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Annihilation — Audiobook

6.2est. listening hrs
3.6★95 ratings
Fantasygenre
Free with trial

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 6.2 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Annihilation at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day13 days
1 hour / day7 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×5 days

What our data says

  • At 6.2 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 85% of the fantasy audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 50% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook (12.3 hrs across 761 titles in our dataset).

Computed from fantasy audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset; listening time estimated from page count.

Who is this for?

Best for fantasy listeners — a weekend-size listen at 6.2 hours (estimated).

About the book

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award–winning novel that “reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world” (Kim Stanley Robinson). This 10th Anniversary Edition features a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler. If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel … it might be this awesome. Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Annihilation audiobook?

Annihilation runs about 6.2 hours — our estimate from its 208 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.1 hours.

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When was Annihilation first published?

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer was first published in 2014.