Once Upon a Stranger: The Science of How “Small” Talk Can Add Up to a Big Life: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Once Upon a Stranger: The Science of How “Small” Talk Can Add Up to a Big Life audiobook runs 8.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Dr. Gillian Sandstrom and Nan McNamara (about 5.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 17 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 8.5 hours, it runs longer than 72% of the 8,456 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Nan McNamara
Nan McNamara narrates 117 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 931 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Mental Health & Psychology shelf
1,255 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
- Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
- What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
- Best Self: Be You, Only Better
- Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
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
Once Upon a Stranger: The Science of How “Small” Talk Can Add Up to a Big Life is an audiobook by Dr. Gillian Sandstrom: a 8.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Dr. Gillian Sandstrom and Nan McNamara, released March 31, 2026, on the Mental Health & Psychology and Career Development shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Dr. Gillian Sandstrom, Nan McNamara
- Released
- March 31, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mental Health & Psychology, Career Development
- ISBN
- 9780063385450
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Once Upon a Stranger: The Science of How “Small” Talk Can Add Up to a Big Life audiobook?
Once Upon a Stranger: The Science of How “Small” Talk Can Add Up to a Big Life runs 8.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.7 hours.
Is the Once Upon a Stranger: The Science of How “Small” Talk Can Add Up to a Big Life audiobook free?
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Who narrates Once Upon a Stranger: The Science of How “Small” Talk Can Add Up to a Big Life?
Once Upon a Stranger: The Science of How “Small” Talk Can Add Up to a Big Life is narrated by Dr. Gillian Sandstrom and Nan McNamara.