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Cover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby — Audiobook

5.5est. listening hrs
4.0★235 ratings
Romancegenre
Free with trial

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 5.5 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish The Great Gatsby 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 91% of the romance audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 39% shorter than the average romance audiobook (9 hrs across 819 titles in our dataset).

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

Who is this for?

Best for romance listeners who want psychological twists — a weekend-size listen at 5.5 hours (estimated).

About the book

Tony Award-winning actor Leslie Odom Jr., who starred in the original cast of Hamilton, breathes new life into F. Scott Fitzgerald’s entertaining Jazz Age classic. The Roaring Twenties are in full effect in the fictional Long Island beach towns of West and East Egg when Midwesterner Nick Carraway gets caught up in the orbit of man-about-town Jay Gatsby, host of some of the wildest, most extravagant parties you could ever imagine. The Great Gatsby is a cautionary tale of wealth and excess and a bit of a scathing takedown of celebrity culture. With his mellifluous voice and acting chops, Leslie Odom Jr. is the perfect reader. He pulls us into this timeless story of an outsider looking in—and the impossible, but uniquely human, longing to return to the past.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Great Gatsby as an audiobook?

The Great Gatsby runs about 5.5 hours — our estimate from its 185 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.7 hours.

Can I listen to The Great Gatsby free?

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When was The Great Gatsby first published?

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published in 1920.