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Things My Son Needs to Know About The World: From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Anxious People and My Friends by Fredrik Backman

Things My Son Needs to Know About The World: From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Anxious People and My Friends: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Things My Son Needs to Know About The World: From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Anxious People and My Friends audiobook runs 3.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Santino Fontana (about 2.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

3.2listening hrs
Memoirsstore shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

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What our data says

  • At 3.2 hours, it is shorter than 94% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.

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

Things My Son Needs to Know About The World: From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Anxious People and My Friends is an audiobook by Fredrik Backman: a 3.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Santino Fontana, released June 6, 2019, on the Memoirs and Arts & Entertainment shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
3.2 hrs
Narrated by
Santino Fontana
Released
June 6, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Memoirs, Arts & Entertainment, Parenting
ISBN
9781405943468

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Things My Son Needs to Know About The World: From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Anxious People and My Friends audiobook?

Things My Son Needs to Know About The World: From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Anxious People and My Friends runs 3.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.1 hours.

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Who narrates Things My Son Needs to Know About The World: From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Anxious People and My Friends?

Things My Son Needs to Know About The World: From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Anxious People and My Friends is narrated by Santino Fontana.