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1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History Audiobook— narrated by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Andrew Ross Sorkin's 1929 is narrative history that treats the Great Crash as a story about people rather than prices, following the bankers, speculators and politicians who talked themselves into an endless boom. If you read Too Big to Fail, this is the same method turned on October 1929, and it moves faster than 591 pages has any right to.
Why the audiobook wins
Andrew Ross Sorkin reads 1929 himself, which for once is the right call. He has spent two decades on television and in print explaining money to people who do not work in it, and the habit shows up in the delivery: the emphasis lands on the sentence that matters, and the numbers arrive at a speed you can actually hold onto.
The structure suits a listen better than the page count suggests. Sorkin works date by date through the boom year and then hour by hour through late October, so the recording becomes a countdown, which is a shape audio does well. The place to stay alert is the cast. Thirty-odd bankers, speculators and politicians pass through, and a listener loses the visual anchor of a name printed on a page. Give the first few hours your full attention and the rest sorts itself out.
Thirteen and a half hours, one crash, and the man who wrote Too Big to Fail doing the reading. One Audible credit covers it.
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- Who narrates the 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History audiobook?
- Andrew Ross Sorkin narrates the audiobook edition of 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History.
- How long is the 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History audiobook?
- The audiobook runs 13 hr 30 min.
- Is the 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History audiobook worth listening to?
- We scored 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History 4.6 out of 5. Andrew Ross Sorkin reads 1929 himself, which for once is the right call. He has spent two decades on television and in print explaining money to people who do not work in it, and the habit shows up in the delivery: the emphasis lands on the sentence that matters, and the numbers…
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- No. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on August 26, 2026.
- How much does 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History cost?
- On Amazon: Kindle $15.99, Paperback $24.51, Hardcover $16.59. Prices as of September 14, 2026 at 3:20 AM EDT and may change.
