Americanah — Audiobook
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 17.5 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 35 days |
| 1 hour / day | 18 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 12 days |
You'll finish in—by —
What our data says
- At 17.5 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 94% of the romance audiobooks we measured.
- That's 94% 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 a central love story — a long-haul epic at 17.5 hours (estimated).
About the book
10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home. • From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun • WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR "An expansive, epic love story."— O, The Oprah Magazine One of the New York Times ’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be Black for the first time.
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Start the free trialQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Americanah audiobook?
Americanah runs about 17.5 hours — our estimate from its 592 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.7 hours.
Can I listen to Americanah free?
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Is Americanah worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.7 hours — saving 5.8 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was Americanah first published?
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was first published in 1969.