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The City by Adrian Goldsworthy

The City: Audiobook

Book 2 of the City of Victory series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The City runs 15.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Peter Noble (about 10.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

15.1listening hrs
Historical (Fiction)store shelf
2022released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 15.1 hours of listening.

Days to finish The City at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day31 days
1 hour / day16 days
2 hours / day8 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×11 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 15.1 hours, it runs longer than 87% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on City of Victory

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 12.1 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 42.8 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1The Fort12.1 hrs
2The City15.1 hrs
3The Wall15.7 hrs

About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf

1,490 Historical (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 City is book 2 of Adrian Goldsworthy's City of Victory series: a 15.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Peter Noble, released June 9, 2022, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
15.1 hrs
Narrated by
Peter Noble
Released
June 9, 2022
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction)
Series
City of Victory #2
ISBN
9781800245525

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The City as an audiobook?

The City runs 15.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.1 hours.

Is The City free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The City?

The City is narrated by Peter Noble.

Is The City worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.1 hours, saving 5 hours.