The Audie Award for Literary Fiction & Classics 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 adaptation released in a given year of a work of literary fiction or a classic. Before 2016 this was given as two distinct awards, the Audie Award for Classics (awarded since 2001, before 2003 as the Audie Award for Classics, Fiction) and the Audie Award for Literary Fiction (awarded since 2005).
Literary Fiction & Classics winners and finalists 2010s Year Title Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result 2016 Little Big Man (1964) and David Aaron Baker Recorded BooksWinner (2015) Hachette AudioFinalist Kidnapped (1886) Recorded BooksFinalist Sweetland (2014) HighBridge Audio/Recorded BooksFinalist Til the Well Runs Dry (2014) and Bahni Turpin Tantor AudioFinalist2017 Homegoing (2016) Penguin Random House Audio/Books on TapeWinner Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1864) AudibleFinalist Another Brooklyn (2016) HarperAudioFinalist David Copperfield (1850) AudibleFinalist LaRose (2016) HarperAudioFinalist (2016) Penguin Random House Audio/Books on TapeFinalist2018 House of Names (2017) Juliet Stevenson et al. Simon & Schuster AudioWinner Beast (2016) Tantor AudioFinalist Daisy Miller (1878) Spoken RealmsFinalist Dracula (1897) Brilliance AudioFinalist : Special Edition (1985) and Valerie Martin , Margaret Atwood, and a full cast AudibleFinalist Phineas Finn (1869) Naxos AudioBooksFinalist2019 Bleak House (1853) AudibleWinner Crime and Punishment (1866) Brilliance AudioFinalist Housegirl (2018) Macmillan AudioFinalist Miguel Street (1959) Blackstone AudioFinalist Musashi (1935) Blackstone AudioFinalistSplit Tooth (2018)Penguin Random House CanadaFinalist
2020s Year Title Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result 2020 Penguin Random House AudioWinnerMilkman Dreamscape MediaFinalist Mythos Chronicle BooksFinalist Macmillan AudioFinalist Red at the Bone , with Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Peter Francis James, Shayna Small, and Bahni Turpin Penguin Random House AudioFinalist2021 and Chukwudi IwujiPenguin Random House AudioWinnerAudible StudiosFinalistDeacon King Kong Penguin Random House AudioFinalistPew Brilliance PublishingFinalistThese Ghosts Are Family Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2022All Creatures Great and SmallMacmillan AudioWinnerAriadne Macmillan AudioFinalistMary JaneHarperAudioFinalistMatrix (2021) Penguin Random House AudioFinalistMoby Dick (1851) Alison Larkin PresentsFinalist2023War and Peace (1869), trans. by Aylmer and Louise MaudeAudible StudiosWinnerFlaubert's Parrot (1984)Recorded BooksFinalistHorse, Lisa Flanagan, Graham Halstead, Katherine Littrell, and Michael ObioraPenguin Random HouseFinalist (1831), trans. by Isabel Florence HapgoodOasis AudioFinalistYerba BuenaMacmillan AudioFinalist2024 () Homer, translated by Emily WilsonAudible StudiosWinnerHarold and Maude (1971)Blackstone PublishingFinalistBlackstone Publishing with Skyboat MediaFinalist, with a full castPenguin Random House AudioFinalistOliver Twist (1837–1839), adapted by Marty Ross, presented by Sam Mendes, Daniel Kaluuya, and a full castAudible StudiosFinalist2025James (2024)Penguin Random House AudioWinnerDevil Is Fine Macmillan AudioFinalistMartyr! (2024) Penguin Random House AudioFinalist HarperCollins PublishersFinalistPachinko (2017)Hachette AudioFinalist2026Simon & Schuster AudioWinner33 Place Brugmann, Jilly Bond, Nicholas Boulton, Billie Fulford-Brown, Danielle Cohen, Raphael Corkhill, Matthew Lloyd Davies, James Meunier, Joshua Riley, and Simon SlaterSimon & Schuster AudioFinalist (2025)Penguin Random House AudioFinalistReports of His Death Have Been Greatly ExaggeratedHarlequin AudioFinalistSo Far GoneHarperAudioFinalist (1929), Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Bronson Pinchot, and Robin MilesBlackstone PublishingFinalist
Classics winners and finalists 2001–2015
2000s Year Title Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result 2001 Complete Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume I (1899–1952) Audio ConnoisseurWinner Invisible Man (1952) Recorded BooksFinalist Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) HarperAudioFinalist2002 (1943) HarperAudioWinner (1953) , Michael York, Fionnula Flanagan, Madolyn Smith, and René Auberjonois L.A. Theatre WorksFinalist Gone with the Wind (1936) Recorded BooksFinalist2003 Complete Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume II (1899–1952) Audio ConnoisseurWinnerErnest Hemingway: The Short Stories, Volume I (1923–1969) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Moby-Dick (1851) Books on TapeFinalist Spoon River Anthology (1915) , Edward Asner, and full cast The Audio Partners PublishingFinalist (1925) HarperAudioFinalist2004 East of Eden (1952) Recorded BooksWinner (1953) HarperAudioFinalist Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories, Volume II (1923–1969) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Treasure Island (1883) Books on TapeFinalist Wuthering Heights (1847) Books on TapeFinalist2005 (1843) Listening LibraryWinner Bless Me, Ultima (1972) Recorded BookFinalist (1945) Audio ConnoisseurFinalist (1940) HarperAudioFinalist Ulysses (1922) and Marcella Riordan Naxos AudiobooksFinalist2006 Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) Random House AudioWinner (1972) , Noël Coward, and Margaret Leighton HarperAudioFinalist (1910) Blackstone AudioFinalist (1859) Naxos AudiobooksFinalist (1870) Alcazar AudioWorksFinalist2007 To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) Sissy Spacek HarperAudio/CaedmonWinner (1925) Blackstone AudioFinalist (1926) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist (1855) Blackstone AudioFinalist (1937) BBC Audiobooks AmericaFinalist2008 Treasure Island (1882) Random House Audio/Listening LibraryWinner1984 (1949) Blackstone AudioFinalist (1903) Blackstone AudioFinalist Catch-22 (1961) Scholastic AudioFinalist (1962) HarperAudioFinalistWhite Fang (1906) Blackstone AudioFinalist2009 Great Expectations (1861) Tantor AudioWinner Galápagos (1985) AudibleFinalist (1876) Blackstone AudioFinalist (1845) Blackstone AudioFinalist (1891) Blackstone AudioFinalist
2010s Year Title Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result 2010 Great Expectations (1861) Audio ConnoisseurWinner (1400) Full cast BBC Audiobooks AmericaFinalist (1843) Audio ConnoisseurFinalist Tristram Shandy (1759) Naxos AudioBooksFinalist (1898) and Vanessa Benjamin Blackstone AudioFinalist2011 (1859) , Rosalyn Landar, John Lee, and Judy Geeson Blackstone AudioWinner Light in August (1932) AudibleFinalist (1859) Audio ConnoisseurFinalist Watership Down (1972) Blackstone AudioFinalist (1645) Tantor AudioFinalist2012 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1839) Tantor AudioWinner The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) AudibleFinalist Deliverance (1970) AudibleFinalist Heart of Darkness (1899) AudibleFinalist I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) Books on TapeFinalist2013 Dombey and Son (1848) Audio ConnoisseurWinner A Death in the Family (1948) Blackstone AudioFinalist Dracula (1897) Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, et al. AudibleFinalist The Mark of Zorro (2011) and full cast Blackstone AudioFinalist The Prime Minister (1876) Blackstone AudioFinalist2014 (1887–1927) Brilliance AudioWinner Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968) Tantor AudioFinalist Frankenstein (1818) AudibleFinalist (1925) AudibleFinalist Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) Blackstone AudioFinalist2015 The New York Stories (1966) , Becky Ann Baker, Dylan Baker, Bobby Cannavale, Jon Hamm, Richard Kind, Jan Maxwell, Gretchen Mol, and Dallas Roberts Penguin Random House AudioWinnerAndersonville (1955) AudibleFinalist Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) AudibleFinalist Darkwater (1920) , Dion Graham, Lisa Renee Pitts, Bahni Turpin, and Mirron Willis Skyboat Media/Blackstone AudioFinalist The Odyssey (8th–7th century B.C.) Homer (trans. Robert Fitzgerald) Macmillan AudioFinalist Literary fiction winners and finalists 2005–2015 2000s Year Title Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher2005 (2003) Hyperion AudiobooksWinner (2002) Recorded BooksFinalist (1945) Audio ConnoisseurFinalist Gould's Book of Fish (2001) Bolinda AudioFinalist Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004) Audio RenaissanceFinalist (1998) Bolinda AudioFinalist (2004) Blackstone AudioFinalist2006 Upstate (2005) and Chadwick Boseman Audio RenaissanceWinner Brother Fish (2004) Bolinda AudioFinalist Casanova in Bolzano (1940) HighBridge AudioFinalist Cloud Atlas (2004) , Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, John Lee, and Richard Matthews Books on TapeFinalist (2005) Audio RenaissanceFinalist2007 (2006) and Lynn Redgrave Simon & Schuster AudioWinner Absurdistan (2006) Phoenix BooksFinalist After This (2006) Audio RenaissanceFinalist All the King's Men (1946) Recorded BooksFinalist Suite Française (1942) and Barbara Rosenblat HighBridge AudioFinalist2008 Tree of Smoke (2007) Macmillan AudioWinner Blood Meridian (1985) Recorded BooksFinalist (2006) Penguin AudioFinalist Portrait of an Unknown Woman (2007) Tantor AudioFinalist (2007) HarperAudioFinalist2009 Elmer Gantry (1926) Blackstone AudioWinner Crime and Punishment (1866) Blackstone AudioFinalist (2008) Recorded BooksFinalist Lush Life (2008) Tantor AudioFinalist (2008) Tantor AudioFinalist 2010s Year Title Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result 2010 Wolf Hall (2009) Macmillan AudioWinner Come Sunday (2009) Macmillan AudioFinalist (2009) Tantor AudioFinalist (2006) and Cassandra Morris HighBridge AudioFinalist Good-bye and Amen (2008) Tantor AudioFinalist2011 Snakewoman of Little Egypt (2010) Tantor AudioWinner Beautiful Maria of My Soul (2010) Blackstone AudioFinalist Freedom (2010) Macmillan AudioFinalistMy Life As a Man (1974) Brilliance AudioFinalist (2010) and Paula Wilcox Recorded BooksFinalist2012 State of Wonder (2011) HarperAudioWinnerEmily and Einstein (2011) and Cassandra CampbellTantor AudioFinalist Follow the River (1981) Tantor AudioFinalist (2011) Macmillan AudioFinalist No One in the World (2011) and R. M. Johnson Tantor AudioFinalist2013 (1951) AudibleWinner Heft (2012) and Keith Szarabajka Blackstone AudioFinalist (1989) Tantor AudioFinalist Remember Ben Clayton (2011) Recorded BooksFinalist2014 (2013) Hachette AudioWinner Amy Falls Down (2013) Brilliance AudioFinalist (2013) , Erik Bergmann, and George Guidall HarperAudioFinalist (2013) , Kate Mulgrew, Scott Shepherd, and Clifton Collins, Jr.HarperAudioFinalist (2012) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2015 Euphoria (2014) and Xe Sands Blackstone AudioWinner (2014) , Leon Williams, Colin Mace, Steven Crossley, Laurel Lefkow, and Anna Bentinck Recorded BooksFinalist Nora Webster (2014) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist (2014) Macmillan AudioFinalist (2014) AudibleFinalistYour Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? (2014) , March Cashman, Mark Deakins, Michelle Gonzalez, Rebecca Lowman, John H. Mayer, Kate McGregor-Stewart, and Bruce TurkPenguin Random House AudioFinalist
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Audie Award winners