Is there an audiobook of The Guest List?

Yes. The Guest List has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Jot Davies, Chloe Massey, Olivia Dowd, Aoife McMahon, Sarah Ovens, and Rich Keeble.

How long is the The Guest List audiobook?

The The Guest List audiobook runs 10 hr 22 min.

Is The Guest List on Kindle Unlimited?

No. The Guest List was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 17, 2026.

The Guest List: A Reese's Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller by Lucy Foley book cover for the Book of the Day mystery book review

Our score

4.1/ 5

Excellent

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EDITION PUBLISHEDJune 2020

Genres

Fiction Mystery Thriller

Themes

Class resentment and performanceOld friendships curdled by timeThe gap between a couple's public image and private truth

The Guest ListA Reese's Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller

Name: The Guest List: A Reese's Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller
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Author: Lucy Foley

Lucy Foley

A wedding on a storm-cut Irish island turns into a hunt for a body and a killer in Lucy Foley's twisty, multi-narrator thriller for readers who like their whodunits dressed up in designer silk and old grudges.

The Review

Our take

Jules Keegan has planned this wedding the way she plans everything: down to the last votive candle. A private island off the Irish coast, a marquee lit for the cameras, a groom who photographs well and says the right things at the right volume. The problem with plans this precise is that they assume everyone in the room wants the same outcome. They don't. Foley seeds five points of view among the bridal party and lets each one nurse a different grievance, and within a few chapters you stop reading a wedding and start reading a room full of motives wearing cocktail dresses.

The structure does the heavy lifting. Chapters rotate between the wedding day itself and the run-up to it, so you know early that a body turns up on the island before the toasts are done, but not whose. That's a mean trick to sustain for three hundred pages, and Foley keeps it working by making each narrator's voice distinct enough that the rotation never reads as a gimmick. The best man is oily in a specific, recognizable way. The bridesmaid is brittle and trying hard not to show it. The wedding planner watches everyone with the flat attention of someone paid to notice things and say nothing. These small character beats are doing the real detective work, planted early and paid off late.

The island itself does more than sit there as scenery. Cell service dies, the ferry stops running, and the storm that strands the guests is the oldest trick in the genre: lock the suspects in with the body and take away the exits. What keeps it from feeling secondhand is how much Foley leans on atmosphere over gore. The bog, the ruined chapel, the wind that never lets up: none of it is padding. It's pressure, building toward a night where everyone's worst self comes out over champagne and old wounds. The violence, when it lands, is quick and almost quiet by comparison.

Where the book gets its real charge is the backstory that keeps surfacing between the leads: a friendship that curdled years before anyone booked a boat to this island, resentments that have had a decade to compound interest. Foley is less interested in a single shocking secret than in showing how many small ones a group of old friends can stack on top of each other before something gives. The reveal, when it comes, plays fair. Every clue was visible, dressed as small talk or a throwaway detail about someone's past, and the pleasure is in realizing how much you'd waved off as color.

Why you should read

Fans of locked-room mysteries with a modern setting
Readers who like alternating first-person suspects
Anyone drawn to Agatha Christie style whodunits
Readers who enjoy unlikable, richly drawn characters

What to expect

Multiple narrators, each hiding something
Dual timeline: wedding day and the buildup to it
Atmospheric island setting used for real tension
A slow-burn reveal of who died before who did it

A storm cuts the island off from the mainland, and by the end it feels like it cut everyone off from their better instincts too. Foley's wedding isn't a backdrop for a murder so much as the mechanism that makes one almost inevitable: put enough old grudges in formalwear and give them an open bar, and someone was always going to end up face down in the bog.

Reviewed by Quinn · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.1/ 5

Excellent

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Is there an audiobook of The Guest List?: Yes. The Guest List has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Jot Davies, Chloe Massey, Olivia Dowd, Aoife McMahon, Sarah Ovens, and Rich Keeble.
Listen to The Guest List free with an Audible trial
We earn from qualifying Amazon purchases.
How long is the The Guest List audiobook?: The The Guest List audiobook runs 10 hr 22 min.
Is The Guest List on Kindle Unlimited?: No. The Guest List was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 17, 2026.

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What is The Guest List: A Reese's Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller about?: Jules Keegan has planned this wedding the way she plans everything: down to the last votive candle. A private island off the Irish coast, a marquee lit for the cameras, a groom who photographs well and says the right things at the right volume. The problem with plans this precise is that they…
Is The Guest List: A Reese's Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller worth reading?: We scored The Guest List: A Reese's Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller 4.1 out of 5. A wedding on a storm-cut Irish island turns into a hunt for a body and a killer in Lucy Foley's twisty, multi-narrator thriller for readers who like their whodunits dressed up in designer silk and old grudges.