Audie Awards®
The Audio Publishers Association annually hosts the Audie Awards, a celebration of exceptional audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.
2024 Audiobook of the Year Winner
Such a perfect choice for the highest honor because this audiobook, which took two years to produce, changes the definition of “audiobook.” Author and narrator Bono makes you feel as if you’re chatting with a good friend. U2 fans will be particularly excited about the soundtrack, which includes reimagined versions of the band’s classics, but every listener will be mesmerized by this innovative way to tell a remarkable life story.
2024 Best Fiction Narrator Audie Winner
Earphones Award winning narrator Billie Fulford-Brown delivers an emotional performance in this heart-wrenching yet hopeful story, inspired by true events during the World War II.
2024 Autobiography/Memoir Audie Winner
There are few audio experiences more enjoyable than listening to 18+ hours of Patrick Stewart’s transfixing voice as he tenderly, humbly, and honestly recounts all phases of his amazing life and the many people—both the unknown and very well-known—who have been part of it.
2024 Narration by the Author(s) Audie Winner
No stranger to being behind the microphone, Mary Louise Kelly’s soothing voice reaches millions of listeners all the time as one of the hosts of NPR’s long running news radio program, All Things Considered. Here she reflects on being a working mother, her eldest son’s final year at home, losing her father, and other unexpected twists and turns in life in this must-listen, new classic.
2024 Best Nonfiction Narrator Audie Winner
This monumental and enlightening biography is supremely enhanced by Dion Graham. Here, Graham is at the height of his powers portraying America’s recognized single greatest orator, as well as the many people who surround and inform King’s legacy.
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2024 Multi-Voiced Performance Audie Winner
We love books about books, but we especially love a book that includes an audiobook as part of the plot. The whole story is a dynamic structure of 10 characters, each voiced by a different narrator, as their stories intertwine around a book within this world. This creates an engaging listening experience for No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister.
2024 Original Work Audie Winner
Recorded from a live performance by Los Angeles Theatre Works, this poignant production uses real-life remembrances to shed light on the little-known piece of Holocaust history of 20,000 European Jews escaping to China during the Second World War.
2024 Short Stories/Collections Audie Winner
See AllOnly available as an audiobook, this is a uniquely accessible study of Mary Oliver’s award-winning work and of the poet herself. Structured like a podcast and gracefully hosted by actress Sophia Bush, the chapters interweave poems with personal commentary by assorted guests. A special treat: Oliver, who died in 2019, reads some of the poems herself.