Home for the Summer: Audiobook
Book 5 of the Chesapeake Diaries series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Home for the Summer audiobook runs 8.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Xe Sands (about 5.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 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 8.6 hours, it runs longer than 58% of the 16,241 Modern audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Chesapeake Diaries
This is book 5. Books 1 to 4 run 36.8 hours before it; books 1 to 10 run 88.1 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coming Home | 8.9 hrs |
| 2 | Home Again | 10.8 hrs |
| 3 | Almost Home | 8.8 hrs |
| 4 | Hometown Girl | 8.3 hrs |
| 5 | Home for the Summer | 8.6 hrs |
| 6 | The Long Way Home | 8.9 hrs |
| 7 | At the River's Edge | 8.9 hrs |
| 8 | On Sunset Beach | 8.5 hrs |
| 9 | That Chesapeake Summer | 8.4 hrs |
| 10 | Driftwood Point | 8 hrs |
More narrated by Xe Sands
Xe Sands narrates 477 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,383 hours in all.
About as long, on the Modern shelf
3,356 Modern 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
Home for the Summer is book 5 of Mariah Stewart's Chesapeake Diaries series: a 8.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Xe Sands, released September 28, 2012, on the Modern and Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Xe Sands
- Released
- September 28, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Modern, Fiction
- Series
- Chesapeake Diaries #5
- ISBN
- 9781452679150
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Home for the Summer audiobook?
Home for the Summer runs 8.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.7 hours.
Is the Home for the Summer audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Home for the Summer?
Home for the Summer is narrated by Xe Sands.