The Unfamiliar Garden: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Comet Cycle series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Unfamiliar Garden runs 7.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Mela Lee and Will Collyer (about 4.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 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 7.3 hours, it is shorter than 68% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Comet Cycle
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 10.3 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 28 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Ninth Metal | 10.3 hrs |
| 2 | The Unfamiliar Garden | 7.3 hrs |
| 3 | The Sky Vault | 10.5 hrs |
More narrated by Mela Lee
Mela Lee narrates 59 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 595 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
1,884 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 Unfamiliar Garden is book 2 of Benjamin Percy's Comet Cycle series: a 7.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Mela Lee and Will Collyer, released January 4, 2022, on the Literary Fiction and Apocalyptic & Dystopian shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Mela Lee, Will Collyer
- Released
- January 4, 2022
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Apocalyptic & Dystopian, Science Fiction
- Series
- The Comet Cycle #2
- ISBN
- 9780358578451
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Unfamiliar Garden as an audiobook?
The Unfamiliar Garden runs 7.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.8 hours.
Is The Unfamiliar Garden free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Unfamiliar Garden?
The Unfamiliar Garden is narrated by Mela Lee and Will Collyer.