Dead and Alive: The illuminating new essay collection from the award-winning author of The Fraud: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Dead and Alive: The illuminating new essay collection from the award-winning author of The Fraud 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 66% of the 9,905 Social Science 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 Social Science shelf
1,857 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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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
Dead and Alive: The illuminating new essay collection from the award-winning author of The Fraud is an audiobook by Zadie Smith: a 9.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Zadie Smith, released October 30, 2025, on the Social Science and Arts & Entertainment shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Zadie Smith
- Released
- October 30, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Arts & Entertainment, Essays & Anthologies
- ISBN
- 9781405975223
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Dead and Alive: The illuminating new essay collection from the award-winning author of The Fraud audiobook?
Dead and Alive: The illuminating new essay collection from the award-winning author of The Fraud runs 9.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.4 hours.
Is the Dead and Alive: The illuminating new essay collection from the award-winning author of The Fraud audiobook free?
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Who narrates Dead and Alive: The illuminating new essay collection from the award-winning author of The Fraud?
Dead and Alive: The illuminating new essay collection from the award-winning author of The Fraud is narrated by Zadie Smith.