Hard Country: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Kerney Family series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Hard Country audiobook runs 15.9 hours unabridged, narrated by George Guidall (about 10.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 15.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 32 days |
| 1 hour / day | 16 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 15.9 hours, it runs longer than 94% of the 5,087 Westerns & War audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Kerney Family
This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 44.4 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hard Country | 15.9 hrs |
| 2 | Backlands | 14.2 hrs |
| 3 | The Last Ranch | 14.3 hrs |
More narrated by George Guidall
George Guidall narrates 722 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 7,374 hours in all.
About as long, on the Westerns & War shelf
227 Westerns & War audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Alice Network
- The Rose Code
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Comstock Lode (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)
- Behind the Lines
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
Hard Country is book 1 of Michael McGarrity's Kerney Family series: a 15.9-hour unabridged recording, read by George Guidall, released May 10, 2012, on the Westerns & War shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 15.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- George Guidall
- Released
- May 10, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Westerns & War
- Series
- Kerney Family #1
- ISBN
- 9781464038471
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Hard Country audiobook?
Hard Country runs 15.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.6 hours.
Is the Hard Country audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Hard Country?
Hard Country is narrated by George Guidall.
Is Hard Country worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.6 hours, saving 5.3 hours.