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Little Brother: Audiobook

The Little Brother audiobook runs an estimated 11.3 hours (about 7.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

11.3est. listening hrs
4.0★56 ratings
Young Adultgenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 11.3 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Little Brother at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day23 days
1 hour / day12 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

What our data says

  • At 11.3 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 72% of the young adult audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 27% longer than the average young adult audiobook (8.9 hrs across 163 titles in our dataset).

Computed from young adult audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for young adult listeners: a solid week of commutes at 11.3 hours (estimated).

About the book

Seventeen year old Marcus and his friends are in the wrong place at the wrong time during a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. They are held by the Department of Homeland Security for days before being released only to discover that their city has turned into surveillance society police state. They decide to resist in the only way they know how by taking on the DHS. This book is distributed freely under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license from the author's website.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Little Brother audiobook?

Little Brother runs about 11.3 hours, our estimate from its 383 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.5 hours.

Is the Little Brother audiobook free?

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

Is Little Brother worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.5 hours, saving 3.8 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.

When was Little Brother first published?

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow was first published in 2008.