# Moods

Moods by Louisa May Alcott has 86,379 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Louisa May Alcott](https://musael.com/books/authors/louisa-may-alcott.md) (1832–1888)
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 86,379
- **Reading time:** 5 h 46 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 9 h 17 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 7 h 12 min | 15 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 46 min | 12 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 48 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28203
- LibriVox audiobook (9 h 56 min): https://librivox.org/moods-by-louisa-may-alcott/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 86,379
- Chapters: 21
- Dialogue: 41% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 22.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28203 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL30052W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28203

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

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