John Adams: A Life: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the John Adams: A Life audiobook runs 20.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Bob Souer (about 13.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 20.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 42 days |
| 1 hour / day | 21 days |
| 2 hours / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 14 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 20.8 hours, it runs longer than 94% of the 5,887 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Bob Souer
Bob Souer narrates 313 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,340 hours in all.
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- Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World
About as long, on the The Americas shelf
244 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
- The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson And The Opening Of The American West
- Mornings on Horseback
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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
John Adams: A Life is an audiobook by John Ferling: a 20.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Bob Souer, released November 13, 2018, on the Law & Politics and The Americas shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 20.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Bob Souer
- Released
- November 13, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Law & Politics, The Americas
- ISBN
- 9781541446267
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the John Adams: A Life audiobook?
John Adams: A Life runs 20.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 13.9 hours.
Is the John Adams: A Life audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates John Adams: A Life?
John Adams: A Life is narrated by Bob Souer.
Is John Adams: A Life worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 13.9 hours, saving 6.9 hours.