The Best American Essays 2025: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Best American Essays 2025 runs 14.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Brittany Bradford and Jensen Olaya and others (about 9.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 14.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 29 days |
| 1 hour / day | 15 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 days |
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What our data says
- At 14.2 hours, it runs longer than 86% of the 4,590 Essays & Anthologies audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Brittany Bradford
Brittany Bradford narrates 14 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 121 hours in all.
About as long, on the Essays & Anthologies shelf
321 Essays & Anthologies 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
The Best American Essays 2025 is an audiobook by Kim Dana Kupperman and Jia Tolentino: a 14.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Brittany Bradford, Jensen Olaya and Sean Rohani and others, released October 21, 2025, on the Essays & Anthologies shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Brittany Bradford, Jensen Olaya, Sean Rohani, Jean Ann Douglass, Rasha Zamamiri, Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Released
- October 21, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Essays & Anthologies
- ISBN
- 9780063351615
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Best American Essays 2025 as an audiobook?
The Best American Essays 2025 runs 14.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.4 hours.
Is The Best American Essays 2025 free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Best American Essays 2025?
The Best American Essays 2025 is narrated by Brittany Bradford, Jensen Olaya, Sean Rohani and Jean Ann Douglass and others.
Is The Best American Essays 2025 worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.4 hours, saving 4.7 hours.