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How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard

How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read audiobook runs 4.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Grover Gardner (about 3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

4.5listening hrs
Literaturestore shelf
2007released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 4.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read at common listening paces
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30 min / day9 days
1 hour / day5 days
2 hours / day3 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×3 days

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What our data says

  • At 4.5 hours, it is shorter than 60% of the 41,638 Literature audiobooks in our catalog.

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 Talk about Books You Haven’t Read is an audiobook by Pierre Bayard: a 4.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Grover Gardner, released October 30, 2007, on the Literature shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
4.5 hrs
Narrated by
Grover Gardner
Released
October 30, 2007
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Literature
ISBN
9781481544412

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read audiobook?

How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read runs 4.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3 hours.

Is the How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read audiobook free?

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Who narrates How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read?

How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read is narrated by Grover Gardner.