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When Things Fall Apart: Audiobook

The When Things Fall Apart audiobook runs an estimated 5.5 hours (about 3.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

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The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 5.5 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish When Things Fall Apart at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day11 days
1 hour / day6 days
2 hours / day3 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×4 days

What our data says

  • At 5.5 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 81% of the self-help audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 32% shorter than the average self-help audiobook (8.1 hrs across 132 titles in our dataset).

Computed from self-help audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for self-help listeners: a weekend-size listen at 5.5 hours (estimated).

About the book

How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart—when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chödrön suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving toward painful situations and becoming intimate with them can open up our hearts in ways we never before imagined. Drawing from traditional Buddhist wisdom, she offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the When Things Fall Apart audiobook?

When Things Fall Apart runs about 5.5 hours, our estimate from its 187 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.7 hours.

Is the When Things Fall Apart audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

When was When Things Fall Apart first published?

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön was first published in 1997.