The Big Money: Audiobook
Book 3 of the U.S.A. series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Big Money runs 19.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by David Drummond (about 13 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 19.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 40 days |
| 1 hour / day | 20 days |
| 2 hours / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 14 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 19.6 hours, it runs longer than 97% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on U.S.A.
This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 30 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 49.6 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The 42nd Parallel | 13.8 hrs |
| 2 | 1919 | 16.2 hrs |
| 3 | The Big Money | 19.6 hrs |
More narrated by David Drummond
David Drummond narrates 142 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,696 hours in all.
- Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
- The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
- To the Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam
- Warstrider
- The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious---and Perplexing---City
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
382 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 Big Money is book 3 of John Dos Passos's U.S.A. series: a 19.6-hour unabridged recording, read by David Drummond, released December 27, 2010, on the Historical (Fiction) and Literary Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 19.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- David Drummond
- Released
- December 27, 2010
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction), Literary Fiction
- Series
- U.S.A. #3
- ISBN
- 9781400189120
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Big Money as an audiobook?
The Big Money runs 19.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 13 hours.
Is The Big Money free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Big Money?
The Big Money is narrated by David Drummond.
Is The Big Money worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 13 hours, saving 6.5 hours.