The Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book, and Other Comic Inventions: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book, and Other Comic Inventions runs 19.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Ron Butler and Vikas Adam and others (about 13.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 19.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 40 days |
| 1 hour / day | 20 days |
| 2 hours / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 14 days |
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What our data says
- At 19.7 hours, it runs longer than 97% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Ron Butler
Ron Butler narrates 349 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,989 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
368 Literary 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 Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book, and Other Comic Inventions is an audiobook by V.S. Naipaul: a 19.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Ron Butler, Vikas Adam and Simon Vance, released December 24, 2018, on the Literary Fiction and Short Stories shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 19.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ron Butler, Vikas Adam, Simon Vance
- Released
- December 24, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Short Stories
- ISBN
- 9781538555378
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book, and Other Comic Inventions as an audiobook?
The Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book, and Other Comic Inventions runs 19.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 13.1 hours.
Is The Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book, and Other Comic Inventions free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book, and Other Comic Inventions?
The Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book, and Other Comic Inventions is narrated by Ron Butler, Vikas Adam and Simon Vance.
Is The Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book, and Other Comic Inventions worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 13.1 hours, saving 6.6 hours.