The best young adult audiobooks between 10 and 20 hours, measured

Ranked by weighted listener rating, the best young adult 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 young adult audiobook whose store-listed length is 10 to 20 hours: 28 qualify, carrying 1,783 listener ratings between them. The top 15 are below. No opinions: the formula in the method note decides the order.

28books qualify

1,783listener ratings behind the list

13.3avg hours (real)

28store-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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
17.9 hrs · 4.21★ · 43 ratings · weighted score 4.11
About 18 days at an hour a day, 36 at 30 minutes.
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
11.1 hrs · 4.17★ · 63 ratings · weighted score 4.11
About 12 days at an hour a day, 23 at 30 minutes.
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
15 hrs · 4.21★ · 38 ratings · weighted score 4.11
About 15 days at an hour a day, 30 at 30 minutes.
City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
12.8 hrs · 4.24★ · 25 ratings · weighted score 4.10
About 13 days at an hour a day, 26 at 30 minutes.
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
17.5 hrs · 4.29★ · 14 ratings · weighted score 4.09
About 18 days at an hour a day, 35 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.
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
10.4 hrs · 4.08★ · 13 ratings · weighted score 4.04
About 11 days at an hour a day, 21 at 30 minutes.
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
12.7 hrs · 4.02★ · 61 ratings · weighted score 4.02
About 13 days at an hour a day, 26 at 30 minutes.
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
14.3 hrs · 3.90★ · 10 ratings · weighted score 4.01
About 15 days at an hour a day, 29 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 young adult shelf: 28 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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