# Siddhartha

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse has 39,196 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Hermann Hesse.

- **Author:** [Hermann Hesse](https://musael.com/books/authors/hermann-hesse.md) (1877–1962)
- **First published:** 1922
- **Original language:** German
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 39,196
- **Reading time:** 2 h 37 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 4 h 13 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 16 min | 7 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 37 min | 6 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 11 min | 5 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/hermann-hesse/siddhartha/various-translators
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2500
- LibriVox audiobook (5 h 6 min): https://librivox.org/siddhartha-by-hermann-hesse/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 39,208
- Dialogue: 33% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 21.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/hermann-hesse/siddhartha/various-translators (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2500 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457289
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL872932W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2500

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

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