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The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The House of the Spirits, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 368
- Reading time
- ≈ 6 h 40 min
- Checkpoints
- 19
- Genre
- Classic
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read The House of the Spirits?
At 368 pages, The House of the Spirits is a fairly long book. Expect about 6 hours 40 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 14 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 6 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 day14 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)6 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 19 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 19
- Checkpoint 2, page 39
- Checkpoint 3, page 58
- Checkpoint 4, page 77
- Checkpoint 5, page 97
- Checkpoint 6, page 116
- Checkpoint 7, page 136
- Checkpoint 8, page 155
- Checkpoint 9, page 174
- Checkpoint 10, page 194
- Checkpoint 11, page 213
- Checkpoint 12, page 232
- Checkpoint 13, page 252
- Checkpoint 14, page 271
- Checkpoint 15, page 291
- Checkpoint 16, page 310
- Checkpoint 17, page 329
- Checkpoint 18, page 349
- Checkpoint 19, page 368
In Vread, The House of the Spirits is split into 19 checkpoints, one every 19 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.
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 House of the Spirits: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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