The Longest Social Science Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 95 unabridged Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run 20 hours or more. These are the longest, by the store's own running time.

The Social Science shelf sits under Non-Fiction on the store.

#	Title	Author	Length
1	Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers	James Andrew Miller	43.5 hrs
2	Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity	Andrew Solomon	40.6 hrs
3	Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Third Edition	Cedric J. Robinson	40 hrs
4	The Second Sex	Simone de Beauvoir	39.2 hrs
5	The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined	Steven Pinker	37 hrs
6	My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction	Arundhati Roy	36.4 hrs
7	Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families	J. Anthony Lukas	35.5 hrs
8	The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War	Louis Menand	34.9 hrs
9	The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985	James Baldwin	34.1 hrs
10	Middlemarch	George Eliot	33.1 hrs
11	The Children	David Halberstam	32.2 hrs
12	The Developing Mind, Third Edition: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are	Daniel J. Siegel	31.7 hrs
13	True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen	Lance Richardson	31.3 hrs
14	Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief	Jordan B. Peterson	30.9 hrs
15	The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry	Constance Sublette	30.7 hrs
16	The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle	Lillian Faderman	29.4 hrs
17	The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe	Marlene L. Daut	29.3 hrs
18	The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time	Hunter S. Thompson	29.2 hrs
19	In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI’s War on the American Indian Movement	Peter Matthiessen	28.7 hrs
20	Brazil: A Biography	Heloisa M. Starling	28.5 hrs
21	No Higher Honor	Condoleezza Rice	28.5 hrs
22	First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament	Terry Wildman	28.4 hrs
23	The Alliance Series: Books 1-3	Brenda K. Davies	28.1 hrs
24	Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993	Sarah Schulman	27.4 hrs
25	The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century	Thomas L. Friedman	27.3 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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