Main Street: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Main Street audiobook runs 18.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Barbara Caruso (about 12.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 18.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 37 days |
| 1 hour / day | 19 days |
| 2 hours / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 13 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 18.5 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Barbara Caruso
Barbara Caruso narrates 132 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,055 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
470 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Other recordings
- The 2010 recording read by Lloyd James runs 0.3 hours longer (18.9 hours).
- The 2021 recording read by Kitty Hendrix runs 0.7 hours longer (19.3 hours).
- The 2016 recording read by LibriVox Volunteers runs about the same length (18.5 hours).
- The 2025 recording read by Eloise Fairfax runs 2.1 hours shorter (16.4 hours).
- The 2022 recording read by Mark Nelson runs 0.5 hours shorter (18.1 hours).
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
Main Street is an audiobook by Sinclair Lewis: a 18.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Barbara Caruso, released March 6, 2008, on the Classics (Literature) and Literary Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 18.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Barbara Caruso
- Released
- March 6, 2008
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Classics (Literature), Literary Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781449802646
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Main Street audiobook?
Main Street runs 18.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 12.4 hours.
Is the Main Street audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Main Street?
Main Street is narrated by Barbara Caruso.
Is Main Street worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 12.4 hours, saving 6.2 hours.