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The Reservoir Tapes by Jon McGregor

The Reservoir Tapes: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Reservoir series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Reservoir Tapes runs 3.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Sarah Nichols and Fiona Hardingham and others (about 2.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

3.3listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2018released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 3.3 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Reservoir Tapes at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day7 days
1 hour / day4 days
2 hours / day2 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×3 days

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What our data says

  • At 3.3 hours, it is shorter than 92% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Reservoir Series

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 8.8 hours before it; books 1 to 2 run 12.1 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Reservoir 138.8 hrs
2The Reservoir Tapes3.3 hrs

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

267 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 Reservoir Tapes is book 2 of Jon McGregor's Reservoir series: a 3.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Sarah Nichols, Fiona Hardingham and Tim Gerard Reynolds and others, released August 7, 2018, on the Literary Fiction and Short Stories shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
3.3 hrs
Narrated by
Sarah Nichols, Fiona Hardingham, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Ralph Lister, Justine Eyre, Simon Vance
Released
August 7, 2018
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction
Series
The Reservoir Series #2
ISBN
9781982527570

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Reservoir Tapes as an audiobook?

The Reservoir Tapes runs 3.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.2 hours.

Is The Reservoir Tapes free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates The Reservoir Tapes?

The Reservoir Tapes is narrated by Sarah Nichols, Fiona Hardingham, Tim Gerard Reynolds and Ralph Lister and others.