The Luminaries: Audiobook
As an audiobook, The Luminaries runs an estimated 24.6 hours (about 16.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 24.6 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 50 days |
| 1 hour / day | 25 days |
| 2 hours / day | 13 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 17 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 24.6 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 99% of the mystery audiobooks we measured.
- That's 186% longer than the average mystery audiobook (8.6 hrs across 582 titles in our dataset).
Computed from mystery audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for mystery listeners who want a murder to untangle and a historical setting: a long-haul epic at 24.6 hours (estimated).
About the book
Longlisted – Baileys Women’s Prize 2014 Man Booker Prize, Fiction, 2013 Canadian Governor General's Literary Award, 2013. It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction. Written in pitch-perfect historical register, richly evoking a mid-19th-century world of shipping and banking and goldrush boom and bust, it is also a ghost story, and a gripping mystery.
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Luminaries as an audiobook?
The Luminaries runs about 24.6 hours, our estimate from its 832 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 16.4 hours.
Is The Luminaries free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Is The Luminaries worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 16.4 hours, saving 8.2 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was The Luminaries first published?
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, Celia Montolío, Mark Meadows was first published in 2013.
