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Early Warning by Jane Smiley

Early Warning: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Early Warning audiobook runs 18.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Lorelei King (about 12.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

18.2listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2015released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 18.2 hours of listening.

Days to finish Early Warning at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day37 days
1 hour / day19 days
2 hours / day10 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×13 days

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

What our data says

  • At 18.2 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Saga

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 14.8 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 50.6 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Some Luck14.8 hrs
2Early Warning18.2 hrs
3Golden Age17.6 hrs

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

514 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

Early Warning is book 2 of Jane Smiley's Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family series: a 18.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Lorelei King, released April 28, 2015, on the Historical (Fiction) and Drama shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
18.2 hrs
Narrated by
Lorelei King
Released
April 28, 2015
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction), Drama, Literary Fiction
Series
The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Saga #2
ISBN
9781101889060

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Early Warning audiobook?

Early Warning runs 18.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 12.1 hours.

Is the Early Warning audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Early Warning?

Early Warning is narrated by Lorelei King.

Is Early Warning worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 12.1 hours, saving 6.1 hours.