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Beggars Ride by Nancy Kress

Beggars Ride: Audiobook

Book 3 of the Beggars series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Beggars Ride audiobook runs 15.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Judy Young (about 10.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

15.5listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2009released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 15.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish Beggars Ride at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day31 days
1 hour / day16 days
2 hours / day8 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×11 days

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

What our data says

  • At 15.5 hours, it runs longer than 89% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Beggars Trilogy

This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 28.3 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 43.8 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Beggars in Spain16.2 hrs
2Beggars and Choosers12.1 hrs
3Beggars Ride15.5 hrs

About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf

1,002 Science 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

Beggars Ride is book 3 of Nancy Kress's Beggars series: a 15.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Judy Young, released February 26, 2009, on the Science Fiction shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
15.5 hrs
Narrated by
Judy Young
Released
February 26, 2009
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction
Series
The Beggars Trilogy #3
ISBN
9781483066257

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Beggars Ride audiobook?

Beggars Ride runs 15.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.4 hours.

Is the Beggars Ride audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Beggars Ride?

Beggars Ride is narrated by Judy Young.

Is Beggars Ride worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.4 hours, saving 5.2 hours.