The Bee Sting: Comedy meets tragedy in this hilarious Booker Prize shortlisted novel: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Bee Sting: Comedy meets tragedy in this hilarious Booker Prize shortlisted novel runs 26.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Lisa Caruccio Came and Heather O’sullivan and others (about 17.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 26.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 53 days |
| 1 hour / day | 27 days |
| 2 hours / day | 14 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 18 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 26.2 hours, it runs longer than 99% of the 5,930 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
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Ciaran O'brien narrates 5 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 55 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
50 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Bee Sting: Comedy meets tragedy in this hilarious Booker Prize shortlisted novel is an audiobook by Paul Murray: a 26.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Lisa Caruccio Came, Heather O’sullivan and Ciaran O'brien and others, released June 8, 2023, on the Drama and Literary Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 26.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Lisa Caruccio Came, Heather O’sullivan, Ciaran O'brien, Beau Holland, Barry Fitzgerald
- Released
- June 8, 2023
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Drama, Literary Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780241997604
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Bee Sting: Comedy meets tragedy in this hilarious Booker Prize shortlisted novel as an audiobook?
The Bee Sting: Comedy meets tragedy in this hilarious Booker Prize shortlisted novel runs 26.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 17.4 hours.
Is The Bee Sting: Comedy meets tragedy in this hilarious Booker Prize shortlisted novel free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Bee Sting: Comedy meets tragedy in this hilarious Booker Prize shortlisted novel?
The Bee Sting: Comedy meets tragedy in this hilarious Booker Prize shortlisted novel is narrated by Lisa Caruccio Came, Heather O’sullivan, Ciaran O'brien and Beau Holland and others.
Is The Bee Sting: Comedy meets tragedy in this hilarious Booker Prize shortlisted novel worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 17.4 hours, saving 8.7 hours.