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 100 most popular books in our dataset — 4,377 distinct audiobook queries in total. This is what people actually type.
For each of the 100 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 2021 (Project Hail Mary) — 208 years apart, side by side in the same autocomplete box.
What the questions look like
421 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 dune audiobook | Dune |
| how long is pride and prejudice audiobook | Pride and Prejudice |
| how long is a game of thrones audiobook | A Game of Thrones |
| how long is haunting adeline audiobook | Haunting Adeline |
| how long is a court of thorns and roses audiobook | A Court of Thorns and Roses |
| how long is twilight audiobook | Twilight |
| how long is the hobbit audiobook | The Hobbit |
The books people actually look for
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Start the free trialMethodology.Google Autocomplete suggestions collected per title (title + “audiobook” + question and letter permutations); demand score = count of distinct real suggestions referencing the book. Coverage: the 100 most popular books in the dataset. Dataset: 2,000 audiobooks measured by The Books Insider as of 2026-07-06. Listening hours are estimated from page counts (pages × 275 words ÷ 9,300 words/hour, ±10%) — full method on the About page.