The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction): Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) runs 6.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Jd Jackson and Colson Whitehead (about 4.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 6.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 14 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 6.8 hours, it is shorter than 75% of the 5,930 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Jd Jackson
Jd Jackson narrates 78 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 747 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
612 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) is an audiobook by Colson Whitehead: a 6.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Jd Jackson and Colson Whitehead, released July 16, 2019, on the Historical (Fiction) and Literary Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Jd Jackson, Colson Whitehead
- Released
- July 16, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction), Literary Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781984891389
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) as an audiobook?
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) runs 6.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.5 hours.
Is The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)?
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) is narrated by Jd Jackson and Colson Whitehead.