# Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser has 156,562 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Theodore Dreiser](https://musael.com/books/authors/theodore-dreiser.md) (1871–1945)
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 156,562
- **Reading time:** 10 h 26 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 16 h 50 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 13 h 3 min | 27 days |
| 250 wpm | 10 h 26 min | 21 days |
| 300 wpm | 8 h 42 min | 18 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/theodore-dreiser/sister-carrie
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/233
- LibriVox audiobook (17 h 47 min): https://librivox.org/sister-carrie-by-theodore-dreiser/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 157,084
- Chapters: 47
- Dialogue: 20% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 12 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/theodore-dreiser/sister-carrie (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/233 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL100203W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/233

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/sister-carrie