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Looking for Alaska: Audiobook

The Looking for Alaska audiobook runs an estimated 8.5 hours (about 5.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.5est. listening hrs
4.0★124 ratings
Young Adultgenre
Free with trial

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 8.5 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Looking for Alaska at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day17 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

What our data says

  • At 8.5 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 55% of the young adult audiobooks we measured.

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 8.5 hours (estimated).

About the book

NOW A HULU LIMITED SERIES! The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • TIME magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time • A PBS Great American Read Selection • Millions of copies sold! First drink. First prank. First friend. First love. Last words. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Looking for Alaska audiobook?

Looking for Alaska runs about 8.5 hours, our estimate from its 288 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.7 hours.

Can I listen to Looking for Alaska free?

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When was Looking for Alaska first published?

Looking for Alaska by John Green was first published in 2005.