Book · Thrillers and mysteries
The Passage
by Justin Cronin
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Passage, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 1,175
- Reading time
- ≈ 21 h 20 min
- Checkpoints
- 33
- Genre
- Thriller
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read The Passage?
At 1,175 pages, The Passage is a doorstopper. Expect about 21 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 43 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 17 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 day43 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)17 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 33 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 36
- Checkpoint 2, page 71
- Checkpoint 3, page 107
- Checkpoint 4, page 142
- Checkpoint 5, page 178
- Checkpoint 6, page 214
- Checkpoint 7, page 249
- Checkpoint 8, page 285
- Checkpoint 9, page 320
- Checkpoint 10, page 356
- Checkpoint 11, page 392
- Checkpoint 12, page 427
- Checkpoint 13, page 463
- Checkpoint 14, page 498
- Checkpoint 15, page 534
- Checkpoint 16, page 570
- Checkpoint 17, page 605
- Checkpoint 18, page 641
- Checkpoint 19, page 677
- Checkpoint 20, page 712
- Checkpoint 21, page 748
- Checkpoint 22, page 783
- Checkpoint 23, page 819
- Checkpoint 24, page 855
- Checkpoint 25, page 890
- Checkpoint 26, page 926
- Checkpoint 27, page 961
- Checkpoint 28, page 997
- Checkpoint 29, page 1033
- Checkpoint 30, page 1068
- Checkpoint 31, page 1104
- Checkpoint 32, page 1139
- Checkpoint 33, page 1175
In Vread, The Passage is split into 33 checkpoints, one every 36 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 33 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 Passage: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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