The Audie Award for Best Female Narrator is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in audiobook narration by a woman released in a given year. Before 2016 the award was given as the Audie Award for Female Solo Narration. It has been awarded since 1998, when it superseded the Audie Award for Solo Narration. The award was disestablished in 2024, at which point it was replaced by the Audie Awards for Best Fiction and Non-Fiction Narrator.
Winners and finalists 1990s Year Title Author Narrator(s) Publisher Result 1998 Land Girls (1995) Isis PublishingWinner Sin (1992) Dove AudioFinalist To the Lighthouse (1927) Virginia Woolf Eileen Atkins Penguin AudiobooksFinalist1999 Oliver Twist (1837–1839) The Audio Partners Publishing Corp.Winner Black Coffee (1930) Soundelux Audio PublishingFinalist Pride and Prejudice (1813) The Audio Partners Publishing Corp.Finalist
2000s Year Title Author Narrator(s) Publisher Result 2000 Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) Recorded Books, LLCWinner Daughter of Fortune (1998) HarperAudioFinalist These Is My Words (1998) Chivers North AmericaFinalist2001 Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) HarperAudioWinner (2000) Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioFinalist Winter Solstice (2000) Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioFinalist2002 My Dream of You (2001) Simon & Schuster AudioWinner Lord of the Silent (2001) HarperAudioFinalist Portrait in Sepia (2000) HarperAudioFinalist2003 Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood (1982) Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc.Winner Breathing Room (2002) Chivers North AmericaFinalist Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (1996) HarperAudioFinalistQuentins (2002)Penguin AudiobooksFinalist (2001) HighBridge AudioFinalist2004 (1999) Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc.WinnerA Corner of the Universe (2002)Listening LibraryFinalist Blow Fly (2003) Putnam Berkley Audio/Books on TapeFinalistInkheart (2003)Listening LibraryFinalist Stuffed (2001) Blackstone AudioFinalist2005 (2003) Recorded Books, LLCWinner Destination Unknown (1954) The Audio Partners Publishing Corp.Finalist (2004) Audio-PlaywrightsFinalist When We Were Very Young (1924) HarperAudioFinalist Now We Are Six (1927) HarperAudioFinalist Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down (2003) Oasis AudioFinalist2006 (2005) Recorded Books, LLCWinner (2005) Time Warner AudioBooksFinalist Last Days of Dogtown (2005) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalistPretty Birds (2005)Recorded Books, LLCFinalist Up from Orchard Street (2005) Blackstone AudioFinalist2007 Telegraph Days (2006) Simon & Schuster AudioWinner Darkfever (2006) Brilliance AudioFinalist Fortunate Son (2006) Hachette AudioFinalistLeave a Candle Burning (2006)Oasis AudioFinalist To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) Harper Audio/CaedmonFinalist2008 Tallgrass (2008) Macmillan AudioWinner (2007) Hachette AudioFinalist Boomsday (2007) Hachette AudioFinalistTaking Flight (2009)L.A. Theatre WorksFinalist (2006) HighBridge AudioFinalist2009 Curse of the Blue Tattoo (2004) Listen & Live AudioWinner Amarcord: Marcella Remembers (2008) HarperAudioFinalist (1920) Blackstone AudioFinalist (2006)HarperAudioFinalist (2008) Blackstone AudioFinalist
2010s Year Title Author Narrator(s) Publisher Result 2010 (2009) Macmillan AudioWinner In the Belly of the Bloodhound (2006) Listen & Live AudioFinalist Mississippi Jack (2007) Listen & Live AudioFinalist Washington Square (1880) Tantor AudioFinalist Fatally Flaky (2009) HarperAudioFinalist2011 Glorious (2010) AudibleWinner (2010) AudibleFinalist (2009) Brilliance AudioFinalist Rapture of the Deep: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy (2009) Listen & Live AudioFinalist (1962) Naxos AudioBooksFinalistSpoken from the Heart (2010)Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2012 (2008) AudibleWinner Ashes Trilogy: Ashes (2011) Audible/Brilliance AudioFinalist First Grave on the Right (2011) Macmillan AudioFinalist Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter (1976) and George Vecsey Random House Audio/Books on TapeFinalist (2010) Listen & Live AudioFinalist2013 (2011) and Agnete Friis AudioGOWinner Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s (2002) HighBridge AudioFinalist (2012) HarperAudioFinalist Juliet in August / Cool Water (2010) Tantor AudioFinalist (1900) AudibleFinalist2014 (2012) AudibleWinner Heartburn (1983) Random House Audio/Books on TapeFinalist My Beloved World (2013) Random House Audio/Books on TapeFinalist NOS4A2 (2013) HarperAudioFinalist (2012) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2015 Yellow Crocus (2010) Brilliance AudioWinner Boston Jacky (2013) Listen & Live AudioFinalist Life Drawing (2014) Penguin Random House AudioFinalist Murphy's Law (2001) AudibleFinalist Until the End of the World (2013) Podium PublishingFinalistWritten in My Own Heart's Blood (2014)Recorded BooksFinalist2016 Wild Rover No More (2014) Listen & Live AudioWinner All the Stars in the Heavens (2015) HarperAudioFinalist (2014) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Lair of Dreams (2015) Listening Library/Penguin Random House AudioFinalist (2015) HarperAudioFinalist (2015)Macmillan AudioFinalist2017 Be Frank with Me (2016) HarperAudioWinner Another Brooklyn (2016) HarperAudioFinalist (2015) Hachette AudioFinalist (1898) AudibleFinalist (2016) Penguin Random House Audio/Books on TapeFinalist2018 (2017) HarperAudioWinner (2017) HarperAudioFinalist Anne of Green Gables (1908) AudibleFinalist (1990) AudibleFinalist (2017) Hachette AudioFinalist2019Educated Penguin Random House AudioWinnerBarracoon HarperAudioFinalist Girls & Boys Audible StudiosFinalist HarperAudioFinalist Transcription Hachette AudioFinalist
2020s Year Title Author Narrator(s) Publisher Result 2020 Nothing to See Here (2019) HarperAudioWinner All the Lost Things (2019) Hachette AudioFinalist (2018) Brilliance AudioFinalist Prime Suspect (1991) ZaffleFinalist (2019) Hachette AudioFinalist2021 (2020) Robin Miles Hachette AudioWinner (1982) AudibleFinalist (2019) with Ann Goldstein (trans.) Penguin Random House AudioFinalist One by One (2020) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Such a Fun Age (2019) Penguin Random House AudioFinalist2022Novel audioWinnerBefore She Disappeared Brilliance PublishingFinalistMacmillan AudioFinalistBrilliance PublishingFinalistWild Swan: A Story of Florence NightingaleAudibleFinalist2023 (1990)Macmillan AudioWinnerNightcrawling (2022)Penguin Random House AudioFinalistThistlefootPenguin Random House AudioFinalistNSFWMacmillan AudioFinalistWar and Peace (1869), trans. by Aylmer and Louise MaudeAudible StudiosFinalist
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External links
Audie Award winners Audie Awards official website