Audie Award for Fiction

The Audie Award for Fiction is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It recognizes excellence in narration, production, and content for a fiction audiobook released in a given year, typically excluding speculative fiction. Before 2008, the award was known as the Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction. It has been awarded since 1996.  

Winners and finalists

1990s

Award Year Audiobook Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result Ref.
1996
1st 		The Homecoming (1964) Earl Hamner, Jr. Richard Thomas Audio Renaissance Winner [1]
Dead Man's Walk (1995) Larry McMurtry Will Patton Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [1]
Montana 1948 (1993) Larry Watson Beau Bridges Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [1]
1997
2nd 		The Green Mile (1996) Stephen King Frank Muller Penguin Audiobooks Winner [2]
The Runaway Jury (1996) John Grisham Frank Muller Random House Audio Finalist [2]
Odyssey (8th-7th century BC) Homer (trans. Robert Fagles) Ian McKellen Penguin Audiobooks Finalist [2]
1998
3rd 		The Breaker (1973) Kit Denton Terence Donovan Bolinda Audio Winner [3]
American Pastoral (1997) Philip Roth Ron Silver Dove Audio Finalist [3]
Lolita (1955) Vladimir Nabokov Jeremy Irons Random House Audio Finalist [3]
1999
4th 		A Widow for One Year (1998) John Irving George Guidall Random House Audio Winner [4]
Oliver Twist (1838) Charles Dickens Miriam Margolyes Audio Partners Publishing Corp. Finalist [4]
Summer Sisters (1998) Judy Blume Kate Reading Books on Tape Finalist [4]

2000s

Award Year Audiobook Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result Ref.
2000
5th 		I Know This Much Is True (1998) Wally Lamb George Guidall Recorded Books Winner [5]
Duane's Depressed (1999) Larry McMurtry Larry McMurtry NewStar Media Finalist [5]
The Testament (1999) John Grisham Frank Muller Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Finalist [5]
2001
6th 		Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000) Tom Robbins Keith Szarabajka Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Winner [6]
Dubliners (1914) James Joyce Frank McCourt, Malachy McCourt, Dan O'Herlihy, Brendan Coyle, Aaron Hinds, T. P. McKenna, et al. HarperAudio Finalist [6]
War of the Rats (1999) David L. Robbins George Guidall Recorded Books Finalist [6]
2002
7th 		The Talisman (1984) Stephen King and Peter Straub Frank Muller Simon & Schuster Audio Winner [7]
Bel Canto (2001) Ann Patchett Anna Fields Blackstone Audio Finalist [7]
Priestess of Avalon (2000) Marion Zimmer Bradley Bernadette Dunne Books on Tape Finalist [7]
2003
8th 		Middlesex (2002) Jeffrey Eugenides Kristoffer Tabori Winner [8]
Atonement (2001) Ian McEwan Jill Tanner Finalist [8]
Austerlitz (2001) W. G. Sebald Richard Matthews Finalist [8]
Sea Glass (2002) Anita Shreve Judith Ann Gantly Finalist [8]
Unless (2002) Carol Shields Joan Allen Finalist [8]
2004
9th 		All Over Creation (2004) Ruth Ozeki Anna Fields Winner [9]
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003) Mitch Albom Erik Singer Finalist [9]
Monstrous Regiment (2003) Terry Pratchett Stephen Briggs Finalist [9]
The Namesake (2003) Jhumpa Lahiri Sarita Choudhury Finalist [9]
The Last Detective (2003) Robert Crais James Daniels Finalist [9]
2005
10th 		The Darling (2005) Russell Banks Mary Beth Hurt Winner [10]
Going Postal (2004) Terry Pratchett Stephen Briggs Finalist [10]
I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004) Tom Wolfe Dylan Baker Finalist [10]
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004) Susanna Clarke Simon Prebble Finalist [10]
Our Sunshine (1991 Robert Drewe Michael Veitch Finalist [10]
2006
11th 		A Slight Trick of the Mind (2005) Mitch Cullin Simon Jones Winner [11]
The Last Kingdom (2004) Bernard Cornwell Jamie Glover Finalist [11]
Road to Purgatory (2004) Max Allan Collins Stanley Tucci Finalist [11]
Survivor in Death (2005) J. D. Robb Susan Ericksen Finalist [11]
The Motive (2004) John Lescroart David Colacci Finalist [11]
2007
12th 		Rise and Shine (2006) Anna Quindlen Carol Monda Winner [12]
Restless (2006) William Boyd Rosamund Pike Finalist [12]
Telegraph Days (2006) Larry McMurtry Annie Potts Finalist [12]
The Prestige (1995) Christopher Priest Simon Vance Finalist [12]
The Two-Minute Rule (2006) Robert Crais Christopher Graybill Finalist [12]
Water for Elephants (2006) Sara Gruen David LeDoux and John Randolph-Jones Finalist [12]
2008
13th 		Tallgrass (2008) Sandra Dallas Lorelei King Winner [13][14]
Exile (2007) Richard North Patterson Dennis Boutsikaris Finalist [13][14]
The Friday Night Knitting Club (2006) Kate Jacobs(writer) Carrington MacDuffie Finalist [13][14]
The Tenderness of Wolves (2006) Stef Penney Sally Armstrong and Adam Sims Finalist [13][14]
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2007) Maggie O'Farrell Anne Flosnick Finalist [13][14]
2009
14th 		Duma Key (2008) Stephen King John Slattery Winner [15][16]
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008) Mary Ann Shaffer Paul Boehmer, Susan Duerdan, and full cast Winner [15][16]
Change of Heart (2008) Jodi Picoult Danielle Ferland, Jim Frangione, Jenny Ikeda, Stafford Clarke-Price, and Nicole Poole Finalist [15][16]
A Prisoner of Birth (2008) Jeffrey Archer Roger Allam Finalist [15][16]
The Lace Reader (2006) Brunonia Barry Alyssa Bresnahan Finalist [15][16]

 

2010s

Award Year Audiobook Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result Ref.
2010
15th 		The Help (2009) Kathryn Stockett Cassandra Campbell, Jenna Lamia, Octavia Spencer, and Bahni Turpin Penguin Audiobooks Winner [17]
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) Tom Wolfe Joe Barrett Blackstone Audio Finalist [17]
Face of Betrayal (2009) Lis Wiehl and April Henry Pam Turlow Oasis Audio Finalist [17]
The Pigman (1968) Paul Zindel Eden Riegel and Charlie McWade Graymalkin Media Finalist [17]
Slumdog Millionaire (2005) Vikas Swarup Christopher Simpson BBC Audiobooks America Finalist [17]
2011
16th 		Winter's Bone (2006) Daniel Woodrell Emma Galvin Hachette Audio Winner [18]
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009) Seth Grahame-Smith Katherine Kellgren Audible Finalist [18]
The Postmistress (2010) Sarah Blake Orlagh Cassidy Blackstone Audio Finalist [18]
Fall of Giants (2010) Ken Follett John Lee Penguin Audio Finalist [18]
The Lonely Polygamist (2010) Brady Udall David Aaron Baker Recorded Books Finalist [18]
Every Last One (2010) Anna Quindlen Hope Davis Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [18]
2012
17th 		Alas, Babylon (1959 Pat Frank Will Patton Audible Winner [19][20]
American Gods (2001) Neil Gaiman Dennis Boutsikaris and full cast HarperAudio Finalist [19][20]
Heat Rises (2011) Richard Castle Johnny Heller Hyperion Audio Finalist [19][20]
Portrait of a Spy (2011) Daniel Silva Simon Vance HarperAudio/Recorded Books Finalist [19][20]
The Winds of War (1971) Herman Wouk Kevin Pariseau Audible Finalist [19][20]
2013
18th 		The Handmaid's Tale (1985) Margaret Atwood Claire Danes Audible Winner [21]
The Bartender's Tale (2012) Ivan Doig David Aaron Baker Recorded Books Finalist [21]
Beautiful Ruins (2012) Jess Walter Edoardo Ballerini HarperAudio Finalist [21]
A Rage in Harlem (1985) Chester Himes Samuel L. Jackson Audible Finalist [21]
Speaks the Nightbird (2002) Robert R. McCammon Edoardo Ballerini Audible Finalist [21]
2014
19th 		Doctor Sleep (2013) Stephen King Will Patton Simon & Schuster Audio Winner [22]
The Golem and the Jinni (2013) Helene Wecker George Guidall HarperAudio Finalist [22]
The Good House (2013) Ann Leary Mary Beth Hurt Macmillan Audio Finalist [22]
The Imposter Bride (2012) Nancy Richler Tavia Gilbert Tantor Audio Finalist [22]
Jacob's Oath (2013) Martin Fletcher George Guidall Macmillan Audio Finalist [22]
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2012) Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman HarperAudio Finalist [22]
2015
20th 		All the Light We Cannot See (2014) Anthony Doerr Zach Appelman Simon & Schuster Audio Winner [23]
Five and Twenty-Fives (2014) Michael Pitre Kevin T. Collins, Nick Sullivan, Jay Snyder, Fajer Al-Kaisi, and Michael Pitre Audible Finalist [23]
The Invention of Wings (2014) Sue Monk Kidd Sue Monk Kidd, Jenna Lamia, and Adepero Oduye Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [23]
Mr. Mercedes (2014) Stephen King Will Patton Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [23]
Us (2014) David Nicholls David Haig HarperAudio Finalist [23]
Written in My Own Heart's Blood (2014) Diana Gabaldon Davina Porter Recorded Books Finalist [23]
2016
21st 		The Nightingale (2015) Kristin Hannah Polly Stone Macmillan Audio Winner [24]
Citizens Creek (2015) Lalita Tademy Bahni Turpin and J. D. Jackson Brilliance Audio Finalist [24]
A God in Ruins (2015) Kate Atkinson Alex Jennings Hachette Audio Finalist [24]
Kitchens of the Great Midwest (2015) J. Ryan Stradal Amy Ryan and Michael Stuhlbarg Books on Tape/Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [24]
The Last Bus to Wisdom (2015) Ivan Doig David Baker Recorded Books Finalist [24]
The Sellout (2015) Paul Beatty Prentice Onayemi Audible Finalist [24]
2017
22nd 		Sister of Mine (2016) Sabra Waldfogel Bahni Turpin Brilliance Audio Winner [25]
America's First Daughter (2016) Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie Cassandra Campbell HarperAudio Finalist [25]
Belgravia (2026 Julian Fellowes Juliet Stevenson Hachette Audio Finalist [25]
Darktown (2016) Thomas Mullen Andre Holland Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [25]
End of Watch (2016) Stephen King Will Patton Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [25]
2018
23rd 		Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017) Gail Honeyman Cathleen McCarron Penguin Audio Winner [26]
An Almond for a Parrot (2016) Wray Delaney Rachel Atkins Harlequin Audio Finalist [26]
Beartown (2016) Fredrik Backman with Neil Smith (trans.) Marin Ireland Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [26]
I Liked My Life (2017) Abby Fabiaschi Susan Bennett, Dan Bittner, and Thérèse Plummer Macmillan Audio Finalist [26]
The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson (2013) Nancy Peacock JD Jackson HighBridge Audio Finalist [26]
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (2017) Lisa See Ruthie Ann Miles, Kimiko Glenn, et al. Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [26]
2019
24th 		The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2018) Heather Morris Richard Armitage HarperAudio Winner [27][28]
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (2018) Hank Green Kristen Sieh and Hank Green Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [28]
The Clockmaker's Daughter (2018) Kate Morton Joanne Froggatt Bolinda Audio Finalist [28]
The Great Alone (2018) Kristin Hannah Julia Whelan Macmillan Audio Finalist [28]
Life of Pi (2001) Yann Martel Vikas Adam Audible Finalist [28]
Sanctuary (2017) Judy Nunn John Derum Finalist [28]

 

2020s

Award Year Audiobook Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result Ref.
2020
25th 		City of Girls (2019) Elizabeth Gilbert Blair Brown Penguin Random House Audio Winner [29]
The Age of Light (2019) Whitney Scharer Thérèse Plummer Hachette Audio Finalist [29]
Cilka's Journey (2019) Heather Morris Louise Brealey Macmillan Audio Finalist [29]
Colombiano (2017) Rusty Young Rusty Young and Brian J. Ramos Bolinda Audio Finalist [29]
The House We Grew Up In (2013) Lisa Jewell Karina Fernandez Dreamscape Finalist [29]
2021
26th 		Such a Fun Age (2019) Kiley Reid Nicole Lewis Penguin Random House Audio Winner [30]
Big Lies in a Small Town (2020) Diane Chamberlain Susan Bennett Macmillan Audio Finalist [30]
The Last Story of Mina Lee (2020) Nancy Jooyoun Kim Greta Jung HarperAudio Finalist [30]
The Midnight Library (2020) Matt Haig Carey Mulligan Canongate Books UK/Penguin Random House Audio US Finalist [30]
Sex and Vanity (2020) Kevin Kwan Lydia Look Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [30]
2022

27th

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev (2021) Dawnie Walton Janina Edwards, Bahni Turpin, James Langton, Gabra Zackman, Dennis Boutsikaris, Steve West, André De Shields, Matthew Lloyd Davies, David Sadzin, Fiona Hardingham, George Newbern, Leon Nixon, Ines del Castillo, Jackie Sanders, Pete Simonelli, Priya Ayyar, and Robin Miles Simon & Schuster Audio Winner [31]
All the Lonely People (2020) Mike Gayle Ben Onwukwe Hachette Audio Finalist [31]
The Four Winds Kristin Hannah Julia Whelan Macmillan Audio Finalist [31]
The Lincoln Highway (2021) Amor Towles Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland, and Dion Graham Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [31]
The Nature of Fragile Things Susan Meissner Alana Kerr Collins and Jason Culp Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [31]
2023

27th

Mad Honey Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan Carrie Coon, Key Taw, Jodi Picoult, and Jennifer Finney Boylan Penguin Random House Audio Winner [32]
Across a Hundred Mountains Reyna Grande Marisa Blake and Cynthia Farrell Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [33]
The Bright Side of Running Club Josie Lloyd Danielle Cohen Dreamscape Media Finalist [33]
A House Full of Windsor Kristin Contino Barrie Kreinik Wyatt-MacKenzie & Blackstone Audio Finalist [33]
Less is Lost (2017) Andrew Sean Greer Robert Petkoff Hachette Audio Finalist [33]
Tracy Flick Can't Win (2022) Tom Perrotta Lucy Liu, Dennis Boutsikaris, Jeremy Bobb, Ramona Young, Ali Andre Ali, and Pete Simonelli, with a full cast Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [33]
2024

29th

Tom Lake (2023) Ann Patchett Meryl Streep HarperAudio Winner [34]
Birnam Wood (2023) Eleanor Catton Saskia Maarleveld Audible Studios Finalist [34]
Maame Jessica George Heather Agyepong Macmillan Audio Finalist [34]
One Blood Denene Millner Bahni Turpin, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, and Tina Lifford Macmillan Audio Finalist [34]
Yellowface (2023) R. F. Kuang Helen Laser HarperAudio Finalist [34]
2025

30th

Rednecks Taylor Brown Ramiz Monsef Recorded Books Winner [35]
The Evolution of Annabel Craig Lisa Grunwald Erin Bennett Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [36]
Hamlet's Children Richard Kluger Paul Woodson Tantor Audio Finalist [36]
The Ministry of Time: A Novel Kaliane Bradley George Weightman and Katie Leung Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [36]
The Women (2024) Kristin Hannah Julia Whelan Macmillan Audio Finalist [36]

 

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