Book · Fantasy and science fiction
Words of Radiance
by Brandon Sanderson
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Words of Radiance, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 1,088
- Reading time
- ≈ 19 h 40 min
- Checkpoints
- 40
- Genre
- Fantasy, SF
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read Words of Radiance?
At 1,088 pages, Words of Radiance is a doorstopper. Expect about 19 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 40 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 16 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 day40 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)16 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 40 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 27
- Checkpoint 2, page 54
- Checkpoint 3, page 82
- Checkpoint 4, page 109
- Checkpoint 5, page 136
- Checkpoint 6, page 163
- Checkpoint 7, page 190
- Checkpoint 8, page 218
- Checkpoint 9, page 245
- Checkpoint 10, page 272
- Checkpoint 11, page 299
- Checkpoint 12, page 326
- Checkpoint 13, page 354
- Checkpoint 14, page 381
- Checkpoint 15, page 408
- Checkpoint 16, page 435
- Checkpoint 17, page 462
- Checkpoint 18, page 490
- Checkpoint 19, page 517
- Checkpoint 20, page 544
- Checkpoint 21, page 571
- Checkpoint 22, page 598
- Checkpoint 23, page 626
- Checkpoint 24, page 653
- Checkpoint 25, page 680
- Checkpoint 26, page 707
- Checkpoint 27, page 734
- Checkpoint 28, page 762
- Checkpoint 29, page 789
- Checkpoint 30, page 816
- Checkpoint 31, page 843
- Checkpoint 32, page 870
- Checkpoint 33, page 898
- Checkpoint 34, page 925
- Checkpoint 35, page 952
- Checkpoint 36, page 979
- Checkpoint 37, page 1006
- Checkpoint 38, page 1034
- Checkpoint 39, page 1061
- Checkpoint 40, page 1088
In Vread, Words of Radiance is split into 40 checkpoints, one every 27 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 40 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 Words of Radiance: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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