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The Year of the Rat by Grace Lin

The Year of the Rat: Audiobook

Book 2 of the A Pacy Lin Novel series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Year of the Rat runs 3.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Grace Lin and Kim Mai Guest (about 2.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

3.6listening hrs
Non-fiction (Kids)store shelf
2020released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 3.6 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Year of the Rat at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day8 days
1 hour / day4 days
2 hours / day2 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×3 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 3.6 hours, it runs longer than 63% of the 14,091 Non-fiction (Kids) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on A Pacy Lin Novel

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 4 hours before it; books 1 to 2 run 7.6 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1The Year of the Dog4 hrs
2The Year of the Rat3.6 hrs

About as long, on the Non-fiction (Kids) shelf

838 Non-fiction (Kids) 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 Year of the Rat is book 2 of Grace Lin's A Pacy Lin Novel series: a 3.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Grace Lin and Kim Mai Guest, released June 2, 2020, on the Non-fiction (Kids) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
3.6 hrs
Narrated by
Grace Lin, Kim Mai Guest
Released
June 2, 2020
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Non-fiction (Kids)
Series
A Pacy Lin Novel #2
ISBN
9781549189272

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Year of the Rat as an audiobook?

The Year of the Rat runs 3.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.4 hours.

Is The Year of the Rat free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Year of the Rat?

The Year of the Rat is narrated by Grace Lin and Kim Mai Guest.