The Poisonwood Bible: Audiobook
As an audiobook, The Poisonwood Bible runs an estimated 17 hours (about 11.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 17 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 34 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 12 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 17 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 88% of the historical fiction audiobooks we measured.
- That's 45% longer than the average historical fiction audiobook (11.7 hrs across 210 titles in our dataset).
Computed from historical fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for historical fiction listeners who want a historical setting: a long-haul epic at 17 hours (estimated).
About the book
“A powerful new epic... [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.
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How long is The Poisonwood Bible as an audiobook?
The Poisonwood Bible runs about 17 hours, our estimate from its 576 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.3 hours.
Can I listen to The Poisonwood Bible free?
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Is The Poisonwood Bible worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.3 hours, saving 5.7 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was The Poisonwood Bible first published?
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, Dean Robertson, Aurora Ballester Gasso was first published in 1998.
