Audie Awards®
The Audio Publishers Association annually hosts the Audie Awards, a celebration of exceptional audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.
2025 Audie Award Finalists
See All2025 Audiobook of the Year Winner
It honestly never seemed in doubt that one of the most lauded entertainers of the last 50 years would take home both Audiobook of the Year and Best Autobiography/Memoir awards for sharing her remarkable life and career in this compelling memoir. We can’t think of a better way to enjoy Streisand’s genius, gumption, and gossip than to listen to her confide in us, but if you need more incentive, the 45+ hour audiobook also includes music excerpts and some extra anecdotes not found in any other format.
2025 Best Literary Fiction & Classics
James garnered rave reviews from the day of its release and went on to be shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and win the National Book Award and Barnes & Noble Book of the Year. Unsurprisingly, it now adds this coveted Audie Award to its growing list of accolades. Actor Dominic Hoffman delivers an extraordinary performance that is simultaneously theatrical and intimate. Hoffman doesn’t just read or even perform Percival Everett’s words — he becomes them. As this novel attains “classic” status itself, which it surely will, so, too, should Hoffman’s narration.
2025 Best Narration by the Author(s) Audie Winner
Now Whoopi Goldberg can be known as an EGOTA: winner of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony, and Audie Award! At the awards ceremony, she thanked the crowd for making books accessible to her in spite of her dyslexia: “hearing things read to me is heaven.” She uses her boundless talents and distinctive voice to gift us this beautiful tribute to family and a special mother-daughter relationship.
2025 Best Fiction Narrator Audie Winner
The Women is both singular and expansive in focus. Frances “Frankie” McGrath naively joins the Army to follow her brother into Vietnam, knowing little of the world outside Southern California. Julia Whelan adds another Audie to her awards case for expertly navigating Frankie’s character growth from a sheltered woman wearing rose-tinted glasses to a brave and capable Army nurse.
2025 Best Nonfiction Narrator Audie Winner
Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world. Packed with tales of luminaries and gossip and meticulous research, immersive and laced with Candy's words and her friends' recollections, Cynthia Carr's must-read biography is Candy's long-overdue return to the spotlight. Cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond was the perfect choice to tell Candy’s story.
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2025 Best Romance Audie Winner
Inés del Castillo and Jakobi Diem (who you might recognize from other Kennedy Ryan audiobooks) lend their vocal talents to this heartfelt romance that digs into numerous emotional touchpoints. AudioFile Magazine says, “Castillo gives a passionate performance emphasizing Soledad's struggles, strength, and desires, while Diem's portrayal of Judah showcases his charismatic, loving, and dedicated persona.”
2025 Best Horror Audie Winner
Monsters aren't the only ones haunting the hills in this total hit from the author of Camp Damascus. André Santana deftly guides us through Hollywood where glitz and glam collide with brutal horror. But Santana isn't the only one — he's accompanied by 10 additional narrators (the majority of whom are authors!) to help bring this genre-bending listen to life.
2025 Best Multi-Voiced Performance Audie Winner
This oral history of June 6, 1944, is most powerful when heard aloud, making this Audie win a tribute of thanks to the real men and women whose courage and sacrifice this audiobook brings back to life. The author and 20+ additional narrators give voice to over 700 D-Day participants. It notably includes good representation of long-overlooked women and Black soldiers, as well as actual recordings of Winston Churchill and Presidents Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Reagan.
2025 Best Original Work Audie Winner
Written exclusively for publisher GraphicAudio and produced with a full cast of actors, sound effects, and cinematic music, it's no wonder Hellboy And The BPRD have taken home the Audie for Original Work. Immerse yourself in this action-packed story as Hellboy and fellow BPRD members take on the Goddess of Manhattan to protect a community of humans that live beneath Manhattan.
2025 Best Short Stories/Collections Audie Winner
It's Stephen King, and it's short fiction, which should be all you need to know. Actor Will Patton's "usually soft voice explodes with excitement when necessary" (AudioFile Magazine) with these mostly never-before-published materials.