The best fantasy audiobooks between 10 and 20 hours, measured

Ranked by weighted listener rating, the best fantasy audiobook between 10 and 20 hours in our dataset is Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett: 4.45★ across 87 ratings and 12.6 listening hours. We scored every published fantasy audiobook whose store-listed length is 10 to 20 hours: 71 qualify, carrying 2,177 listener ratings between them. The top 15 are below. No opinions: the formula in the method note decides the order.

71books qualify

2,177listener ratings behind the list

14avg hours (real)

71store-measured lengths

The top 15

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
12.6 hrs · 4.45★ · 87 ratings · weighted score 4.30
About 13 days at an hour a day, 26 at 30 minutes.
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
11.1 hrs · 4.45★ · 47 ratings · weighted score 4.23
About 12 days at an hour a day, 23 at 30 minutes.
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
12.7 hrs · 4.41★ · 44 ratings · weighted score 4.21
About 13 days at an hour a day, 26 at 30 minutes.
Changes by Jim Butcher
15.5 hrs · 4.40★ · 43 ratings · weighted score 4.20
About 16 days at an hour a day, 31 at 30 minutes.
Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
14.6 hrs · 4.39★ · 41 ratings · weighted score 4.19
About 15 days at an hour a day, 30 at 30 minutes.
Darkness of Dragons by Tui T. Sutherland
10.4 hrs · 4.59★ · 17 ratings · weighted score 4.17
About 11 days at an hour a day, 21 at 30 minutes.
Death Masks by Jim Butcher
11.3 hrs · 4.30★ · 47 ratings · weighted score 4.16
About 12 days at an hour a day, 23 at 30 minutes.
Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson
12.6 hrs · 4.25★ · 59 ratings · weighted score 4.15
About 13 days at an hour a day, 26 at 30 minutes.
Cold Days by Jim Butcher
18.8 hrs · 4.38★ · 24 ratings · weighted score 4.14
About 19 days at an hour a day, 38 at 30 minutes.
Lirael Daughter of the Clayr by Garth Nix
14.7 hrs · 4.36★ · 22 ratings · weighted score 4.13
About 15 days at an hour a day, 30 at 30 minutes.
Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, Book 7) by Jim Butcher
15.1 hrs · 4.24★ · 41 ratings · weighted score 4.12
About 16 days at an hour a day, 31 at 30 minutes.
Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence
15.8 hrs · 4.55★ · 11 ratings · weighted score 4.12
About 16 days at an hour a day, 32 at 30 minutes.
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
10.2 hrs · 4.26★ · 34 ratings · weighted score 4.12
About 11 days at an hour a day, 21 at 30 minutes.
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
13.5 hrs · 4.26★ · 31 ratings · weighted score 4.12
About 14 days at an hour a day, 27 at 30 minutes.
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
13.1 hrs · 4.17★ · 83 ratings · weighted score 4.12
About 14 days at an hour a day, 27 at 30 minutes.

How this list works

A book qualifies with a store-listed length from 10 up to 20 hours (real durations only, never page-count estimates) and an Open Library subject record confirming the fantasy shelf: 71 books. Each is scored by its Open Library listener rating weighted by its rating count: score = (v·R + 50·C) ÷ (v + 50), where R is the book's rating, v its number of ratings, and C = 4.03★ the mean across all 2,195 published books. A page exists only while at least 15 books qualify. Children's titles, memoirs and autobiographies are excluded from these rankings; they keep their regular book pages. Abridged and synthetic-voice editions are excluded too. No editorial picks, no sponsored placement. Dataset build 2026-10-12; the list recomputes with every data refresh. Full methodology

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