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Summer by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Summer: Audiobook

Book 4 of the Seasons series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Summer audiobook runs 9.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini (about 6.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

9.6listening hrs
Memoirsstore shelf
2018released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 9.6 hours of listening.

Days to finish Summer at common listening paces
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2 hours / day5 days
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What our data says

  • At 9.6 hours, it runs longer than 74% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Seasons

This is book 4. Books 1 to 3 run 14.5 hours before it; books 1 to 4 run 24.1 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Autumn4.4 hrs
2Winter5.2 hrs
3Spring5 hrs
4Summer9.6 hrs

More narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

Edoardo Ballerini narrates 448 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,500 hours in all.

All Edoardo Ballerini audiobooks, measured

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

Summer is book 4 of Karl Ove Knausgaard's Seasons series: a 9.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Edoardo Ballerini, released August 21, 2018, on the Memoirs shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
9.6 hrs
Narrated by
Edoardo Ballerini
Released
August 21, 2018
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Memoirs
Series
Seasons #4
ISBN
9781980006060

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Summer audiobook?

Summer runs 9.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.4 hours.

Is the Summer audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Summer?

Summer is narrated by Edoardo Ballerini.