Cruelty: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Cruelty audiobook runs 6.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Will Self and Jessica Hynes and others (about 4.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 6.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 13 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 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 6.3 hours, it is shorter than 77% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Will Self
Will Self narrates 11 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 95 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
1,336 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
Cruelty is an audiobook by Roald Dahl: a 6.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Will Self, Jessica Hynes and Adrian Scarborough and others, released August 18, 2016, on the Literary Fiction and Short Stories shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Will Self, Jessica Hynes, Adrian Scarborough, Andrew Scott, Tamsin Greig, Mark Heap
- Released
- August 18, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Short Stories
- ISBN
- 9781405930543
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Cruelty audiobook?
Cruelty runs 6.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.2 hours.
Is the Cruelty audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Cruelty?
Cruelty is narrated by Will Self, Jessica Hynes, Adrian Scarborough and Andrew Scott and others.