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The Candy House
by Jennifer Egan
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Candy House, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 352
- Reading time
- ≈ 6 h 20 min
- Checkpoints
- 26
- Genre
- Fiction
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read The Candy House?
At 352 pages, The Candy House is a fairly long book. Expect about 6 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 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: 26 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 14
- Checkpoint 2, page 27
- Checkpoint 3, page 41
- Checkpoint 4, page 54
- Checkpoint 5, page 68
- Checkpoint 6, page 81
- Checkpoint 7, page 95
- Checkpoint 8, page 108
- Checkpoint 9, page 122
- Checkpoint 10, page 135
- Checkpoint 11, page 149
- Checkpoint 12, page 162
- Checkpoint 13, page 176
- Checkpoint 14, page 190
- Checkpoint 15, page 203
- Checkpoint 16, page 217
- Checkpoint 17, page 230
- Checkpoint 18, page 244
- Checkpoint 19, page 257
- Checkpoint 20, page 271
- Checkpoint 21, page 284
- Checkpoint 22, page 298
- Checkpoint 23, page 311
- Checkpoint 24, page 325
- Checkpoint 25, page 338
- Checkpoint 26, page 352
In Vread, The Candy House is split into 26 checkpoints, one every 14 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 26 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 The Candy House: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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