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The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

The Body: A Guide for Occupants: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Body: A Guide for Occupants runs 14.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Bill Bryson (about 9.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

14.1listening hrs
Medicine & Naturopathystore shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 14.1 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Body: A Guide for Occupants at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day29 days
1 hour / day15 days
2 hours / day8 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×10 days

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What our data says

  • At 14.1 hours, it runs longer than 95% of the 5,775 Medicine & Naturopathy audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

The Body: A Guide for Occupants is an audiobook by Bill Bryson: a 14.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Bill Bryson, released October 15, 2019, on the Comedy, Satire & Parody and Medicine & Naturopathy shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
14.1 hrs
Narrated by
Bill Bryson
Released
October 15, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Comedy, Satire & Parody, Medicine & Naturopathy, Biology & Chemistry
ISBN
9780147526922

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Body: A Guide for Occupants as an audiobook?

The Body: A Guide for Occupants runs 14.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.4 hours.

Is The Body: A Guide for Occupants free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates The Body: A Guide for Occupants?

The Body: A Guide for Occupants is narrated by Bill Bryson.

Is The Body: A Guide for Occupants worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.4 hours, saving 4.7 hours.