Cities of the Plain: Audiobook
Book 3 of the Border (McCarthy) series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Cities of the Plain audiobook runs 9.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Frank Muller (about 6.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 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 9.2 hours, it runs longer than 52% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Border (McCarthy)
This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 24.8 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 34 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | All the Pretty Horses | 10.1 hrs |
| 2 | The Crossing | 14.7 hrs |
| 3 | Cities of the Plain | 9.2 hrs |
More narrated by Frank Muller
Frank Muller narrates 63 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 604 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
2,886 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
Cities of the Plain is book 3 of Cormac McCarthy's Border (McCarthy) series: a 9.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Frank Muller, released February 25, 2011, on the Literary Fiction and Westerns & War shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Frank Muller
- Released
- February 25, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Westerns & War
- Series
- Border (McCarthy) #3
- ISBN
- 9781456124588
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Cities of the Plain audiobook?
Cities of the Plain runs 9.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.1 hours.
Is the Cities of the Plain audiobook free?
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Who narrates Cities of the Plain?
Cities of the Plain is narrated by Frank Muller.