Ian Holm: Audiobooks Narrated

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, Ian Holm narrates 47 unabridged English-language audiobooks in our catalog, 469.6 hours in all; the median one runs 7.5 hours.

47titles

470listening hrs

7.5median hrs

The narrator in numbers

Titles narrated: 47
Total listening time: 469.6 hrs
Median length: 7.5 hrs
Release years: 2007 to 2025
Longest: The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: 15 BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations (71.7 hrs)
Shortest: 3 Stories - Horror Stories in Diaries (2 hrs)
Recordings with four or more narrators: 10

Shelf mix

Where Ian Holm's audiobooks sit on the store's shelves. A title can sit on more than one.

Store shelf	Titles	Share
Classics (Literature)	15	32%
Essays & Anthologies	12	26%
Literary Fiction	11	23%
Paranormal	8	17%
Short Stories	7	15%
Horror	6	13%
Psychological	4	9%
Historical (Fiction)	4	9%

Narrates alongside

Narrators credited with Ian Holm on the same recordings.

Narrator	Shared titles
Richard Mitchley	17
David Shaw-Parker	8
Bill Nighy	4
Michael Hordern	3
Robert Stephens	3
David Collings	3
Liza Ross	3
Mark Rice-Oxley	3
Elliot Fitzpatrick	3
Douglas Livingstone	3
Eric Meyers	3
Peter Woodthorpe	3

Audiobooks narrated by Ian Holm

Every title, with its store running time. Ordered by popularity on the store (rating counts, used only for ordering and never shown).

#	Title	Author	Length
1	The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring	J.R.R. Tolkien	4.6 hrs
2	The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers	J.R.R. Tolkien	4.5 hrs
3	The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King	J.R.R. Tolkien	3.2 hrs
4	The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: 15 BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations	Charles Dickens	71.7 hrs
5	The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years: Eight BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations	Charles Dickens	36.6 hrs
6	Short Stories About Madness	Edgar Allan Poe	16 hrs
7	Stories With Nightmares	Violet Mary Firth Writng As Dion Fortune	8.1 hrs
8	Herman Melville: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Three Full-Cast Dramatisations including Moby-Dick	Herman Melville	5.1 hrs
9	Classic Ghost Stories	Guy De Maupassant	2.6 hrs
10	The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant	Guy De Maupassant	2.3 hrs
11	The British Short Story - Volume 2 - Mary Diana Dods to Sheridan Le Fanu	Mary Diana Dods	9.9 hrs
12	The Top Ten Short Stories - The British	Robert Louis Stevenson	4.7 hrs
13	The Top Ten Short Stories - British Men	Robert Louis Stevenson	5.6 hrs
14	The Top Ten - 1910s	Sherwood Anderson	6.2 hrs
15	The Top Ten - Ghost Men	W W Jacobs	6.7 hrs
16	The Top Ten - The Classic Novelists	F Scott Fitzgerald	7.6 hrs
17	The Top Ten - The British 19th Century	Elizabeth Gaskell	8.7 hrs
18	The Top Ten Short Stories - The French	Guy De Maupassant	6.8 hrs
19	The Top 10 Short Stories - The 19th Century - The British & Irish Men	J. M. Barrie	6.5 hrs
20	The Top 10 Short Stories - Mens 1880s	Oscar Wilde	7.5 hrs
21	The Top 10 Short Stories - The English	George Eliot	7.7 hrs
22	The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1860s	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	6.9 hrs
23	The Top 10 Short Stories - The 19th Century - The Men	Anton Chekhov	6.9 hrs
24	The Top 10 Short Stories - The Ghost Story	Edgar Allan Poe	7 hrs
25	The Top 10 Short Stories - The 19th Century - The Men	Nathaniel Hawthorne	6.9 hrs
26	The Top 10 Short Stories - The 19th Century - The English Men	Anthony Trollope	6.5 hrs
27	Short Stories Set on The Sea	H.G. Wells	7.8 hrs
28	The Top 10 Short Stories - Gothic	Perceval Landon	9 hrs
29	Marriage - Short Stories	Frances Watkins Harper	9.9 hrs
30	Love Beyond the Grave - Short Stories	Sheridan Le Fanu	8.5 hrs
31	Dear Diary - A Short Story Collection	Guy De Maupassant	6 hrs
32	Stories About Imagination & Dreams	Mary Butts	11.8 hrs
33	The Top 10 Short Stories - English Gothic	W W Jacobs	5.9 hrs
34	The Top 10 Short Stories - European Gothic	Moritz Jokai	10.8 hrs
35	The Top 10 Short Stories - Horror - The Men	E T A Hoffman	11.9 hrs
36	The Top 10 Short Stories - The 19th Century - Horror	E T A Hoffman	9.7 hrs
37	The Top 10 Short Stories - The 19th Century - The Ghost Story	E T A Hoffman	8.9 hrs
38	The Top 10 Short Stories - Unreliable Narrator	Robert W Chambers	7.5 hrs
39	The Victorian Ghost Story - A Compendium	B M Croker.Wav	18.3 hrs
40	The Victorian Ghost Story - The Men	Tom Hood	9 hrs
41	Ivan Turgenev: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Drama Collection: First Love, Father and Sons, A Month in the Country & More	Ivan Turgenev	13.4 hrs
42	Wilkie Collins - A Short Story Collection	Wilkie Collins	3.7 hrs
43	3 Stories - Horror Stories in Diaries	F G Loring	2 hrs
44	The Graham Greene BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years: Eight full-cast productions including The End of the Affair, Our Man in Havana & Monsignor Quixote	Graham Greene	16.3 hrs
45	The Devil in the Fog & The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations	Leon Garfield	6.2 hrs
46	Horror Stories At Sea	F Marion Crawford	4.5 hrs
47	Bernard Kops: A BBC Radio Collection: 19 Full-Cast Productions including Ezra, Soho Nights & more	Bernard Kops	21.7 hrs

Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

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