For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters and More: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters and More audiobook runs 6.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies (about 4.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 6.9 hours of listening.
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| 30 min / day | 14 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 6.9 hours, it runs longer than 54% of the 41,638 Literature audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies
Matthew Lloyd Davies narrates 254 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,433 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literature shelf
3,760 Literature 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
For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters and More is an audiobook by Graham Tarrant: a 6.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Matthew Lloyd Davies, released March 30, 2021, on the Literature shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Released
- March 30, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literature
- ISBN
- 9781666103380
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How long is the For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters and More audiobook?
For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters and More runs 6.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.6 hours.
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Who narrates For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters and More?
For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters and More is narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies.