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Lincoln by Gore Vidal

Lincoln: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Narratives of Empire series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Lincoln audiobook runs 33 hours unabridged, narrated by Grover Gardner (about 22 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

33listening hrs
Historical (Fiction)store shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 33 hours of listening.

Days to finish Lincoln at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day66 days
1 hour / day33 days
2 hours / day17 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×22 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 33 hours, it runs longer than 99% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Narratives of Empire

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 21.4 hours before it; books 1 to 6 run 130.4 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Burr21.4 hrs
2Lincoln33 hrs
3187616.2 hrs
4Empire23.4 hrs
5Hollywood21.5 hrs
6Washington, D.C.15 hrs

About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf

90 Historical (Fiction) 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

Lincoln is book 2 of Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series: a 33-hour unabridged recording, read by Grover Gardner, released June 25, 2019, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
33 hrs
Narrated by
Grover Gardner
Released
June 25, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction)
Series
Narratives of Empire #2
ISBN
9781543696622

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Lincoln audiobook?

Lincoln runs 33 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 22 hours.

Is the Lincoln audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates Lincoln?

Lincoln is narrated by Grover Gardner.

Is Lincoln worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 22 hours, saving 11 hours.