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The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati

The Gilded Hour: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Gilded Hour series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Gilded Hour runs 31.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Cassandra Campbell (about 21 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

31.6listening hrs
Historical (Fiction)store shelf
2015released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 31.6 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Gilded Hour at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day64 days
1 hour / day32 days
2 hours / day16 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×22 days

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What our data says

  • At 31.6 hours, it runs longer than 99% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Gilded Hour Series

This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 57.8 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1The Gilded Hour31.6 hrs
2Where the Light Enters26.2 hrs

More narrated by Cassandra Campbell

Cassandra Campbell narrates 1,083 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 11,240 hours in all.

All Cassandra Campbell audiobooks, measured

About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf

102 Historical (Fiction) 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 Gilded Hour is book 1 of Sara Donati's Gilded Hour series: a 31.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Cassandra Campbell, released September 1, 2015, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
31.6 hrs
Narrated by
Cassandra Campbell
Released
September 1, 2015
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction)
Series
The Gilded Hour Series #1
ISBN
9781504618175

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Gilded Hour as an audiobook?

The Gilded Hour runs 31.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 21 hours.

Is The Gilded Hour free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Gilded Hour?

The Gilded Hour is narrated by Cassandra Campbell.

Is The Gilded Hour worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 21 hours, saving 10.5 hours.