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12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave: Audiobook

by Solomon Northup · narrated by Richard Allen · unabridged · 2013

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the 12 Years a Slave audiobook runs 8.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Richard Allen (about 5.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.8listening hrs
Social Sciencestore shelf
2013released
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Days to finish 12 Years a Slave at common listening paces
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30 min / day18 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days
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What our data says

  • At 8.8 hours, it runs longer than 59% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by Richard Allen

Richard Allen narrates 43 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 411 hours in all.

All Richard Allen audiobooks, measured

About as long, on the Social Science shelf

1,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2021 recording read by Mirron Willis runs 0.7 hours shorter (8.2 hours).
  • The 2026 recording read by Dion Graham runs 1.2 hours shorter (7.6 hours).

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

12 Years a Slave is an audiobook by Solomon Northup: a 8.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Richard Allen, released January 22, 2013, on the The Americas and Social Science shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.8 hrs
Narrated by
Richard Allen
Released
January 22, 2013
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
The Americas, Social Science
ISBN
9781666584097

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the 12 Years a Slave audiobook?

12 Years a Slave runs 8.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.9 hours.

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Who narrates 12 Years a Slave?

12 Years a Slave is narrated by Richard Allen.