# Audie Award for Best Female Narrator

The Audie Award for Best Female Narrator is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in audiobook narration by a woman released in a given year. Before 2016 the award was given as the Audie Award for Female 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 It has been awarded since 1998, when it superseded the Audie Award for Solo Narration.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

Winners are listed first each year and are highlighted in light green.

### 1990s

| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher | Result |
| 1998 3rd | Land Girls (1995) | Angela Huth | Carole Boyd | Isis Publishing | Winner |
| 1998 3rd | Sin (1992) | Josephine Hart | Diana Rigg | Dove Audio | Finalist |
| 1998 3rd | To the Lighthouse (1927) | Virginia Woolf | Eileen Atkins | Penguin Audiobooks | Finalist |
| 1999 4th | Oliver Twist (1837–1839) | Charles Dickens | Miriam Margolyes | The Audio Partners Publishing Corp. | Winner |
| 1999 4th | Black Coffee (1930) | Agatha Christie | Alexandra Thomas | Soundelux Audio Publishing | Finalist |
| 1999 4th | Pride and Prejudice (1813) | Jane Austen | Irene Sutcliffe | The Audio Partners Publishing Corp. | Finalist |

### 2000s

| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher | Result |
| 2000 5th | Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) | Helen Fielding | Barbara Rosenblat | Recorded Books, LLC | Winner |
| 2000 5th | Daughter of Fortune (1998) | Isabel Allende | Blair Brown | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2000 5th | These Is My Words (1998) | Nancy E. Turner | Valerie Leonard | Chivers North America | Finalist |
| 2001 6th | Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) | Zora Neale Hurston | Ruby Dee | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2001 6th | The Blind Assassin (2000) | Margaret Atwood | Margot Dionne | Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio | Finalist |
| 2001 6th | Winter Solstice (2000) | Rosamunde Pilcher | Lynn Redgrave | Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio | Finalist |
| 2002 7th | My Dream of You (2001) | Nuala O'Faolain | Dearbhla Molloy | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner |
| 2002 7th | Lord of the Silent (2001) | Elizabeth Peters | Barbara Rosenblat | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2002 7th | Portrait in Sepia (2000) | Isabel Allende | Blair Brown | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood (1982) | Kate Simon | Barbara Rosenblat | Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc. | Winner |
| 2003 8th | Breathing Room (2002) | Susan Elizabeth Phillips | Kate Fleming | Chivers North America | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (1996) | Rebecca Wells | Judith Ivey | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Quentins (2002) | Maeve Binchy | Terry Donnelly | Penguin Audiobooks | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | The Secret Life of Bees (2001) | Sue Monk Kidd | Jenna Lamia | HighBridge Audio | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | The Nazi Officer's Wife (1999) | Edith Hahn Beer | Barbara Rosenblat | Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc. | Winner |
| 2004 9th | A Corner of the Universe (2002) | Ann M. Martin | Judith Ivey | Listening Library | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Blow Fly (2003) | Patricia Cornwell | Kate Reading | Putnam Berkley Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Inkheart (2003) | Cornelia Funke | Lynn Redgrave | Listening Library | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Stuffed (2001) | Patricia Volk | Barbara Rosenblat | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | The Full Cupboard of Life (2003) | Alexander McCall Smith | Lisette Lecat | Recorded Books, LLC | Winner |
| 2005 10th | Destination Unknown (1954) | Agatha Christie | Emilia Fox | The Audio Partners Publishing Corp. | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | A Fugue in Hell's Kitchen (2004) | Hal Glazer | Barbara Rosenblat | Audio-Playwrights | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | When We Were Very Young (1924) | A. A. Milne | Miranda Richardson | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | Now We Are Six (1927) | A. A. Milne | Miranda Richardson | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down (2003) | Neta Jackson | Barbara Rosenblat | Oasis Audio | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | A Breath of Snow and Ashes (2005) | Diana Gabaldon | Davina Porter | Recorded Books, LLC | Winner |
| 2006 11th | The Ice Queen (2005) | Alice Hoffman | Nancy Travis | Time Warner AudioBooks | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Last Days of Dogtown (2005) | Anita Diamant | Kate Nelligan | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Pretty Birds (2005) | Scott Simon | Christina Moore | Recorded Books, LLC | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Up from Orchard Street (2005) | Eleanor Widmer | Lorna Raver | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Telegraph Days (2006) | Larry McMurtry | Annie Potts | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner |
| 2007 12th | Darkfever (2006) | Karen Marie Moning | Joyce Bean | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Fortunate Son (2006) | Walter Mosley | Lorraine Toussaint | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Leave a Candle Burning (2006) | Lori Wick | Barbara Rosenblat | Oasis Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) | Harper Lee | Sissy Spacek | Harper Audio/Caedmon | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Tallgrass (2008) | Sandra Dallas | Lorelei King | Macmillan Audio | Winner |
| 2008 13th | The Blood of Flowers (2007) | Anita Amirrezvani | Shohreh Aghdashloo | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Boomsday (2007) | Christopher Buckley | Janeane Garofalo | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Taking Flight (2009) | Adriana Sevahn Nichols | Adriana Sevahn Nichols | L.A. Theatre Works | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | The Teahouse Fire (2006) | Ellis Avery | Barbara Caruso | HighBridge Audio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | Curse of the Blue Tattoo (2004) | L. A. Meyer | Katherine Kellgren | Listen & Live Audio | Winner |
| 2009 14th | Amarcord: Marcella Remembers (2008) | Marcella Hazan | Concetta Tomei | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | The Age of Innocence (1920) | Edith Wharton | Lorna Raver | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | The Lace Reader (2006) | Brunonia Barry | Alyssa Bresnahan | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | The Palace of Illusions (2008) | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | Sneha Mathan | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |

### 2010s

| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher | Result |
| 2010 15th | The Chosen One (2009) | Carol Lynch Williams | Jenna Lamia | Macmillan Audio | Winner |
| 2010 15th | In the Belly of the Bloodhound (2006) | L. A. Meyer | Katherine Kellgren | Listen & Live Audio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Mississippi Jack (2007) | L. A. Meyer | Katherine Kellgren | Listen & Live Audio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Washington Square (1880) | Henry James | Lorna Raver | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Fatally Flaky (2009) | Diane Mott Davidson | Barbara Rosenblat | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Glorious (2010) | Bernice McFadden | Alfre Woodard | Audible | Winner |
| 2011 16th | The Invisible Order (2010) | Paul Crilley | Katherine Kellgren | Audible | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | The Magician's Elephant (2009) | Kate DiCamillo | Juliet Stevenson | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Rapture of the Deep: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy (2009) | L. A. Meyer | Katherine Kellgren | Listen & Live Audio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | The Golden Notebook (1962) | Doris Lessing | Juliet Stevenson | Naxos AudioBooks | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Spoken from the Heart (2010) | Laura Bush | Laura Bush | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | The Winter Sea (2008) | Susanna Kearsley | Rosalyn Landor | Audible | Winner |
| 2012 17th | Ashes Trilogy: Ashes (2011) | Ilsa J. Bick | Katherine Kellgren | Audible/Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | First Grave on the Right (2011) | Darynda Jones | Lorelei King | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter (1976) | Loretta Lynn and George Vecsey | Sissy Spacek | Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | The Wake of the Lorelei Lee (2010) | L. A. Meyer | Katherine Kellgren | Listen & Live Audio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | The Boy in the Suitcase (2011) | Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis | Katherine Kellgren | AudioGO | Winner |
| 2013 18th | Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s (2002) | Jennifer Worth | Nicola Barber | HighBridge Audio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place (2012) | Maryrose Wood | Katherine Kellgren | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Juliet in August / Cool Water (2010) | Dianne Warren | Cassandra Campbell | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) | L. Frank Baum | Anne Hathaway | Audible | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | The Twelve Clues of Christmas (2012) | Rhys Bowen | Katherine Kellgren | Audible | Winner |
| 2014 19th | Heartburn (1983) | Nora Ephron | Meryl Streep | Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | My Beloved World (2013) | Sonia Sotomayor | Rita Moreno | Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | NOS4A2 (2013) | Joe Hill | Kate Mulgrew | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | The Testament of Mary (2012) | Colm Tóibín | Meryl Streep | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Yellow Crocus (2010) | Laila Ibrahim | Bahni Turpin | Brilliance Audio | Winner |
| 2015 20th | Boston Jacky (2013) | L. A. Meyer | Katherine Kellgren | Listen & Live Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Life Drawing (2014) | Robin Black | Cassandra Campbell | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Murphy's Law (2001) | Rhys Bowen | Nicola Barber | Audible | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Until the End of the World (2013) | Sarah Lyons Fleming | Julia Whelan | Podium Publishing | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Written in My Own Heart's Blood (2014) | Diana Gabaldon | Davina Porter | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Wild Rover No More (2014) | L. A. Meyer | Katherine Kellgren | Listen & Live Audio | Winner |
| 2016 21st | All the Stars in the Heavens (2015) | Adriana Trigiani | Blair Brown | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | The Boston Girl (2014) | Anita Diamant | Linda Lavin | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Lair of Dreams (2015) | Libba Bray | January LaVoy | Listening Library/Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | The Lost Landscape (2015) | Joyce Carol Oates | Cassandra Campbell | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | The Nightingale (2015) | Kristin Hannah | Polly Stone | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Be Frank with Me (2016) | Julia Claiborne Johnson | Tavia Gilbert | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2017 22nd | Another Brooklyn (2016) | Jacqueline Woodson | Robin Miles | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | The Little Red Chairs (2015) | Edna O'Brien | Juliet Stevenson | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | The Turn of the Screw (1898) | Henry James | Emma Thompson | Audible | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | The Underground Railroad (2016) | Colson Whitehead | Bahni Turpin | Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | The Hate U Give (2017) | Angie Thomas | Bahni Turpin | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2018 23rd | The Alice Network (2017) | Kate Quinn | Saskia Maarleveld | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Anne of Green Gables (1908) | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Rachel McAdams | Audible | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (1990) | Jennifer Lynch | Sheryl Lee | Audible | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | The Stone Sky (2017) | N. K. Jemisin | Robin Miles | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Educated | Tara Westover | Julia Whelan | Penguin Random House Audio | Winner |
| 2019 24th | Barracoon | Zora Neale Hurston | Robin Miles | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Girls & Boys | Dennis Kelly | Carey Mulligan | Audible Studios | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock | Imogen Hermes Gowar | Juliet Stevenson | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Transcription | Kate Atkinson | Fenella Woolgar | Hachette Audio | Finalist |

### 2020s

| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher | Result |
| 2020 25th | Nothing to See Here (2019) | Kevin Wilson | Marin Ireland | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2020 25th | All the Lost Things (2019) | Michelle Sacks | Cassandra Morris | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | The Boy (2018) | Tami Hoag | Hillary Huber | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Prime Suspect (1991) | Lynda La Plante | Rachel Atkins | Zaffle | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019) | Alix E. Harrow | January LaVoy | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | The City We Became (2020) | N. K. Jemisin | Robin Miles | Hachette Audio | Winner |
| 2021 26th | The Color Purple (1982) | Alice Walker | Samira Wiley | Audible | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | The Lying Life of Adults (2019) | Elena Ferrante with Ann Goldstein (trans.) | Marisa Tomei | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | One by One (2020) | Ruth Ware | Imogen Church | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Such a Fun Age (2019) | Kiley Reid | Nicole Lewis | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | The Parted Earth | Anjali Enjeti | Deepti Gupta | Novel audio | Winner |
| 2022 27th | Before She Disappeared | Lisa Gardner | Hillary Huber | Brilliance Publishing | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah | Julia Whelan | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | The Morning After | Lisa Jackson | Natalie Naudus | Brilliance Publishing | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Wild Swan: A Story of Florence Nightingale | Patti Callahan | Cynthia Erivo | Audible | Finalist |
| 2023 27th | The Eye of the World (1990) | Robert Jordan | Rosamund Pike | Macmillan Audio | Winner |
| 2023 27th | Nightcrawling (2022) | Leila Mottley | Joniece Abbott-Pratt | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 27th | Thistlefoot | GennaRose Nethercott | January LaVoy | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 27th | NSFW | Isabel Kaplan | Stephanie Nemeth-Parker | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 27th | War and Peace (1869) | Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Aylmer and Louise Maude | Thandiwe Newton | Audible Studios | Finalist |