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So Close by Sylvia Day

So Close: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Blacklist series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the So Close audiobook runs 12.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Caitlin Kelly and Simon Mattacks and others (about 8.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

12.9listening hrs
Contemporary Womenstore shelf
2023released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 12.9 hours of listening.

Days to finish So Close at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day26 days
1 hour / day13 days
2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×9 days

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

What our data says

  • At 12.9 hours, it runs longer than 90% of the 13,058 Contemporary Women audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Blacklist

This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 22.9 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1So Close12.9 hrs
2Too Far10.1 hrs

About as long, on the Contemporary Women shelf

1,853 Contemporary Women 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

So Close is book 1 of Sylvia Day's Blacklist series: a 12.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Caitlin Kelly, Simon Mattacks and Dahlia Salem and others, released August 29, 2023, on the Suspense and Psychological shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
12.9 hrs
Narrated by
Caitlin Kelly, Simon Mattacks, Dahlia Salem, Soneela Nankani
Released
August 29, 2023
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Suspense, Psychological, Contemporary Women
Series
Blacklist #1
ISBN
9781491596371

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the So Close audiobook?

So Close runs 12.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.6 hours.

Is the So Close audiobook free?

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

Who narrates So Close?

So Close is narrated by Caitlin Kelly, Simon Mattacks, Dahlia Salem and Soneela Nankani.

Is So Close worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.6 hours, saving 4.3 hours.