30 Exceptional Long Audiobooks to Lose Yourself In 2024

Dive into the list of best long audiobooks to listen for ultimate listening experience.

I can’t tell you how many times I have been able to enjoy long audiobooks on audible.

There is something extraordinary about listening to really long audiobooks that are slow-paced. As the narrator takes the listeners to the magical world of numerous characters with plots twists and gripping plot, we are able to travel along to the new world. I have to tell you though, these longest audiobooks are not for busy people. To be able to enjoy 30 hour audiobooks you should be a good listener and better at navigating complex storyline.

For example, Gregory David Roberts’s Shantaram is 43 hour, one of the long audiobooks on audible. In my opinion the best way to listen to long audiobooks is when you’re on a long commute to work or car drive.

Similarly, Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R.R. Martin is another longest book on audible, perfect for long flights.

My Top Three Picks of Long Audiobooks

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville– Rich description, cinematic listening experience, great voice actor
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas– Amazing narration by John Lee, an unforgettable audiobook with themes of friendship and loyalty.
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas– Fantastic narration, intricate storytelling, themes of suspense and revenge

Longest Audiobooks You Should Listen in 2024

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Narrated by: Frank Muller
Listening Length: 21 hours and 19 minutes

Its famous opening line, “Call me Ishmael”, dramatic in its stark simplicity, begins an epic that is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written by an American. Labelled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory, and a drama of heroic conflict, Moby Dick is first and foremost a great story.

It has both the humour and poignancy of a simple sea ballad, as well as the depth and universality of a grand odyssey. 

This 20 plus hour long audiobook will transport you to another world. The thrilling adventure explores the conflict between man and nature.

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The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion – in just four centuries’ time. The aliens’ human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth’s defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. 

The second book in the masterfully crafted trilogy Remembrance of Earth’s Past, is a must-listen for book lovers. You should get this highly imaginative audiobook when you are looking for something entertaining to pass time. The third novel in the trilogy, Death’s End is 20 plus hour audiobook on audible.

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The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: John Lee
Listening Length: 23 hours and 32 minutes

Mixing a bit of seventeenth-century French history with a great deal of invention, Alexandre Dumas tells the tale of young D’Artagnan and his musketeer comrades, Porthos, Athos, and Aramis. Together they fight to foil the schemes of the brilliant, dangerous Cardinal Richelieu, who pretends to support the king while plotting to advance his own power.

Bursting with swirling swordplay, swooning romance, and unforgettable figures—including the seductively beautiful but deadly femme fatale, Milady, and D’Artagnan’s equally beautiful love, Madame Bonacieux—

The Three Musketeers continues, after a century and a half of continuous publication, to define the genre of swashbuckling romance and historical adventure.

Listening to long classic audiobooks can be challenging, even if it’s a suspenseful tale like The Three Musketeers. But thanks to the remarkable voice actor John Lee, you wouldn’t be able to pause the narration for a little while.

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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
Listening Length: 25 hours and 5 minutes

With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky’s classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller.

Crime and Punishment is a timeless classic that everyone should listen at least once. The enthralling story of Raskolnikov examines the elements of social, political and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. If you’re a fan of lengthy audiobook dramas, get your hands on this one.

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Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen’s rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins. 

For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, surviving cadre mage of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the many dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, yet holds out. It is to this ancient citadel that Laseen turns her predatory gaze. 

However, it would appear that the Empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister, shadowbound forces are gathering as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand.

Looking for extra-long fantasy audiobook recommendations ? Then Steven Erikson’s epic series is just what you need. From a wide legions of gods and humans to mysterious creatures, the story set in the backdrop of Malazan Empire, is wildly imaginative.

Find all the books in the Malazan Book of the Fallen Series along with the audiobook listening length.

• Deadhouse Gates– 34 hours and 5 minutes
• Memories of Ice– 43 hours and 55 minutes
• House of Chains– 35 hours and 5 minutes
• Midnight Tides- 31 hours and 4 minutes
• The Bonehunters– 42 hours and 1 minute
• Reaper’s Gale– 43 hours and 57 minutes
• Toll the Hounds– 44 hours and 1 minute
• Dust of Dreams– 43 hours and 14 minutes
• The Crippled God- 45 hours and 21 minutes

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North and South by John Jakes

Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Listening Length: 30 hours and 11 minutes

Two strangers, young men from Pennsylvania and South Carolina, meet on the way to West Point… Thus begins this brilliant novel of antebellum America, spanning three generations and chronicling the lives and loves of two great family dynasties.

The Hazards and the Mains are brought together in bonds of friendship and affection that neither jealousy nor violence can shatter – until a storm of events sunders the nation and brings the cataclysm of war!

For audiobook listeners who are into sweeping historical fiction book, North and South is a great audiobook. The 30 hour narration of epic family saga follows the life of two friends whose relationship is jeopodized by the divisions of the Civil War. Have a look at the other two books in the trilogy.

• Love and War– 42 hours and 25 minutes
• Heaven and Hell– 28 hours and 52 minutes

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Underworld by Don DeLillo

Narrated by: Richard Poe
Listening Length: 31 hours and 22 minutes

Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times – Don DeLillo’s greatest and most powerful work of fiction.

Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence.

Underworld is a great American novel that everyone should listen at least once. Set in the background of the historic 1951 baseball game, this going to be one of your favroite 30 hour long audiobooks.

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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Narrated by: David Pittu
Listening Length: 32 hours and 24 minutes

Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld.

As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antique store where he works. He is alienated and in love – and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

Packed with realistic account of characters and engrossing writing,The Goldfinch is one of the longest fiction book on audible. Audie Award Winner narrator David Pittu offers an extraordinary reading experience for audiobook lovers.

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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Listening Length: 32 hours and 51 minutes

In 2015, the Audible Editors named A Little Life Best Fiction Audiobook, and it is one of our Audible Essentials. The transcendent story follows four college friends who move to New York City, buoyed by ambition: Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, an artist; Malcolm, an architect; and, at the centre, Jude, a withdrawn, brilliant attorney haunted by an unspeakable past.

Through decades of shared and separate lives, Jude’s suffering – and its impact on those who love him – raises questions about the limits of human endurance, the possibility for redemption, and the meaning of friendship.

A Little Life is a heartbreakingly beautiful work of fiction with mesmerising prose that will break your heart. Oliver Wyman perfectly captures the tenderness of the story in her narration.

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 Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R.R. Martin

Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King’s Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert’s name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow.

Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse – unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season. Yet a more immediate threat lurks to the south, where Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died under mysterious circumstances.

Now Robert is riding north to Winterfell, bringing his queen, the lovely but cold Cersei, his son, the cruel, vainglorious Prince Joffrey, and the queen’s brothers Jaime and Tyrion of the powerful and wealthy House Lannister – the first a swordsman without equal, the second a dwarf whose stunted stature belies a brilliant mind. 

If you’re into gripping long audiobook series you should listen to A Song of Ice and Fire . It takes more than 200 plus hours to listen to the entire audiobook series. I am sure it’s one of the longest audiobook series you’ll ever listen. Roy Dotrice’s phenomenal narration make it an epic fantasy for bibliophiles.

Here are the list of each audiobook in the series along with listening length.

• A Game of Thrones– 33 hours and 46 minutes
• A Clash of Kings– 37 hours and 12 minutes
• A Storm of Swords– 47 hours and 34 minutes
• A Feast for Crows– 33 hours and 51 minutes
• A Dance with Dragons– 48 hours and 55 minutes

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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Richard Armitage
Listening Length: 36 hours and 30 minutes

David Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.

Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora Spenlow; and the magnificently impecunious Wilkins Micawber, one of literature’s great comic creations.

In David Copperfield – the novel he described as his ‘favourite child’ – Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of the most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure.

Between his work on the 2014 Audible Audiobook of the Year, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel and his performance of Classic Love Poems, narrator Richard Armitage (The Hobbit, Hannibal) has quickly become a listener favorite. Now, in this defining performance of Charles Dickens’ classic David Copperfield, Armitage lends his unique voice and interpretation, truly inhabiting each character and bringing real energy to the life of one of Dickens’ most famous characters.

If you want to get the most out of really long classic audiobooks, make sure to choose books narrated by British narrators. Classic novels aren’t easy reads, and Dickens’ novels are a lot more complex in terms of themes and writing style. But this audible version of David Copperfield is exceptional. Listening to Richard Armitage’s narration is a pure joy.

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The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

Narrated by: David Timson
Listening Length: 38 hours and 7 minutes

John Galsworthy’s magnificent trilogy of power and passion chronicles the wealthy Forsyte family. As the disintegrating values of the Victorian era progress to World War I and the political uncertainty of the 1930s, the family’s material and emotional struggles are set within the dwindling status of the affluent middle-classes. 

Infused with warmth, compassion and engaging characters, the complete chronicles are divided into three volumes, containing nine books and four interludes in total. In Volume One, The Forsyte Saga, Soames Forsyte – the “man of property” – is desperate to uphold values and conventions that are becoming out of step with the time.

His most prized possession is his strikingly beautiful wife, Irene, but she is profoundly unhappy; the bitterness only builds, and the events that follow are set to ripple through the next generation of Forsytes.

In this list of popular audiobooks that are long, next comes a 38 hour book The Forsyte Saga. If you are looking for ways to survive long commute, listen to this masterpiece set in the Victorian Era.

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2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Narrated by: John Lee, Armando Durán, G. Valmont Thomas, Scott Brick, Grover Gardner
Listening Length: 39 hours and 15 minutes

Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño’s life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father.

Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

2666 is a powerful novel peppered with suspense and realistic pacing. The gripping 39 hour long audiobook is narrated by a stellar voice cast.

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Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Narrated by: John Lee
Listening Length: 40 hours and 56 minutes

The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known . . . of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect—a man divided in his soul . . . of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame . . . and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state and brother against brother.

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett’s historical masterpiece.

Set in the 12th century England Pillars of the Earth is a medieval tale of ambition, anarchy and power. Ken Follett has created an addictive plot that depicts the life in the medieval time. You will never be bored while listening to this 40 hour audiobook. If you’re a lover of epic fantasy series, check the whole series and the listening length mentioned below.

• World Without End– 45 hrs and 33 mins
• A Column of Fire– 30 hrs and 19 mins

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Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
Listening Length: 42 hours and 59 minutes

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.”

So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum-security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.

Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend Prabaker, the two enter Bombay’s hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.

Shantaram is a gripping first novel of author Gregory David Roberts. Although it labelled as the work fiction majority of the events mentioned in the book are real. Narrator Humphrey Bower’s voice draws you in to the world of complexities and intricacies. It’s also one of best long books on audible that you wouldn’t be able to stop listening to.

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The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Narrated by: Nick Podehl
Listening Length: 42 hours and 55 minutes

So begins the tale of a hero told from his own point of view — a story unequaled in fantasy literature. Now in The Wise Man’s Fear, an escalating rivalry with a powerful member of the nobility forces Kvothe to leave the University and seek his fortune abroad. Adrift, penniless, and alone, he travels to Vintas, where he quickly becomes entangled in the politics of courtly society. While attempting to curry favor with a powerful noble, Kvothe uncovers an assassination attempt, comes into conflict with a rival arcanist, and leads a group of mercenaries into the wild, in an attempt to solve the mystery of who (or what) is waylaying travelers on the King’s Road.

All the while, Kvothe searches for answers, attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, is forced to reclaim the honor of the Edema Ruh, and travels into the Fae realm. There he meets Felurian, the faerie woman no man can resist, and who no man has ever survived … until Kvothe.

The second book in the Kingkiller Chronicle is an immersive audiobook for the lovers of lengthy fantasy novels. If you’re fans of J.R.R. Tolkien or George R.R. Martin, you will be delighted to have found this book.

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Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
Listening Length: 43 hours and 12 minutes

Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done.

Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A ‘great Victorian novel’, it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation.

Listen to Dickens’ long classic novel in the voice of professor Sprout. In this audible exclusive performance of Bleak House you will get to imagine the lives in the rimy and hazardous streets of Victorian London. Despite the length you will be able to enjoy Miriam Margolyes’ masterful narration. Because of all these I definitely think Bleak House one of best long audiobooks to listen to in 2024

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It by Stephen King

Narrated by: Steven Weber
Listening Length: 44 hours and 55 minutes

Stephen King’s terrifying, classic number-one New York Times bestseller, “a landmark in American literature” (Chicago Sun-Times) – about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers…an evil without a name: It.

Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry, the haunting is real.

They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made 28 years ago calls them to reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again, and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers.

You might be wondering whether listening to a horror audiobooks is going to be as entertaining as a movie. But I guarantee you that once you hit play, you wouldn’t be able to stop listening to the story. Steven Weber’s spine-chilling narration takes the book to the whole new level.

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1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
Listening Length: 46 hours and 45 minutes

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 – “Q” is for “question mark”. A world that bears a question.

Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unravelled.

Haruki Murakami’s lengthy novel is a multilayered story that will hook you from the first chapter. A dystopian mystery with flawed characters is just the right narrative for 46 hour long listening.

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Russka by Edward Rutherfurd

In this vast and gorgeous tapestry of a novel, serf and master, Cossack and tsar, priest and Jew are brought together in a family saga which unrolls through centuries of history to reveal that most impenetrable and mysterious of lands – Russia.

Through the life of a little town east of Moscow in the Russian heartland, Edward Rutherfurd creates a sweeping family saga from the baffling contradictions of Russia’s culture and her peoples – bleak yet exotic, brutal but romantic, land of ritual yet riddled with superstitious fears.

1800 years Russka is an incredible historical fiction that narrates the Russian history. From AD 180 until 1990 the story takes us to the lives of numerous families and their historical relevance. Roger Davis The splendid narration makes this novel even more satisfying .

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The Stand by Stephen King

Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Listening Length: 47 hours and 47 minutes

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.

And here is the bleak new world of the day after a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 per cent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides – or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail – and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.

Stephen King’s 1978 novel offers an epic drama with the elements of fantasy and paranormal. This monumental story of good and evil is narrated by acclaimed narrator Grover Gardner. So if you’re in search of recommendations best narrated extra long audiobooks, Stephen King’s The Stand is a fabulous option.

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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Narrated by: Linda Stephens
Listening Length: 49 hours and 2 minutes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell’s great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies. To date, it has been translated into 25 languages, and more than 28 million copies have been sold.

Here are the characters that have become symbols of passion and desire: darkly handsome Rhett Butler and flirtatious Scarlett O’Hara. Behind them stand their gentler counterparts: Ashley Wilkes and Melanie Hamilton. As the lives and affairs of these.

For the fans of gripping historical fiction audiobook, Gone with the Wind is a fascinating story set against the tumult of the Civil War. Linda Stephens’ narration is so good that you wouldn’t even realise it’s about 50 hour long book. Start listening to one of the greatest Civil War novels ever written.

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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Bill Homewood
Listening Length: 52 hours and 41 minutes

On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason, trumped up by jealous rivals. Incarcerated for many lonely years in the isolated and terrifying Chateau d’If near Marseille, he meticulously plans his brilliant escape and extraordinary revenge.

Of all the “masked avengers” and “caped crusaders” in literature, The Count of Monte Cristo is at once the most daring and the most vulnerable. Alexandre Dumas (père), master storyteller, takes us on a journey of adventure, romance, intrigue, and ultimately, redemption.

Voicing characters in a classic audiobook is not always easy, especially if the story has many of them. But Bill Homewood does a terrific job in The Count of Monte Cristo. Even if you are familiar with the story, I highly recommend you listen to this master piece. The distinct voice and intonation that Homewood gives for each character makes this 52 hour audiobook one of the enjoyable long listens on audible.

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Shogun by James Clavell

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen–Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom.

As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne’s loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss, and he is torn between two worlds that will each be forever changed.

You will be completely absorbed in this classic tale of an English pilot. Narrator Ralph Lister’s extraordinary performance is totally worth listening for 53 hours.

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Oathbringer by ​​Brandon Sanderson

Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
Listening Length: 55 hours and 5 minutes

In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times best-selling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance. 

Dalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost. The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.

If you are looking for long audiobook series, The Stormlight Archive Series is a great choice. The third book in Brandon Sanderson’s modern fantasy tale, Oathbringer is the longest book in the first three. If you are on a mini break and looking for long fantasy series to binge listen, get this audiobook. This epic sage will suck you in to the world of gods, sorcery, and knights with superpowers.

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Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 

Narrated by: Adeel Akhtar, Natalie Simpson, Adrian Scarborough, Emma Fielding, John Owen-Jones
Listening Length: 65 hours and 41 minutes

This Penguin Classic is performed by an ensemble cast which includes the BAFTA award-winning actor Adeel Akhtar (Killing Eve, The Night Manager, Les Miserables), Adrian Scarborough (Gavin and Stacey, The King’s Speech), Natalie Simpson (Outlander, Les Miserables), Emma Fielding (Unforgotten, Les Miserables) and John Owen-Jones, who was the youngest actor ever to play the part of Jean Valjean in the stage show of Les Miserables, and who has appeared as Jean Valjean on Broadway and in the West End. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Robert Tombs. 

This audible production of Victor Hugo’s classic tale is entertaining and amusing for audiobook lovers. The full cast of prolific narrators have done a brilliant job in this 65-hour long narration.

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Galaxy Outlaws Black Ocean by J S Morin

Carl Ramsey is an ex-Earth Navy fighter pilot turned con man. His ship, the Mobius, is home to a ragtag crew of misfits and refugees looking to score a big payday but more often just scratching to pay for fuel. The crew consists of his ex-wife (and pilot), a drunkard, four-handed mechanic, a xeno-predator with the disposition of a 120kg housecat, and the galaxy’s most-wanted wizard.

Along the way, the Mobius crew crosses paths with the Black Ocean’s vilest scum, from pirate fleets to criminal syndicates, and most law-abiding scum, including Earth Interstellar Enhanced Investigative Organization, ARGO high command, and the Convocation of Wizards.

Time and again, riches lie just out of reach, because for all the talents Carl Ramsey and his crew possess, they’ve also got an outlaw’s greatest weakness: a conscience.

If you’re a sci-fi audiobook fan, you shouldn’t miss this longest book on audible. A whopping 85 hour long unabridged production. Galaxy Outlaws Black Ocean is a delightful action packed space opra

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Conclusion

There you have the list of long audiobooks on audible whenever you feel like to have so much free time. Here are my top three favorites from the list.

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville– Rich description, cinematic listening experience, great voice actor
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas– Amazing narration by John Lee, an unforgettable audiobook with themes of friendship and loyalty.
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas– Fantastic narration, intricate storytelling, themes of suspense and revenge

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