How to Set a Fire and Why: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How to Set a Fire and Why audiobook runs 5.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Emma Galvin (about 3.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 5.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
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What our data says
- At 5.5 hours, it is shorter than 82% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Emma Galvin
Emma Galvin narrates 144 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,242 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
988 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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- I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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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 Set a Fire and Why is an audiobook by Jesse Ball: a 5.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Emma Galvin, released July 5, 2016, on the Psychological and Coming of Age shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Emma Galvin
- Released
- July 5, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Psychological, Coming of Age, Literary Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780451484147
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the How to Set a Fire and Why audiobook?
How to Set a Fire and Why runs 5.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.7 hours.
Is the How to Set a Fire and Why audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates How to Set a Fire and Why?
How to Set a Fire and Why is narrated by Emma Galvin.