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This Side of Brightness: From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

This Side of Brightness: From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the This Side of Brightness: From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin audiobook runs 8.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Dion Graham (about 5.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.7listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2022released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.7 hours of listening.

Days to finish This Side of Brightness: From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin at common listening paces
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30 min / day18 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 8.7 hours, it is shorter than 54% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

2,666 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

This Side of Brightness: From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin is an audiobook by Colum McCann: a 8.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Dion Graham, released June 16, 2022, on the Literary Fiction shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.7 hrs
Narrated by
Dion Graham
Released
June 16, 2022
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Literary Fiction
ISBN
9781526658821

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the This Side of Brightness: From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin audiobook?

This Side of Brightness: From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin runs 8.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.8 hours.

Is the This Side of Brightness: From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin audiobook free?

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Who narrates This Side of Brightness: From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin?

This Side of Brightness: From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin is narrated by Dion Graham.