When Breath Becomes Air: The powerful and moving memoir of a doctor, the global bestseller: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the When Breath Becomes Air: The powerful and moving memoir of a doctor, the global bestseller audiobook runs 5.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Lucy Kalanithi and Sunil Malhotra (about 3.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 5.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
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What our data says
- At 5.5 hours, it is shorter than 82% of the 5,212 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Sunil Malhotra
Sunil Malhotra narrates 30 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 325 hours in all.
About as long, on the Memoirs shelf
522 Memoirs 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
When Breath Becomes Air: The powerful and moving memoir of a doctor, the global bestseller is an audiobook by Paul Kalanithi: a 5.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Lucy Kalanithi and Sunil Malhotra, released March 10, 2016, on the History & Culture and Memoirs shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Lucy Kalanithi, Sunil Malhotra
- Released
- March 10, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- History & Culture, Memoirs, Disorders & Diseases
- ISBN
- 9781473546523
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How long is the When Breath Becomes Air: The powerful and moving memoir of a doctor, the global bestseller audiobook?
When Breath Becomes Air: The powerful and moving memoir of a doctor, the global bestseller runs 5.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.7 hours.
Is the When Breath Becomes Air: The powerful and moving memoir of a doctor, the global bestseller audiobook free?
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Who narrates When Breath Becomes Air: The powerful and moving memoir of a doctor, the global bestseller?
When Breath Becomes Air: The powerful and moving memoir of a doctor, the global bestseller is narrated by Lucy Kalanithi and Sunil Malhotra.