The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World runs 11.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Patrick Lawlor (about 7.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 11.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 23 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
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What our data says
- At 11.5 hours, it runs longer than 91% of the 5,613 Business & Career Development audiobooks in our catalog.
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Patrick Lawlor narrates 589 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 5,365 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Business & Career Development shelf
407 Business & Career Development 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 Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World is an audiobook by Russell Gold: a 11.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Patrick Lawlor, released April 8, 2014, on the Business & Career Development and Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Patrick Lawlor
- Released
- April 8, 2014
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Business & Career Development, Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781480596979
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World as an audiobook?
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World runs 11.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.7 hours.
Is The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World?
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World is narrated by Patrick Lawlor.
Is The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.7 hours, saving 3.8 hours.