The Longest Literary Fiction Audiobooks
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 277 unabridged Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run 20 hours or more. These are the longest, by the store's own running time.
The Literary Fiction shelf sits under Literature on the store.
The list
| # | Title | Author | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Novels of Jane Austen | Jane Austen | 81.7 hrs |
| 2 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 64.2 hrs |
| 3 | Three Days Before the Shooting . . . | Ralph Ellison | 63.1 hrs |
| 4 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 61.1 hrs |
| 5 | The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil | 60.5 hrs |
| 6 | The Holy Bible — Volume I: The Old Testament - Audiobook | Classic Audiobooks | 59.3 hrs |
| 7 | Tom's Crossing | Mark Z. Danielewski | 58.2 hrs |
| 8 | The Source | James A. Michener | 54.5 hrs |
| 9 | Against the Day | Thomas Pynchon | 53.6 hrs |
| 10 | Hawaii | James A. Michener | 51.9 hrs |
| 11 | The Memoirs of Cleopatra | Margaret George | 49.8 hrs |
| 12 | London | Edward Rutherfurd | 49.2 hrs |
| 13 | Harlot's Ghost | Norman Mailer | 48.5 hrs |
| 14 | Ducks, Newburyport | Lucy Ellmann | 45.7 hrs |
| 15 | My Struggle, Book 6 | Karl Ove Knausgaard | 43.9 hrs |
| 16 | The Executioner's Song | Norman Mailer | 42.7 hrs |
| 17 | Ulysses | James Joyce | 42.4 hrs |
| 18 | The Deluge | Stephen Markley | 40.7 hrs |
| 19 | 2666 | Roberto Bolaño | 39.3 hrs |
| 20 | Bubblegum | Adam Levin | 39.1 hrs |
| 21 | The Kindly Ones | Jonathan Littell | 39.1 hrs |
| 22 | The American People, Vol. 1: Search for My Heart | Larry Kramer | 38.7 hrs |
| 23 | Paris | Edward Rutherfurd | 38.4 hrs |
| 24 | City on Fire | Garth Risk Hallberg | 37.9 hrs |
| 25 | Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | 37.4 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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