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Dear Reader by Mary O'Connell

Dear Reader: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Dear Reader audiobook runs 9.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Saskia Maarleveld (about 6.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

9.2listening hrs
Fairy Tales & Folklore (Teen & YA)store shelf
2017released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 9.2 hours of listening.

Days to finish Dear Reader at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day19 days
1 hour / day10 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×7 days

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

What our data says

  • At 9.2 hours, it is shorter than 54% of the 1,014 Fairy Tales & Folklore (Teen & YA) audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by Saskia Maarleveld

Saskia Maarleveld narrates 612 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 6,444 hours in all.

All Saskia Maarleveld audiobooks, measured

About as long, on the Fairy Tales & Folklore (Teen & YA) shelf

222 Fairy Tales & Folklore (Teen & YA) 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

Dear Reader is an audiobook by Mary O'Connell: a 9.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Saskia Maarleveld, released May 9, 2017, on the Fairy Tales & Folklore (Teen & YA) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
9.2 hrs
Narrated by
Saskia Maarleveld
Released
May 9, 2017
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Fairy Tales & Folklore (Teen & YA)
ISBN
9781427286673

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Dear Reader audiobook?

Dear Reader runs 9.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.2 hours.

Is the Dear Reader audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Dear Reader?

Dear Reader is narrated by Saskia Maarleveld.