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Northern Lights: Audiobook

The Northern Lights audiobook runs an estimated 12.1 hours (about 8.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

12.1est. listening hrs
3.9★227 ratings
Fantasygenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 12.1 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Northern Lights at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day25 days
1 hour / day13 days
2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×9 days

What our data says

  • At 12.1 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 66% of the fantasy audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 10% longer than the average fantasy audiobook (11 hrs across 1861 titles in our dataset).

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

Who is this for?

Best for fantasy listeners who want witches: a solid week of commutes at 12.1 hours (estimated).

About the book

In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Northern Lights audiobook?

Northern Lights runs about 12.1 hours, our estimate from its 410 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.1 hours.

Is the Northern Lights audiobook free?

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

Is Northern Lights worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.1 hours, saving 4 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.

When was Northern Lights first published?

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman was first published in 1995.