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The Wandering Hill by Larry McMurtry

The Wandering Hill: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Berrybender Narratives series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Wandering Hill runs 10 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Alfred Molina (about 6.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2003released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10 hours of listening.

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What our data says

  • At 10 hours, it runs longer than 60% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Berrybender Narratives

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 8 hours before it; books 1 to 4 run 37.5 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Sin Killer8 hrs
2The Wandering Hill10 hrs
3By Sorrow's River11 hrs
4Folly and Glory8.5 hrs

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

3,135 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 Wandering Hill is book 2 of Larry McMurtry's Berrybender Narratives series: a 10-hour unabridged recording, read by Alfred Molina, released May 13, 2003, on the Historical (Fiction) and Westerns & War shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
10 hrs
Narrated by
Alfred Molina
Released
May 13, 2003
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction), Westerns & War, Literary Fiction
Series
Berrybender Narratives #2
ISBN
9780743567169

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Wandering Hill as an audiobook?

The Wandering Hill runs 10 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.7 hours.

Is The Wandering Hill free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates The Wandering Hill?

The Wandering Hill is narrated by Alfred Molina.

Is The Wandering Hill worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.7 hours, saving 3.3 hours.