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The Castle
by Franz Kafka
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Castle, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 458
- Reading time
- ≈ 8 h 20 min
- Checkpoints
- 13
- Genre
- Classic
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How long does it take to read The Castle?
At 458 pages, The Castle is a fairly long book. Expect about 8 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 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: 13 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
In Vread, The Castle is split into 13 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 13 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
The Castle, Franz Kafka
In a 1956 interview, what does Samuel Beckett compare Kafka's prose form in The Castle to?
The answer is in the text: reply in the app.
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Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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