# Babbitt

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis has 123,501 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Sinclair Lewis.

- **Author:** [Sinclair Lewis](https://musael.com/books/authors/sinclair-lewis.md) (1885–1951)
- **First published:** 1922
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** humorous fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 123,501
- **Reading time:** 8 h 14 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 13 h 17 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 10 h 18 min | 21 days |
| 250 wpm | 8 h 14 min | 17 days |
| 300 wpm | 6 h 52 min | 14 days |

## Read or listen

Babbitt is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/sinclair-lewis/babbitt
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1156
- LibriVox audiobook (13 h 26 min): https://librivox.org/babbitt-by-sinclair-lewis/

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 122,829
- Chapters: 34
- Dialogue: 46% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 15.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/sinclair-lewis/babbitt (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1156 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1107000
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbitt_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL51148W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1156

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/babbitt