A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories runs 14.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Micky Shiloah and John Pirhalla and others (about 9.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 14.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 30 days |
| 1 hour / day | 15 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 days |
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What our data says
- At 14.7 hours, it runs longer than 90% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Micky Shiloah
Micky Shiloah narrates 12 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 146 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
1,186 Literary Fiction 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 Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories is an audiobook by Jonathan Lethem: a 14.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Micky Shiloah, John Pirhalla and Sophie Amoss and others, released September 23, 2025, on the Literary Fiction and Short Stories shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Micky Shiloah, John Pirhalla, Sophie Amoss, Pete Simonelli, Jonathan Lethem, Jim Meskimen
- Released
- September 23, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Short Stories
- ISBN
- 9780063388871
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories as an audiobook?
A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories runs 14.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.8 hours.
Is A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories?
A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories is narrated by Micky Shiloah, John Pirhalla, Sophie Amoss and Pete Simonelli and others.
Is A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.8 hours, saving 4.9 hours.