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The Most-Rated Non-Fiction Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 13,143 unabridged Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog carry store ratings. These are the 25 with the most ratings.

The list

#TitleAuthorLength
1Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindYuval Noah Harari15.3 hrs
2A Promised LandBarack Obama29.2 hrs
3Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't KnowMalcolm Gladwell9 hrs
4Hillbilly ElegyJ. D. Vance6.8 hrs
5Astrophysics for People in a HurryNeil DeGrasse Tyson3.7 hrs
6Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: The multi-million copy bestsellerYuval Noah Harari15.3 hrs
7The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed AmericaErik Larson15 hrs
8Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)Cheryl Strayed13.1 hrs
9Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of PlantsRobin Wall Kimmerer16.8 hrs
10Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space RaceMargot Lee Shetterly10.8 hrs
11The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsDaniel James Brown14.4 hrs
12Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates3.6 hrs
13When Breath Becomes AirPaul Kalanithi5.5 hrs
14Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our DiscontentsIsabel Wilkerson15.2 hrs
15In Cold BloodTruman Capote14.5 hrs
16White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About RacismRobin DiAngelo6.4 hrs
17Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic FutureAshlee Vance13.4 hrs
18KindredOctavia E. Butler10.9 hrs
19Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and DreamsMatthew Walker13.9 hrs
20The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksRebecca Skloot12.5 hrs
21Homo Deus: A Brief History of TomorrowYuval Noah Harari14.9 hrs
22The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota HistoryJoseph Marshall11 hrs
23Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesJared Diamond16.4 hrs
24Breath: The New Science of a Lost ArtJames Nestor7.9 hrs
25Cosmos: A Personal VoyageCarl Sagan14.5 hrs

Ordered by the number of store ratings, most first; the counts are used only for ordering and never shown. A rating count measures popularity, never quality. 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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