The Audie Award for Fantasy is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for a fantasy audiobook released in a given year. It has been awarded since 2012.
Winners and finalists 2010s Year of Release Title Author(s) Narrator(s) PublisherResult2012 Daughter of Smoke and Bone (2011) Hachette AudioWinner (2008) AudibleFinalist (1980) Audible Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After (2011) Audible/Brilliance Audio Rumo and His Miraculous Adventures (2003) with John Brownjohn (trans.) Blackstone Audio2013 Anita (1970) AudibleWinner All Men of Genius (2011) Recorded BooksFinalist Heroes Die (1998) Audible Princess of Wands (2006) Audible (2011) Audible Theft of Swords (2011) Recorded Books2014 Wisp of a Thing (2013) Blackstone AudioWinner Kill City Blues (2013) HarperAudioFinalist (2013) Tantor Audio (2013) Macmillan Audio Swords of Waar (2012) Audible2015 Words of Radiance (2014) and Michael Kramer Macmillan AudioWinner Cress (2014) Macmillan AudioFinalist (2014) Brilliance Audio Hawk (2014) Audible (2014) HarperAudio2016Nice Dragons Finish Last (2014) AudibleWinnerAscension (2014) Podium PublishingFinalist (2014) Podium Publishing (2015) Hachette AudioSon of the Black Sword (2015) Audible2017 (2016) Brilliance AudioWinner (2016) Macmillan AudioFinalist (2010) Hachette Audio (2016) HarperAudioLeague of Dragons (2016) Tantor Audio2018 (2017) Simon & Schuster AudioWinner Red Sister (2017) Recorded BooksFinalist (2017) HighBridge Audio Skullsworn (2017) Brilliance Audio Snake Eyes (2016) AudibleSpellmonger (2011) Podium Publishing2019Spinning Silver (2018) Penguin Random House AudioWinner European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (2018) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Jade City (2017) Hachette Audio Kill the Farm Boy (2018) and Delilah S. Dawson Penguin Random House Audio Second Hand Curses (2017) , Marc Vietor, and Tavia Gilbert Audible
2020s Year of Release Title Author(s) Narrator(s) PublisherResult2020 (2019) Hachette AudioWinner Beasts of the Frozen Sun (2019) and Tim Campbell Blackstone AudioFinalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) Penguin Random House Audio Ninth House (2019) and Lauren Fortgang Macmillan Audio Time's Children (2018) Dreamscape2021 (2020) Hachette AudioWinner (2020) Macmillan AudioFinalist (2020) Macmillan Audio (2020) Hachette Audio Raybearer (2020) Blackstone Audio2022Rhythm of War (2020) and Kate ReadingMacmillan AudioWinner (2021) Hachette AudioFinalistPrincess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower Recorded Books and Dirk Maggs, James McAvoy, Emma Corrin, Brian Cox, Kat Dennings, John Lithgow, Bill Nighy, Regé-Jean Page, and a full cast Audible Originals Penguin Random House Audio2023Hachette AudioWinnerPenguin Random House AudioFinalistCold as Hell and Jaime CastleBlackstone AudioGood Omens (1990) and Terry Pratchett, Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Katherine Kingsley, Arthur Darvill, Peter Forbes, Gabrielle Glaister, Louis Davison, Pixie Davies, Chris Nelson, Ferdinand Frisby Williams, Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, John Hopkins, Lorelei King, Matt Reeves, and Lemn SissayHarperAudioLegends & Lattes (2022)Macmillan Audio2024 (1991)Macmillan AudioWinnerTread of Angels (2022)Simon & Schuster AudioFinalistMacmillan AudioRed RabbitMacmillan AudioStarling HouseMacmillan Audio2025Bookshops & Bonedust Macmillan AudioWinnerBlack Shield Maiden and Jess HendelPenguin Random House AudioFinalist and Lev GrossmanPenguin Random House AudioGoddess of the RiverHachette AudioSomeone You Can Build a Nest InTantor Audio2026Anima RisingHarperAudioWinnerBury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, Katie Leung, and Julia WhelanMacmillan AudioFinalist and Moira QuirkMacmillan AudioHachette AudioBlackstone Publishing
References
External links
Audie Award winners Audie Awards official website