Book · Thrillers and mysteries
The Outsider
by Stephen King
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Outsider, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 560
- Reading time
- ≈ 10 h 10 min
- Checkpoints
- 17
- Genre
- Thriller
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read The Outsider?
At 560 pages, The Outsider is a long book. Expect about 10 hours 10 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 21 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 8 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 day21 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)8 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 17 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 33
- Checkpoint 2, page 66
- Checkpoint 3, page 99
- Checkpoint 4, page 132
- Checkpoint 5, page 165
- Checkpoint 6, page 198
- Checkpoint 7, page 231
- Checkpoint 8, page 264
- Checkpoint 9, page 296
- Checkpoint 10, page 329
- Checkpoint 11, page 362
- Checkpoint 12, page 395
- Checkpoint 13, page 428
- Checkpoint 14, page 461
- Checkpoint 15, page 494
- Checkpoint 16, page 527
- Checkpoint 17, page 560
In Vread, The Outsider is split into 17 checkpoints, one every 33 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 17 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 Outsider: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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