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Never Let Me Go: Audiobook

The Never Let Me Go audiobook runs an estimated 8.5 hours (about 5.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.5est. listening hrs
3.8★74 ratings
Science Fictiongenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 8.5 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Never Let Me Go 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 66% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 19% shorter than the average science fiction audiobook (10.5 hrs across 820 titles in our dataset).

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

Who is this for?

Best for science fiction listeners who want psychological twists: a solid week of commutes at 8.5 hours (estimated).

About the book

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" ( The New York Times ) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. One of The New York Times ’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Never Let Me Go audiobook?

Never Let Me Go 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.

Is the Never Let Me Go audiobook free?

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

When was Never Let Me Go first published?

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro was first published in 2005.