The Audie Award for Nonfiction is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for a nonfiction audiobook released in a given year. Before 2008 the award was given as the Audie Award for Unabridged Nonfiction. It has been awarded since 1996.
Winners and finalists 1990s Year Audiobook Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result Ref.1996 Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (1995) Brilliance AudioWinner Crossing the Threshold of Hope (1995) Pope John Paul II and William Bogert Random House AudioFinalist Lincoln's Letters: The Private Man and the Warrior (1995) Commuter's LibraryFinalist1997 Genesis (1996) Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioWinner Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin (1996) Dove AudioFinalist It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1972) Chivers North AmericaFinalist1998 James Herriot's Animal Stories (1992) Audio RenaissanceWinner (1981) Chivers North AmericaFinalist Tuesdays with Morrie (1997) Brilliance AudioFinalist1999 Full Circle: A Pacific Journey with Michael Palin (1997) Chivers North AmericaWinner Ned Kelly: A Short Life (1995) Australian Large Print Audio & VideoFinalist White Coolies (1954) Australian Large Print Audio & VideoFinalist
2000s Year Audiobook Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result Ref.2000 'Tis (1999) Simon & Schuster AudioWinner Elegy for Iris (1999) Books on TapeFinalist (1999) Brilliance AudioFinalist2001 (2000) HarperAudioWinner On Writing (2000) Simon & SchusterFinalist2002 John Adams (2001) Recorded BooksWinner (2001) et al. Random House AudioFinalist (2001) Naxos AudiobooksFinalist2003 3000 Degrees (2002) Listen & Live AudioWinner Band of Brothers (1992) BBC Audiobooks AmericaFinalist Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America (1999) Blackstone AudioFinalist Mark Twain (2001),Dayton Duncan, and Ken Burns Random House AudioFinalist The Trial and The Death of Socrates (4th century B.C.)Plato and Jamie Glover Naxos AudiobooksFinalist2004 The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (2003) Brilliance AudioWinner The Devil in the White City (2003) Random House AudioFinalist Hitler's Scientists (2003) Listen & Live AudioFinalist Middletown, America (2003) BrillianceFinalist The Bounty (2003) Penguin AudiobooksFinalist2005 Chasing the Devil (1997) Time Warner AudioBooksWinner Ask Not (2004) Audio RenaissanceFinalist Caddy for Life (2004) Time Warner AudioBooksFinalist (1999) The Audio PartnersFinalist Running with the Bulls (2004) Brilliance AudioFinalistThey Made America (2004), Gail Buckland, and David LeferTime Warner AudioBooksFinalist2006 The World Is Flat (2005) Audio RenaissanceWinner (2005) HarperAudioFinalist Conspiracy of Fools (2005) Random House AudioFinalist (2005) HarperAudioFinalist The Truth (with Jokes) (2005) Brilliance AudioFinalist2007 Narrow Dog to Carcassonne (2004) IFIS PublishingWinner Babylon by Bus (2006), Jeff Neumann, and Donovan Webster Penguin AudiobooksFinalist Striking Back (2005) Blackstone AudioFinalistTeam of Rivals (2005)Recorded BooksFinalist (2006) Tantor AudioFinalist2008 Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976) BBC Audiobooks AmericaWinner Banker to the Poor (2006) Blackstone AudioFinalist The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (2007) Hyperion AudiobooksFinalistEndurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (1959)Blackstone AudioFinalistJesus for the Non-Religious (2007)HarperAudioFinalist2009 Hot, Flat, and Crowded (2008) Macmillan AudioWinnerAbraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage (2008)Oasis AudioFinalistBuying In (2008)BBC Audiobooks AmericaFinalistGang Leader for a Day (2008)HarperAudioFinalistOut of Mao's Shadows (2008)Tantor AudioFinalist
2010s Year Audiobook Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result Ref.2010 (2009) and Dayton Duncan and Dayton Duncan Random House AudioWinner Anne Frank Remembered (1995) and Leslie Gold Oasis AudioFinalist Columbine (2009) Blackstone AudioFinalist Outliers (2008) Hachette AudioFinalist What Americans Really Want…Really (2009) Hyperion AudioFinalist2011 (2010) and Bahni Turpin Random House AudioWinner No One Would Listen (2010) , Frank Casey, Neil Chelo, David Kotz, Gaytri Kachroo, and Michael Ocrant AudibleFinalist Game Change (2010) and Mark Halperin HarperAudioFinalist Obama's Wars (2010) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist (2010) Tantor AudioFinalist2012 The Murder of the Century AudioGOWinner Dog Sense (2011) Tantor AudioFinalist (2011) Blackstone AudioFinalist My Korean Deli (2010) Blackstone AudioFinalist Unbroken (2010) Random House Audio/Books on TapeFinalist2013 Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History (2012) Tantor AudioWinner Cemetery John (2012) Tantor AudioFinalist (2012) Tantor AudioFinalist Love Is the Cure (2012) Hachette AudioFinalist Sex and God at Yale (2012) AudibleFinalist2014 David and Goliath (2013) Hachette AudioWinner Beyond Belief (2013) HarperAudioFinalist (1989) AudibleFinalist (2013) AudibleFinalist Thank You for Your Service (2013) Macmillan AudioFinalist2015 Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him (2013) and Joe Henry Tantor AudioWinner Being Mortal (2014) Macmillan AudioFinalist Deep Down Dark (2014) Macmillan AudioFinalist Flash Boys (2014) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist (2014) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalistUnruly Places (2014)Tantor AudioFinalist2016 Ghettoside (2015) Books on Tape/Penguin Random House AudioWinner (2015) DreamscapeFinalist I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out (2013) Tantor AudioFinalist Missoula (2015) Books on Tape/Penguin Random House AudioFinalist (2015) HighBridge Audio/Recorded BooksFinalist2017 Hillbilly Elegy (2016) HarperAudioWinner Adnan's Story (2016) Macmillan AudioFinalist Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016) Penguin Random House Audio/Books on TapeFinalist The Gene: An Intimate History (2016) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist (2015) Tantor Audio (Recorded Books)FinalistWords on the Move: Why English Won't – and Can't – Sit Still (Like, Literally) (2016)AudibleFinalist2018 American Wolf (2017) Random House AudioWinner (2017) Audible OriginalsFinalist Ghosts of the Tsunami (2017) Macmillan AudioFinalist Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign (2017)Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes Random House AudioFinalist This Fight Is Our Fight (2017) Macmillan AudioFinalist2019 HarperAudioWinner (2018) and Tucker Carrington Hachette AudioFinalist Dopesick (2018) Hachette AudioFinalist Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (2018) Chelsea Green PublishingFinalist Heartland (2018) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalistWhere Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)Beacon Press AudioFinalist
2020s Year Audiobook Author(s) Narrator Publisher Result Ref.2020 Grace Will Lead Us Home (2019) and Jennifer Berry Hawes Macmillan AudioWinner Mama's Last Hug (2019) Recorded BooksFinalist (2019), Thomas Patterson, and Teresa Barker and Dan Woren Hachette AudioFinalist Talking to Strangers (2019) Hachette AudioFinalist We Are the Weather (2019) Macmillan AudioFinalist2021 Fire in Paradise (2020) and Dani Anguiano Recorded BooksWinner If You Tell (2019) BrillianceFinalist Rage (2020) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope (2020) and Sheryl WuDunn Penguin Random House AudioFinalist Wandering in Strange Lands (2020) HarperAudioFinalist2022Penguin Random House AudioWinnerFreedomSimon & Schuster AudioFinalistLast CallMacmillan AudioFinalist: Own Your Health with Facts and FeminismHighBridge Audio, a division of Recorded BooksFinalist: A Pandemic StoryAudible StudiosFinalistThis Is Your Mind on PlantsPenguin Random House AudioFinalist2023 (2022) and Daniel GoldenMacmillan AudioWinnerDavos ManHarperAudioFinalistQueer Ducks (And Other Animals), Dustin Ballard, Hope Newhouse, and Neo CihiHarperAudioFinalist, Adenrele Ojo, Deanna Anthony, Stephanie Weeks, Joy Hooper, Lisa Reneé Pitts, Karen Murray, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Janina Edwards, M. J. Brown, and Karla MosleyBlackstone AudioFinalist (Ohiyesa)Brilliance PublishingFinalist2024Poverty, by America (2023)Penguin Random House AudioWinnerFire WeatherPenguin Random House AudioFinalistShakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies (2023)Simon & Schuster AudioFinalistPunished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal, introduction read by Bettina L. LoveMacmillan AudioFinalist, contribution by Joe Samuel StarnesTantor AudioFinalist2025There’s Always This Year Penguin Random House AudioWinnerCool Food and Tom Kostigan, Tom Kostigan, and Deepti GuptaBlackstone PublishingFinalist and Lisa Dickey, Peter Ganim, and Elisabeth RodgersHachette AudioFinalistThis Is Not a Game Audible OriginalsFinalistWhen Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American FashionRandom House AudioFinalist2026Separation of Church and HateSimon & Schuster AudioWinnerDeath in the JunglePenguin Random House AudioFinalistEverything Is Tuberculosis (2025)Penguin Random House AudioFinalist, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry ShearerSimon & Schuster AudioFinalistOn the Hippie TrailHachette AudioFinalist
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External links
Audie Award winners Audie Awards official website