Reading Level
What is the reading level of One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America is 9th and 10th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 7 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 10 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 9 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
Reading Time
7 hrs 21 mins
How long to read One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America?
The estimated word count of One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America is 110,050 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 7 hrs 21 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 12 hrs 14 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 4 hrs 5 mins.
| One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America - 110,050 words | ||
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| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 12 hrs 14 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 7 hrs 21 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 4 hrs 5 mins |
- Authors
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Gene Weingarten
More about One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
110,050 words
Word Count
for One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
11 hours and 50 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
“One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years”—SlateOn New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Many of these events never made it into the news; they were private dramas in the lives of private people. They were utterly compelling. One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as “ordinary” when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human.