Is there an audiobook of Daisy Jones & The Six?

Yes. Daisy Jones & The Six has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, and Pablo Schreiber.

How long is the Daisy Jones & The Six audiobook?

The Daisy Jones & The Six audiobook runs 9 hr 3 min.

Is Daisy Jones & The Six on Kindle Unlimited?

No. Daisy Jones & The Six was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 21, 2026.

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid book cover for the Book of the Day literary fiction book review

Our score

4.4/ 5

Excellent

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EDITION PUBLISHEDMarch 2019

Genres

Fiction Literary Fiction Historical Fiction

Themes

Memory and the unreliability of shared historyAddiction and the cost of chasing fameLove triangles complicated by marriage and loyaltyWhat performance costs the people behind it

Daisy Jones & The Six

Name: Daisy Jones & The Six
Price: 8.99 USD
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Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Taylor Jenkins Reid tells the rise and sudden breakup of a fictional 1970s rock band entirely through oral-history interviews, letting Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne's competing memories of the same nights contradict each other in real time.

The Review

Our take

The book reads like a transcript because that's exactly what it is: band members, producers, a manager, a photographer, all recalling the same years from wherever they landed afterward, and none of them remembering it quite the same way. That structural choice sounds like a gimmick until you're a hundred pages in and realize how much it's doing. When Daisy describes a night one way and Billy describes it another, you're not being told who's right. You're watching two people who were never going to agree on anything, including each other, and Reid lets that friction sit there unresolved, which is more honest than a tidy single narrator could ever be.

Daisy herself is the book's best trick. She arrives as a familiar type, the beautiful girl who sings her way into rooms she was never invited to, and Reid slowly complicates her into someone sharper and sadder than the archetype suggests. Her voice on the page has a specific music to it, loose and unguarded in a way none of the other narrators quite match, and you understand immediately why a room full of men in the industry kept underestimating her. Billy gets the harder job: a recovering addict trying to hold a marriage and a band together while falling for someone he's not supposed to want, and Reid never lets him off easy for it. The chemistry between the two of them is the engine of the book, but it's Camila, Billy's wife, watching all of it from just outside the spotlight, who ends up carrying some of the novel's sharpest observations about what it costs to love someone whose whole life is performance.

The band's actual music becomes almost a character in its own right, and Reid writes the songwriting scenes with a specificity that makes you believe these songs exist, down to which lines came from whose heartbreak. That's a hard trick to pull off in prose, describing music so it lands as music and not just plot summary, and the book mostly succeeds because it stays focused on what the songs meant to the people writing them rather than trying to describe how they sound.

The oral-history format does cost the book something in the middle stretch, where the parade of voices can blur a little before you've fully sorted out who everyone is and what they want, and readers who prefer a single throughline might feel that friction before the pieces click into place. But once the band's internal fault lines start to show, the format becomes the whole point: you're getting the version each person needed to believe about themselves, decades later, and the gaps between those versions are where the real story lives.

Why you should read

Readers who enjoy oral-history or documentary-style narration
Fans of character-driven stories about fame and addiction
Anyone drawn to unreliable, competing perspectives
Readers who want music and songwriting rendered with real specificity

What to expect

An interview-transcript structure with multiple narrators
Contradictory memories of the same events
A slower middle stretch while voices establish themselves
Songwriting and studio scenes woven through the plot

By the time the tour reaches its final show, and the reader who's paying attention already suspects what's coming, the book has built enough affection for these people that the breakup lands as genuine loss rather than plot mechanics. It's a novel about how bands, like marriages, run on things nobody says out loud until it's too late to unsay them.

Reviewed by Avery · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.4/ 5

Excellent

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Is there an audiobook of Daisy Jones & The Six?: Yes. Daisy Jones & The Six has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, and Pablo Schreiber.
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How long is the Daisy Jones & The Six audiobook?: The Daisy Jones & The Six audiobook runs 9 hr 3 min.
Is Daisy Jones & The Six on Kindle Unlimited?: No. Daisy Jones & The Six was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 21, 2026.

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Common questions

What is Daisy Jones & The Six about?: The book reads like a transcript because that's exactly what it is: band members, producers, a manager, a photographer, all recalling the same years from wherever they landed afterward, and none of them remembering it quite the same way. That structural choice sounds like a gimmick until you're a…
Is Daisy Jones & The Six worth reading?: We scored Daisy Jones & The Six 4.4 out of 5. Taylor Jenkins Reid tells the rise and sudden breakup of a fictional 1970s rock band entirely through oral-history interviews, letting Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne's competing memories of the same nights contradict each other in real time.