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Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson

Better Luck Next Time: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Better Luck Next Time audiobook runs 8.9 hours unabridged, narrated by David Aaron Baker (about 5.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.9listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2021released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.9 hours of listening.

Days to finish Better Luck Next Time at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day18 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 8.9 hours, it is shorter than 52% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by David Aaron Baker

David Aaron Baker narrates 43 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 448 hours in all.

All David Aaron Baker audiobooks, measured

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

2,738 Literary 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

Better Luck Next Time is an audiobook by Julia Claiborne Johnson: a 8.9-hour unabridged recording, read by David Aaron Baker, released January 5, 2021, on the Literary Fiction and Fiction shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.9 hrs
Narrated by
David Aaron Baker
Released
January 5, 2021
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Literary Fiction, Fiction
ISBN
9780063065871

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Better Luck Next Time audiobook?

Better Luck Next Time runs 8.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.9 hours.

Is the Better Luck Next Time audiobook free?

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Who narrates Better Luck Next Time?

Better Luck Next Time is narrated by David Aaron Baker.