Data story · search demand
Project Hail Mary is the most-searched audiobook we track: 231 distinct queries
We collected the real Google Autocomplete suggestions for the 175 most popular books in our dataset: 8,585 distinct audiobook queries in total. This is what people actually type.
Project Hail Mary is the most-searched audiobook we track, with 231 distinct real Google Autocomplete queries. For each of the 175 most popular books in our dataset we queried Google Autocomplete with the title plus “audiobook” and dozens of permutations, keeping only real suggestions Google returned. The demand score below counts distinct suggestions per title, a direct read on what listeners search for.
The demand ranking
Search demand ignores publication dates: the top 15 spans 1813 (Pride and Prejudice) to 2023 (Fourth Wing), 210 years apart, side by side in the same autocomplete box.
What the questions look like
884 of the collected suggestions are phrased as outright questions. A sample, verbatim from the autocomplete data:
| What people type | About |
|---|---|
| how long is project hail mary audiobook | Project Hail Mary |
| how long is dungeon crawler carl audiobook | Dungeon Crawler Carl |
| how long is fourth wing audiobook | Fourth Wing |
| how long is the secret audiobook | The Secret |
| how long is dune audiobook | Dune |
| what fantasy audiobook should i listen to | Fantasy |
| how long is the lord of the rings audiobook | The Lord of the Rings |
| how long is red rising audiobook | Red Rising |
The books people actually look for
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Start listening freeMethodology.Google Autocomplete suggestions collected per title (title + “audiobook” + question and letter permutations); demand score = count of distinct real suggestions referencing the book. Coverage: the 175 most popular books in the dataset. Dataset: 8,557 audiobooks measured by The Books Insider as of 2026-07-26. Listening hours are estimated from page counts (pages × 275 words ÷ 9,300 words/hour, ±10%); full method on the About page. Explore the full dataset on ouraudiobook statistics page.About & methodology →