# Kim

Kim by Rudyard Kipling has 105,828 words.

## At a glance

Picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling.

- **Author:** [Rudyard Kipling](https://musael.com/books/authors/rudyard-kipling.md) (1865–1936)
- **First published:** 1901
- **Original language:** British English
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 105,828
- **Reading time:** 7 h 3 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 11 h 23 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 8 h 49 min | 18 days |
| 250 wpm | 7 h 3 min | 15 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 53 min | 12 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/rudyard-kipling/kim
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2226
- LibriVox audiobook (13 h 8 min): https://librivox.org/kim-by-rudyard-kipling/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 105,941
- Chapters: 15
- Dialogue: 52% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 12.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/rudyard-kipling/kim (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2226 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q589868
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19908W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2226

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

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