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The Future by Naomi Alderman

The Future: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Future runs 13.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Guinevere Turner and Natalie Naudus and others (about 8.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

13.1listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2023released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 13.1 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Future at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day27 days
1 hour / day14 days
2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×9 days

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

What our data says

  • At 13.1 hours, it runs longer than 84% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

1,823 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2023 recording read by Guinevere Turner and Natalie Naudus runs about the same length (13.1 hours).

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 Future is an audiobook by Naomi Alderman: a 13.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Guinevere Turner, Natalie Naudus and Graham Halstead and others, released November 7, 2023, on the Literary Fiction and Books with Buzz shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
13.1 hrs
Narrated by
Guinevere Turner, Natalie Naudus, Graham Halstead, Santino Fontana, Jeremy Bobb, Naomi Alderman
Released
November 7, 2023
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Literary Fiction, Books with Buzz
ISBN
9781797163635

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Future as an audiobook?

The Future runs 13.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.7 hours.

Is The Future free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Future?

The Future is narrated by Guinevere Turner, Natalie Naudus, Graham Halstead and Santino Fontana and others.

Is The Future worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.7 hours, saving 4.4 hours.