The Soul of A New Machine: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Soul of A New Machine runs 9.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Ben Sullivan (about 6.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 19 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 9.1 hours, it is shorter than 52% of the 7,179 World audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Ben Sullivan
Ben Sullivan narrates 9 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 82 hours in all.
- The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
- The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
- The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
- The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From
- Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
About as long, on the World shelf
1,010 World audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
- The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
- The History of the Vikings: Norse Sagas, Medieval Marauders, and Far-flung Settlements
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 Soul of A New Machine is an audiobook by Tracy Kidder: a 9.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Ben Sullivan, released May 17, 2016, on the World and Business & Career Development shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ben Sullivan
- Released
- May 17, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World, Business & Career Development, Computers & Technology
- ISBN
- 9781478937449
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Soul of A New Machine as an audiobook?
The Soul of A New Machine runs 9.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.1 hours.
Is The Soul of A New Machine free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Soul of A New Machine?
The Soul of A New Machine is narrated by Ben Sullivan.