It's Hard to Be an Animal: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the It's Hard to Be an Animal audiobook runs 10.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Sunil Malhotra (about 7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 10.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 21 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 10.4 hours, it runs longer than 69% of the 3,723 Fairy Tales & Folklore (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Sunil Malhotra
Sunil Malhotra narrates 60 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 607 hours in all.
About as long, on the Fairy Tales & Folklore (Literature) shelf
544 Fairy Tales & Folklore (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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
It's Hard to Be an Animal is an audiobook by Robert Isaacs: a 10.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Sunil Malhotra, released May 19, 2026, on the Fairy Tales & Folklore (Literature) and Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Sunil Malhotra
- Released
- May 19, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Fairy Tales & Folklore (Literature), Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781668656464
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the It's Hard to Be an Animal audiobook?
It's Hard to Be an Animal runs 10.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7 hours.
Is the It's Hard to Be an Animal audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates It's Hard to Be an Animal?
It's Hard to Be an Animal is narrated by Sunil Malhotra.
Is It's Hard to Be an Animal worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7 hours, saving 3.5 hours.