Simon Winchester: Audiobooks Narrated

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, Simon Winchester narrates 17 unabridged English-language audiobooks in our catalog, 179.1 hours in all; the median one runs 11.8 hours.

17titles

179listening hrs

11.8median hrs

The narrator in numbers

Titles narrated: 17
Total listening time: 179.1 hrs
Median length: 11.8 hrs
Release years: 2004 to 2025
Longest: Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories (14.5 hrs)
Shortest: The End of the River (1.4 hrs)

Shelf mix

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

Store shelf	Titles	Share
World	10	59%
Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)	4	24%
History & Culture	4	24%
Social Science	3	18%
Asia	2	12%
Non-Fiction	2	12%
The Americas	2	12%
Comedy, Satire & Parody	1	6%

Audiobooks narrated by Simon Winchester

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	Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883	Simon Winchester	12 hrs
2	The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary	Simon Winchester	7.3 hrs
3	The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary	Simon Winchester	7.4 hrs
4	The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World	Simon Winchester	11.8 hrs
5	Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers	Simon Winchester	14.1 hrs
6	Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories	Simon Winchester	14.5 hrs
7	The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology	Simon Winchester	10 hrs
8	The Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World	Simon Winchester	13.8 hrs
9	The Alice Behind Wonderland	Simon Winchester	2.7 hrs
10	The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible	Simon Winchester	13.6 hrs
11	The Surgeon of Crowthorne	Simon Winchester	7.3 hrs
12	The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom'' The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom''	Simon Winchester	9.2 hrs
13	Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World	Simon Winchester	11.8 hrs
14	Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic	Simon Winchester	14.3 hrs
15	Pacific: The Ocean of the Future	Simon Winchester	14 hrs
16	The End of the River	Simon Winchester	1.4 hrs
17	The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind	Simon Winchester	13.9 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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