The Longest Drama Audiobooks
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 164 unabridged Drama audiobooks in our catalog run 20 hours or more. These are the longest, by the store's own running time.
The Drama shelf sits under Fiction on the store.
The list
| # | Title | Author | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | James A. Michener | 65 hrs |
| 2 | The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil | 60.5 hrs |
| 3 | Alaska | James A. Michener | 57.3 hrs |
| 4 | Noble House | James Clavell | 54.8 hrs |
| 5 | Noble House: The Epic Novel of Modern Hong Kong | James Clavell | 54.7 hrs |
| 6 | The Source | James A. Michener | 54.5 hrs |
| 7 | Hawaii | James A. Michener | 51.9 hrs |
| 8 | Chesapeake | James A. Michener | 50.6 hrs |
| 9 | Gai-Jin | James Clavell | 50.3 hrs |
| 10 | Centennial | James A. Michener | 50.2 hrs |
| 11 | The Witching Hour | Anne Rice | 50 hrs |
| 12 | London | Edward Rutherfurd | 49.2 hrs |
| 13 | Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics | Sigrid Undset | 47.2 hrs |
| 14 | Sarum | Edward Rutherfurd | 45.6 hrs |
| 15 | Dynasty of Death | Taylor Caldwell | 44.6 hrs |
| 16 | Speaking Bones | Ken Liu | 41.1 hrs |
| 17 | The Above the Line Series: Books 1-4: The Baxters Take One, The Baxters Take Two, The Baxters Take Three, and The Baxters Take Four | Karen Kingsbury | 40.7 hrs |
| 18 | Falling for Him: A Collection of Three Stand-Alone Angsty New Adult Romances | Siobhan Davis | 39.8 hrs |
| 19 | Bleak House, with eBook | Charles Dickens | 39.5 hrs |
| 20 | The Veiled Throne | Ken Liu | 38.6 hrs |
| 21 | Paris | Edward Rutherfurd | 38.4 hrs |
| 22 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | 37.5 hrs |
| 23 | New York | Edward Rutherfurd | 37.3 hrs |
| 24 | Familiaris (Oprah’s Book Club) | David Wroblewski | 37.2 hrs |
| 25 | The Tale of Genji, Volume 2 | Murasaki Shikibu | 37.1 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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