Self Help: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Self Help audiobook runs 12.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Walter Dixon (about 8.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 25 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 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 12.5 hours, it runs longer than 98% of the 26,666 Self-Development audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Walter Dixon
Walter Dixon narrates 308 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,447 hours in all.
- Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
- The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain
- Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
- Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to Be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, And Wiser
- The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
About as long, on the Self-Development shelf
589 Self-Development audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Boundaries Updated and Expanded Edition: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
- Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
- Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
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
Self Help is an audiobook by Samuel Smiles: a 12.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Walter Dixon, released February 1, 2017, on the Self-Development shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Walter Dixon
- Released
- February 1, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Self-Development
- ISBN
- 9781469036250
How to listen to Self Help free
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Self Help audiobook?
Self Help runs 12.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.4 hours.
Is the Self Help audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Self Help?
Self Help is narrated by Walter Dixon.
Is Self Help worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.4 hours, saving 4.2 hours.