How Many Miles Can You Walk Listening to Sarah J. Maas Books?

If you’ve ever started a Sarah J. Maas audiobook on a walk and suddenly found yourself taking the long way home because you absolutely cannot stop listening, this challenge is for you.

Because here’s something that might make you want to lace up your sneakers immediately:

You could walk approximately 1,022 miles listening to the entire currently published Maasiverse at a 3 MPH walking pace.

Yes. Over ONE THOUSAND MILES.

That’s 16 books across A Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, and Crescent City. We’re talking 340 hours and 39 minutes of fantasy, romance, heartbreak, questionable decisions, and enough walking to make your fitness tracker wonder what’s gotten into you.

And with two new ACOTAR books on the horizon, your Maasiverse walking challenge is about to get even longer.

So grab your headphones, pick your next audiobook, and find out just how far your favorite fictional worlds could take you.

Your Map Through the Maasiverse

• How Many Miles Is the Entire Maasiverse?
• ACOTAR Audiobook Walking Miles
• Throne of Glass Audiobook Walking Miles
• Crescent City Audiobook Walking Miles
• Two New ACOTAR Books, Two New Walking Challenges
• How We Calculated Your Audiobook Miles
• The Audiobook-Only Walking Rule
• Create Your Own Maasiverse Walking Challenge

How Many Miles Is the Entire Maasiverse?

Before we dive into individual books, let’s look at the big picture.

Here’s how many miles you’d walk listening to all 16 currently published Sarah J. Maas books at three different speeds.

All distances are in miles and rounded to the nearest whole mile. Calculations use original unabridged audiobook editions at 1× playback speed, and series totals are calculated from exact unrounded durations before rounding.

Even at a moderate 3 MPH pace, finishing the Maasiverse could mean walking more than 1,000 miles without needing a complicated fitness challenge.

Your challenge is simply to keep walking until the book ends.

Although, considering some of these cliffhangers, that might mean accidentally turning a 30-minute walk into a two-hour expedition.

ACOTAR Audiobook Walking Miles

If your ideal walking companion is a morally gray fae male with an alarming number of secrets, welcome home.

The A Court of Thorns and Roses series is practically made for romanticizing your walks. You’ve got enchanted forests, dangerous courts, slow-burn romance, and enough dramatic reveals to keep you circling your neighborhood because there’s no way you’re stopping at that chapter.

The five existing ACOTAR audiobooks contain 97 hours of listening time in their original unabridged editions.

That’s 291 miles at a 3 MPH walking pace.

ACOTAR Audiobook Lengths and Walking Miles

A Court of Silver Flames alone could keep you walking for over 78 miles at 3 MPH.

And A Court of Frost and Starlight? That’s your cozy little recovery novella. A mere 19-mile stroll.

Nothing says relaxing holiday reading quite like accidentally completing more than four half marathons’ worth of walking.

ACOTAR walking challenge idea: Make each completed book a milestone. Finish the first book, celebrate your first 48 miles, and keep going until you’ve conquered all five.

If you’ve already read the series, a reread could be the perfect excuse to start a fresh walking streak.

Throne of Glass Audiobook Walking Miles

Oh, you’re doing Throne of Glass?

Clear your schedule. Charge your headphones. Consider developing an emotional support walking route.

Because this series is an absolute marathon of an audiobook challenge.

With eight books, including The Assassin’s Blade, the complete Throne of Glass series has 158 hours and 25 minutes of listening time.

At 3 MPH, that’s approximately 475 miles.

And Kingdom of Ash alone? Almost 100 miles of walking.

Imagine starting a book and realizing it’s going to take you the equivalent of nearly four marathons to finish listening to it.

Throne of Glass Audiobook Lengths and Walking Miles

Throne of Glass is the longest of the three series, making it the ultimate long-term Maasiverse walking challenge.

At 3 MPH, the entire series adds up to more than 18 marathons’ worth of distance.

And here’s an especially fun milestone: if you start Kingdom of Ash with zero miles on your tracker, you could finish that single audiobook with almost 100 miles.

Of course, the real challenge might be explaining to your neighbors why you’re crying on the sidewalk while walking in circles.

Throne of Glass walking challenge idea: Use each book as a checkpoint in a larger 475-mile adventure. Keep a running total of your miles and celebrate each finished audiobook as another step toward completing the series.

Crescent City Audiobook Walking Miles

If ACOTAR is your enchanted forest walk and Throne of Glass is your epic endurance quest, Crescent City is your urban fantasy power walk.

This series brings modern fantasy energy, mystery, romance, and some seriously substantial audiobook runtimes.

There are currently three published Crescent City books, with a combined listening time of 85 hours and 14 minutes.

At 3 MPH, that works out to approximately 256 miles.

Crescent City Audiobook Lengths and Walking Miles

Here’s what’s especially satisfying about Crescent City: every single book is long enough to get you past 80 walking miles at a 3 MPH pace.

That’s a lot of movement for a series with only three books.

And if you’re already planning to listen to the entire Maasiverse, Crescent City gives you one more huge chunk of mileage to add to your total.

Crescent City walking challenge idea: Set an 85-mile goal for each book. Two of the three will get you close, and the third will take you beyond it. Track your progress and see which book gets you moving the most.

Two New ACOTAR Books, Two New Walking Challenges

Just when you thought your Maasiverse walking challenge was complete, Sarah J. Maas decided your sneakers needed more work.

Two new ACOTAR books are scheduled:

• A Court of Splintered Harmony, October 27, 2026
• A Court of Forgotten Melody, January 12, 2027

But there’s one very important question we still need answered.

How many miles are these new books going to add to our walking challenge?!

Because confirmed Audible audiobook runtimes aren’t available for either title yet.

And we’re not about to invent numbers just because we’re impatient.

The New ACOTAR Walking Mileage Mystery

Will we get another 20-plus-hour audiobook? A shorter adventure? Something that keeps us walking for an entire weekend because we absolutely refuse to stop listening?

Your guess is as good as ours.

And that’s half the fun.

For now, the Maasiverse walking challenge sits at approximately 1,022 miles at a 3 MPH pace.

Once the new audiobook durations are officially available, we’ll be able to add their mileage and see just how much farther the Maasiverse takes us.

Until then, consider this your official excuse to get your walking shoes ready.

How We Calculated Your Audiobook Miles

Before you start planning your thousand-mile adventure, let’s talk about how these numbers work.

The formula is simple:

Audiobook length in hours × walking speed in MPH = total miles walked

For example, if an audiobook lasts 20 hours and you walk at 3 MPH:

20 hours × 3 MPH = 60 miles.

That’s it. No complicated math, no fancy equipment, and no need to run unless you actually want to.

Here’s what our three walking speeds represent:

• 3 MPH: A moderate walking pace, roughly 20 minutes per mile.
• 4 MPH: A very brisk 15-minute-mile pace.
• 5 MPH: A 12-minute-mile pace, closer to racewalking or an easy jog for many people.

If you normally track your walks in minutes per mile rather than miles per hour, you can use our pace and speed converter to translate your usual walking pace into MPH.

All calculations assume you’re listening at normal 1× audiobook speed while continuously moving at the stated pace. Mileage figures in the tables are rounded to the nearest whole mile, while series totals are calculated from exact unrounded audiobook durations before rounding.

The totals use original unabridged audiobook recordings, not dramatized adaptations. Newer recordings may have different runtimes, so your results can vary depending on which edition you choose.

And remember, you don’t have to maintain the same pace for every walk.

The point isn’t to hit a perfect number.

It’s to discover how much walking you can enjoy when you’ve got a really good story keeping you company.

The Audiobook-Only Walking Rule: Make Your Next Chapter Your Reward

Here’s where this challenge gets really interesting.

What if you made one simple rule?

You can only listen to your current Sarah J. Maas audiobook while you’re walking.

Not while folding laundry, and not while cooking dinner. Not while lying in bed convincing yourself you’ll stop after this chapter.

Only while walking.

This strategy is called temptation bundling, and it involves pairing something you want to do with something you’re trying to do more consistently.

In this case, you’re pairing the reward of listening to your favorite fantasy audiobook with the habit of walking.

And suddenly, your daily walk isn’t just another task on your to-do list.

It’s the only way you’re finding out what happens next.

Why Saving Your Audiobook for Walks Can Be So Motivating

Imagine you’re 20 minutes into your walk when the plot takes a completely unexpected turn.

You’re approaching your driveway. Your watch says you’ve hit your daily goal.

But there’s no way you’re stopping now.

So you walk another loop around the neighborhood.

And maybe another.

Not because you’re forcing yourself to exercise, but because you’re genuinely enjoying the experience.

That’s the beauty of turning something you love into a walking reward.

You don’t have to rely entirely on willpower when you’ve given yourself something exciting to look forward to.

Of course, this works best as a fun incentive, not a punishment. Rest days are allowed. Sometimes the weather is terrible. And sometimes you just want to finish a chapter from your couch.

The goal is to make walking more appealing, not to make reading feel like something you have to earn.

For more audiobook inspiration, check out our guide to addictive dark romance audiobooks to save for your walks and runs.

And if you’re looking for ways to make your daily movement feel a little more magical, our guide to romanticizing your runs is another great place to find inspiration.

Create Your Own Maasiverse Walking Challenge

You don’t have to commit to all 1,022 miles immediately.

In fact, starting with one book might be a lot more fun than deciding you’re going to walk the entire Maasiverse before you’ve even charged your headphones.

1. Pick Your Starting Series

Choose whichever series sounds the most exciting.

If you’re new to Sarah J. Maas, ACOTAR is a popular starting point. If you’re ready for a longer commitment, Throne of Glass offers the biggest mileage challenge. And if you want to start with three substantial books, Crescent City has plenty of walking hours waiting for you.

There’s no need to finish the entire universe in a specific timeframe.

2. Track Your Miles, Not Just Your Chapters

Keep a simple note on your phone, use a fitness watch, or track your walks in an app like Strava.

Record your mileage after each walk and watch your total grow as you move through the series.

You could even make a little checklist for every book and write your final mileage beside its title.

Because finishing Kingdom of Ash is already an achievement.

Finishing Kingdom of Ash and realizing you walked almost 100 miles while listening? That’s a whole new level of satisfaction.

3. Choose a Realistic Daily Walking Goal

You don’t need to walk for hours every day to make meaningful progress.

Even a 30-minute walk at 3 MPH adds 1.5 miles to your total.

You can also split your listening into smaller walks throughout the day.

Ten minutes in the morning, ten at lunch, and ten after dinner still add up to 30 minutes of movement and another half hour of your audiobook.

4. Celebrate Each Finished Book

Give yourself a little milestone celebration whenever you finish an audiobook.

Maybe you update a reading tracker, add a new sticker to your walking journal, or treat yourself to a cozy reading evening.

You could also set milestone goals along the way:

• First 50 miles: You’re officially on your Maasiverse journey.
• First 100 miles: You’ve reached triple digits!
• First 250 miles: You’re well on your way to an epic fantasy walking achievement.
• First 500 miles: You’ve walked almost half of the 3 MPH Maasiverse challenge.
• First 1,000 miles: You’ve reached the big milestone before even finishing the entire universe.

And if you decide to start over and listen to your favorite series again?

Congratulations. You’ve just unlocked a new level of Maas Destruction. Enjoy round 2!

5. Keep It Enjoyable

One of the best parts of this challenge is that it doesn’t require a race registration, a strict training plan, or a specific finish date.

You can walk around your neighborhood, explore a local park, use a treadmill, or take a few laps during your lunch break.

Just be sure to stay aware of traffic and your surroundings when listening outdoors. Keep the volume low enough to hear important sounds, especially near roads and intersections.

And don’t feel like every walk needs to be a power walk. An easy, comfortable pace is perfectly fine.

This is supposed to be fun.

You’re not training to outrun the Valg.

Probably.

Your Next Chapter Is Waiting Outside

There’s something wonderfully satisfying about realizing that two things you already enjoy can work together.

You don’t have to choose between making time for your favorite books and making time to move your body.

You can do both.

And when your reading list happens to include 340 hours and 39 minutes of Sarah J. Maas audiobooks, you’ve got plenty of opportunities to get outside, enjoy some fresh air, and add a few more miles to your day.

Whether you’re aiming for your first 50 miles, the full 291-mile ACOTAR challenge, or the entire 1,022-mile Maasiverse, every walk counts.

And with two more ACOTAR books on the way, your next adventure is already waiting.

So grab your headphones, press play, and head out for a walk.

Because the next chapter isn’t going to listen to itself.

Frequently Asked Questions About the Maasiverse Walking Challenge