LIFE'S EDGE: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the LIFE'S EDGE: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive audiobook runs 9.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Joe Ochman (about 6.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 9.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.3 hours, it runs longer than 59% of the 1,603 Biology & Chemistry audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Joe Ochman
Joe Ochman narrates 25 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 272 hours in all.
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- The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: 'On Robustness and Fragility'
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
- Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
About as long, on the Biology & Chemistry shelf
332 Biology & Chemistry audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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- Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
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
LIFE'S EDGE: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive is an audiobook by Carl Zimmer: a 9.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Joe Ochman, released March 9, 2021, on the Biology & Chemistry shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Joe Ochman
- Released
- March 9, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Biology & Chemistry
- ISBN
- 9780593343531
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How long is the LIFE'S EDGE: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive audiobook?
LIFE'S EDGE: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive runs 9.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.2 hours.
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Who narrates LIFE'S EDGE: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive?
LIFE'S EDGE: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive is narrated by Joe Ochman.