Audio version offers possible clues to Oprah's next pick

As the time for Oprah to make her 63rd book club pick draws near (September 18, if you haven’t heard), we’re digging deeper to try to figure out what the world’s most influential reader has chosen.

The audio version of #63 offers some useful clues, if online listings can be trusted. Ingram says it’s a 3-CD set. Barnes and Noble goes further, saying the audio is 2 hours and 45 minutes, unabridged. If correct, this short length limits the original Pub Lunch list somewhat—only The Man’s Book: The Essential Guide for the Modern Man by Thomas Fink and Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness by Lyanda Lynn Haupt are anywhere close to short enough to fit on 3 CDs unabridged. We also dug up two other contenders, both published at $23.99 in hardcover by Little, Brown:

Feeding Your Demons by Tsultrim Allione
The publisher’s synopsis says this guide to achieving inner peace brings an “11th-century Tibetan woman’s practice to the West for the first time.”

Sway by Zachary Lazar
This loosely plotted novel that chronicles of some of the biggest events in the 1960s (the early days of the Rolling Stones; the life of avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger; and the community of Charles Manson and his followers) would certainly be a different sort of pick for Oprah. It’s just 272 pages, but audio versions of novels tend to be longer so this might not be a contender after all.

Of these, my money’s on The Man Book (which would be a true departure for Oprah, whose previous selections have been as female-oriented as her audience). Think the audio listing can be trusted?