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How the Dead Live by Will Self

How the Dead Live: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How the Dead Live audiobook runs 17.1 hours unabridged, narrated by Buffy Davis (about 11.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

17.1listening hrs
Fictionstore shelf
2011released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 17.1 hours of listening.

Days to finish How the Dead Live at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day35 days
1 hour / day18 days
2 hours / day9 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×12 days

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What our data says

  • At 17.1 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 62,518 Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Fiction shelf

2,081 Fiction 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

How the Dead Live is an audiobook by Will Self: a 17.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Buffy Davis, released January 1, 2011, on the Fiction shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
17.1 hrs
Narrated by
Buffy Davis
Released
January 1, 2011
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Fiction
ISBN
9781407471198

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the How the Dead Live audiobook?

How the Dead Live runs 17.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.4 hours.

Is the How the Dead Live audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates How the Dead Live?

How the Dead Live is narrated by Buffy Davis.

Is How the Dead Live worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.4 hours, saving 5.7 hours.