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The Longest Arts & Entertainment Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 131 unabridged Arts & Entertainment audiobooks in our catalog run 20 hours or more. These are the longest, by the store's own running time.

The Arts & Entertainment shelf sits under Biography & Memoir on the store.

The list

#TitleAuthorLength
1Orson Welles: The Ultimate CollectionOrson Welles125.3 hrs
2X Minus One: CompleteIsaac Asimov51.1 hrs
3100 Great Comedy Shows: Classic Shows from the Golden Era of RadioVarious49.9 hrs
4My Name is Barbra: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography and Music Book of the YearBarbra Streisand48.1 hrs
5My Name Is BarbraBarbra Streisand48.1 hrs
6100 Great Western Shows: Classic Shows from the Golden Era of RadioVarious47.2 hrs
7Van Gogh: The LifeGregory White Smith45 hrs
8Tune In: The Beatles: All These YearsMark Lewisohn43.8 hrs
9WarholBlake Gopnik43.6 hrs
10Warhol: A Life as ArtBlake Gopnik43.5 hrs
11Madonna: A Rebel LifeMary Gabriel41.7 hrs
12Sinatra: The ChairmanJames Kaplan41 hrs
13Beethoven: Anguish and TriumphJan Swafford39.2 hrs
14Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical TasteNolan Gasser39 hrs
15Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern ArtMary Gabriel39 hrs
16Tom Stoppard: A LifeHermione Lee37.8 hrs
17The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of LifeAlice Schroeder37 hrs
18The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams: The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star TrekMark A. Altman34.4 hrs
19Curepedia: An A-Z of The CureSimon Price33.7 hrs
20The Discovery of IndiaPandit Jawaharlal Nehru33.4 hrs
21The McCartney Legacy: Volume 2: 1974 – 80Adrian Sinclair31.6 hrs
22Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's LifeJames Curtis31.2 hrs
23Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the BluesDavid Dann31.1 hrs
24Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis PresleyPeter Guralnick31 hrs
25The Chief: The Life of William Randolph HearstDavid Nasaw30.9 hrs

Ordered by the store's running time, longest first. Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026); children's titles are not ranked. Methodology.

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