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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth by Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth runs 12.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Cassandra Campbell (about 8.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

12.5listening hrs
Womenstore shelf
2011released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 12.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth at common listening paces
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30 min / day25 days
1 hour / day13 days
2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×9 days

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What our data says

  • At 12.5 hours, it runs longer than 84% of the 2,869 Women audiobooks in our catalog.

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

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 Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth is an audiobook by Rebecca Skloot: a 12.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Cassandra Campbell, released January 7, 2011, on the Women shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
12.5 hrs
Narrated by
Cassandra Campbell
Released
January 7, 2011
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Women
ISBN
9780230754058

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth as an audiobook?

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth runs 12.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.4 hours.

Is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth?

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth is narrated by Cassandra Campbell.

Is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.4 hours, saving 4.2 hours.