How Should a Person Be?: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How Should a Person Be? audiobook runs 5.6 hours unabridged, narrated by James Dunnigan and Wai Kin Chan and others (about 3.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 5.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 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 5.6 hours, it is shorter than 81% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Stephen Joffe
Stephen Joffe narrates 4 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 16 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
1,016 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Other recordings
- The 2025 recording read by Wai Kin Chan and Stephen Joffe runs about the same length (5.6 hours).
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
How Should a Person Be? is an audiobook by Sheila Heti: a 5.6-hour unabridged recording, read by James Dunnigan, Wai Kin Chan and Stephen Joffe and others, released July 15, 2025, on the Contemporary Women and Literary Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- James Dunnigan, Wai Kin Chan, Stephen Joffe, Misha Glouberman, Michael Ross Albert, Margaux Williamson
- Released
- July 15, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Contemporary Women, Literary Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781039058835
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the How Should a Person Be? audiobook?
How Should a Person Be? runs 5.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.7 hours.
Is the How Should a Person Be? audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates How Should a Person Be??
How Should a Person Be? is narrated by James Dunnigan, Wai Kin Chan, Stephen Joffe and Misha Glouberman and others.