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Sanctum by Sarah Fine

Sanctum: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Guards of the Shadowlands series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Sanctum audiobook runs 10.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Amy McFadden (about 7.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.7listening hrs
Fairy Tales & Folklore (Teen & YA)store shelf
2012released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10.7 hours of listening.

Days to finish Sanctum at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day22 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 10.7 hours, it runs longer than 64% of the 1,014 Fairy Tales & Folklore (Teen & YA) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Guards of the Shadowlands

This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 33.1 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Sanctum10.7 hrs
2Fractured11 hrs
3Chaos11.4 hrs

More narrated by Amy McFadden

Amy McFadden narrates 325 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,047 hours in all.

All Amy McFadden audiobooks, measured

About as long, on the Fairy Tales & Folklore (Teen & YA) shelf

230 Fairy Tales & Folklore (Teen & YA) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

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

Sanctum is book 1 of Sarah Fine's Guards of the Shadowlands series: a 10.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Amy McFadden, released October 16, 2012, on the Fairy Tales & Folklore (Teen & YA) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.7 hrs
Narrated by
Amy McFadden
Released
October 16, 2012
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Fairy Tales & Folklore (Teen & YA)
Series
Guards of the Shadowlands #1
ISBN
9781469211862

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Sanctum audiobook?

Sanctum runs 10.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.2 hours.

Is the Sanctum audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Sanctum?

Sanctum is narrated by Amy McFadden.

Is Sanctum worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.2 hours, saving 3.6 hours.