The Books Insider
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audiobook data.
Real listening times. Finish-date math. Narration speed, genre length stats and narrator data, computed from 8,559 audiobooks, not copied from blurbs. Reader-supported, and the numbers never know it.
Most-asked-about audiobooks
Ranked by real search demand for each title.
Browse by genre
- Romance3,536 books · avg 8.3 hrs
- Fantasy1,838 books · avg 11.3 hrs
- Romantasy220 books · avg 13.3 hrs
- Thriller704 books · avg 12.3 hrs
- Mystery585 books · avg 8.5 hrs
- Science Fiction885 books · avg 11 hrs
- Horror233 books · avg 8.4 hrs
- Historical Fiction225 books · avg 12.4 hrs
- Young Adult162 books · avg 8.4 hrs
- Self-Help132 books · avg 8 hrs
- Business259 books · avg 10.1 hrs
Ranked by the data
Best-of lists computed from listener ratings weighted by rating count. No opinions.
- The best romance audiobooks · top 20
- The best fantasy audiobooks · top 20
- The best romantasy audiobooks · top 15
- The best thriller audiobooks · top 20
- The best mystery audiobooks · top 20
- The best science fiction audiobooks · top 20
- The best horror audiobooks · top 20
- The best historical fiction audiobooks · top 15
- The best young adult audiobooks · top 20
- The best self-help audiobooks · top 15
- The best business audiobooks · top 15
- All 39 ranked lists →
From the data desk
Stories computed from the dataset: every number measured, nothing copied.