A Discovery of Witches — Audiobook
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 19.6 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 40 days |
| 1 hour / day | 20 days |
| 2 hours / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 14 days |
You'll finish in—by —
What our data says
- At 19.6 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 96% of the romance audiobooks we measured.
- That's 118% longer than the average romance audiobook (9 hrs across 819 titles in our dataset).
Computed from romance audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset; listening time estimated from page count.
Who is this for?
Best for romance listeners who want vampires and witches — a long-haul epic at 19.6 hours (estimated).
About the book
Book one of the New York Times bestselling All Souls series, from the author of The Black Bird Oracle. Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on Netflix “A wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight ” ( People ). Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches , has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782 , deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.
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How long is A Discovery of Witches as an audiobook?
A Discovery of Witches runs about 19.6 hours — our estimate from its 664 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 13.1 hours.
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Is A Discovery of Witches worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 13.1 hours — saving 6.5 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was A Discovery of Witches first published?
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness was first published in 2011.