Sparring Partners: Novellas: Audiobook
Book 4 of the Jake Brigance series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Sparring Partners: Novellas audiobook runs 10 hours unabridged, narrated by January LaVoy and Jeff Daniels and others (about 6.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 10 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 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 10 hours, it runs longer than 89% of the 4,891 Short Stories audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Jake Brigance
This is book 4. Books 1 to 3 run 57.6 hours before it; books 1 to 4 run 67.5 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Time to Kill | 16.8 hrs |
| 2 | Sycamore Row | 20.8 hrs |
| 3 | A Time for Mercy | 20 hrs |
| 4 | Sparring Partners: Novellas | 10 hrs |
More narrated by January LaVoy
January LaVoy narrates 468 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,610 hours in all.
About as long, on the Short Stories shelf
259 Short Stories 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
Sparring Partners: Novellas is book 4 of John Grisham's Jake Brigance series: a 10-hour unabridged recording, read by January LaVoy, Jeff Daniels and Ethan Hawke and others, released May 31, 2022, on the Legal & Political and Short Stories shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10 hrs
- Narrated by
- January LaVoy, Jeff Daniels, Ethan Hawke, John Grisham
- Released
- May 31, 2022
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Legal & Political, Short Stories, Recent Award Winners
- Series
- Jake Brigance #4
- ISBN
- 9780593632345
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Sparring Partners: Novellas audiobook?
Sparring Partners: Novellas runs 10 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.6 hours.
Is the Sparring Partners: Novellas audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Sparring Partners: Novellas?
Sparring Partners: Novellas is narrated by January LaVoy, Jeff Daniels, Ethan Hawke and John Grisham.
Is Sparring Partners: Novellas worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.6 hours, saving 3.3 hours.