The Runaway Queen: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Bane Chronicles series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Runaway Queen runs 1.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by George Blagden (about 0.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 1.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day | 2 days |
| 2 hours / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 1 day |
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What our data says
- At 1.3 hours, it is shorter than 57% of the 14,091 Non-fiction (Kids) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Bane Chronicles
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 1.2 hours before it; books 1 to 10 run 12.9 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | What Really Happened in Peru | 1.2 hrs |
| 2 | The Runaway Queen | 1.3 hrs |
| 3 | The Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale | 1.4 hrs |
| 4 | The Midnight Heir | 1.5 hrs |
| 5 | The Rise of the Hotel Dumort | 1.2 hrs |
| 6 | The Saving Raphael Santiago | 1.3 hrs |
| 7 | Fall of the Hotel Dumort | 1.5 hrs |
| 8 | What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything: (And Who You're Not Officially Dating Anyway) | 1 hrs |
| 9 | The Last Stand of the New York Institute | 1.3 hrs |
| 10 | The Course of True Love (and First Dates) | 1.1 hrs |
More narrated by George Blagden
George Blagden narrates 82 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 660 hours in all.
About as long, on the Non-fiction (Kids) shelf
396 Non-fiction (Kids) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman: Color Edition (Captain Underpants #5)
- Magic Tree House: Books 1 and 2: Dinosaurs Before Dark, The Knight at Dawn
- The Little Elephant Who Wants to Fall Asleep: A New Way of Getting Children to Sleep
- I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 (I Survived #7)
- Judy Moody Gets Famous!
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 Runaway Queen is book 2 of Maureen Johnson's Bane Chronicles series: a 1.3-hour unabridged recording, read by George Blagden, released May 21, 2013, on the Mystery & Fantasy and Non-fiction (Kids) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 1.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- George Blagden
- Released
- May 21, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mystery & Fantasy, Non-fiction (Kids)
- Series
- The Bane Chronicles #2
- ISBN
- 9781442365094
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Runaway Queen as an audiobook?
The Runaway Queen runs 1.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.9 hours.
Is The Runaway Queen free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Runaway Queen?
The Runaway Queen is narrated by George Blagden.