The Crossing: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Border (McCarthy) series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Crossing runs 14.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Richard Poe (about 9.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 14.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 30 days |
| 1 hour / day | 15 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 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 14.7 hours, it runs longer than 92% of the 5,087 Westerns & War audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Border (McCarthy)
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 10.1 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 34 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | All the Pretty Horses | 10.1 hrs |
| 2 | The Crossing | 14.7 hrs |
| 3 | Cities of the Plain | 9.2 hrs |
More narrated by Richard Poe
Richard Poe narrates 198 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,360 hours in all.
About as long, on the Westerns & War shelf
325 Westerns & War audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Alice Network
- The Rose Code
- One Second After
- The Last Kingdom
- Surviving Home
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 Crossing is book 2 of Cormac McCarthy's Border (McCarthy) series: a 14.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Richard Poe, released March 18, 2016, on the Coming of Age and Westerns & War shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Richard Poe
- Released
- March 18, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Coming of Age, Westerns & War
- Series
- Border (McCarthy) #2
- ISBN
- 9781501927935
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Crossing as an audiobook?
The Crossing runs 14.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.8 hours.
Is The Crossing free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Crossing?
The Crossing is narrated by Richard Poe.
Is The Crossing worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.8 hours, saving 4.9 hours.