How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World audiobook runs 13.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Colin Beavan (about 9.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 13.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 28 days |
| 1 hour / day | 14 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 days |
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What our data says
- At 13.8 hours, it runs longer than 94% of the 4,073 Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
About as long, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelf
246 Animals & Nature (Non-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 to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World is an audiobook by Colin Beavan: a 13.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Colin Beavan, released January 5, 2016, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 13.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Colin Beavan
- Released
- January 5, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)
- ISBN
- 9780062444509
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World audiobook?
How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World runs 13.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.2 hours.
Is the How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World audiobook free?
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Who narrates How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World?
How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World is narrated by Colin Beavan.
Is How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.2 hours, saving 4.6 hours.