Is there an audiobook of Big Little Lies (Big Little series)?

Yes. Big Little Lies (Big Little series) has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Caroline Lee.

How long is the Big Little Lies (Big Little series) audiobook?

The Big Little Lies (Big Little series) audiobook runs 15 hr 55 min.

Is Big Little Lies (Big Little series) on Kindle Unlimited?

No. Big Little Lies (Big Little series) was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 13, 2026.

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Our score

4.3/ 5

Excellent

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EDITION PUBLISHEDJuly 2014

Genres

Fiction Mystery Women's Fiction

Themes

Domestic abuse hidden behind a perfect marriageMotherhood and competitive parenting cultureFemale friendship and solidarityThe gap between public image and private truth

Big Little Lies (Big Little series)

Name: Big Little Lies (Big Little series)
Price: 12.99 USD
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Author: Liane Moriarty

Liane Moriarty

Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies opens with a school-fundraiser death and works backward through three mothers' overlapping lies to explain how it happened. It's a sharp, funny, ultimately serious mystery about the stories women tell to survive marriage, motherhood, and each other.

The Review

Our take

Somebody dies at a school trivia night, and Moriarty spends the whole book making you wait to find out who, and why, while dropping in chorus-style witness statements from other parents that raise more questions than they answer. It's a clever structural bet: you know a death is coming from page one, so every scene of playground politics and wine-soaked parent gossip carries a low hum of dread underneath the comedy.

The three women at the center earn that structure. Madeline runs on grudges and gets some of the book's best lines, the kind of character who'd be exhausting in real life and is a delight on the page. Celeste's marriage looks enviable from outside and is the novel's most carefully handled reveal, doled out in glimpses rather than announced, and Moriarty resists turning her into a simple victim narrative. Jane, the youngest and warily private, carries a secret that reframes how you read the other two women's problems by comparison. None of them are simply good or simply awful, which is the point: the book's whole engine is watching likable people do unlikable things for reasons that make sense from the inside.

What keeps this from being just a soapy ensemble piece is how precisely Moriarty times the reveals. The trivia-night chorus keeps hinting that everyone had a motive, which is both a joke about small-town gossip and a genuine piece of misdirection, and by the time the actual events of that night arrive, the book has earned the tonal swing from comic to serious without feeling like it switched genres halfway through. The mystery itself isn't the kind built on forensic clues; it's built on who's been lying to whom, which fits a story this interested in the gap between a marriage's public face and its private one.

Why you should read

Readers who like ensemble mysteries with sharp humor
Fans of domestic drama with real stakes underneath
Anyone drawn to stories about female friendship and rivalry
Readers who enjoy a mystery built on secrets, not forensics

What to expect

A death revealed upfront, reasons unraveled in flashback
Alternating perspectives among three distinct women
Comic school-politics scenes alongside darker undercurrents
A satisfying ending that tracks back through earlier clues

The pacing sags briefly in the school-committee subplot stretches, where the satire of competitive parenting runs a beat longer than the mystery needs, but it never loses the thread back to the central dread. And the ending, when the trivia-night pieces finally lock into place, honors everything the setup promised: the culprit and the reasoning both track back cleanly through the earlier chapters, which is rarer than it should be in this genre. Few books manage to be this funny about petty parent rivalries while building to a gut-punch about domestic violence and female solidarity that never feels like tonal whiplash.

Reviewed by Quinn · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.3/ 5

Excellent

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Is there an audiobook of Big Little Lies (Big Little series)?: Yes. Big Little Lies (Big Little series) has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Caroline Lee.
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We earn from qualifying Amazon purchases.
How long is the Big Little Lies (Big Little series) audiobook?: The Big Little Lies (Big Little series) audiobook runs 15 hr 55 min.
Is Big Little Lies (Big Little series) on Kindle Unlimited?: No. Big Little Lies (Big Little series) was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 13, 2026.
How much does Big Little Lies (Big Little series) cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $12.99, Paperback $9.02, Hardcover $30.77. Prices as of August 22, 2026 at 3:45 AM EDT and may change.

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What is Big Little Lies (Big Little series) about?: Somebody dies at a school trivia night, and Moriarty spends the whole book making you wait to find out who, and why, while dropping in chorus-style witness statements from other parents that raise more questions than they answer. It's a clever structural bet: you know a death is coming from page…
Is Big Little Lies (Big Little series) worth reading?: We scored Big Little Lies (Big Little series) 4.3 out of 5. Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies opens with a school-fundraiser death and works backward through three mothers' overlapping lies to explain how it happened. It's a sharp, funny, ultimately serious mystery about the stories women tell to survive marriage, motherhood, and each…