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The Longest Animals & Nature Non-Fiction Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 16 unabridged Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run 20 hours or more. These are the longest, by the store's own running time.

The Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelf sits under Non-Fiction on the store.

The list

#TitleAuthorLength
1On a Sea of Glass: The Life and Loss of the RMS TitanicBill Wormstedt32.4 hrs
2The Earth Transformed: An Untold HistoryPeter Frankopan29.2 hrs
3Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition: The American West and Its Disappearing WaterMarc Reisner28 hrs
4Himalaya: A Human HistoryEd Douglas26.7 hrs
5Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented WorldBill Plotkin PhD25.6 hrs
6The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across CaliforniaMark Arax25.5 hrs
7What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate FuturesAyana Elizabeth Johnson24.7 hrs
8The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of ExtinctionsDavid Quammen24.6 hrs
9The Black Ridge: Amongst the Cuillin of SkyeSimon Ingram24.5 hrs
10The Origin of Species by Means of Natural SelectionCharles Darwin24.4 hrs
11Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal CollapseLuke Kemp23.1 hrs
12The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1910-1960Douglas Brinkley23.1 hrs
13The Chicken Health Handbook, 2nd Edition: A Complete Guide to Maximizing Flock Health and Dealing with DiseaseGail Damerow21.5 hrs
14On the Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin21.1 hrs
15Survival: Evolutionary Rules for Intelligent Species SurvivalSherry Wang20.7 hrs
16Call of the Reed WarblerCharles Massy20.4 hrs
17Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to OrbitJoyce E. Chaplin19.9 hrs
18New Choices in Natural Healing for Dogs & Cats: Herbs, Acupressure, Massage, Homeopathy, Flower Essences, Natural Diets, Healing EnergyAmy Shojai19.7 hrs
19Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think ItFelipe Fernandez-Armesto19.6 hrs
20Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our WorldAndrea Barnet19.3 hrs
21The Horse: A Galloping History of HumanityTimothy C. Winegard19.2 hrs
22The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest PredatorTimothy C. Winegard19.1 hrs
23The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's WorldCharles C. Mann19 hrs
24How to Prepare for Climate ChangeDavid Pogue18.5 hrs
25The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds AliveMartín Prechtel18.5 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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