The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Reading Level
Grade 10
Time to Read
8 hrs 44 mins

Reading Level

What is the reading level of The Body: A Guide for Occupants?

Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of The Body: A Guide for Occupants is 9th and 10th grade.

Expert Readability Tests for
The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Readability Test Reading Level
Flesch Kincaid Scale Grade 9
SMOG Index Grade 11
Coleman Liau Index Grade 9
Dale Chall Readability Score Grade 7

Reading Time

8 hrs 44 mins

How long to read The Body: A Guide for Occupants?

The estimated word count of The Body: A Guide for Occupants is 130,820 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 8 hrs 44 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 14 hrs 33 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 4 hrs 51 mins.

The Body: A Guide for Occupants - 130,820 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 14 hrs 33 mins
Average 250 words/min 8 hrs 44 mins
Fast 450 words/min 4 hrs 51 mins
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
Authors
Bill Bryson

More about The Body: A Guide for Occupants

130,820 words

Word Count

for The Body: A Guide for Occupants

736 pages

Pages
Paperback: 736 pages

14 hours and 4 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD"Glorious. . .You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design." —The Washington Post Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody.Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body--how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Bryson-esque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular. As Bill Bryson writes, "We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted." The Body will cure that indifference with generous doses of wondrous, compulsively readable facts and information.