Ready Player One — Audiobook
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 13.7 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 28 days |
| 1 hour / day | 14 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 days |
You'll finish in—by —
What our data says
- At 13.7 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 86% of the mystery audiobooks we measured.
- That's 51% longer than the average mystery audiobook (9.1 hrs across 161 titles in our dataset).
Computed from mystery audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset; listening time estimated from page count.
Who is this for?
Best for mystery listeners who want proper detective work and dystopian stakes — a solid week of commutes at 13.7 hours (estimated).
About the book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. “Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix .”— USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”— Entertainment Weekly A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself. Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize.
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Start the free trialQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Ready Player One audiobook?
Ready Player One runs about 13.7 hours — our estimate from its 462 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.1 hours.
Can I listen to Ready Player One free?
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Is Ready Player One worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.1 hours — saving 4.6 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was Ready Player One first published?
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline was first published in 2008.
Can you download Ready Player One as an audio file?
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