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 1996 (1964) Audio RenaissanceWinner Dead Man's Walk (1995) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Montana 1948 (1993) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist1997 (1996) Penguin AudiobooksWinner (1996) Random House AudioFinalist Odyssey (8th-7th century BC) Homer (trans. Robert Fagles) Penguin AudiobooksFinalist1998 (1973) Bolinda AudioWinner American Pastoral (1997) Dove AudioFinalist Lolita (1955) Random House AudioFinalist1999 (1998) Random House AudioWinner Oliver Twist (1838) Audio Partners Publishing Corp.Finalist Summer Sisters (1998) Books on TapeFinalist 2000s Award Year Audiobook Author(s)Narrator(s) Publisher Result 2000 I Know This Much Is True (1998) Recorded BooksWinnerDuane's Depressed (1999) NewStar MediaFinalist (1999) Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioFinalist2001 Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000) Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioWinner Dubliners (1914) , Malachy McCourt, Dan O'Herlihy, Brendan Coyle, Aaron Hinds, T. P. McKenna, et al. HarperAudioFinalist War of the Rats (1999) Recorded BooksFinalist2002 (1984) and Peter Straub Simon & Schuster AudioWinner Bel Canto (2001) Blackstone AudioFinalist Priestess of Avalon (2000) Books on TapeFinalist2003 Middlesex (2002) Winner Atonement (2001) Finalist Austerlitz (2001) Finalist Sea Glass (2002) Finalist Unless (2002) Finalist2004 All Over Creation (2004) Winner (2003) Finalist Monstrous Regiment (2003) Finalist (2003) Finalist (2003) Finalist2005 (2005) Winner Going Postal (2004) Finalist I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004) Finalist Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004) Finalist Our Sunshine (1991 Finalist2006 (2005) Winner (2004) Finalist Road to Purgatory (2004) Finalist Survivor in Death (2005) Finalist (2004) Finalist2007 Rise and Shine (2006) Winner Restless (2006) Finalist Telegraph Days (2006) Finalist (1995) Finalist (2006) FinalistWater for Elephants (2006) and John Randolph-JonesFinalist2008 Tallgrass (2008) Winner Exile (2007) Finalist (2006) (writer) Finalist (2006) and Adam SimsFinalist (2007) Finalist2009 Duma Key (2008) Winner (2008) , Susan Duerdan, and full castWinner Change of Heart (2008) , Jim Frangione, Jenny Ikeda, Stafford Clarke-Price, and Nicole PooleFinalist (2008) Finalist (2006) Finalist
2010s Award Year Audiobook Author(s)Narrator(s) Publisher Result 2010 (2009) , Jenna Lamia, Octavia Spencer, and Bahni Turpin Penguin AudiobooksWinner (1987) Blackstone AudioFinalist Face of Betrayal (2009) and April Henry Oasis AudioFinalist (1968) and Charlie McWade Graymalkin MediaFinalist Slumdog Millionaire (2005) BBC Audiobooks AmericaFinalist2011 Winter's Bone (2006) Hachette AudioWinnerPride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009) AudibleFinalist (2010) Blackstone AudioFinalist Fall of Giants (2010) Penguin AudioFinalist (2010) Recorded BooksFinalist Every Last One (2010) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2012 Alas, Babylon (1959 AudibleWinner American Gods (2001) and full cast HarperAudioFinalist Heat Rises (2011) Hyperion AudioFinalist Portrait of a Spy (2011) HarperAudio/Recorded BooksFinalist (1971) AudibleFinalist2013 (1985) AudibleWinner (2012) Recorded BooksFinalist Beautiful Ruins (2012) HarperAudioFinalist (1985) AudibleFinalist Speaks the Nightbird (2002) AudibleFinalist2014 Doctor Sleep (2013) Simon & Schuster AudioWinner (2013) HarperAudioFinalist (2013) Macmillan AudioFinalist (2012) Tantor AudioFinalist Jacob's Oath (2013) Macmillan AudioFinalist (2012) HarperAudioFinalist2015 All the Light We Cannot See (2014) Simon & Schuster AudioWinner Five and Twenty-Fives (2014) , Nick Sullivan, Jay Snyder, Fajer Al-Kaisi, and Michael Pitre AudibleFinalist (2014) , Jenna Lamia, and Adepero Oduye Penguin Random House AudioFinalist Mr. Mercedes (2014) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Us (2014) HarperAudioFinalist Written in My Own Heart's Blood (2014) Recorded BooksFinalist2016 (2015) Macmillan AudioWinner Citizens Creek (2015) and J. D. Jackson Brilliance AudioFinalist (2015) Hachette AudioFinalist Kitchens of the Great Midwest (2015) and Michael Stuhlbarg Books on Tape/Penguin Random House AudioFinalist (2015) Recorded BooksFinalist (2015) AudibleFinalist2017 Sister of Mine (2016) Brilliance AudioWinner America's First Daughter (2016) and Laura Kamoie HarperAudioFinalist Belgravia (2016) Hachette AudioFinalist Darktown (2016) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist End of Watch (2016) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2018 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017) Penguin AudioWinner An Almond for a Parrot (2016) Harlequin AudioFinalist Beartown (2016) with Neil Smith (trans.) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist I Liked My Life (2017) , Dan Bittner, and Thérèse Plummer Macmillan AudioFinalist (2013) HighBridge AudioFinalist (2017) , Kimiko Glenn, et al. Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2019 (2018) HarperAudioWinner (2018) and Hank Green Penguin Random House AudioFinalist (2018) Bolinda AudioFinalist (2018) Macmillan AudioFinalist Life of Pi (2001) AudibleFinalistSanctuary (2017) Finalist
2020s Award Year Audiobook Author(s)Narrator(s) Publisher Result 2020 City of Girls (2019) Penguin Random House AudioWinner (2019) Hachette AudioFinalist Cilka's Journey (2019) Macmillan AudioFinalist Colombiano (2017) and Brian J. Ramos Bolinda AudioFinalist (2013) DreamscapeFinalist2021 Such a Fun Age (2019) Penguin Random House AudioWinner Big Lies in a Small Town (2020) Macmillan AudioFinalist (2020) HarperAudioFinalist (2020) Canongate Books UK/Penguin Random House Audio USFinalist Sex and Vanity (2020) Penguin Random House AudioFinalist2022 (2021), 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 MilesSimon & Schuster AudioWinnerAll the Lonely People (2020)Hachette AudioFinalistMacmillan AudioFinalist (2021), Marin Ireland, and Dion GrahamPenguin Random House AudioFinalist and Jason CulpPenguin Random House AudioFinalist2023Mad Honey and Jennifer Finney Boylan, Key Taw, Jodi Picoult, and Jennifer Finney BoylanPenguin Random House AudioWinnerAcross a Hundred Mountains and Cynthia FarrellSimon & Schuster AudioFinalistDreamscape MediaFinalistWyatt-MacKenzie & Blackstone AudioFinalistLess is Lost (2017)Hachette AudioFinalistTracy Flick Can't Win (2022), Dennis Boutsikaris, Jeremy Bobb, Ramona Young, Ali Andre Ali, and Pete Simonelli, with a full castSimon & Schuster AudioFinalist2024Tom Lake (2023)HarperAudioWinnerBirnam Wood (2023)Audible StudiosFinalistMaameMacmillan AudioFinalistOne Blood, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, and Tina LiffordMacmillan AudioFinalistYellowface (2023)HarperAudioFinalist2025RednecksRecorded BooksWinnerPenguin Random House AudioFinalistHamlet's Children Tantor AudioFinalist and Katie LeungSimon & Schuster AudioFinalist (2024)Macmillan AudioFinalist2026Atmosphere (2025), Julia Whelan, and Taylor Jenkins ReidPenguin Random House AudioWinnerBroken CountrySimon & Schuster AudioFinalist, Jane Oppenheimer, Carly Robins, Jeff Ebner, David Pittu, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Mark Bramhall, Petrea Burchard, Robert Petkoff, Kimberly Farr, Jim Seybert, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Jade Wheeler, Peter Ganim, and Steve WestPenguin Random House AudioFinalist, Louisa Zhu, Amy Landon, Elena Rey, Valerie Rose Lohman, Suzanne Toren, Graham Halstead, Julia Emelin, Layne Fargo, Eric Yang, Johnny Weir, and Brandon PereaPenguin Random House AudioFinalistJuniePenguin Random House AudioFinalist
References
External links
Audie Award winners Audie Awards official website