The best young adult audiobooks under 10 hours, ranked by the data
Ranked by weighted listener rating, the best young adult audiobook under 10 hours in our dataset is The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, Jim Fyfe, Jodi Picoult: 4.37★ across 131 ratings and 5.7 estimated listening hours. We scored every published young adult audiobook under 10 hours: 60 qualify (young adult-shelved titles with full pages here), carrying 4,174 listener ratings between them. The top 15 are below. No opinions: the formula in the method note decides the order.
The top 15
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
About 6 days at an hour a day, 36% shorter than the average young adult audiobook.
Heartstopper, Volume 1 by Alice Oseman
About 9 days at an hour a day, right at the average young adult length.
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
About 10 days at an hour a day, 16% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook.
The One (The Selection #3) by Kiera Cass
About 9 days at an hour a day, 8% longer than the average romance audiobook.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
About 7 days at an hour a day, 24% shorter than the average young adult audiobook.
Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman
About 5 days at an hour a day, 40% shorter than the average romance audiobook.
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
About 9 days at an hour a day, right at the average young adult length.
That was then, this is now by S. E. Hinton
About 5 days at an hour a day, 47% shorter than the average young adult audiobook.
Big Nate Blasts Off! by Lincoln Peirce
About 7 days at an hour a day, 28% shorter than the average young adult audiobook.
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
About 10 days at an hour a day, 13% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
About 7 days at an hour a day, 26% shorter than the average young adult audiobook.
Alanna by Tamora Pierce
About 8 days at an hour a day, 35% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook.
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
About 10 days at an hour a day, 14% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Heartstopper, Volume 2 by Alice Oseman
About 10 days at an hour a day, 14% longer than the average romance audiobook.
A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
About 10 days at an hour a day, 11% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook.
How this ranking works
Every published young adult audiobook under 10 hours qualifies: 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 2,178 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. A book ranks here only when its own Open Library subject data confirms the young adult shelf; surfacing in a young adult search alone doesn't qualify it. Children's titles, memoirs and autobiographies are excluded from these rankings; they keep their regular book pages. No editorial picks, no sponsored placement. Dataset build 2026-08-24; rankings recompute with every data refresh. Full methodology · All young adult audiobooks we measured
Listen to any of these free
New members at audiobooks.com get three free audiobooks with the trial.
Start listening free