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A Shooting Star by Wallace Stegner

A Shooting Star: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Shooting Star runs 17.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Bernadette Dunne (about 11.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

17.2listening hrs
Fictionstore shelf
2010released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 17.2 hours of listening.

Days to finish A Shooting Star at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day35 days
1 hour / day18 days
2 hours / day9 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×12 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 17.2 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 62,518 Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Fiction shelf

2,017 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 Shooting Star is an audiobook by Wallace Stegner: a 17.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Bernadette Dunne, released September 29, 2010, on the Fiction shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
17.2 hrs
Narrated by
Bernadette Dunne
Released
September 29, 2010
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Fiction
ISBN
9781483071862

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Questions listeners ask

How long is A Shooting Star as an audiobook?

A Shooting Star runs 17.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.5 hours.

Is A Shooting Star free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates A Shooting Star?

A Shooting Star is narrated by Bernadette Dunne.

Is A Shooting Star worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.5 hours, saving 5.7 hours.