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Genesis (Biblical Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית‎, romanized: Bərēʾšīṯ, lit. 'In [the] beginning') chapters 1 - 21 by Moses (according to tradition or multiple authors according to modern textual criticism)
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgFT_IxwJJY
Text: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=1477

I think I will put classical Athens on the back burner for a while in order to get the ball rolling on what has been described as the most consequential book in human history. The first 21 chapters of Genesis should take just over an hour and thirteen minutes when read by Alexander Scourby at normal speed, and cover the first and second creation accounts, the story of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and much of the story of Abraham, and a some genealogies.

The King James Version used here is chosen for its special significance in the history of the English language, and perhaps for using a slightly less partisan translation than many other alternatives (of course, this is still highly subjective). Its Old Testament (Tanakh) translations are principally from the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Rabbinic Bible by Daniel Bomberg (1524/5) according to Wikipedia sourced from The Authorized Edition of the English Bible, 1611, its subsequent reprints and modern representatives by Frederick Scrivener (1884), with exceptions where the text is adjusted to conform to Greek Septuagint or Latin Vulgate translations in passages to which Christian tradition had attached a Christological interpretation, again according to Wikipedia sourced from Wide as the waters: the story of the English Bible and the revolution it inspired by Benson Bobrick (2001).