The best thriller audiobooks, ranked by the data
Ranked by weighted listener rating, the best thriller audiobook in our dataset is Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir — 4.49★ across 171 ratings and 14.7 estimated listening hours. We scored every published thriller audiobook in our dataset: 118 qualify — thriller-shelved titles with full pages here — carrying 12,244 listener ratings between them. The top 20 are below. No opinions: the formula in the method note decides the order.
The top 20
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
About 15 days at an hour a day — 14% longer than the average thriller audiobook.
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
About 16 days at an hour a day — 23% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
About 9 days at an hour a day — 32% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook.
The Martian by Andy Weir
About 12 days at an hour a day — right at the average fantasy length.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
About 34 days at an hour a day — 265% longer than the average mystery audiobook.
The Green Mile by Stephen King
About 14 days at an hour a day — 7% longer than the average thriller audiobook.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
About 18 days at an hour a day — 94% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
About 9 days at an hour a day — 28% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook.
The Stand by Stephen King
About 35 days at an hour a day — 164% longer than the average thriller audiobook.
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
About 8 days at an hour a day — 44% shorter than the average thriller audiobook.
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
About 28 days at an hour a day — 125% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
About 7 days at an hour a day — 49% shorter than the average thriller audiobook.
Night by Elie Wiesel
About 4 days at an hour a day — 56% shorter than the average romance audiobook.
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
About 5 days at an hour a day — 49% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
About 16 days at an hour a day — 21% longer than the average thriller audiobook.
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
About 18 days at an hour a day — 99% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
About 14 days at an hour a day — 5% longer than the average thriller audiobook.
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
About 31 days at an hour a day — 139% longer than the average thriller audiobook.
The Shining by Stephen King
About 15 days at an hour a day — 16% longer than the average thriller audiobook.
the girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson
About 17 days at an hour a day — 32% longer than the average thriller audiobook.
How this ranking works
Every published thriller audiobook in our dataset qualifies — 118 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 = 4.06★ the mean across all 500 published books we measured. Fewer ratings pull a score toward that mean, so a high rating on a handful of votes can't outrank a slightly lower one backed by hundreds. Genre shelves come from Open Library's subject data — a book qualifies when its subjects carry the thriller signal. No editorial picks, no sponsored placement. Dataset build 2026-07-06; rankings recompute with every data refresh. Full methodology · All thriller audiobooks we measured
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