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BostonPL_Twenty One Great Audiobooks Under Ten Hours

If you are keen to break into audiobooks but don't know quite where to start, check out some of these short titles. The list includes popular fiction, nonfiction, and memoirs, and the time commitment ranges from 51 minutes for Adichie's "We Should All be Feminists," to 9 hours and 45 minutes for Michelle McNamara's true crime classic "I'll Be Gone in the Dark."

21 items

  • Listening Time: 2 hours and 25 minutes. Narrated by Jesse L. Martin.
    eAudiobookBlackstone Publishing
  • Listening Time: 3 hours and 30 minutes. Narrated by the author.
    eAudiobookQuill Tree Books, 2018
  • Listening Time: 3 hours and 35 minutes. Narrated by the author.
    eAudiobookBooks on Tape, 2015
  • Listening Time: 4 hours. Narrated by Jeremy Irons.
    eAudiobookHarperAudio, 2005
  • Listening Time: 5 hours and 1 minute. Narrated by Juliet Stevenson.
    Downloadable AudiobookCanongate Books, 2011
  • Listening Time: 5 hours and 48 minutes. Narrated by the author.
    eAudiobookHarperAudio, 2013
  • Hunger

    a Memoir of (my) Body

    Gay, Roxane,
    Listening Time: 5 hours and 57 minutes. Narrated by the author.
    Downloadable Audiobook[New York] : HarperAudio, 2017. — BF697.5.B63
  • Listening Time: 6 hours and 1 minute. Narrated by Dan Stevens.
    eAudiobookHarperAudio, 2013
  • Listening Time: 6 hours and 15 minutes. Narrated by Matilda Novak.
    Downloadable AudiobookHighBridge, 2005
  • Listening Time: 6 hours and 29 minutes. Narrated by the author.
    Downloadable AudiobookNew York : HarperAudio, 2017. — BL860 .G35 2017x
  • Listening Time: 6 hours and 44 minutes. Narrated by Ruby Dee.
    Downloadable Audiobook[United States] : Findaway World ; HarperCollins, [2005] — PS3515.U789 T639 2005x
  • Hillbilly Elegy

    A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    Vance, J D
    Listening Time: 6 hours and 49 minutes. Narrated by the author.
    eAudiobookHarperAudio, 2016
  • Listening Time: 7 hours and 25 minutes. A 166-person full-cast narration.
    Downloadable AudiobookNew York : Random House Audio, 2017. — PS3569.A7897 L56 2017x
  • We're Going to Need More Wine

    Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True

    Union, Gabrielle
    Listening Time: 7 hours and 48 minutes. Narrated by the author.
    Downloadable Audiobook[S.l.] : HarperCollins, 2017. — PN2287.U55 A3 2017x
  • Dare to Lead

    Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

    Brown, Brené
    Listening Time: 8 hours and 10 minutes. Narrated by the author.
    eAudiobookBooks on Tape, 2018