Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed audiobook runs 27 hours unabridged, narrated by Michael Prichard (about 18 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 27 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 54 days |
| 1 hour / day | 27 days |
| 2 hours / day | 14 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 18 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 27 hours, it runs longer than 99% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Michael Prichard
Michael Prichard narrates 174 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,947 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Social Science shelf
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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
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is an audiobook by Jared Diamond: a 27-hour unabridged recording, read by Michael Prichard, released November 4, 2014, on the Social Science and World shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 27 hrs
- Narrated by
- Michael Prichard
- Released
- November 4, 2014
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, World
- ISBN
- 9780698404915
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed audiobook?
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed runs 27 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 18 hours.
Is the Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed?
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is narrated by Michael Prichard.
Is Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 18 hours, saving 9 hours.