The Books Insiderthe data-driven audiobook guide

The Books Insider

The data-driven
audiobook guide.

Real listening times. Finish-date math. Genre length stats and narrator data — computed from 8,539 audiobooks, not copied from blurbs.

A stat from our dataset

Thriller audiobooks run 52% longer than self-help on average — 12.3 hrs vs 8.1.

Measured across 8,539 audiobooks in our dataset. · full breakdown

Reference · updated monthlyAudiobook Statistics 202634 citable statistics measured from 8,539 audiobooks — genre lengths, listening-time math, narrator data, rating patterns.Explore the numbers →

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Best-of lists computed from listener ratings weighted by rating count — no opinions.

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Stories computed from the dataset — every number measured, nothing copied.

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