The Midnight Heir: Audiobook
Book 4 of the Bane Chronicles series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Midnight Heir runs 1.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by David Oyelowo (about 1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 1.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day | 2 days |
| 2 hours / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 1 day |
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What our data says
- At 1.5 hours, it is shorter than 55% of the 14,091 Non-fiction (Kids) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Bane Chronicles
This is book 4. Books 1 to 3 run 4 hours before it; books 1 to 10 run 12.9 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | What Really Happened in Peru | 1.2 hrs |
| 2 | The Runaway Queen | 1.3 hrs |
| 3 | The Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale | 1.4 hrs |
| 4 | The Midnight Heir | 1.5 hrs |
| 5 | The Rise of the Hotel Dumort | 1.2 hrs |
| 6 | The Saving Raphael Santiago | 1.3 hrs |
| 7 | Fall of the Hotel Dumort | 1.5 hrs |
| 8 | What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything: (And Who You're Not Officially Dating Anyway) | 1 hrs |
| 9 | The Last Stand of the New York Institute | 1.3 hrs |
| 10 | The Course of True Love (and First Dates) | 1.1 hrs |
More narrated by David Oyelowo
David Oyelowo narrates 5 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 27 hours in all.
About as long, on the Non-fiction (Kids) shelf
446 Non-fiction (Kids) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Magic Tree House: Books 1 and 2: Dinosaurs Before Dark, The Knight at Dawn
- I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011 (I Survived #12)
- I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 (I Survived #11)
- Unicorn Bedtime Stories for Kids: Whimsical Unicorn Fairy Tales to Help Toddlers and Young Children Wind Down, Relax, and Enjoy Sweet, Magical Dreams All Night Long!
- Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot (Captain Underpants #12)
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 Midnight Heir is book 4 of Sarah Rees Brennan's Bane Chronicles series: a 1.5-hour unabridged recording, read by David Oyelowo, released September 3, 2013, on the Mystery & Fantasy and Non-fiction (Kids) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 1.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- David Oyelowo
- Released
- September 3, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mystery & Fantasy, Non-fiction (Kids)
- Series
- The Bane Chronicles #4
- ISBN
- 9781442365131
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Midnight Heir as an audiobook?
The Midnight Heir runs 1.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 1 hours.
Is The Midnight Heir free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Midnight Heir?
The Midnight Heir is narrated by David Oyelowo.