The Best American Short Stories 2025: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Best American Short Stories 2025 runs 15.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Jensen Olaya and Lee Osorio and others (about 10.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 15.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 31 days |
| 1 hour / day | 16 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 days |
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What our data says
- At 15.5 hours, it runs longer than 92% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Jensen Olaya
Jensen Olaya narrates 38 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 363 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
947 Literary Fiction 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 Short Stories 2025 is an audiobook by Nicole A. Lamy and Celeste Ng: a 15.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Jensen Olaya, Lee Osorio and Lynnette R. Freeman and others, released October 21, 2025, on the Literary Fiction and Essays & Anthologies shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 15.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Jensen Olaya, Lee Osorio, Lynnette R. Freeman, Eric Yang, Avi Roque, Almarie Guerra
- Released
- October 21, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Essays & Anthologies
- ISBN
- 9780063399822
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Best American Short Stories 2025 as an audiobook?
The Best American Short Stories 2025 runs 15.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.3 hours.
Is The Best American Short Stories 2025 free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Best American Short Stories 2025?
The Best American Short Stories 2025 is narrated by Jensen Olaya, Lee Osorio, Lynnette R. Freeman and Eric Yang and others.
Is The Best American Short Stories 2025 worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.3 hours, saving 5.2 hours.