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The Longest Women Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 42 unabridged Women audiobooks in our catalog run 20 hours or more. These are the longest, by the store's own running time.

The Women shelf sits under Biography & Memoir on the store.

The list

#TitleAuthorLength
1My Name Is BarbraBarbra Streisand48.1 hrs
2Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia PlathHeather Clark45.5 hrs
3Madonna: A Rebel LifeMary Gabriel41.7 hrs
4Marlene Dietrich: The LifeMaria Riva33.5 hrs
5Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siecle ParisCaroline Weber29.9 hrs
6Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume II, The Defining Years, 1933-1938Blanche Wiesen Cook28.9 hrs
7Queen Anne: The Politics of PassionAnne Somerset28.4 hrs
8Normal Women: 900 Years of Making HistoryPhilippa Gregory27.3 hrs
9Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of RevolutionAmanda Vaill27.1 hrs
10The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan DidionTracy Daugherty26.8 hrs
11Dorothy Dandridge: A BiographyDonald Bogle26.7 hrs
12Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962Blanche Wiesen Cook26.4 hrs
13Book of Lives: The must-read Sunday Times bestselling memoir from the author of The Handmaid’s TaleMargaret Atwood25.6 hrs
14Book of LivesMargaret Atwood25.6 hrs
15Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia ChildBob Spitz25.5 hrs
16Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of WingsMary Henley Rubio25.4 hrs
17Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth IIRobert Hardman25.3 hrs
18The Triumph of Nancy ReaganKaren Tumulty25.3 hrs
19Mary Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary StuartJohn Guy25.2 hrs
20Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of ColetteJudith Thurman25.1 hrs
21The Burma Spring: Aung San Suu Kyi and the New Struggle for the Soul of a NationRena Pederson24.7 hrs
22I Always KnewBarbara Chase-Riboud23.2 hrs
23Queen of the World: Elizabeth II: Sovereign and StateswomanRobert Hardman23 hrs
24Mary Queen of Scots: Film Tie-InJohn Guy22.9 hrs
25Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon---and the Journey of a GenerationSheila Weller22.8 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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