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Marking Time by Marie Force

Marking Time: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Treading Water series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Marking Time audiobook runs 9.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Holly Fielding (about 6.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

9.6listening hrs
Contemporary Womenstore shelf
2021released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 9.6 hours of listening.

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What our data says

  • At 9.6 hours, it is shorter than 51% of the 13,058 Contemporary Women audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Treading Water

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 9.1 hours before it; books 1 to 5 run 45.7 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Treading Water9.1 hrs
2Marking Time9.6 hrs
3Starting Over8.5 hrs
4Coming Home9.4 hrs
5Finding Forever9.1 hrs

About as long, on the Contemporary Women shelf

4,232 Contemporary Women 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

Marking Time is book 2 of Marie Force's Treading Water series: a 9.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Holly Fielding, released April 20, 2021, on the Contemporary Women and Drama shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
9.6 hrs
Narrated by
Holly Fielding
Released
April 20, 2021
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Contemporary Women, Drama
Series
Treading Water #2
ISBN
9781666597004

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Marking Time audiobook?

Marking Time runs 9.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.4 hours.

Is the Marking Time audiobook free?

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Who narrates Marking Time?

Marking Time is narrated by Holly Fielding.