AUDIOBOOK
OF THE YEAR |
Angels
in America - Tony Kushner (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated
by Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Susan Brown,
Denise Gough. |
Becoming
- Michelle Obama (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Michelle Obama |
Charlotte’s
Web - E.B. White (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated
by Meryl Streep with a full cast.
|
The
Dutch House by Ann Patchett
(HarperAudio)
Narrated
by Tom Hanks
|
WINNER:
The Only Plane in the Sky
- Garrett M. Graff
(Simon &
Schuster Audio)
Narrated by a full cast with Holter
Graham
|
The
Testaments - Margaret Atwood
(Penguin Random House
Audio)
Narrated by Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard,
Mae Whitman, Derek Jacobi, Tantoo Cardinal,
and Margaret Atwood
|
AUDIO
DRAMA |
The
Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
- James Lecesne (Audible
Originals)
Performed
by James Lecesne
|
WINNER:
Angels in America - Tony
Kushne (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Performed
by Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Susan Brown,
Denise Gough, Beth Malone, James McArdle,
Lee Pace, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Bobby
Cannavale, and Edie Falco
|
Birthday
Suit - Lauren Blakely
(Lauren
Blakely Books)
Performed by Andi Arndt, Sebastian
York, January LaVoy, Julia Whelan, R.C.
Bray, Shane East, Joe Arden, Erin Mallon,
Dion Graham, Savannah Peachwood, Jason Clarke,
and Robin Miles, published by
|
Have
a Nice Day - Billy Crystal and
Quinton Peeples
(Audible
Originals)
Performed by Justin Bartha,
Annette Bening, Dick Cavett, Auli’l
Cravalho, Billy Crystal, Rachel Dratch,
Darrell Hammond, Christopher Jackson, Kevin
Kline, Robin Thede, and a full cast.
|
Puss
in Boots - Neil Fishman, Harvey
Edelman, and Khristine Hvam (HarperCollins)
Performed by Jim Dale, Mark Aldrich,
Barret Leddy, Nick Sullivan, Brian Holden,
Al Fallick, Lisa Livesay, Meredith Inglesby,
Lynn Norris, John E. Brady, and Johnny Heller
|
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR |
WINNER:
Becoming
- Michelle Obama (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated
by Michelle
Obama
|
From
Scratch, - Tembi Locke
(Simon &
Schuster Audio)
Narrated by Tembi Locke |
Me:
Elton John Official Autobiography -
Elton John (Macmillan
Audio)
Narrated by Taron Egerton and Elton John |
MotherStruck!
Staceyann Chin
(Audible Originals)
Narrated by Staceyann Chin |
Too
Much Is Not Enough - Andrew Rannells
(Penguin Random House Audio)
Narrated by Andrew Rannells
|
BEST FEMALE NARRATOR |
All
the Lost Things - Michelle Sacks
(Hachette Audio)
Narrated by Cassandra Morris |
The
Boy - Tami Hoag (Brilliance
Publishing)
narrated by Hillary Huber |
WINNER:
Nothing
to See Here - Kevin Wilson
(HarperCollins)
Narrated
by
Marin Ireland |
Prime
Suspect - Lynda La Plante (Zaffle)
Narrated
by
Rachel Atkins
|
The
Ten Thousand Doors of January -
Alix E. Harrow (Hachette
Audio)
Narrated by January LaVoy
|
BEST
MALE NARRATOR |
The
Dutch House by Ann Patchett (HarperCollins)
Narrated by Tom Hanks |
Everything
Is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran
Foer (Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt)
Narrated by Robert Petkoff |
WINNER:
Kingdom
of the Blind by Louise Penny (MacMillan
Audio)
Narrated by Robert Bathurst |
The
Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by JD Jackson |
Watership
Down by Richard Adams (Blackstone
Publishing)
Narrated by Peter Capaldi
|
BUSINESS/PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT |
The
Barefoot Spirit - Michael Houlihan,
Bonnie Harvey, Rick Kushman (Footnote
Press)
Narrated by Alamada Karatihy and a Full Cast
featuring Ed Asner |
Calm
the F*ck Down - by Sarah Knight (Hachette
Audio)
Narrated
by Sarah Knight |
Nine
Lies About Work - Marchus Buckingham
& Ashley Goodall
(Gildan Media, a Division of Recorded Books)
Narrated by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall |
WINNER:
So
You Want to Start a Podcast? - Kristen
Meinzer (HarperCollins)
Narrated
by Kristen Meinzer |
Wolfpack
- Abby Wambach (Macmillan
Audio)
Narrated by Abby Wambach
|
FAITH-BASED
FICTION & NON-FICTION |
Breathe
Again - Niki Hardy (Oasis
Audio)
Narrated by Niki Hardy |
Conscious
- Annak Harris
(HarperCollins)
Narrated by Annaka Harris |
Dare
to See - Katie Brown
(Hachette
Audio)
Narrated
by Katie Brown |
WINNER:
How the Light Gets In - Jolina
Petersheim (Oasis
Audio)
Narrated by Tavia Gilbert |
Jezebel:
The Prequel - Jacquelin Thomas
(The
Audio Flow LLC)
Narrated by Janina Edwards
|
FANTASY |
Beasts
of the Frozen Sun - Jill Criswell
(Blackstone
Publishing)
Narrated by Alana Kerr-Collins and Tim Campbell |
Black
Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
(Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Dion Graham |
Ninth
House - Leigh Bardugo
(Macmillan
Audio)
Narrated by Michael David Axtell and Lauren
Fortgang |
WINNER:
The
Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix
E. Harrow (Hachette
Audio)
Narrated by January LaVoy |
Time’s
Children - D.B. Jackson (Dreamscape
Media, LLC)
Narrated by Helen Keeley
|
FICTION |
The
Age of Light - Whitney Scharer (Hachette
Audio)
Narrated by Therese Plummer |
Cilka’s
Journey - Heather Morris (Macmillan
Audio)
Narrated by Louise Brealey |
WINNER:
City
of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Blair Brown |
Colombiano
- Rusty Young (Bolinda
Publishing)
Narrated by Rusty Young & Brian J. Ramos |
The
House We Grew Up In - Lisa Jewell
(Dreamscape
Media)
Narrated by Karina Fernandez
|
HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY |
WINNER:
American
Moonshot - Douglas Brinkley (HarperCollins)
Narrated by Stephen Graybill |
The
First Conspiracy - Brad Meltzer &
Josh Mensch (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Scott Brick |
Furious
Hours - Casey Cep (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Hillary Huber |
The
Queen - Josh Levin (Hachette
Audio)
Narrated by January LaVoy |
Theodore
Roosevelt for the Defense - Dan
Abrams & David Fisher (Harlequin)
Narrated by Roger Wayne & Dan Abrams
|
HUMOR |
Dear
Girls - Ali Wong (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Ali Wong and Justin Hakuta |
Idiot
- Laura Clery (Simon
& Schuster Audio)
Narrated by Laura Clery |
WINNER:
More
Bedtime Stories for Cynics by Kirsten
Kearse, Gretchen Enders, Aparna Nancherla,
Cirocco Dunlap, and Dave Hill (Audible
Originals)
Narrated by Nick Offerman, Patrick Stewart,
Alia Shawkat, Ellen Page, Jane Lynch, John
Waters, Anjelica Huston, Wendell Pierce, Mike
Birbiglia, Rachel Dratch, Matt Walsh, Nicole
Byer, Harry Goaz, Aisling Bea, and Gary Anthony
Williams |
Riding
the Elephant - Craig Ferguson (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Craig Ferguson |
A
Woman First - Selina Meyer (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Selina Meyer
|
LITERARY
FICTION & CLASSICS |
Milkman
by Anna Burns (Dreamscape
Media )
Narrated by Brid Brennan |
Mythos
- Stephen Fry (Chronicle
Books)
Narrated by Stephen Fry |
The
Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo (Macmillan
Audio)
Narrated by Yangsze Choo |
Red
at the Bone - Jacqueline Woodson
(Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Jacqueline Woodson, with Quincy
Tyler Bernstine, Peter Francis James, Shayna
Small, and Bahni Turpin |
WINNER:
The
Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
(Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Joe Morton
|
MIDDLE
GRADE |
WINNER:
Charlotte’s
Web - E.B. White (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Meryl Streep and a full cast |
New
Kid - Jerry Craft
(HarperCollins)
Narrated by Jerry Craft, Jesus Del Orden,
Nile Bullock, Robin Miles, Guy Lockard, Peyton
Lusk, Rebecca Soler, Dan Bittner, Phoebe Strole,
Marc Thompson, Miles Harvey, and Ron Butler |
Our
Castle by the Sea - Lucy Strange
(Scholastic
Audio)
Narrated by Lucy Strange |
Roller
Girl - Victoria Jamieson (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Almarie Guerra and a full cast
|
The
Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise -
Dan Gemeinhart (Macmillan
Audio)
Narrated by Khristine Hvam
|
MULTI-VOICED
PERFORMANCE |
200
Women by Geoff Blackwell, Ruth Hobday,
Sharon Gelman, Marianne Lassandro, and Kieran
Scott (Chronicle
Books)
Narrated by a full cast |
Daisy
Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins
Reid (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt,
Judy Greer, Pablo Schreiber, and a full cast, |
Dooku:
Jedi Lost (Star Wars) -
Cavan Scott (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton,
Marc Thompson, Pete Bradbury, Jonathan Davis,
Neil Hellegers, Sean Kenin, January LaVoy,
Saskia Maarleveld, Carol Monda, Robert Petkoff,
and Rebecca Soler
|
Hey,
Kiddo - Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Scholastic
Audio)
Narrated by Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Jeanne Birdsall,
Richard Ferrone, Jenna Lamia, and a full cast |
WINNER:
The
Only Plane in the Sky - Garrett
M. Graff (Simon
& Schuster Audio)
Narrated by a full cast with Holter Graham
|
MYSTERY |
Along
Came a Spider - James Patterson
(25th anniversary edition)
(Hachette
Audio)
Narrated by Taye Diggs |
The
Boy - Tami Hoag (Brilliance
Publishing)
Narrated by Hillary Huber |
WINNER:
The
Chestnut Man - Soren Sveistrup (HarperCollins)
Narrated by Peter Noble |
The
Lost Man - Jane Harper (Macmillan
Audio)
Narrated by Stephen Shanahan |
The
New Iberia Blues - James Lee Burke
(Simon
& Schuster Audio)
Narrated by Will Patton
|
NARRATION
BY AUTHOR OR AUTHORS |
Becoming
- Michelle Obama (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Michelle Obama |
Inside
Out - Demi Moore (HarperCollins)
Narrated by Demi Moore |
Madame
Badobedah - Sophie Dahl (Bolinda
Publishing)
Narrated by Sophie Dahl
|
Shortest
Way Home - Pete Buttigieg
(HighBridge, a divison of Recorded Books)
Narrated by Pete Buttigieg |
Tough
Love - Susan Rice (Simon
& Schuster Audio)
Narrated by Susan Rice
|
WINNER:
With
the Fire on High - Elizabeth Acevedo
(HarperCollins)
Narrated by Elizabeth Acevedo |
NON-FICTION |
WINNER:
Grace
Will Lead Us Home - Jennifer Berry
Hawes (Macmillan
Audio)
Narrated by Karen Chilton and Jennifer Berry
Hawes |
Mama’s
Last Hug - Frans de Waal (Recorded
Books)
Narrated by L.J. Ganser, published by Recorded
Books |
The
Perfect Predator - Steffanie Strathdee,
Thomas Patterson, and Teresa Barker (Hachette
Audio)
Narrated by Christine Lakin with Dan Woren |
Talking
to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell (Hachette
Audio)
Narrated
by Malcolm Gladwell |
We
Are the Weather - Jonathan Safran
Foer (Macmillan
Audio)
Narrated by Jonathan Safran Foer
|
ORIGINAL
WORK |
WINNER:
Evil
Eye - Madhuri Shekar (Audible
Originals)
Narrated by Nick Choksi, Harsh Nayaar, Annapurna
Sriram, Bernard White, and Rita Wolf |
I
Eat Men Like Air - Alice Berman (Audible
Originals)
Narrated by Elizabeth Evans |
Lustily
Ever After: The Audiobook Musical
- Stephanie Bentley & Miranda Ray (ACX)
Narrated by Stephanie Bentley, Carolyn Jania
and Henry Kaiser, with additional vocals from
Christiana Lynette and Aaron Wilson |
Our
Harlem: - Marcus Samuelsson
(Audible Originals)
Narrated by Marcus Samuelsson |
Nevertheless
We Persisted: Me Too - (Blunder
Woman Productions) Em
Jae, E., Deepti Gupta, Suzanne Barbetta,
Dee, Samantha MacLeod, Bronwyn Green, Rachel
Fulginiti, Mary Caroline Smith, Jackie Rosenfeld,
Tor Thom, Francesca Amari, Charlotte, Samantha
Greene, Rachel Wisley, K.E. White, Emily
Lawrence, Kali, Marie Christy, Carol Schneider,
Anonymous, Sal, and Sahana Kumar
Performed
by: Christa Lewis, Tanya Eby, Neil
Hellegers, Emily Beresford, Hillary Huber,
Deepti Gupta, Suzanne Barbetta, Beth Stewart,
Madeleine Maby, Tavia Gilbert, Lisa Flanagan,
Rachel Fulginiti, Donna Postel, Carly Robins,
Tor Thom, Nicol Zanzarella, Caitlin Kelly,
Erin Mallon, Karen White, Francesca Amari,
Emily Lawrence, Megan Tusing, Cassandra
Campbell, Carol Schneider, Sal, Lauri Jo
Daniels, and Siiri Scott,
Chorus
performed by: Lauri Jo Daniels,
Matt Godfrey, Amanda Dolan, Melissa Moran,
Khristine Hvam, Jesse Vilinsky, Andrea Emmes,
Ralph Lister, Angie Hickman, Stuart Poltrock,
Joe Hempel, Laura Bannister, Natalie Naudus,
Greg Tremblay, Elizabeth Wiley, Eve Passeltiner,
Rosemary Benson, Emily Durante, Karen Commins,
Helen Lloyd, Amy McFadden, Sophie Amoss,
Suzanne Elise Freeman, Jane Oppenheimer,
Lori Prince, David Stifel, Lacy Laurel,
Denice Stradling, Pamela Lorence, Suzie
Althens, Kelley Ernst, Becca Ballenger,
Lauren Ezzo, Sarah Mollo Christensen, Patrick
Lawlor, Carol Jacobanis, Rich Miller, Anne
Flosnik, Shiromi Arserio, Meghan Kelly,
Kate Rudd, and Caroline McLaughlin
|
ROMANCE |
The
Bride Test - Helen Hoang (Dreamscape
Media)
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller |
WINNER:
Devil’s
Daughter - Lisa Kleypas (HarperCollins)
Narrated by Mary Jane Wells, published by
|
The
Friend Zone - Abby Jimenez (Hachette
Audio)
Narrated by Teddy Hamilton and Erin Mallon |
Gimme
Some Sugar - Molly Harper (Audible
Originals)
Narrated by Amanda Ronconi |
Red,
White & Royal Blue - Casey
McQuiston (Macmillan
Audio)
Narrated by Ramon de Ocampo
|
SCIENCE
FICTION |
WINNER:
Emergency
Skin - N.K. Jemisin (Brilliance
Publishing)
Narrated by Jason Isaacs |
Hollow
Kingdom - Kira Jane Buxton (Hachette
Audio)
Narrated by Robert Petkoff |
The
Last Astronaut - David Wellington,
(Hachette Audio)
Narrated by Megan Tusing |
The
Lesson - Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone
Publishing)
Narrated
by Ron Butler & Janina Edwards |
Permafrost
- Alastair Reynolds (Macmillian
Audio)
Narrated by Natasha Soudek
|
SHORT
STORIES/COLLECTIONS |
Evidence of the Affair -
Taylor Jenkins Reid (Brilliance
Publishing)
Narrated by Julia Whelan, George Newbern,
James Daniels, and Dara Rosenberg |
Forward
- Veronica Roth, Blake Crouch, N.K. Jemisin,
Amor Towles, Paul Tremblay, and Andy Weir
(Brilliance
Publishing)
Narrated by Evan Rachel Wood, Rosa Salazar,
Jason Isaacs, David Harbour, Steven Strait,
and Janina Gavankar |
WINNER:
Full
Throttle - Joe Hill (HarperCollins)
Narrated by Zachary Quinto, Wil Wheaton, Kate
Mulgrew, Neil Gaiman, Ashleigh Cummings, Joe
Hill, Laysla De Oliveira, Nate Corddry, Connor
Jessup, Stephen Lang, and George Guidall |
I’m
Telling the Truth But I’m Lying -
Bassey Ikpi
(HarperAudio)
Narrated by Bassey Ikpi |
Kabu
Kabu - Nnedi Okorafor & Whoopi
Goldberg (foreword)
Narrated by Yetide Badakim (Tantor
Audio, a division of Recorded Books)
|
THRILLER/SUSPENSE |
Blood
in the Water - Jack Flynn (Recorded
Books)
N arrated by Dion Graham |
Freefall
- Jessica Barry (HarperCollins)
Narrated by Hillary Huber, Karissa Vacker,
and MacLeod Andrews |
WINNER:
The
Institute - Stephen King (Simon
& Schuster Audio)
Narrated by Santino Fontana |
Lady
in the Lake - Laura Lippman
(HarperCollins)
Narrated by Susan Bennett |
Winter
Dark - Alex Callister
(Audible
Originals)
Narrated by Ell Potter
|
YOUNG
ADULT |
WINNER:
Hey,
Kiddo - Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Scholastic
Audio)
Narrated by Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Jeanne Birdsall,
Richard Ferrone, Jenna Lamia, and a Full Cast |
Like
a Love Story - Abdi Nazemian (HarperCollins)
Narrated by Lauren Ambrose, Vikas Adam, and
Michael Crouch |
Lovely
War - Julie Berry (Penguin
Randow House Audio)
Narrated by Jayne Entwistle, Allan Corduner,
Julie Berry, and a Full Cast |
On
the Come Up - Angie Thomas (HarperCollins)
Narrated by Bahni Turpin |
With
the Fire on High - Elizabeth Acevedo
(HarperCollins)
Narrated by Elizabeth Acevedo
|
YOUNG
LISTENERS |
How
to Read a Book - Kwame Alexander
(HarperCollins)
Narrated by Kwame Alexander |
The
Lion King - Elizabeth Rudnick and
Disney Press (Blackstone
Publishing)
Narrated by Janina Edwards |
WINNER:
The
Pigeon HAS to Go to School! - Mo
Willems (Weston
Woods)
Narrated by Mo Willems |
Rumple
Buttercup - Matthew Gray Gubler (Penguin
Random House Audio)
Narrated by Matthew Gray Gubler |
We
Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga - Traci
Sorell (Live
Oak Media)
Narrated by Lauren Hummingbird, Agalisiga
(Choogie) Mackey, Ryan Mackey, Traci Sorell,
and Tonia Weavel
|
The
Word Collector - Peter H. Reynolds
(Weston
Woods)
Narrated by Guy Lockard
|
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