The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty runs 9.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Christina Delaine (about 6.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 9.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.6 hours, it runs longer than 56% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Christina Delaine
Christina Delaine narrates 214 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,226 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
3,016 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 Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is an audiobook by Amanda Filipacchi: a 9.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Christina Delaine, released February 16, 2015, on the Literary Fiction shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Christina Delaine
- Released
- February 16, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781622316311
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty as an audiobook?
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty runs 9.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.4 hours.
Is The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty?
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is narrated by Christina Delaine.