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Alien Contact is 400 pages, about 7 hours 20 minutes at 250 words a minute.
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The Three-Body Problem 7.7 h 
Contact 7.9 h 
Children of Time 11.3 h 
Childhood’s End 4.1 h 
Stories of Your Life and Others 5.8 h 
The Dark Forest 10.3 h 
Death's End 13.3 h 
Blindsight 7.0 h 
Gateway 5.7 h 
Redshirts 5.9 h 
Binti 2.2 h 
Babylon’s Ashes 10.0 h Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.