Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base audiobook runs 16.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Annie Jacobsen (about 10.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 33 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 16.2 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 5,303 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Annie Jacobsen
Annie Jacobsen narrates 11 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 174 hours in all.
- Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
- Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
- The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
- Biological War: A Scenario
- First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
246 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: The multi-million copy bestseller
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
- Homo Deus: The million-copy bestseller from the author of Nexus
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base is an audiobook by Annie Jacobsen: a 16.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Annie Jacobsen, released May 17, 2011, on the Military (History) and Social Science shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Annie Jacobsen
- Released
- May 17, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Military (History), Social Science
- ISBN
- 9781609410926
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base audiobook?
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base runs 16.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.8 hours.
Is the Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base?
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base is narrated by Annie Jacobsen.
Is Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.8 hours, saving 5.4 hours.