The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun runs 10.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Gretchen Rubin (about 6.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 10.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 21 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 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 10.3 hours, it runs longer than 94% of the 26,666 Self-Development audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin narrates 8 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 52 hours in all.
- The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too)
- Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
- Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
- Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness
- Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World
About as long, on the Self-Development shelf
1,707 Self-Development 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 Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun is an audiobook by Gretchen Rubin: a 10.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Gretchen Rubin, released December 29, 2009, on the Self-Development and For Podcast Lovers shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Gretchen Rubin
- Released
- December 29, 2009
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Self-Development, For Podcast Lovers
- ISBN
- 9780061996924
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun as an audiobook?
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun runs 10.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.8 hours.
Is The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun?
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun is narrated by Gretchen Rubin.
Is The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.8 hours, saving 3.4 hours.