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John Updike: Audiobooks Narrated

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, John Updike narrates 20 unabridged English-language audiobooks in our catalog, 21.7 hours in all; the median one runs 0.4 hours.

20titles
22listening hrs
0.4median hrs

The narrator in numbers

Titles narrated
20
Total listening time
21.7 hrs
Median length
0.4 hrs
Release years
2004 to 2026
Longest
The John Updike Audio Collection (5.8 hrs)
Shortest
Testing the Limits of What I Know and Feel: A 'This I Believe' Essay (0.1 hrs)

Shelf mix

Where John Updike's audiobooks sit on the store's shelves. A title can sit on more than one.

Store shelfTitlesShare
Literary Fiction1575%
Classics (Literature)1470%
Contemporary Women1260%
Short Stories525%
Memoirs15%
Non-Fiction15%
Mindfulness & Meditation15%
Essays & Anthologies15%

Narrates alongside

Narrators credited with John Updike on the same recordings.

NarratorShared titles
John Guerrasio1
Kerry Shale1

Audiobooks narrated by John Updike

Every title, with its store running time. Ordered by popularity on the store (rating counts, used only for ordering and never shown).

#TitleAuthorLength
1Selected Stories: The Alligators, A & P, Pigeon Feathers, The Family Meadow, Witnesses, SeparatingJohn Updike2.8 hrs
2Your Lover Just Called: A Selection from the John Updike Audio CollectionJohn Updike0.3 hrs
3Great American Authors Read From Their Works: Volume 2, John Updike Reading “Lifeguard” from Pigeon Feathers and Other StoriesJohn Updike0.3 hrs
4The John Updike Audio CollectionJohn Updike5.8 hrs
5Ace in the Hole: A Selection from the John Updike Audio CollectionJohn Updike0.4 hrs
6The Family Meadow: A Selection from the John Updike Audio CollectionJohn Updike0.3 hrs
7Foreword: A Selection from the John Updike Audio CollectionJohn Updike0.3 hrs
8The Bulgarian Poetess: A Selection from the John Updike Audio CollectionJohn Updike0.6 hrs
9Gesturing: A Selection from the John Updike Audio CollectionJohn Updike0.6 hrs
10Snowing in Greenwich Village: A Selection from the John Updike Audio CollectionJohn Updike0.4 hrs
11The Orphaned Swimming Pool: A Selection from the John Updike Audio CollectionJohn Updike0.2 hrs
12The Persistence of DesireJohn Updike0.4 hrs
13Killing: A Selection from the John Updike Audio CollectionJohn Updike0.5 hrs
14Lifeguard: A Selection from the John Updike Audio CollectionJohn Updike0.4 hrs
15The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals: A Selection from the John Updike Audio CollectionJohn Updike0.3 hrs
16Golf Dreams: Writings on GolfJohn Updike3 hrs
17John Updike Reading “Lifeguard” from Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories: From Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Volume 2John Updike0.3 hrs
18Testing the Limits of What I Know and Feel: A 'This I Believe' EssayJohn Updike0.1 hrs
19A Child's CalendarJohn Updike0.2 hrs
20Golf Dreams & more: A BBC Radio CollectionJohn Updike4.6 hrs

Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

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