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How to be both by Ali Smith

How to be both: Audiobook

by Ali Smith · narrated by John Banks · unabridged · 2015

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How to be both audiobook runs 8.5 hours unabridged, narrated by John Banks (about 5.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.5listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2015released
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1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
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What our data says

  • At 8.5 hours, it is shorter than 56% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by John Banks

John Banks narrates 63 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,170 hours in all.

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About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

2,581 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2021 recording read by Katie Leung runs about the same length (8.6 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 to be both is an audiobook by Ali Smith: a 8.5-hour unabridged recording, read by John Banks, released February 13, 2015, on the Historical (Fiction) and Contemporary Women shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.5 hrs
Narrated by
John Banks
Released
February 13, 2015
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction), Contemporary Women, Literary Fiction
ISBN
9781490672533

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the How to be both audiobook?

How to be both runs 8.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.7 hours.

Is the How to be both audiobook free?

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Who narrates How to be both?

How to be both is narrated by John Banks.