The Forty Year Bender: When Life Goes Offtrack, There’s a Way Back: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Forty Year Bender: When Life Goes Offtrack, There’s a Way Back runs 4.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Chris Merlo (about 3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 4.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day | 5 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 days |
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What our data says
- At 4.5 hours, it is shorter than 56% of the 10,901 Medicine & Naturopathy audiobooks in our catalog.
About as long, on the Medicine & Naturopathy shelf
688 Medicine & Naturopathy 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 Forty Year Bender: When Life Goes Offtrack, There’s a Way Back is an audiobook by Chris Merlo: a 4.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Chris Merlo, released June 2, 2026, on the Medicine & Naturopathy and Disorders & Diseases shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 4.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Chris Merlo
- Released
- June 2, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Medicine & Naturopathy, Disorders & Diseases, Biography & Memoir
- ISBN
- 9781764594127
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Forty Year Bender: When Life Goes Offtrack, There’s a Way Back as an audiobook?
The Forty Year Bender: When Life Goes Offtrack, There’s a Way Back runs 4.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3 hours.
Is The Forty Year Bender: When Life Goes Offtrack, There’s a Way Back free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Forty Year Bender: When Life Goes Offtrack, There’s a Way Back?
The Forty Year Bender: When Life Goes Offtrack, There’s a Way Back is narrated by Chris Merlo.