The Cloud of Unknowing: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Cloud of Unknowing runs 5.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by David Barnes (about 3.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 5.4 hours of listening.
| 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 –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 5.4 hours, it is shorter than 51% of the 6,701 Christianity audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by David Barnes
David Barnes narrates 6 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 22 hours in all.
- Answers to Prayer, from George Müller's Narratives
- Quiet Talks on Prayer
- The Club of Queer Trades
- On Union with God
- Selected Poems of John Clare, Volume 2
About as long, on the Christianity shelf
1,108 Christianity audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking
- Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer
- Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
- The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
- Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
Other recordings
- The 2020 recording read by Nicholas Boulton runs 1.6 hours shorter (3.8 hours).
- The 2007 recording read by Susan Denaker runs 0.9 hours shorter (4.5 hours).
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 Cloud of Unknowing is an audiobook by Anonymous: a 5.4-hour unabridged recording, read by David Barnes, released January 1, 2017, on the Christianity shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- David Barnes
- Released
- January 1, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Christianity
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Cloud of Unknowing as an audiobook?
The Cloud of Unknowing runs 5.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.6 hours.
Is The Cloud of Unknowing free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Cloud of Unknowing?
The Cloud of Unknowing is narrated by David Barnes.