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Coming Home by Mariah Stewart

Coming Home: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Chesapeake Diaries series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Coming Home audiobook runs 8.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Xe Sands (about 5.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.9listening hrs
Modernstore shelf
2012released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.9 hours of listening.

Days to finish Coming Home 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

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

What our data says

  • At 8.9 hours, it runs longer than 61% of the 16,241 Modern audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Chesapeake Diaries

This is book 1. Books 1 to 10 run 88.1 hours in all.

About as long, on the Modern shelf

3,468 Modern 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

Coming Home is book 1 of Mariah Stewart's Chesapeake Diaries series: a 8.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Xe Sands, released August 20, 2012, on the Modern and Fiction shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.9 hrs
Narrated by
Xe Sands
Released
August 20, 2012
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Modern, Fiction
Series
Chesapeake Diaries #1
ISBN
9781452679112

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Coming Home audiobook?

Coming Home runs 8.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.9 hours.

Is the Coming Home audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Coming Home?

Coming Home is narrated by Xe Sands.