The Delirium Brief: Audiobook
Book 8 of the Laundry Files series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Delirium Brief runs 13.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Gideon Emery (about 9.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 13.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 28 days |
| 1 hour / day | 14 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 13.8 hours, it runs longer than 83% of the 12,109 Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Laundry Files
This is book 8. Books 1 to 7 run 92.3 hours before it; books 1 to 13 run 165.1 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Atrocity Archives | 11 hrs |
| 2 | The Jennifer Morgue | 13.8 hrs |
| 3 | The Fuller Memorandum | 10.8 hrs |
| 4 | The Apocalypse Codex | 12 hrs |
| 5 | The Rhesus Chart | 13.4 hrs |
| 6 | The Annihilation Score | 16.4 hrs |
| 7 | The Nightmare Stacks | 14.9 hrs |
| 8 | The Delirium Brief | 13.8 hrs |
| 9 | The Labyrinth Index | 13.8 hrs |
| 10 | Dead Lies Dreaming | 11.3 hrs |
| 11 | Quantum of Nightmares | 13.6 hrs |
| 12 | Season of Skulls | 12.6 hrs |
More narrated by Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery narrates 50 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 594 hours in all.
About as long, on the Fantasy shelf
1,190 Fantasy 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 Delirium Brief is book 8 of Charles Stross's Laundry Files series: a 13.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Gideon Emery, released July 11, 2017, on the Fantasy shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 13.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Gideon Emery
- Released
- July 11, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Fantasy
- Series
- Laundry Files #8
- ISBN
- 9781501955891
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Delirium Brief as an audiobook?
The Delirium Brief runs 13.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.2 hours.
Is The Delirium Brief free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Delirium Brief?
The Delirium Brief is narrated by Gideon Emery.
Is The Delirium Brief worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.2 hours, saving 4.6 hours.