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The Light by D.J. MacHale

The Light: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Morpheus Road series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Light runs 10.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Nick Podehl (about 7.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.8listening hrs
Mystery & Fantasystore shelf
2010released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10.8 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Light at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day22 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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

What our data says

  • At 10.8 hours, it runs longer than 93% of the 7,923 Mystery & Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Morpheus Road

This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 34.5 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1The Light10.8 hrs
2The Black13.1 hrs
3The Blood10.7 hrs

More narrated by Nick Podehl

Nick Podehl narrates 268 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,376 hours in all.

All Nick Podehl audiobooks, measured

About as long, on the Mystery & Fantasy shelf

402 Mystery & Fantasy 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 Light is book 1 of D.J. MacHale's Morpheus Road series: a 10.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Nick Podehl, released April 20, 2010, on the Mystery & Fantasy and Humor shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.8 hrs
Narrated by
Nick Podehl
Released
April 20, 2010
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Mystery & Fantasy, Humor
Series
Morpheus Road #1
ISBN
9781423397786

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Light as an audiobook?

The Light runs 10.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.2 hours.

Is The Light free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Light?

The Light is narrated by Nick Podehl.

Is The Light worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.2 hours, saving 3.6 hours.