Palimpsest: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Palimpsest audiobook runs 18.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Jeff Cummings (about 12.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 18.3 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 18.3 hours, it runs longer than 97% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Jeff Cummings
Jeff Cummings narrates 142 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,370 hours in all.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
238 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,
- Solito
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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
Palimpsest is an audiobook by Gore Vidal: a 18.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Jeff Cummings, released April 28, 2020, on the Social Science and Biography & Memoir shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 18.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Jeff Cummings
- Released
- April 28, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Biography & Memoir
- ISBN
- 9781799751175
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Palimpsest audiobook?
Palimpsest runs 18.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 12.2 hours.
Is the Palimpsest audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Palimpsest?
Palimpsest is narrated by Jeff Cummings.
Is Palimpsest worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 12.2 hours, saving 6.1 hours.