The Audie Award for Autobiography or Memoir is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for an audiobook autobiography or memoir released in a given year. It has been awarded since 2015 when it was broken apart, along with the Audie Award for History or Biography, from the Audie Award for Biography or Memoir (awarded since 2003).
Winners and finalists 2010s Year of Release Audiobook Author Narrator Audiobook Publisher2015 Not My Father's Son (2014) HarperAudio Daring: My Passages (2015) HarperAudio Living on Air (2011) and Ann Cipriano Joe Cipriano Promos My Life in Middlemarch (2014) Blackstone Audio Yes Please (2014), Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Mike Schur, Eileen and William Poehler, Patrick Stewart, and Kathleen Turner HarperAudio2016 Ghost Boy (2011) Thomas Nelson/HarperAudio Born with Teeth (2015) Hachette Audio Brilliance Audio I Must Say (2014) HarperAudio Keep Moving, and Other Tips and Truths About Aging (2015) Blackstone Audio Travels (1988) Brilliance Audio2017 The Greatest: My Own Story (1975) and Richard Durham Graymalkin Media Around the Way Girl (2016) Simon & Schuster Audio Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded (2016) and Judy Young HarperAudio (2017) and Gloria Vanderbilt and Gloria Vanderbilt HarperAudio When Breath Becomes Air (2016) and Cassandra Campbell Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape2018 Born to Run (2016) Simon & Schuster Audio Al Franken, Giant of the Senate (2017) Hachette Audio Born a Crime (2016) Audible Nevertheless (2017) HarperAudio We're Going to Need More Wine (2017) HarperAudio What Happened (2017) Simon & Schuster Audio2019 Educated (2018) Penguin Random House Audio Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning (2018) Audible In Pieces (2018) Hachette Audio Letter to Louis (2018) Bolinda Audio Small Fry (2018) Blackstone Audio
2020s Year AudiobookAuthorNarrator PublisherResultRef.2020 Becoming (2018) Penguin Random House AudioWinner From Scratch (2019) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Me (2019) and Elton John Macmillan Audio MotherStruck! (2019) Audible Originals Too Much Is Not Enough (2019) Penguin Random House Audio2021 (1965) and Alex Haley AudibleWinner Becoming Duchess Goldblatt (2020)Anonymous (feat. J. Smith-Cameron and Lyle Lovett) HMH AudioFinalist Mr. New Orleans: The Life of a Big Easy Underworld Legend (2009) and Matthew Randazzo Sound Off Productions Sigh, Gone (2020) Macmillan Audio Uncanny Valley (2020) Macmillan Audio2022Somebody's Daughter Macmillan AudioWinnerAct Like You Got Some Sense , foreword by Corinne Foxx, foreword by Corinne FoxxHachette AudioFinalist and Clint Howard, Clint Howard, and Bryce Dallas HowardHarperAudioFits and Starts: A Memoir of Living with Epilepsy and Franziska ThomasAlmost TangibleListen Mama Souls Take Flight2023Unprotected: A MemoirRecorded Books, a division of RBmediaWinner, edited by David Rosenthall, Melissa Newman, Clea Newman Soderlund, Ari Fliakos, January LaVoy, John Rubinstein, and Emily WachtelPenguin Random House AudioFinalistHello, Molly HarperAudioLeft on Tenth Hachette AudioSafe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope Snow Anselmo Press with Girl Friday Productions2024Making It SoSimon & Schuster AudioWinnerBehind the Seams, Holly George-Warren, and Rebecca Seaver, Holly George-Warren, and Rebecca SeaverPenguin Random House AudioFinalistLa Finca: Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican IslandLantern AudioSaved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make it HomeHarperAudioBrilliance Publishing2025My Name Is Barbra (2023) Penguin Random House AudioWinnerFarewell Yellow Brick Road , foreword by David Furnish, Vikas Adam, and a full castAudible StudiosFinalistIn My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife Simon & Schuster AudioKnifePenguin Random House AudioSimon & Schuster Audio2026Matriarch: A Memoir, Beyoncé, Solange Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Angie BeyincéPenguin Random House AudioWinnerCher: Part OneCherCher and Stephanie J. BlockHarperAudioFinalistCode Name: Pale Horse with Michelle ShephardSimon & Schuster Audio (1961)Penguin Random House AudioNobody's Girl and Gabra ZackmanPenguin Random House Audio
Biography/Memoir winners and finalists 2003–2014
2000s Year of Release AudiobookAuthorNarrator Audiobook Publisher2003 Lucky Man: A Memoir (2002) Simon & Schuster Audio Getting to Know William Shakespeare (2001) Echo Peak Productions Legacy (2002) and David Holt and David Holt High Windy Audio Theodore Rex (2001) Random House Audio Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See (2002) The Audio Partners Publishing Corp.2004 (1999) Jewish Contemporary Classics (2002) Random House Audio Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) Simon & Schuster Audio Hannibal: One Man Against Rome (1958) Audio Connoisseur My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile (2003) HarperAudio2005 Chronicles: Volume One (2004) Simon & Schuster Audio Big Russ and Me: Father and Son (2004) Hyperion AudioBooks Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (2003) Audible Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure (2002) Bolinda Audio (2003) Blackstone Audio Mornings on Horseback (1981) Simon & Schuster Audio (AD 121) SuetoniusAudio Connoisseur2006 Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (2005) Random House Audio iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business (2005) and William L. Simon, Jeffrey S. Young, and William L. Simon Penton Overseas (2005) Time Warner AudioBooks We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love (2004) Tantor Audio (2005) HighBridge Audio2007 Teacher Man (2005) Simon & Schuster Audio Diana: Finally, the Complete Story (2006) Penguin Audio Dispatches from the Edge (2006) HarperAudio Elizabeth (2006) Hachette Audio Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship (2006) Blackstone Audio (2006) Tantor Audio2008 Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007) Simon & Schuster Audio My Lobotomy (2007) and Charles Fleming Tantor Audio Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography (2007) HarperAudio Shakespeare: The World As Stage (2007) HarperAudio Tearing Down the Wall of Sound (2008) Blackstone Audio2009 (2008) HyperionAudio Black Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster (2008) and Malcolm McConnell and Joe Barrett Blackstone Audio (2008) HarperAudio (2005) Blackstone Audio Waiter Rant (2008) Brilliance Audio 2010s Year of Release AudiobookAuthorNarrator Audiobook Publisher2010 Anne Frank Remembered (1987) and Leslie Gold Oasis Audio (2009) Oasis Audio (2009) and Denise George Oasis Audio True Compass (2009) Hachette Audio Valkyrie (2009) and Florence and Jérôme Fehrenbach Tantor Audio2011 Life (2010) and Joe Hurley Hachette Audio (2010) ChristianAudio Somewhere Inside (2010) and Laura Ling and Laura Ling HarperAudio This Time Together (2010) Random House Audio Abigail Adams: A Life (2009) Tantor Audio2012 Bossypants (2011) Hachette Audio (2010) Tantor Audio Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life (2011) Hachette Audio My Dog Tulip (1956) Blackstone Audio Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever (2011) Audible2013 (1999) , Louise Loots Thornton, and Marlene Bernstein Samuels Tantor Audio Cronkite (2012) HarperAudio Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey (2011) Tantor Audio My Cross to Bear (2012) and Alan Light HarperAudio Two Rings: A Story of Love and War (2012) and Eve Keller and Eve Keller HighBridge Audio2014 (2009) and Graham Spence Tantor Audio [sic]: A Memoir (2011) Audible My Beloved World (1992) Random House Audio/Books on Tape World on a String (2012) Audible I Am Malala (2013) Hachette Audio
References
External links
Audie Award winners Audie Awards official website