The Last Shadow: Audiobook
Book 6 of the Ender series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Last Shadow runs 13.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Emily Rankin and Judy Young and others (about 9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 13.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 28 days |
| 1 hour / day | 14 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 13.6 hours, it runs longer than 83% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Ender Saga
This is book 6. Books 1 to 5 run 72.9 hours before it; books 1 to 6 run 86.5 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ender's Game | 11.3 hrs |
| 2 | Speaker for the Dead | 14.2 hrs |
| 3 | Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Saga | 20.2 hrs |
| 4 | Children of the Mind | 13.5 hrs |
| 5 | Ender in Exile | 13.7 hrs |
| 6 | The Last Shadow | 13.6 hrs |
More narrated by Emily Rankin
Emily Rankin narrates 106 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,163 hours in all.
About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf
1,469 Science 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 Last Shadow is book 6 of Orson Scott Card's Ender series: a 13.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Emily Rankin, Judy Young and Justine Eyre and others, released November 16, 2021, on the Science Fiction and Space Opera shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 13.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Emily Rankin, Judy Young, Justine Eyre, Gabrielle De Cuir, Kirby Heyborne, Stefan Rudnicki
- Released
- November 16, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Science Fiction, Space Opera
- Series
- The Ender Saga #6
- ISBN
- 9781250818164
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Last Shadow as an audiobook?
The Last Shadow runs 13.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9 hours.
Is The Last Shadow free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Last Shadow?
The Last Shadow is narrated by Emily Rankin, Judy Young, Justine Eyre and Gabrielle De Cuir and others.
Is The Last Shadow worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9 hours, saving 4.5 hours.