Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian audiobook runs 9.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Courtney Patterson (about 6.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 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 9.2 hours, it runs longer than 63% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Courtney Patterson
Courtney Patterson narrates 252 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,415 hours in all.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,917 Social Science 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
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
- The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection)
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- Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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
Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian is an audiobook by Jill Grunenwald: a 9.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Courtney Patterson, released July 29, 2022, on the Social Science shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Courtney Patterson
- Released
- July 29, 2022
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science
- ISBN
- 9798885191609
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian audiobook?
Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian runs 9.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.1 hours.
Is the Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian audiobook free?
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Who narrates Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian?
Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian is narrated by Courtney Patterson.