A Conventional Boy: Audiobook
Book 13 of the Laundry Files series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Conventional Boy runs 7.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Gideon Emery (about 5.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 16 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.7 hours, it is shorter than 60% of the 12,109 Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Laundry Files
This is book 13. Books 1 to 12 run 157.4 hours before it; books 1 to 13 run 165.1 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Atrocity Archives | 11 hrs |
| 2 | The Jennifer Morgue | 13.8 hrs |
| 3 | The Fuller Memorandum | 10.8 hrs |
| 4 | The Apocalypse Codex | 12 hrs |
| 5 | The Rhesus Chart | 13.4 hrs |
| 6 | The Annihilation Score | 16.4 hrs |
| 7 | The Nightmare Stacks | 14.9 hrs |
| 8 | The Delirium Brief | 13.8 hrs |
| 9 | The Labyrinth Index | 13.8 hrs |
| 10 | Dead Lies Dreaming | 11.3 hrs |
| 11 | Quantum of Nightmares | 13.6 hrs |
| 12 | Season of Skulls | 12.6 hrs |
More narrated by Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery narrates 50 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 594 hours in all.
About as long, on the Fantasy shelf
1,631 Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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
A Conventional Boy is book 13 of Charles Stross's Laundry Files series: a 7.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Gideon Emery, released January 7, 2025, on the Fantasy shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Gideon Emery
- Released
- January 7, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Fantasy
- Series
- Laundry Files #13
- ISBN
- 9798892741446
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Conventional Boy as an audiobook?
A Conventional Boy runs 7.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.1 hours.
Is A Conventional Boy free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Conventional Boy?
A Conventional Boy is narrated by Gideon Emery.