The Audie Award for Original Work 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 not recorded from a pre-existing book or play released in a given year. It has been awarded since 1996.
Winners and finalists 1990s YearAudiobookAuthor(s)Narrator(s)PublisherResultRef.1996 Enjoying Italian Opera (1994) HighBridge AudioWinner (1994) HighBridge AudioFinalist Whale Nation (1988) Naxos AudiobooksFinalist1997 Zeus: Thunderbolt from the Sky (1996) B&B AudioWinner Letters from the Earth (1962; written c. 1909) The Audio PartnersFinalist Your Present: A Half-Hour of Peace (1996) Relax IntuitFinalist1998 Diana, Princess of Wales: A Radio Tribute (1997)BBC Productions Full cast Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioWinner Ambush at Fort Bragg (1997) Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioFinalist How the West Was Read (vol. 2) (1996) and Kitty Brooks DH Audio/Durkin HayesFinalist1999 Haunted Cattle Drive (1998) , James Ahrens, Jonathan Poland, Jackie Perlman, and Kevin Fitzgerald K-tel International USAWinner English As She Is Spoke (1998) and June Dixon and June Dixon The Publishing MillsFinalist
2000s YearAudiobookAuthor(s)Narrator(s)PublisherResultRef.2000 Song of the Unicorn (1999) and Debra A. S. Olivia , Graham Harley, Phelan Landry, Robert Lurtsema, Catherine McNally, and Tracy Moore The Children's GroupWinnerBraces (1999)August HouseFinalist (1999) Naxos Audiobooks UKFinalist2001 (2000) and full cast Naxos AudiobooksWinner Story Telling of Ferde Grofé (2000) Stereo High AdventuresFinalist (2000) Recorded BooksFinalist2002 (2001) Naxos AudiobooksWinnerFlight of the Voyager (2001)Stereo High AdventuresFinalist Maressa & Merlone (2001) Heartfull ProductionsFinalist2003 Getting to Know William Shakespeare (2002) Echo Peak ProductionsWinner Dreams from the Lost & Found (2002) and full cast Stereo High AdventuresFinalist Legacy (2002) and David Holt and David Holt High Windy AudioFinalist Pill Hill Quartet (2002) Jay O'CallahanFinalist Reagan in His Own Voice (2002) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2004 New York: The Bronx 2004 (2003)Soundwalk Soundwalk/OversamplingWinner Garrison Keillor: A Life in Comedy (2003) HighBridge AudioFinalist Greatest Cartoon Voice Tricks Ever Smuggled Out of Hollywood (2003) Fraley/HuberFinalist (2003) full cast Family Classics/NYS Theatre InstituteFinalist They Saw It Happen: Eyewitness Accounts from Ancient Greece (2003) , Tom George, Steve Hodson, and Kerry Shale Naxos AudiobooksFinalist2005 (2004) Naxos AudiobooksWinner Ground Zero Sonic Memorial Soundwalk (2004)Kitchen Sisters SoundwalkFinalist Heart of Troy (2004) Full cast Family Classics/NYS Theatre InstituteFinalist Low Carb Yo-Yo (2004) Oasis AudioFinalist What Was Civil About That War…? (2004) stories: (un)foldingFinalist2006 Famous Composers (2005) Naxos AudiobooksWinner Billy Collins Live (2005) and Bill Murray Random House AudioFinalist Eyewitness: 1940–1940 (2004) AudioGO/BBC AudioFinalist Eyewitness: 1950–1959 (2004) AudioGO/BBC AudioFinalist Eyewitness: 1960–1969 (2004) AudioGO/BBC AudioFinalist2007 Hasidic Williamsburg, Brooklyn for Men and Hasidic Williamsburg, Brooklyn for Women (2006)Soundwalk Joseph Piekarski and Pearl Gluck OverSampling/SoundwalkWinner Fundamental Cases (2006) Recorded BooksFinalist Sherlock's Legacy (2006) and Will Severin Full cast Family Classics/NYS Theatre InstituteFinalistStories from the Storm (2006), Celia Collins, et al.AudibleFinalist (2006) Geoffrey T. WilliamsFinalist2008 Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls (2007) , Simon Templeman, Moira Quirk, Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres, Robertson Dean, and W. Morgan Sheppard Blackstone AudioWinner (2007), David Hewson, James Grady, S. J. Rozan, Erica Spindler, John Ramsey Miller, David Corbett, John Gilstrap, Joseph Finder, Jim Fusilli, Peter Spiegelman, Ralph Pezzullo, Lisa Scottoline, P. J. Parrish, and Lee Child International Thriller WritersFinalistHollowville (2007) with music composed by Will SeverinNYS Theatre InstituteFinalist Hurricane Katrina (2007) and others Tours BaYouFinalistSunday Mornings in Plains (2007)Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2009 Louis Vuitton Soundwalk, China: Beijing (2008) SoundwalkWinnerBrainstorm: Using Science to Spark Maximum Creativity (2008)Macmillan AudioFinalistMany Things Invisible (2008)Blackstone AudioFinalistMETAtropolis (2008), Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, and Karl Schroeder, Alessandro Juliani, Kandyse McClure, Scott Brick, and Stefan RudnickiAudibleFinalistSugar Pop Thoughts (2008)CoolBeat AudiobooksFinalist(2008)Falcon Picture GroupBlackstone AudioFinalist
2010s YearAudiobookAuthor(s)Narrator(s)PublisherResultRef.2010 Tell Me a Story 3: Women of Wonder (2009) , Paula Poundstone, Wendy Hammers, Margot Rose, Jessica DiCicco, and Yvette Freeman Listen & Live AudioWinner (2009) et al. AudibleFinalist In a Nutshell: Darwin (2009) Naxos AudiobooksFinalist (2009) Midsummer Sound CompanyFinalist (2009) Recorded BooksFinalist2011 New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (vol. 2) (2010) and full cast Blackstone AudioWinner (2010) and Tobias S. Buckell and Katherine Kellgren AudibleFinalist Fashionably Undead (2010) and the Twitterverse AudioGOFinalistHearts, Keys and Puppetry (2010) and the TwitterverseAudioGOFinalist William's Leap for Freedom (2010) and Sue Zizza , Mirron E. Willis, and full cast SueMedia ProductionsFinalist2012 METAtropolis: Cascadia (2011), Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, Ken Scholes, Karl Schroeder, and Tobias Buckell , Kate Mulgrew, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Jonathan Frakes, and LeVar Burton AudibleWinner Macbeth (2011) and A. J. Hartley , David Hewson, and A. J. Hartley AudibleFinalist (vol. 3) (2011) and full cast Blackstone AudioFinalist Solaris (1961) (trans. Bill Johnston) AudibleFinalist Prayers: A Personal Selection (2011)Various ChristianAudioFinalist (2011), Elizabeth Schwartz, and Yale Strom , Barbara Rosenblat, and full cast SueMedia ProductionsFinalist2013 Gun Church (2012) and John Keating AudibleWinnerComing Home to Us (2012) and Marjorie Van Halteren and Marjorie Van HalterenMidsummer Sound CompanyFinalist Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You! (2012) , Simon Helberg, Kate Burton, and full cast Blackstone AudioFinalist (2012) and Thérèse Plummer AudibleFinalist Titanium Rain (Episode One) (2012) , Elizabeth Knowelden, Carrington Macduffie, and full cast The AudioComics CompanyFinalist2014 Thirteen (2013), George Mann, Mark Morris, Kaaron Warren, Martin Day, Gary McMahon, Cavan Scott, Dan Abnett, Alasdair Stuart, Kim Newman, Mark Wright, Simon Cark, and Johnny Mains et al. Spokenworld Audio/Labroke AudioWinner Ender's Game Alive (2013) Full cast AudibleFinalist Letters to a Birmingham Jail (2013) eChristianFinalistMETAtropolis: Green Space (2013) et al., Robin Miles, Mark Boyett, Scott Brick, Allyson Johnson, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Jennifer Van Dyck, and Jonathan DavisAudibleFinalist Pete Seeger: The Storm King (2013) Hachette AudioFinalist Rip-Off! (2013) et al. , Scott Brick, Christian Rummel, Jonathan Davis, Stefan Rudnicki, and L. J. Ganser AudibleFinalist2015 Mandela: An Audio History (2014) , Nelson Mandela, and Joe Richman HighBridgeWinner (2014) , Jack Boulter, Emilia Fox, Stephen Marcus, Robert Glenister, and Andy Serkis AudibleFinalist Gadzooks! A Comically Quirky Audio Book (2014) , Andra Harbold, Lesley Mendenhall, Abby Elvidge, Rhett Guter, Melissa Sandberg, Kent Hayes, Jack de Golia, and Steve Campbell Straight to Audio ProductionsFinalist Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (2014) and David Hewson AudibleFinalist Transparent (2014) AudibleFinalist2016 (2015) and full cast AudibleWinnerCarmilla (1872) and David TennantAudibleFinalist Drunken Fireworks (2015) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalistLocke & Key (2015), Tatiana Maslany, and full castAudibleFinalist NPR American Chronicles: First Ladies (2015)National Public Radio HighBridge Audio/Recorded BooksFinalist StoryCorps: Outland (2015) and full cast HighBridge Audio/Recorded BooksFinalist2017 (2016) AudibleWinner (2016) AudibleFinalist Alien: Out of the Shadows (2016) and Dirk Maggs , Corey Johnson, Matthew Lewis, Kathryn Drysdale, Laurel Lefkow, Andrea Deck, and Mac McDonald AudibleFinalist Car Talk Science: MIT Wants Its Diplomas Back (2016) HighBridge/RecordedFinalist In the Embers (2016) and Jerry Stearns , Edwin Strout, Dean Johnson, Jacque Maddix, and full cast Great Northern Audio Theatre/BlackstoneFinalist Pete Seeger: The Storm King (vol. 2) (2016) Hachette AudioFinalist2018 Romeo and Juliet: A Novel (2017) Audible OriginalsWinner (2017) and Valerie Martin , Margaret Atwood, and full cast AudibleFinalist Mother Go (2017) Audible OriginalsFinalist Nevertheless, We Persisted (2017) et al. et al. Blunder Woman ProductionsFinalist Rebuttal (2017) , Michael Crouch, Nina Mehta, Peter Ganim, and Dan Bittner HarperAudioFinalist2019 Spin (2018) and Neil Fishman , Barrett Leddy, Lisa Livesay, Nicola Barber, Khristine Hvam, Nick Sullivan, John Brady, and Johnny Heller HarperAudioWinner Fandango at the Wall (2018) Hachette AudioFinalist Loki Ragnarok (2017) Light PublicationsFinalist Magus Elgar (2018) , William Violenus, Christopher Moore, Sandra Espinoza, Randy Nazarian, David Autovino, Kellen Goff, Brian Stivale, Kalinda Gray, Mandanna Wright, Kennedy Phillips, and Andrew Cornell Kennedy Phillips/MelodyGunFinalist (2018) Blackstone Publishing/Great Northern AudioFinalistSplat! A Quirky Cat Audio Book (2018), Luke Randall, Jove Trip-Thompson, Kent Hayes, Sherri Aldred, Garry Morris, Allie Boman, Adele Park, and Cindy ClemensStraight to Audio ProductionsFinalist
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