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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
347 pages2007
National Book Critics Circle Award Winneraward:national_book_critics_circle_award=2007award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fictionDominican AmericansFiction
About This Book
#11 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Osca...
Reading Time Estimates
8h 50m
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180 WPM
6h 22m
average reader
250 WPM
4h 33m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 95,425 words📅 13 days at 30 min/day
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6 hours 22 min
at 250 words per minute
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7 hours 4 min
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10 hours 36 min
Audio 2x
5 hours 18 min
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