In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction audiobook runs 16.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Daniel Maté (about 11 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 33 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 days |
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What our data says
- At 16.4 hours, it runs longer than 97% of the 5,775 Medicine & Naturopathy audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Daniel Maté
Daniel Maté narrates 8 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 109 hours in all.
- The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
- The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Health & Healing in a Toxic Culture – The Sunday Times Bestseller
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: The award-winning guide to the causes of addiction – and how to heal it
- Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
- When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress – The International Bestseller
About as long, on the Medicine & Naturopathy shelf
121 Medicine & Naturopathy audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction is an audiobook by Gabor Maté: a 16.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Daniel Maté, released July 24, 2018, on the Mental Health & Psychology and Disorders & Diseases shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Daniel Maté
- Released
- July 24, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mental Health & Psychology, Disorders & Diseases, Medicine & Naturopathy
- ISBN
- 9780735277397
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How long is the In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction audiobook?
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction runs 16.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11 hours.
Is the In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction audiobook free?
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Who narrates In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction?
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction is narrated by Daniel Maté.
Is In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11 hours, saving 5.5 hours.