The Bluest Eye: Audiobook
As an audiobook, The Bluest Eye runs an estimated 5.4 hours (about 3.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 5.4 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 5.4 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 88% of the historical fiction audiobooks we measured.
- That's 54% shorter than the average historical fiction audiobook (11.7 hrs across 210 titles in our dataset).
Computed from historical fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for historical fiction listeners who want coming-of-age arcs: a weekend-size listen at 5.4 hours (estimated).
About the book
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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How long is The Bluest Eye as an audiobook?
The Bluest Eye runs about 5.4 hours, our estimate from its 181 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.6 hours.
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When was The Bluest Eye first published?
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison was first published in 1970.
