The best science fiction audiobooks between 10 and 20 hours, measured

Ranked by weighted listener rating, the best science fiction audiobook between 10 and 20 hours in our dataset is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card: 4.35★ across 405 ratings and 11.3 listening hours. We scored every published science fiction audiobook whose store-listed length is 10 to 20 hours: 60 qualify, carrying 3,221 listener ratings between them. The top 15 are below. No opinions: the formula in the method note decides the order.

60books qualify

3,221listener ratings behind the list

14.5avg hours (real)

60store-measured lengths

The top 15

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
11.3 hrs · 4.35★ · 405 ratings · weighted score 4.31
About 12 days at an hour a day, 23 at 30 minutes.
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
10.4 hrs · 4.43★ · 90 ratings · weighted score 4.29
About 11 days at an hour a day, 21 at 30 minutes.
Tiamat's Wrath by James S. A. Corey
19.2 hrs · 4.44★ · 52 ratings · weighted score 4.24
About 20 days at an hour a day, 39 at 30 minutes.
Network Effect by Martha Wells
12.8 hrs · 4.34★ · 59 ratings · weighted score 4.20
About 13 days at an hour a day, 26 at 30 minutes.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
12 hrs · 4.35★ · 55 ratings · weighted score 4.20
About 12 days at an hour a day, 24 at 30 minutes.
Leviathan Falls by James S. A. Corey
19.7 hrs · 4.39★ · 31 ratings · weighted score 4.17
About 20 days at an hour a day, 40 at 30 minutes.
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
16.8 hrs · 4.26★ · 69 ratings · weighted score 4.16
About 17 days at an hour a day, 34 at 30 minutes.
Golden Son by Pierce Brown
19.1 hrs · 4.27★ · 48 ratings · weighted score 4.15
About 20 days at an hour a day, 39 at 30 minutes.
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
10 hrs · 4.18★ · 111 ratings · weighted score 4.13
About 10 days at an hour a day, 20 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.
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
19.7 hrs · 4.30★ · 27 ratings · weighted score 4.12
About 20 days at an hour a day, 40 at 30 minutes.
Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov
17.5 hrs · 4.28★ · 29 ratings · weighted score 4.12
About 18 days at an hour a day, 35 at 30 minutes.
Abaddon’s Gate by James S. A. Corey
19.8 hrs · 4.16★ · 69 ratings · weighted score 4.10
About 20 days at an hour a day, 40 at 30 minutes.
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
10.5 hrs · 4.17★ · 47 ratings · weighted score 4.10
About 11 days at an hour a day, 21 at 30 minutes.
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
19.9 hrs · 4.21★ · 29 ratings · weighted score 4.10
About 20 days at an hour a day, 40 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 science fiction shelf: 60 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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