Book · Non-fiction, memoir and self-help
Sapiens and Homo Deus
by Yuval Noah Harari
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Sapiens and Homo Deus, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 900
- Reading time
- ≈ 16 h 20 min
- Checkpoints
- 29
- Genre
- Non-fiction
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read Sapiens and Homo Deus?
At 900 pages, Sapiens and Homo Deus is a doorstopper. Expect about 16 hours 20 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 33 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 13 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 day33 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)13 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 29 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 31
- Checkpoint 2, page 62
- Checkpoint 3, page 93
- Checkpoint 4, page 124
- Checkpoint 5, page 155
- Checkpoint 6, page 186
- Checkpoint 7, page 217
- Checkpoint 8, page 248
- Checkpoint 9, page 279
- Checkpoint 10, page 310
- Checkpoint 11, page 341
- Checkpoint 12, page 372
- Checkpoint 13, page 403
- Checkpoint 14, page 434
- Checkpoint 15, page 466
- Checkpoint 16, page 497
- Checkpoint 17, page 528
- Checkpoint 18, page 559
- Checkpoint 19, page 590
- Checkpoint 20, page 621
- Checkpoint 21, page 652
- Checkpoint 22, page 683
- Checkpoint 23, page 714
- Checkpoint 24, page 745
- Checkpoint 25, page 776
- Checkpoint 26, page 807
- Checkpoint 27, page 838
- Checkpoint 28, page 869
- Checkpoint 29, page 900
In Vread, Sapiens and Homo Deus is split into 29 checkpoints, one every 31 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 29 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 Sapiens and Homo Deus: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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