When Breath Becomes Air: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the When Breath Becomes Air audiobook runs 5.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Lucy Kalanithi and Sunil Malhotra (about 3.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 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 80% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Sunil Malhotra
Sunil Malhotra narrates 60 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 607 hours in all.
About as long, on the Memoirs shelf
1,076 Memoirs 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
When Breath Becomes Air is an audiobook by Paul Kalanithi: a 5.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Lucy Kalanithi and Sunil Malhotra, released January 12, 2016, on the Memoirs and Social Science shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Lucy Kalanithi, Sunil Malhotra
- Released
- January 12, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs, Social Science, Lessons in Philosophy
- ISBN
- 9780399566172
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the When Breath Becomes Air audiobook?
When Breath Becomes Air runs 5.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.6 hours.
Is the When Breath Becomes Air audiobook free?
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Who narrates When Breath Becomes Air?
When Breath Becomes Air is narrated by Lucy Kalanithi and Sunil Malhotra.