The Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in audiobook narration for an audiobook narrated by the author released in a given year. Before 2002 the award was given as the Audie Award for Solo Narration by the Author or Authors. It has been awarded since 1998.
Winners and finalists 1990s Year Audiobook Author/Narrator Publisher Result Ref.1998 Sula (1973) Random House AudioWinner My Brother (1997) Penguin AudiobooksFinalist Wobegon Boy (1997) HighBridge AudioFinalist1999Still Me (1998)Random House AudioWinnerBig Screen Drive-In Theater (1998)August HouseFinalistReporting Live (1999)Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist
2000s Year Audiobook Author/Narrator Publisher Result Ref.2000 (1971) NewStar MediaWinner Hannibal (1999) Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioFinalist 'Tis (1999) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2001 (2000) HarperAudioWinnerFrom This Day Forward (2000) and Steve RobertsBrilliance AudioFinalist John Glenn (1999) Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioFinalist2002 Ava's Man (2002) Random House AudioWinner Believing It All (2002) Time Warner AudioBooksFinalist (2001) (narrated with Joan Chen) New Millennium AudioFinalist2003 Standing in the Rainbow (2002) Random House AudioWinner Lucky Man (2002) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Nothing Is Impossible (2002) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore (2001) Audio PartnersFinalist Vernon Can Read! (2001) (written with Annette Gordon-Reed) BBC Audiobooks AmericaFinalist2004 Naked in Baghdad (2003) Audio RenaissanceWinner I Am the Central Park Jogger (2003) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (2003) HighBridge AudioFinalist Madam Secretary (2003) BBC Audiobooks AmericaFinalist (2003) HarperAudioFinalist (2002)MakocheFinalist2005Against All Enemies (2004)Simon & Schuster AudioWinner Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004) AudioBooksFinalist My Life (2004) Random House AudioFinalist Off the Cuff (2004) HighBridge AudioFinalist There and Back Again (2004) (written with Joe Layden) Audio RenaissanceFinalist2006 (2005)Time Warner AudioBooksWinner1776 (2005)Simon & SchusterFinalistKiss Me Like a Stranger (2005)Audio RenaissanceFinalistMy Life So Far (1999)Books on TapeFinalist (2005)Brilliance AudioFinalist2007 (1995)Blackstone AudioWinnerMarian McPartland's Jazz World: All in Good Time (1975)Blackstone AudioFinalistSpeedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood (2006)Penguin AudioFinalistTeacher Man (2005)Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist (2006)HarperAudioFinalist2008Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (2007)HighBridge AudioWinnerAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle (2007) (narrated with Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp)HarperAudioFinalistHere If You Need Me (2007)Hachette AudioFinalistMichael Tolliver Lives (2007)HarperAudioFinalistNeverwhere (1996)HarperAudioFinalistTraveler (2007)Recorded BooksFinalist2009When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008)Hachette AudioWinnerJust Who Will You Be? (2008)HyperionAudioFinalistLadies of Liberty (2009)HarperAudioFinalistLetter to My Daughter (2008)Random House AudioFinalist (2008)Hachette AudioFinalist
2010s Year Audiobook Author/Narrator Publisher Result Ref.2010 Odd and the Frost Giants (2008) HarperChildrensAudioWinner Manhood for Amateurs (2009) HarperAudioFinalist (2009) Oasis AudioFinalist Baseball Great (2009) HarperChildrensAudioFinalist Half Broke Horses (2009) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2011 Nanny McPhee Returns (2010) Macmillan AudioWinnerCrazy Heart (1987)HarperAudioFinalist (2009) HighBridge AudioFinalist (1982) Recorded BooksFinalist Role Models (2010) Tantor AudioFinalist2012 Beauty Queens (2011) Scholastic AudioWinnerBossypants (2011)Hachette AudioFinalist Drama (2011) HarperAudioFinalist Seriously…I'm Kidding (2011) Hachette AudioFinalist Stories I Only Tell My Friends (2011) Macmillan AudioFinalist2013 Society's Child (2008) Janis Ian AudibleWinner American Dervish (2012) Ayad Akhtar Hachette AudioFinalist How to Be Black (2012) Baratunde Thurston HarperAudioFinalist Most Talkative (2012) Andy Cohen Macmillan AudioFinalist When It Happens to You (2012) Molly Ringwald HarperAudioFinalistYes, Chef (2012)Marcus Samuelsson (written with Veronica Chambers)Random House AudioFinalist2014 Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? (2013) Billy Crystal Macmillan AudioWinner Grace: A Memoir (2012) Grace Coddington (written with Michael Roberts) Random House Audio/Books on TapeFinalist I, Rhoda (2013) Valerie Harper Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish (2013) David Rakoff Random House Audio/Books on TapeFinalist (2013) Neil Gaiman HarperAudioFinalistShirley Jones (2013)Shirley JonesTantor AudioFinalist2015 Not My Father's Son (2014) HarperAudioWinner A Fighting Chance (2014) Macmillan AudioFinalist Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (2014) (written with Lisa Dickey) Penguin Random House AudioFinalist What I Know for Sure (2014) Macmillan AudioFinalist Yes Please (2014) (narrated with Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Mike Schur, Eileen and William Poehler, Patrick Stewart, and Kathleen Turner) HarperAudioFinalist2016 Born with Teeth (2015) Hachette AudioWinner (2014) Hachette AudioFinalist Furiously Happy (2015) Macmillan AudioFinalist I Must Say (2014) HarperAudioFinalist Thirteen Ways of Looking (2015) Books on Tape/Penguin Random House AudioFinalist2017 A Life in Parts (2016) Simon & Schuster AudioWinner Dear Mr. You (2015) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist (2016) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist In Such Good Company (2016) Penguin Random House Audio/Books on TapeFinalist LaRose (2016) HarperAudioFinalist (2016)HarperAudioFinalist2018 Norse Mythology (2017) HarperAudioWinner Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017) Blackstone AudioFinalist Born a Crime (2016) AudibleFinalist Love Poems (1997) and A Good Cry (2017) HarperAudioFinalist This Fight Is Our Fight (2017) Macmillan AudioFinalist2019 (2016) Scholastic AudioWinner How Not to Get Shot (2018) HarperAudioFinalist In Pieces (2018) Hachette AudioFinalist My Pride (2017) Blackstone AudioFinalist (2018) HarperAudioFinalistPromise Me, Dad (2017)AudibleFinalist
2020s Year Audiobook Author/Narrator Publisher Result Ref.2020 With the Fire on High (2019) HarperAudioWinner Becoming (2018) Penguin Random House AudioFinalist Inside Out (2019) HarperAudioFinalist Madame Badobedah (2019) Bolinda AudioFinalist Shortest Way Home (2019) HighBridge Audio (Recorded Books)Finalist Tough Love (2019) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2021 More Myself (2020) Macmillan AudioWinner Acid for the Children (2019) Hachette AudioFinalist Hollywood Park (2020) Macmillan AudioFinalist Homie (2020) HighBridge Audio (Recorded Books)Finalist In Dependence (2009) Recorded BooksFinalist Little Weirds (2019) Hachette AudioFinalist2022 (2020)Penguin Random House AudioWinnerAll the Rage: A Partial Memoir in Two Acts and a ProloguePenguin Random House CanadaFinalistGoing There Hachette AudioFinalistStories to Tell (2021)Simon & Schuster AudioFinalistBrilliance PublishingFinalistVulnerable AF Andrews McMeel PublishingFinalist2023Finding Me (2022)Harper AudioWinnerApparently There Were ComplaintsSimon & Schuster AudioFinalistHello, Molly!HarperAudioFinalistTen Steps to NanettePenguin Random House AudioFinalistWaypointsHachette AudioFinalist2024It. Goes. So. Fast. - The Year of No Do-OversMacmillan AudioWinner (2023)Recorded BooksFinalistSisters of the Lost MarshScholastic AudioFinalistPenguin Random House AudioFinalistMaking It SoSimon & Schuster AudioFinalist2025Bits and PiecesBlackstone PublishingWinnerCastle Bridge MediaFinalistBookshops & Bonedust Macmillan AudioFinalistKnife Penguin Random House AudioFinalistSorry for the Inconvenience Brilliance PublishingFinalist2026Everything Is Tuberculosis (2025)Penguin Random House AudioFinalistDitching the SkyHeidi A. PorchFinalistFood for ThoughtSimon & Schuster AudioFinalistI Am Nobody's SlaveHarperAudioFinalistSeparation of Church and HateSimon & Schuster AudioFinalist
References
External links
Audie Award winners Audie Awards official website