Twelve Years a Slave: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Twelve Years a Slave audiobook runs 7.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Sean Crisden (about 4.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 7.3 hours, it is shorter than 60% of the 5,303 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Sean Crisden
Sean Crisden narrates 115 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 967 hours in all.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
855 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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
Twelve Years a Slave is an audiobook by Solomon Northup: a 7.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Sean Crisden, released March 26, 2012, on the Social Science shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Sean Crisden
- Released
- March 26, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science
- ISBN
- 9781452676630
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Twelve Years a Slave audiobook?
Twelve Years a Slave runs 7.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.9 hours.
Is the Twelve Years a Slave audiobook free?
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Who narrates Twelve Years a Slave?
Twelve Years a Slave is narrated by Sean Crisden.