| 1 | Orson Welles: The Ultimate Collection | Orson Welles | 125.3 hrs |
| 2 | The Complete Philosophy Collection: Meditations, The Republic, The Art of War, Beyond Good and Evil, Self-Reliance, Letters from a Stoic, The Enchiridion & More | Tim Zengerink | 93.4 hrs |
| 3 | Life of Samuel Johnson | James Boswell | 66.8 hrs |
| 4 | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York | Robert A. Caro | 66.1 hrs |
| 5 | The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky | Isaac Deutscher | 62.7 hrs |
| 6 | Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama | David Garrow | 56.2 hrs |
| 7 | The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 3: Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965 | Paul Reid | 53.4 hrs |
| 8 | X Minus One: Complete | Isaac Asimov | 51.1 hrs |
| 9 | My Life (complete) | Bill Clinton | 50.5 hrs |
| 10 | Churchill: Walking with Destiny | Andrew Roberts | 50.5 hrs |
| 11 | 100 Great Comedy Shows: Classic Shows from the Golden Era of Radio | Various | 49.9 hrs |
| 12 | Stalin, Volume II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 | Stephen Kotkin | 49.8 hrs |
| 13 | Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Volume One) | Michael Burlingame | 49.4 hrs |
| 14 | The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison | Ralph Ellison | 49.2 hrs |
| 15 | The David Foster Wallace Reader | David Foster Wallace | 48.5 hrs |
| 16 | Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43 | Chips Channon | 48.5 hrs |
| 17 | Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57 | Chips Channon | 48.3 hrs |
| 18 | My Name is Barbra: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography and Music Book of the Year | Barbra Streisand | 48.1 hrs |
| 19 | My Name Is Barbra | Barbra Streisand | 48.1 hrs |
| 20 | 100 Great Western Shows: Classic Shows from the Golden Era of Radio | Various | 47.2 hrs |
| 21 | The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke | Jeffrey C. Stewart | 45.6 hrs |
| 22 | Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath | Heather Clark | 45.5 hrs |
| 23 | Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 | Rick Perlstein | 45.3 hrs |
| 24 | Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 | Taylor Branch | 45.3 hrs |
| 25 | Van Gogh: The Life | Gregory White Smith | 45 hrs |