# Audie Award for Best Male Narrator

The Audie Award for Best Male Narrator is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in audiobook narration by a man released in a given year. Before 2016 the award was given as the Audie Award for Male Solo Narration. It has been awarded since 1998, when it superseded the Audie Award for Solo Narration. The award was disestablished in 2024, at which point is was replaced by the Audie Awards for Best Fiction and Non-Fiction Narrator.

## Winners and finalists
### 1990s

| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher |
| 1998 3rd | American Pastoral (1997) | Philip Roth | Ron Silver | Dove Audio |
| 1998 3rd | Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (1997) | Walter Mosley | Paul Winfield | Dove Audio |
| 1998 3rd | The Classic Pooh Treasury: Volume 3 (1926–1928) | A. A. Milne | Peter Dennis | K-tel International USA |
| 1999 4th | City of Darkness (1976) | Ben Bova | Harlan Ellison | Dove Audio |
| 1999 4th | Cloudsplitter (1998) | Russell Banks | George DelHoyo | Audio Literature |
| 1999 4th | The Men of Brewster Place (1999) | Gloria Naylor | Joe Morton | Simon & Schuster Audio |

### 2000s

| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher |
| 2000 5th | The Fencing Master (1988) | Arturo Perez-Reverte | Michael York | NewStar Media, Inc. |
| 2000 5th | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) | Mark Twain | Patrick Fraley | The Audio Partners Publishing Corp. |
| 2001 6th | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000) | J. K. Rowling | Jim Dale | Random House Audio |
| 2001 6th | Boone's Lick (2000) | Larry McMurtry | Will Patton | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2001 6th | Code to Zero (2000) | Ken Follett | George Guidall | Recorded Books |
| 2002 7th | Coldheart Canyon (2001) | Clive Barker | Frank Muller | HarperAudio |
| 2002 7th | The Bad Beginning (1999) | Lemony Snicket | Tim Curry | Listening Library |
| 2002 7th | The Magician of Lublin (1960) | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Larry Keith | Jewish Contemporary Classics |
| 2003 8th | Tishomingo Blues (2002) | Elmore Leonard | Frank Muller | Recorded Books |
| 2003 8th | The Beach House (2002) | James Patterson and Peter de Jonge | Gil Bellows | Time Warner AudioBooks |
| 2003 8th | Mortal Prey (2002) | John Sandford | Richard Ferrone | Putnam Berkley Audio |
| 2003 8th | Pale Horse Coming (2001) | Stephen Hunter | William Dufris | BBC Audiobooks America |
| 2003 8th | Street Boys (2002) | Lorenzo Carcaterra | Joe Mantegna | Random House Audio |
| 2004 9th | Last Car to Elysian Fields (2003) | James Lee Burke | Will Patton | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2004 9th | Don Quixote (1615) | Miguel de Cervantes (trans. Edith Grossman) | George Guidall | Recorded Books |
| 2004 9th | Fear Itself (2003) | Walter Mosley | Don Cheadle | Time Warner AudioBooks |
| 2004 9th | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003) | J. K. Rowling | Jim Dale | Listening Library |
| 2004 9th | Oryx and Crake (2003) | Margaret Atwood | Campbell Scott | Random House Audio |
| 2005 10th | Peter and the Starcatchers (2004) | Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson | Jim Dale | Brilliance Audio |
| 2005 10th | The Breathtaker (2003) | Alice Blanchard | Peter Coyote | Time Warner AudioBooks |
| 2005 10th | The Enemy (2004) | Lee Child | Dick Hill | Brilliance Audio |
| 2005 10th | I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004) | Tom Wolfe | Dylan Baker | Audio Renaissance |
| 2005 10th | Shoot the Moon (2004) | Billie Letts | Lou Diamond Phillips | Time Warner AudioBooks |
| 2006 11th | Moby-Dick (1851) | Herman Melville | William Hootkins | Naxos AudioBooks, Ltd |
| 2006 11th | Assassin (2004) | Ted Bell | John Shea | Brilliance Audio |
| 2006 11th | One Shot (2005) | Lee Child | Dick Hill | Brilliance Audio |
| 2006 11th | Shibumi (1979) | Trevanian | Joe Barrett | Blackstone Audio |
| 2006 11th | The Shining (1977) | Stephen King | Campbell Scott | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2007 12th | Peter and the Shadow Thieves (2006) | Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson | Jim Dale | Brilliance Audio |
| 2007 12th | Shantaram (2003) | Gregory David Roberts | Humphrey Bower | Blackstone Audio |
| 2007 12th | The Dead Yard (2006) | Adrian McKinty | Gerard Doyle | Blackstone Audio |
| 2007 12th | The Old Man and the Sea (1952) | Ernest Hemingway | Donald Sutherland | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2007 12th | War and Peace Vol. 1 (1869) | Leo Tolstoy | Neville Jason | Naxos AudioBooks Ltd. |
| 2008 13th | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) | J. K. Rowling | Jim Dale | Random House Audio/Listening Library |
| 2008 13th | Catch-22 (1961) | Joseph Heller | Jay O. Sanders | HarperAudio/Caedmon |
| 2008 13th | The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (2007) | David Halberstam | Edward Herrmann | Hyperion Audiobooks |
| 2008 13th | The Long Walk (1956) | Sławomir Rawicz | John Rafter Lee | Blackstone Audio |
| 2009 14th | The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) | Alexandre Dumas | John Rafter Lee | Blackstone Audio |
| 2009 14th | Lush Life (2008) | Richard Price | Bobby Cannavale | Macmillan Audio |
| 2009 14th | The Art of Racing in the Rain (2008) | Garth Stein | Christopher Evan Welch | HarperAudio |
| 2009 14th | The Silver Swan (2008) | Benjamin Black | Timothy Dalton | Macmillan Audio |
| 2009 14th | The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (2008) | David Wroblewski | Richard Poe | Recorded Books |
| 2009 14th | The White Tiger (2008) | Aravind Adiga | John Rafter Lee | Tantor Audio |

### 2010s

| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher |
| 2010 15th | Great Expectations (1860–1861) | Charles Dickens | Charlton Griffin | Audio Connoisseur |
| 2010 15th | A Christmas Carol (1843) | Charles Dickens | Charlton Griffin | Audio Connoisseur |
| 2010 15th | The Birthing House (2008) | Christopher Ransom | Edward Herrmann | Blackstone Audio |
| 2010 15th | Jesus' Son (1992) | Denis Johnson | Will Patton | Macmillan Audio |
| 2010 15th | Beat the Reaper (2009) | Josh Bazell | Robert Petkoff | Hachette Audio |
| 2011 16th | Zorgamazoo (2008) | Robert Paul Weston | Alan Cumming | Penguin Audio |
| 2011 16th | The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes: Volume II (1887–1927) | Arthur Conan Doyle | Charlton Griffin | Audio Connoisseur |
| 2011 16th | The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2007) | Mathias Malzieu | Jim Dale | Blackstone Audio |
| 2011 16th | Innocent (2010) | Scott Turow | Edward Herrmann | Hachette Audio |
| 2011 16th | Every Man Dies Alone (1947) | Hans Fallada | George Guidall | Recorded Books |
| 2012 17th | The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy (2010) | Mark Logue and Peter Conradi | Simon Vance | Tantor Audio |
| 2012 17th | The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes: Volume III (1887–1927) | Arthur Conan Doyle | Charlton Griffin | Audio Connoisseur |
| 2012 17th | Going to Meet the Man (1965) | James Baldwin | Dion Graham | AudioGO |
| 2012 17th | Hard Magic (2011) | Larry Correia | Bronson Pinchot | Audible |
| 2012 17th | Heart of Darkness (1899) | Joseph Conrad | Kenneth Branagh | Audible |
| 2013 18th | Beautiful Ruins (2012) | Jess Walter | Edoardo Ballerini | HarperAudio |
| 2013 18th | The Absolutist (2011) | John Boyne | Michael Maloney | Tantor Audio |
| 2013 18th | Being There (1970) | Jerzy Kosinski | Dustin Hoffman | Audible |
| 2013 18th | The End of the Affair (1951) | Graham Greene | Colin Firth | Audible |
| 2013 18th | The Tao of Pooh (1982) | Benjamin Hoff | Simon Vance | Tantor Audio |
| 2014 19th | The Goldfinch (2013) | Donna Tartt | David Pittu | Hachette Audio |
| 2014 19th | Dimension of Miracles (1968) | Robert Sheckley | John Hodgman | Audible |
| 2014 19th | Doctor Sleep (2013) | Stephen King | Will Patton | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2014 19th | Frankenstein (1818) | Mary Shelley | Dan Stevens | Audible |
| 2014 19th | In a Glass Grimmly (2012) | Adam Gidwitz | Johnny Heller | Recorded Books |
| 2014 19th | Warbound (2013) | Larry Correia | Bronson Pinchot | Audible |
| 2015 20th | The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw (2012) | Christopher Healy | Bronson Pinchot | HarperAudio |
| 2015 20th | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (2014) | A. J. Hartley and David Hewson | Richard Armitage | Audible |
| 2015 20th | The Martian (2011) | Andy Weir | R. C. Bray | Podium Publishing |
| 2015 20th | Mr. Mercedes (2014) | Stephen King | Will Patton | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2015 20th | The Other Story (2013) | Tatiana de Rosnay | Simon Vance | Macmillan Audio |
| 2015 20th | Radiance of Tomorrow (2014) | Ishmael Beah | Dion Graham | Macmillan Audio |
| 2016 21st | Gabriel Allon: The English Spy (2015) | Daniel Silva | George Guidall | HarperAudio |
| 2016 21st | Breakfast of Champions (1973) | Kurt Vonnegut | John Malkovich | Audible |
| 2016 21st | Classic Love Poems (2015) | Various | Richard Armitage | Audible |
| 2016 21st | Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (2015) | Erik Larson | Scott Brick | Books on Tape/Penguin Random House Audio |
| 2016 21st | Finders Keepers (2015) | Stephen King | Will Patton | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2016 21st | Jurassic Park (1990) | Michael Crichton | Scott Brick | Brilliance Audio |
| 2017 22nd | Jerusalem (2016) | Alan Moore | Simon Vance | Recorded Books |
| 2017 22nd | Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff (2016) | Sean Penn | Sean Penn | Audible |
| 2017 22nd | End of Watch (2016) | Stephen King | Will Patton | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2017 22nd | The Last Tribe (2015) | Brad Manuel | Scott Brick | Podium Publishing |
| 2017 22nd | The Purloined Poodle (2016) | Kevin Hearne | Luke Daniels | Kevin Hearne/ACX |
| 2017 22nd | Underground Airlines (2016) | Ben H. Winters | William DeMeritt | Hachette Audio |
| 2018 23rd | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (2016) | Trevor Noah | Trevor Noah | Audible |
| 2018 23rd | The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (2017) | Mackenzi Lee | Christian Coulson | HarperAudio |
| 2018 23rd | Glass Houses (2017) | Louise Penny | Robert Bathurst | Macmillan Audio |
| 2018 23rd | Murder on the Orient Express (1934) | Agatha Christie | Kenneth Branagh | HarperAudio |
| 2018 23rd | Sherlock Holmes (1887–1927) | Arthur Conan Doyle (with Stephen Fry) | Stephen Fry | Audible |
| 2019 24th | Watchers (1987) | Dean Koontz | Edoardo Ballerini | Brilliance Audio |
| 2019 24th | The Devil's Half Mile (2018) | Paddy Hirsch | Euan Morton | Macmillan Audio |
| 2019 24th | Harry Clarke (2017) | David Cale | Billy Crudup | Audible |
| 2019 24th | Pet Sematary (1983) | Stephen King | Michael C. Hall | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2019 24th | Threadbare: Stuff and Nonsense (2017) | Andrew Seiple | Tim Gerard Reynolds | Podium Publishing |

### 2020s

| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher |
| 2020 25th | Kingdom of the Blind (2018) | Louise Penny | Robert Bathurst | Macmillan Audio |
| 2020 25th | The Dutch House (2019) | Ann Patchett | Tom Hanks | HarperAudio |
| 2020 25th | Everything Is Illuminated (2002) | Jonathan Safran Foer | Robert Petkoff | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 2020 25th | The Nickel Boys (2019) | Colson Whitehead | JD Jackson | Penguin Random House Audio |
| 2020 25th | Watership Down (1972) | Richard Adams | Peter Capaldi | Blackstone Audio |
| 2021 26th | The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley (1965) | Malcolm X and Alex Haley | Laurence Fishburne | Audible |
| 2021 26th | All the Devils Are Here (2020) | Louise Penny | Robert Bathurst | Macmillan Audio |
| 2021 26th | The Glimme | Emily Rodda and Marc McBride | Andrew Scott | Bolinda Audio |
| 2021 26th | A Man Called Ove (2012) | Fredrik Backman with Henning Koch (trans.) | J. K. Simmons | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2021 26th | Squeeze Me (2020) | Carl Hiaasen | Scott Brick | Penguin Random House Audio |
| 2022 27th | Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (2021) | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2022 27th | The Didomenico Fragment | Amor Towles | John Lithgow | Audible Originals |
| 2022 27th | Legends of the North Cascades | Jonathan Evison | Edoardo Ballerini | Workman Audio |
| 2022 27th | The Madness of Crowds | Louise Penny | Robert Bathurst | Macmillan Audio |
| 2022 27th | The Sweetness of Water (2021) | Nathan Harris | William DeMeritt | Hachette Audio |
| 2023 28th | Fairy Tale (2022) | Stephen King | Seth Numrich | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2023 28th | The Silent Sisters | Robert Dugoni | Edoardo Ballerini | Brilliance Publishing |
| 2023 28th | Narrator | Landon Beach | Scott Brick | Brick By Brick Audiobooks |
| 2023 28th | The Violin Conspiracy | William DeMeritt | JD Jackson | Penguin Random House Audio |
| 2023 28th | Sleepwalk | Dan Chaon | John Pirhalla | Macmillan Audio |