The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History runs 10.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Khadija Tariyan Mckinney G. and Marcia Lynn Sells and others (about 6.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 10.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 21 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 10.2 hours, it runs longer than 57% of the 5,887 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by January LaVoy
January LaVoy narrates 468 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,610 hours in all.
About as long, on the The Americas shelf
924 The Americas 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 Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History is an audiobook by Karen Valby: a 10.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Khadija Tariyan Mckinney G., Marcia Lynn Sells and Lydia Abarca Mitchell and others, released April 30, 2024, on the The Americas shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Khadija Tariyan Mckinney G., Marcia Lynn Sells, Lydia Abarca Mitchell, Sheila Rohan, Karlya Shelton-Benjamin, January LaVoy
- Released
- April 30, 2024
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- The Americas
- ISBN
- 9780593820445
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History as an audiobook?
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History runs 10.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.8 hours.
Is The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History?
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History is narrated by Khadija Tariyan Mckinney G., Marcia Lynn Sells, Lydia Abarca Mitchell and Sheila Rohan and others.
Is The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.8 hours, saving 3.4 hours.