 15, page 528
- Checkpoint 16, page 564
- Checkpoint 17, page 599
- Checkpoint 18, page 634
- Checkpoint 19, page 669
- Checkpoint 20, page 705
- Checkpoint 21, page 740
- Checkpoint 22, page 775
In Vread, Midnight's Children is split into 22 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 22 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 Midnight's Children: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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