The Rules That Make Us: How Culture Shapes the Way We Act, Think, Believe, and Buy: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Rules That Make Us: How Culture Shapes the Way We Act, Think, Believe, and Buy runs 9.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Oliver Sweet (about 6.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 9.6 hours, it runs longer than 67% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,854 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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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 Rules That Make Us: How Culture Shapes the Way We Act, Think, Believe, and Buy is an audiobook by Oliver Sweet: a 9.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Oliver Sweet, released April 14, 2026, on the Social Science and Marketing & Advertising shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Oliver Sweet
- Released
- April 14, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Marketing & Advertising, Career Development
- ISBN
- 9781668655894
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Rules That Make Us: How Culture Shapes the Way We Act, Think, Believe, and Buy as an audiobook?
The Rules That Make Us: How Culture Shapes the Way We Act, Think, Believe, and Buy runs 9.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.4 hours.
Is The Rules That Make Us: How Culture Shapes the Way We Act, Think, Believe, and Buy free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Rules That Make Us: How Culture Shapes the Way We Act, Think, Believe, and Buy?
The Rules That Make Us: How Culture Shapes the Way We Act, Think, Believe, and Buy is narrated by Oliver Sweet.