The Sadness of Beautiful Things: Stories: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Sadness of Beautiful Things: Stories runs 3.9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Darren Burrows and Giordan Diaz and others (about 2.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 3.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day | 4 days |
| 2 hours / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 days |
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What our data says
- At 3.9 hours, it is shorter than 89% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Giordan Diaz
Giordan Diaz narrates 64 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 399 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
387 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 Sadness of Beautiful Things: Stories is an audiobook by Simon Van Booy: a 3.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Darren Burrows, Giordan Diaz and Alana Kerr Collins and others, released October 2, 2018, on the Literary Fiction and Historical (Fiction) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 3.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Darren Burrows, Giordan Diaz, Alana Kerr Collins, James Fouhey, Simon Van Booy
- Released
- October 2, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Historical (Fiction), Short Stories
- ISBN
- 9780525641124
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Sadness of Beautiful Things: Stories as an audiobook?
The Sadness of Beautiful Things: Stories runs 3.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.6 hours.
Is The Sadness of Beautiful Things: Stories free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Sadness of Beautiful Things: Stories?
The Sadness of Beautiful Things: Stories is narrated by Darren Burrows, Giordan Diaz, Alana Kerr Collins and James Fouhey and others.