California Gold: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the California Gold audiobook runs 31.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Shawn Compton (about 21 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 31.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 63 days |
| 1 hour / day | 32 days |
| 2 hours / day | 16 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 21 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 31.5 hours, it runs longer than 99% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Shawn Compton
Shawn Compton narrates 160 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,476 hours in all.
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- He's Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son to Believe In Himself
- Lost!: A Harrowing True Story of Disaster at Sea
- The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand
- Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission
About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf
102 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Outlander
- The Mammoth Hunters
- The Tea Rose
- The Shelters of Stone
- The Plains of Passage
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
California Gold is an audiobook by John Jakes: a 31.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Shawn Compton, released March 24, 2020, on the Historical (Fiction) and Westerns & War shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 31.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Shawn Compton
- Released
- March 24, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction), Westerns & War
- ISBN
- 9781515949176
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the California Gold audiobook?
California Gold runs 31.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 21 hours.
Is the California Gold audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates California Gold?
California Gold is narrated by Shawn Compton.
Is California Gold worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 21 hours, saving 10.5 hours.