The Best of Me: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Best of Me runs 13.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by David Sedaris (about 8.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 13.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 27 days |
| 1 hour / day | 14 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 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 13.1 hours, it runs longer than 97% of the 6,658 Relationships & Intimacy audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by David Sedaris
David Sedaris narrates 18 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 117 hours in all.
About as long, on the Relationships & Intimacy shelf
182 Relationships & Intimacy audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Educated: The international bestselling memoir
- Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
- The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
- The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
- Lost Girls: An American Mystery
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 of Me is an audiobook by David Sedaris: a 13.1-hour unabridged recording, read by David Sedaris, released November 3, 2020, on the Relationships & Intimacy and Comedy shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 13.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- David Sedaris
- Released
- November 3, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Relationships & Intimacy, Comedy, Essays & Anthologies
- ISBN
- 9781549160769
How to listen to The Best of Me free
New members at audiobooks.com get three free audiobooks with the trial.
Separately, the store's catalog carries more than 10,000 audiobooks that are always free to stream.
Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Best of Me as an audiobook?
The Best of Me runs 13.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.8 hours.
Is The Best of Me free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Best of Me?
The Best of Me is narrated by David Sedaris.
Is The Best of Me worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.8 hours, saving 4.4 hours.