The best thriller audiobooks between 10 and 20 hours, measured

Ranked by weighted listener rating, the best thriller audiobook between 10 and 20 hours in our dataset is As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson: 4.49★ across 35 ratings and 16.9 listening hours. We scored every published thriller audiobook whose store-listed length is 10 to 20 hours: 30 qualify, carrying 922 listener ratings between them. The top 15 are below. No opinions: the formula in the method note decides the order.

30books qualify

922listener ratings behind the list

13.6avg hours (real)

30store-measured lengths

The top 15

As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson
16.9 hrs · 4.49★ · 35 ratings · weighted score 4.22
About 17 days at an hour a day, 34 at 30 minutes.
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
11.8 hrs · 4.29★ · 35 ratings · weighted score 4.14
About 12 days at an hour a day, 24 at 30 minutes.
One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
10.7 hrs · 4.17★ · 92 ratings · weighted score 4.12
About 11 days at an hour a day, 22 at 30 minutes.
Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson
11.8 hrs · 4.19★ · 59 ratings · weighted score 4.12
About 12 days at an hour a day, 24 at 30 minutes.
If Tomorrow Comes by Sidney Sheldon
12.6 hrs · 4.28★ · 18 ratings · weighted score 4.10
About 13 days at an hour a day, 26 at 30 minutes.
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
15.9 hrs · 4.18★ · 33 ratings · weighted score 4.09
About 16 days at an hour a day, 32 at 30 minutes.
This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti
17.5 hrs · 4.33★ · 12 ratings · weighted score 4.09
About 18 days at an hour a day, 35 at 30 minutes.
Rose Madder by Stephen King
17.4 hrs · 4.17★ · 29 ratings · weighted score 4.08
About 18 days at an hour a day, 35 at 30 minutes.
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
15.4 hrs · 4.18★ · 17 ratings · weighted score 4.07
About 16 days at an hour a day, 31 at 30 minutes.
One of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus
10.4 hrs · 4.13★ · 23 ratings · weighted score 4.06
About 11 days at an hour a day, 21 at 30 minutes.
End of Watch by Stephen King
12.9 hrs · 4.12★ · 16 ratings · weighted score 4.05
About 13 days at an hour a day, 26 at 30 minutes.
Career of Evil by J. K. Rowling
17.5 hrs · 4.10★ · 20 ratings · weighted score 4.05
About 18 days at an hour a day, 35 at 30 minutes.
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
15 hrs · 4.04★ · 73 ratings · weighted score 4.04
About 15 days at an hour a day, 30 at 30 minutes.
Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
12 hrs · 4.02★ · 43 ratings · weighted score 4.02
About 12 days at an hour a day, 24 at 30 minutes.
Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews
17.3 hrs · 4.00★ · 13 ratings · weighted score 4.02
About 18 days at an hour a day, 35 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 thriller shelf: 30 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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