The Bright Side: How Optimists Change the World, and How You Can Be One: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Bright Side: How Optimists Change the World, and How You Can Be One runs 8.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Sumit Paul-Choudhury (about 5.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 8.7 hours, it runs longer than 57% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,901 Social Science 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 Bright Side: How Optimists Change the World, and How You Can Be One is an audiobook by Sumit Paul-Choudhury: a 8.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Sumit Paul-Choudhury, released January 7, 2025, on the Social Science and Mental Health & Psychology shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Sumit Paul-Choudhury
- Released
- January 7, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Mental Health & Psychology, Lessons in Philosophy
- ISBN
- 9781797187419
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Bright Side: How Optimists Change the World, and How You Can Be One as an audiobook?
The Bright Side: How Optimists Change the World, and How You Can Be One runs 8.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.8 hours.
Is The Bright Side: How Optimists Change the World, and How You Can Be One free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Bright Side: How Optimists Change the World, and How You Can Be One?
The Bright Side: How Optimists Change the World, and How You Can Be One is narrated by Sumit Paul-Choudhury.