The Tower of Living and Dying: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Empires of Dust series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Tower of Living and Dying runs 17.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Meriel Rosenkranz and Colin Mace (about 11.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 17.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 35 days |
| 1 hour / day | 18 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 12 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 17.4 hours, it runs longer than 91% of the 12,109 Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Empires of Dust
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 16.5 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 53 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Court of Broken Knives | 16.5 hrs |
| 2 | The Tower of Living and Dying | 17.4 hrs |
| 3 | The House of Sacrifice | 19.1 hrs |
More narrated by Colin Mace
Colin Mace narrates 212 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,267 hours in all.
About as long, on the Fantasy shelf
686 Fantasy 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 Tower of Living and Dying is book 2 of Anna Smith Spark's Empires of Dust series: a 17.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Meriel Rosenkranz and Colin Mace, released August 9, 2018, on the Fantasy and Epic Fantasy shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 17.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Meriel Rosenkranz, Colin Mace
- Released
- August 9, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Fantasy, Epic Fantasy
- Series
- Empires of Dust #2
- ISBN
- 9780008204204
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Tower of Living and Dying as an audiobook?
The Tower of Living and Dying runs 17.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.6 hours.
Is The Tower of Living and Dying free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Tower of Living and Dying?
The Tower of Living and Dying is narrated by Meriel Rosenkranz and Colin Mace.
Is The Tower of Living and Dying worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.6 hours, saving 5.8 hours.