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Sand by Hugh Howey

Sand: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Sand Chronicles series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Sand audiobook runs 8.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Jeremy Arthur (about 5.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.7listening hrs
Action & Adventure (Fiction)store shelf
2022released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.7 hours of listening.

Days to finish Sand at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day18 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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

What our data says

  • At 8.7 hours, it is shorter than 51% of the 6,730 Action & Adventure (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) shelf

1,054 Action & Adventure (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2014 recording read by Christopher Ragland runs 1.3 hours longer (10 hours).

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

Sand is book 1 of Hugh Howey's Sand Chronicles series: a 8.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Jeremy Arthur, released September 6, 2022, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) and Apocalyptic & Dystopian shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.7 hrs
Narrated by
Jeremy Arthur
Released
September 6, 2022
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Action & Adventure (Fiction), Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Series
The Sand Chronicles #1
ISBN
9780063279599

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Sand audiobook?

Sand runs 8.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.8 hours.

Is the Sand audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Sand?

Sand is narrated by Jeremy Arthur.