Legends, Lore, & Longings: Myths & Mysteries from the American Imagination: Audiobook
Book 4 of the A Kaleidoscope of American Storytelling series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Legends, Lore, & Longings: Myths & Mysteries from the American Imagination audiobook runs 7.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Ali Gifford and Sarah Kay Peters and others (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 7.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.5 hours, it runs longer than 51% of the 4,590 Essays & Anthologies audiobooks in our catalog.
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About as long, on the Essays & Anthologies shelf
511 Essays & Anthologies 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
Legends, Lore, & Longings: Myths & Mysteries from the American Imagination is book 4 of Charles Raymond Macauley's A Kaleidoscope of American Storytelling series: a 7.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Ali Gifford, Sarah Kay Peters and Joe Scalora and others, released February 10, 2026, on the Essays & Anthologies shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ali Gifford, Sarah Kay Peters, Joe Scalora, Krystal Hammond, John Hopkinson, Steve Corona
- Released
- February 10, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Essays & Anthologies
- Series
- A Kaleidoscope of American Storytelling #4
- ISBN
- 9781967559145
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How long is the Legends, Lore, & Longings: Myths & Mysteries from the American Imagination audiobook?
Legends, Lore, & Longings: Myths & Mysteries from the American Imagination runs 7.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.
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Who narrates Legends, Lore, & Longings: Myths & Mysteries from the American Imagination?
Legends, Lore, & Longings: Myths & Mysteries from the American Imagination is narrated by Ali Gifford, Sarah Kay Peters, Joe Scalora and Krystal Hammond and others.