This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage audiobook runs 11.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Ann Patchett (about 7.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 11.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 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 11.6 hours, it runs longer than 88% of the 5,212 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett narrates 4 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 30 hours in all.
- Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
- I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
- The All of It
About as long, on the Memoirs shelf
592 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Educated: The international bestselling memoir
- Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
- In Pieces
- The Elephant Whisperer: My Life With the Herd in the African Wild
- Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition): Advice from Dear Sugar (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick)
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is an audiobook by Ann Patchett: a 11.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Ann Patchett, released November 5, 2013, on the Memoirs and Essays & Anthologies shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ann Patchett
- Released
- November 5, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs, Essays & Anthologies, Celebrity Bookclub Picks
- ISBN
- 9780062282873
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage audiobook?
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage runs 11.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.7 hours.
Is the This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage?
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is narrated by Ann Patchett.
Is This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.7 hours, saving 3.9 hours.