Best Long Literary Fiction Audiobooks

Explore our selection of epic Literary Fiction audiobooks.

Welcome to our curated collection of the best and longest Literary Fiction audiobooks, all 20+ hours in length.

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Epic Audiobooks in this Genre

• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (56h 11m)

  Narrated by: Sean Pratt

  56 hours of footnotes and tennis. A challenging, hilarious, and heartbreaking dive into addiction and entertainment.

• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (46h 50m)

  Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett

  47 hours of surreal mystery. Moonshine, assassins, and parallel worlds in Murakami's most ambitious work.

• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (43h)

  Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

  43 hours in Bombay's underworld. A vivid, gritty memoir-novel that feels like a lived life.

• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (32h 24m)

  Narrated by: David Pittu

  32 hours of art and grief. A Dickensian novel for the modern age, centered on a stolen painting.

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (32h 51m)

  Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

  33 hours of heartbreak. A devastatingly beautiful portrait of male friendship and trauma.

• Ulysses by James Joyce (27h 15m)

  Narrated by: Jim Norton, Marcella Riordan

  27 hours inside a single day. The Mount Everest of literature is surprisingly funny when heard aloud.

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (26h 15m)

  Narrated by: David Colacci

  26 hours of Golden Age comic books, escapism, and wartime New York. A Pulitzer-winning American epic.

• 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (39h 15m)

  Narrated by: John Lee, Armando Dur\u00e1n, G. Valmont Thomas, Scott Brick, Grover Gardner

  39 hours of hypnotic literary mystery. Five interlocking novels that orbit the dark heart of the 20th century.

• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (26h 10m)

  Narrated by: Heather O’Sullivan, Barry Fitzgerald, Beau Holland, Ciaran O'Brien, Lisa Caruccio Came,

  A 26-hour tragicomic saga. Funny, heartbreaking, and structurally brilliant. Worth every minute of your credit.

• The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami (17h 26m)

  Narrated by: Brian Nishii

  Murakami returns with a 17-hour dreamscape. A perfect, warm blanket of a listen for long winter nights.

• Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan (22h 51m)

  Narrated by: Michael Abubakar

  A massive 23-hour chronicle of modern London. Tackles everything from aristocrats to drill rappers in one ambitious sweep.

• The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (31h 16m)

  Narrated by: Abraham Verghese

  A sweeping 31-hour masterpiece. Narrated by the author himself, this multigenerational saga flows like a river through time.

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (22h 4m)

  Narrated by: Donna Tartt

  The 22-hour origin of Dark Academia. An intoxicating, psychological whydunnit set in an elite New England college.

• Katabasis by R.F. Kuang (18h 33m)

  Narrated by: Morag Sims, Will Watt

  18 hours of dark academia in Hell. Two rival Cambridge PhDs descend into the underworld to rescue their advisor.

• The Jane Austen Collection by Jane Austen (45 hours)

  Narrated by: Claire Foy, Gugu Mbatha-Raw , Billie Piper, Florence Pugh, Emma Thompson,

  The definitive Austen experience featuring forty-five hours of dramatised performance. Immerse yourself in the wit and romance of Regency England with an all-star cast.

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (17h 56m)

  Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe

  18 hours in mythical Macondo. Ben Onwukwe turns Márquez's Nobel Prize-winning family saga into an effortless fever dream.

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (26h 11m)

  Narrated by: Rupert Degas

  26 hours down the subterranean well. Missing cats, psychic sisters, and WWII secrets in Murakami's supreme masterpiece.

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (25h 39m)

  Narrated by: Homer Todiwala

  26 hours of Booker-winning magic. Born at the stroke of Indian independence, one telepathic boy mirrors a nation's fate.

• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (18h 51m)

  Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez, Thom Rivera

  19 hours of ghosts, clairvoyants, and revolution. Three generations of extraordinary women anchor Allende's masterpiece.

• The Human Factor by Graham Greene (9h 36m)

  Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

  Over 9 hours of quiet literary suspense. An aging MI6 officer leaks secrets for love rather than communist ideology.

• A Perfect Spy by John le Carré (19h 59m)

  Narrated by: Rory Kinnear

  20 hours into the soul of a double agent. A disappearing British diplomat pens a secret memoir of his life and treason.

• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt (24h 22m)

  Narrated by: Donna Tartt

  24 hours of Southern Gothic suspense. A fierce young girl unearths dark small-town secrets, narrated by Donna Tartt.

• The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck (10h 22m)

  Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

  A grocery clerk's descent into moral corruption. Steinbeck\u2019s scathing Nobel-winning final novel in hypnotic audio.

• The Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo (15h 57m)

  Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

  A solitary sailor battles monstrous reef squalls and giant octopuses. 16 hours of Victor Hugo\u2019s oceanic epic in audio.

• The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo (22h 28m)

  Narrated by: Simon Vance

  A mutilated boy with a permanent carved smile. 22.5 hours of Gothic tragedy and aristocratic satire narrated by Simon Vance.

• Smiley’s People by John le Carré (14h 12m)

  Narrated by: Michael Jayston

  The endgame of the Cold War. Michael Jayston narrates Smiley's final duel with Karla across 14 masterclass hours.