How to Be Alone: Essays: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How to Be Alone: Essays audiobook runs 8.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Brian D'Arcy James and Jonathan Franzen (about 5.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 8.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 17 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 8.3 hours, it runs longer than 57% of the 4,590 Essays & Anthologies audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Brian D'Arcy James
Brian D'Arcy James narrates 4 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 41 hours in all.
About as long, on the Essays & Anthologies shelf
549 Essays & Anthologies 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 Alone: Essays is an audiobook by Jonathan Franzen: a 8.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Brian D'Arcy James and Jonathan Franzen, released January 29, 2013, on the Essays & Anthologies shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Brian D'Arcy James, Jonathan Franzen
- Released
- January 29, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Essays & Anthologies
- ISBN
- 9781427235121
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the How to Be Alone: Essays audiobook?
How to Be Alone: Essays runs 8.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.6 hours.
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Who narrates How to Be Alone: Essays?
How to Be Alone: Essays is narrated by Brian D'Arcy James and Jonathan Franzen.