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Cover of Holes by Louis Sachar

Holes: Audiobook

The Holes audiobook runs an estimated 7.1 hours (about 4.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.1est. listening hrs
4.2★193 ratings
Young Adultgenre
Free with trial

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 7.1 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Holes at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day15 days
1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×5 days

What our data says

  • At 7.1 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 65% of the young adult audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 20% shorter than the average young adult audiobook (8.9 hrs across 162 titles in our dataset).

Computed from young adult audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for young adult listeners: a weekend-size listen at 7.1 hours (estimated).

About the book

Winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award! This #1 New York Times bestselling, modern classic in which boys are forced to dig holes day in and day out is now available with a splashy new look. Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Holes audiobook?

Holes runs about 7.1 hours, our estimate from its 240 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.7 hours.

Can I listen to Holes free?

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When was Holes first published?

Holes by Louis Sachar was first published in 1988.

Can you download Holes as an audio file?

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