Dead and Alive: Essays: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Dead and Alive: Essays audiobook runs 9.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Zadie Smith (about 6.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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What our data says
- At 9.6 hours, it runs longer than 73% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith narrates 15 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 82 hours in all.
About as long, on the Memoirs shelf
2,131 Memoirs 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
Dead and Alive: Essays is an audiobook by Zadie Smith: a 9.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Zadie Smith, released October 28, 2025, on the Memoirs and Essays & Anthologies shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Zadie Smith
- Released
- October 28, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs, Essays & Anthologies, Books with Buzz
- ISBN
- 9798217017317
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Dead and Alive: Essays audiobook?
Dead and Alive: Essays runs 9.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.4 hours.
Is the Dead and Alive: Essays audiobook free?
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Who narrates Dead and Alive: Essays?
Dead and Alive: Essays is narrated by Zadie Smith.