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Human Required by Anne Hale, Celia Kyle

Human Required: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Cyborg Planet Alpha series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Human Required audiobook runs 7.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Stephen Borne and Shaina Summerville (about 4.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.4listening hrs
Romancestore shelf
2026released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 7.4 hours of listening.

Days to finish Human Required at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day15 days
1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×5 days

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What our data says

  • At 7.4 hours, it is shorter than 58% of the 63,227 Romance audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Cyborg Planet Alpha

This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 22.5 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Human Required7.4 hrs
2Human Reclaimed7.4 hrs
3Human Reform7.6 hrs

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

Human Required is book 1 of Anne Hale's Cyborg Planet Alpha series: a 7.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Stephen Borne and Shaina Summerville, released May 25, 2026, on the Romance shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
7.4 hrs
Narrated by
Stephen Borne, Shaina Summerville
Released
May 25, 2026
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Romance
Series
Cyborg Planet Alpha #1
ISBN
9798318536366

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Human Required audiobook?

Human Required runs 7.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.9 hours.

Is the Human Required audiobook free?

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Who narrates Human Required?

Human Required is narrated by Stephen Borne and Shaina Summerville.