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the girl with the dragon tattoo — Audiobook

17est. listening hrs
4.2★97 ratings
Thrillergenre
Free with trial

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 17 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish the girl with the dragon tattoo at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day34 days
1 hour / day17 days
2 hours / day9 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×12 days

What our data says

  • At 17 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 84% of the thriller audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 32% longer than the average thriller audiobook (12.9 hrs across 259 titles in our dataset).

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

Who is this for?

Best for thriller listeners — a long-haul epic at 17 hours (estimated).

About the book

A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue. It’s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialism, and an unexpected connection between themselves.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the girl with the dragon tattoo as an audiobook?

the girl with the dragon tattoo runs about 17 hours — our estimate from its 576 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.3 hours.

Can I listen to the girl with the dragon tattoo free?

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Is the girl with the dragon tattoo worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.3 hours — saving 5.7 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.

When was the girl with the dragon tattoo first published?

the girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson was first published in 2005.