# Audie Award for Original Work

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

Winners are listed first each year and highlighted in green.

### 1990s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 1996 1st | Enjoying Italian Opera (1994) | Dale Harris | Dale Harris | HighBridge Audio | Winner |
| 1996 1st | A Prairie Home Christmas (1994) | Garrison Keillor | Garrison Keillor | HighBridge Audio | Finalist |
| 1996 1st | Whale Nation (1988) | Heathcote Williams | Heathcote Williams | Naxos Audiobooks | Finalist |
| 1997 2nd | Zeus: Thunderbolt from the Sky (1996) | Julie Fenster | Stan Winiarski | B&B Audio | Winner |
| 1997 2nd | Letters from the Earth (1962; written c. 1909) | Mark Twain | McAvoy Layne | The Audio Partners | Finalist |
| 1997 2nd | Your Present: A Half-Hour of Peace (1996) | Susie Mantell | Susie Mantell | Relax Intuit | Finalist |
| 1998 3rd | Diana, Princess of Wales: A Radio Tribute (1997) | BBC Productions | Full cast | Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio | Winner |
| 1998 3rd | Ambush at Fort Bragg (1997) | Tom Wolfe | Edward Norton | Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio | Finalist |
| 1998 3rd | How the West Was Read (vol. 2) (1996) | Robert J. Randisi | Lee Marshall and Kitty Brooks | DH Audio/Durkin Hayes | Finalist |
| 1999 4th | Haunted Cattle Drive (1998) | Connie Kingrey | Gerald Drake, James Ahrens, Jonathan Poland, Jackie Perlman, and Kevin Fitzgerald | K-tel International USA | Winner |
| 1999 4th | English As She Is Spoke (1998) | Donald Monat and June Dixon | Donald Monat and June Dixon | The Publishing Mills | Finalist |

### 2000s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2000 5th | Song of the Unicorn (1999) | Susan Hammond and Debra A. S. Olivia | Jeremy Irons, Graham Harley, Phelan Landry, Robert Lurtsema, Catherine McNally, and Tracy Moore | The Children's Group | Winner |
| 2000 5th | Braces (1999) | Donald Davis | Donald Davis | August House | Finalist |
| 2000 5th | The History of Opera (1999) | Richard Fawkes | Robert Powell | Naxos Audiobooks UK | Finalist |
| 2001 6th | The History of the Theatre (2000) | David Timson | Derek Jacobi and full cast | Naxos Audiobooks | Winner |
| 2001 6th | Story Telling of Ferde Grofé (2000) | Ferde Grofé | Ferde Grofé | Stereo High Adventures | Finalist |
| 2001 6th | The Memory of Running (2000) | Ron McLarty | Ron McLarty | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2002 7th | The Life and Works of Chopin (2001) | Jeremy Siepmann | Jeremy Siepmann | Naxos Audiobooks | Winner |
| 2002 7th | Flight of the Voyager (2001) | Ferde Grofé | Ferde Grofé | Stereo High Adventures | Finalist |
| 2002 7th | Maressa & Merlone (2001) | Shaeri Richards | Shaeri Richards | Heartfull Productions | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Getting to Know William Shakespeare (2002) | Joy Wake | Fred Child | Echo Peak Productions | Winner |
| 2003 8th | Dreams from the Lost & Found (2002) | Ferde Grofé | Ferde Grofé and full cast | Stereo High Adventures | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Legacy (2002) | Doc Watson and David Holt | Doc Watson and David Holt | High Windy Audio | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Pill Hill Quartet (2002) | Jay O'Callahan | Jay O'Callahan | Jay O'Callahan | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Reagan in His Own Voice (2002) | Ronald Reagan | Ronald Reagan | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | New York: The Bronx 2004 (2003) | Soundwalk | Tony Morante | Soundwalk/Oversampling | Winner |
| 2004 9th | Garrison Keillor: A Life in Comedy (2003) | Garrison Keillor | Garrison Keillor | HighBridge Audio | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Greatest Cartoon Voice Tricks Ever Smuggled Out of Hollywood (2003) | Pat Fraley | Pat Fraley | Fraley/Huber | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | The Killings Tale (2003) | W. A. Frankonis | full cast | Family Classics/NYS Theatre Institute | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | They Saw It Happen: Eyewitness Accounts from Ancient Greece (2003) | Matthew Lewin | Teresa Gallagher, Tom George, Steve Hodson, and Kerry Shale | Naxos Audiobooks | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | The Story of Classical Music (2004) | Darren Henley | Marin Alsop | Naxos Audiobooks | Winner |
| 2005 10th | Ground Zero Sonic Memorial Soundwalk (2004) | Kitchen Sisters | Paul Auster | Soundwalk | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | Heart of Troy (2004) | Ed Lange | Full cast | Family Classics/NYS Theatre Institute | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | Low Carb Yo-Yo (2004) | Barry Sears | Barry Sears | Oasis Audio | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | What Was Civil About That War…? (2004) | Megan Hicks | Megan Hicks | stories: (un)folding | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Famous Composers (2005) | Darren Henley | Marin Alsop | Naxos Audiobooks | Winner |
| 2006 11th | Billy Collins Live (2005) | Billy Collins | Billy Collins and Bill Murray | Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Eyewitness: 1940–1940 (2004) | Joanna Bourke | Tim Pigott-Smith | AudioGO/BBC Audio | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Eyewitness: 1950–1959 (2004) | Joanna Bourke | Tim Pigott-Smith | AudioGO/BBC Audio | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Eyewitness: 1960–1969 (2004) | Joanna Bourke | Tim Pigott-Smith | AudioGO/BBC Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 11th | Hasidic Williamsburg, Brooklyn for Men and Hasidic Williamsburg, Brooklyn for Women (2006) | Soundwalk | Joseph Piekarski and Pearl Gluck | OverSampling/Soundwalk | Winner |
| 2007 11th | Fundamental Cases (2006) | Alan Dershowitz | Alan Dershowitz | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2007 11th | Sherlock's Legacy (2006) | Ed Lange and Will Severin | Full cast | Family Classics/NYS Theatre Institute | Finalist |
| 2007 11th | Stories from the Storm (2006) | Carter Hooper, Celia Collins, et al. | Carter Hooper | Audible | Finalist |
| 2007 11th | The Hero of Cape Lonely Light (2006) | Geoffrey T. Williams | Dennis F. Regan | Geoffrey T. Williams | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls (2007) | Yuri Rasovsky | Phil Proctor, Simon Templeman, Moira Quirk, Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres, Robertson Dean, and W. Morgan Sheppard | Blackstone Audio | Winner |
| 2008 13th | The Chopin Manuscript (2007) | Jeffery Deaver, 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 | Alfred Molina | International Thriller Writers | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Hollowville (2007) | Mary Jane Hansen | Bruce Dern with music composed by Will Severin | NYS Theatre Institute | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Hurricane Katrina (2007) | Pamela F. Pipes | Pamela F. Pipes and others | Tours BaYou | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Sunday Mornings in Plains (2007) | Jimmy Carter | Jimmy Carter | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | Louis Vuitton Soundwalk, China: Beijing (2008) | Stephen Crasneanscki | Gong Li | Soundwalk | Winner |
| 2009 14th | Brainstorm: Using Science to Spark Maximum Creativity (2008) | Mariette DiChristina | William Dufris | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | Many Things Invisible (2008) | Carrington MacDuffie | Carrington MacDuffie | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | METAtropolis (2008) | John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, and Karl Schroeder | Michael Hogan, Alessandro Juliani, Kandyse McClure, Scott Brick, and Stefan Rudnicki | Audible | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | Sugar Pop Thoughts (2008) | Shayna Lance | Shayna Lance | CoolBeat Audiobooks | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer The(2008) | Falcon Picture Group | Stacy Keach | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |

### 2010s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2010 15th | Tell Me a Story 3: Women of Wonder (2009) | Amy Friedman | Bryce Dallas Howard, Paula Poundstone, Wendy Hammers, Margot Rose, Jessica DiCicco, and Yvette Freeman | Listen & Live Audio | Winner |
| 2010 15th | The Copper Bracelet (2009) | Jeffery Deaver et al. | Alfred Molina | Audible | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | In a Nutshell: Darwin (2009) | Peter Whitfield | Peter Whitfield | Naxos Audiobooks | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | The Longest Night (2009) | Helen Engelhardt | Helen Engelhardt | Midsummer Sound Company | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | A Way with Words IV (2009) | Michael D. C. Drout | Michael D. C. Drout | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (vol. 2) (2010) | Max Allan Collins | Stacy Keach and full cast | Blackstone Audio | Winner |
| 2011 16th | The Alchemist and the Executioness (2010) | Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell | Jonathan Davis and Katherine Kellgren | Audible | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Fashionably Undead (2010) | Meg Cabot and the Twitterverse | Sarah Drew | AudioGO | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Hearts, Keys and Puppetry (2010) | Neil Gaiman and the Twitterverse | Katherine Kellgren | AudioGO | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | William's Leap for Freedom (2010) | Renee Pringle and Sue Zizza | Dion Graham, Mirron E. Willis, and full cast | SueMedia Productions | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | METAtropolis: Cascadia (2011) | Jay Lake, Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, Ken Scholes, Karl Schroeder, and Tobias Buckell | René Auberjonois, Kate Mulgrew, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Jonathan Frakes, and LeVar Burton | Audible | Winner |
| 2012 17th | Macbeth (2011) | David Hewson and A. J. Hartley | Alan Cumming, David Hewson, and A. J. Hartley | Audible | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (vol. 3) (2011) | Max Allan Collins | Stacy Keach and full cast | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Solaris (1961) | Stanisław Lem (trans. Bill Johnston) | Alessandro Juliani | Audible | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Prayers: A Personal Selection (2011) | Various | Michael York | ChristianAudio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | The Witches of Lublin (2011) | Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Schwartz, and Yale Strom | Tovah Feldshuh, Barbara Rosenblat, and full cast | SueMedia Productions | |
| 2013 18th | Gun Church (2012) | Reed Farrel Coleman | Joe Barrett and John Keating | Audible | Winner |
| 2013 18th | Coming Home to Us (2012) | Helen Engelhardt and Marjorie Van Halteren | Helen Engelhardt and Marjorie Van Halteren | Midsummer Sound Company | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You! (2012) | Yuri Rasovsky | Sandra Oh, Simon Helberg, Kate Burton, and full cast | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | The Junkie Quatrain (2012) | Peter Clines | Christian Rummel and Thérèse Plummer | Audible | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Titanium Rain (Episode One) (2012) | Josh Finney | Lance Roger Axt, Elizabeth Knowelden, Carrington Macduffie, and full cast | The AudioComics Company | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Thirteen (2013) | Scott Harrison, 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 | Barnaby Edwards et al. | Spokenworld Audio/Labroke Audio | Winner |
| 2014 19th | Ender's Game Alive (2013) | Orson Scott Card | Full cast | Audible | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Letters to a Birmingham Jail (2013) | Martin Luther King Jr. | Dion Graham | eChristian | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | METAtropolis: Green Space (2013) | Jay Lake et al. | Dion Graham, Robin Miles, Mark Boyett, Scott Brick, Allyson Johnson, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Jennifer Van Dyck, and Jonathan Davis | Audible | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Pete Seeger: The Storm King (2013) | Pete Seeger | Pete Seeger | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Rip-Off! (2013) | John Scalzi et al. | Wil Wheaton, Scott Brick, Christian Rummel, Jonathan Davis, Stefan Rudnicki, and L. J. Ganser | Audible | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Mandela: An Audio History (2014) | Nelson Mandela | Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, and Joe Richman | HighBridge | Winner |
| 2015 20th | The Child (2014) | Sebastian Fitzek | Rupert Penry-Jones, Jack Boulter, Emilia Fox, Stephen Marcus, Robert Glenister, and Andy Serkis | Audible | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Gadzooks! A Comically Quirky Audio Book (2014) | Adele Park | Garry Morris, Andra Harbold, Lesley Mendenhall, Abby Elvidge, Rhett Guter, Melissa Sandberg, Kent Hayes, Jack de Golia, and Steve Campbell | Straight to Audio Productions | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (2014) | A. J. Hartley and David Hewson | Richard Armitage | Audible | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Transparent (2014) | Jeffrey Tambor | Jeffrey Tambor | Audible | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | The Starling Project (2015) | Jeffery Deaver | Alfred Molina and full cast | Audible | Winner |
| 2016 21st | Carmilla (1872) | J. Sheridan Le Fanu | Rose Leslie and David Tennant | Audible | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Drunken Fireworks (2015) | Stephen King | Tim Sample | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Locke & Key (2015) | Joe Hill | Haley Joel Osment, Tatiana Maslany, and full cast | Audible | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | NPR American Chronicles: First Ladies (2015) | National Public Radio | Cokie Roberts | HighBridge Audio/Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | StoryCorps: Outland (2015) | David Isay | Ari Shapiro and full cast | HighBridge Audio/Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | The Dispatcher (2016) | John Scalzi | Zachary Quinto | Audible | Winner |
| 2017 22nd | The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent (2016) | Larry Correia | Adam Baldwin | Audible | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Alien: Out of the Shadows (2016) | Tim Lebbon and Dirk Maggs | Rutger Hauer, Corey Johnson, Matthew Lewis, Kathryn Drysdale, Laurel Lefkow, Andrea Deck, and Mac McDonald | Audible | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Car Talk Science: MIT Wants Its Diplomas Back (2016) | Tom and Ray Magliozzi | Tom and Ray Magliozzi | HighBridge/Recorded | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | In the Embers (2016) | Brian Price and Jerry Stearns | Robin Miles, Edwin Strout, Dean Johnson, Jacque Maddix, and full cast | Great Northern Audio Theatre/Blackstone | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Pete Seeger: The Storm King (vol. 2) (2016) | Pete Seeger | Jeff Haynes | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Romeo and Juliet: A Novel (2017) | David Hewson | Richard Armitage | Audible Originals | Winner |
| 2018 23rd | The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition (2017) | Margaret Atwood and Valerie Martin | Claire Danes, Margaret Atwood, and full cast | Audible | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Mother Go (2017) | James Patrick Kelly | January LaVoy | Audible Originals | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Nevertheless, We Persisted (2017) | Amy Oestreicher et al. | Amy Landon et al. | Blunder Woman Productions | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Rebuttal (2017) | Jyotsna Hariharan | Phoebe Strole, Michael Crouch, Nina Mehta, Peter Ganim, and Dan Bittner | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Spin (2018) | Harvey Edelman and Neil Fishman | Jim Dale, Barrett Leddy, Lisa Livesay, Nicola Barber, Khristine Hvam, Nick Sullivan, John Brady, and Johnny Heller | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2019 24th | Fandango at the Wall (2018) | Kabir Sehgal | Kabir Sehgal | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Loki Ragnarok (2017) | Mark Binder | Mark Binder | Light Publications | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Magus Elgar (2018) | Kennedy Phillips | Ricardo Cabral, 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/MelodyGun | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | The Old Cart Wrangler's Saga (2018) | Brian Price | David Ossman | Blackstone Publishing/Great Northern Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Splat! A Quirky Cat Audio Book (2018) | Adele Park | Eric Comeau, Luke Randall, Jove Trip-Thompson, Kent Hayes, Sherri Aldred, Garry Morris, Allie Boman, Adele Park, and Cindy Clemens | Straight to Audio Productions | Finalist |

### 2020s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2020 25th | Evil Eye (2019) | Madhuri Shekar | Nick Choksi, Harsh Nayaar, Annapurna Sriram, Bernard White, and Rita Wolf | Audible Originals | Winner |
| 2020 25th | I Eat Men Like Air (2019) | Alice Berman | Elizabeth Evans | Audible Originals | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Lustily Ever After (2019) | Stephanie Bentley and Miranda Ray | Stephanie Bentley, Carolyn Jania, and Henry Kaiser | ACX | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Nevertheless, We Persisted (2018) | In This Together Media | Chorus of voices | Blunder Woman Productions | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Our Harlem: Seven Days of Cooking, Music and Soul at the Red Rooster (2019) | Marcus Samuelsson | Marcus Samuelsson | Audible Originals | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | When You Finish Saving the World (2020) | Jesse Eisenberg | Kaitlyn Dever, Jesse Eisenberg, and Finn Wolfhard | Audible Originals | Winner |
| 2021 26th | Barack Obama: The 60 Minutes Interviews (2020) | Steve Kroft | Barack Obama and Steve Kroft | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | The Confederacy: Truth and Reconciliation (2020) | T Bone Burnett | T Bone Burnett | Audible Originals | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | The End of My Heart (2020) | Gayle Forman | Diane Kruger, Piper Goodeve, Gabriel Vaughan, Elizabeth Evans, Josh Hurley, Amanda Ronconi, Emily Bauer, Neil Hellegers, and Jesse Einstein | Audible Originals | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Getting Started with Sourdough (2020) | Chad Robertson and Jennifer Latham | Chad Robertson and Jennifer Latham | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Heroine | Mary Jane Wells | Mary Jane Wells | Author's Republic | Winner |
| 2022 27th | Beatrix Greene | Rachel Hawkins, Ash Parsons, and Vicky Alvear Shecter | Shiromi Arserio and Alister Austin | Realm | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | The Man She Never Met | Annie Hulley | Annie Hulley | Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | No One Goes Alone | Erik Larson | Julian Rhind-Tutt and Erik Larson | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Sunset Springs | Kacen Callender | Qamar Yochanan | Audible Originals | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Mrs. Wickham | Sarah Page | Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, and a full cast | Audible Originals | Winner |
| 2023 28th | The Babysitter Lives | Stephen Graham Jones | Isabella Star LaBlanc and Stephen Graham Jones | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Daffodils | Louise Beech | Lesley Harcourt | Bolinda Publishing | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | The River of Silver | S. A. Chakraborty | Soneela Nankani | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Star Trek: Picard: No Man's Land | Kirsten Beyer and Mike Johnson | Michelle Hurd, Jeri Ryan, Jack Cutmore-Scott, John Kassir, Fred Tatasciore, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Lisa Flanagan, Gibson Frazier, Lameece Issaq, Natalie Naudus, Xe Sands, and Emily Woo Zeller | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | Exodus: The Shanghai Jews | Kate McAll | Edita Brychta, Michael Canavan, and a full cast | L.A. Theatre Works | Winner |
| 2024 29th | The Debutante | Jon Ronson | Jon Ronson | Audible Originals | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | Nirvana the Amplifications | Michael Azerrad | Michael Azerrad | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | Hellboy: A Plague of Wasps | Christopher Golden | Jasmine Hyde, Scott McCormick, and a full cast | Graphic Audio | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Goddess of Manhattan | Christopher Golden and Thomas E. Sniegoski | Marni Penning, Scott McCormick, and a full cast | GraphicAudio | Winner |
| 2025 30th | The Boar’s Nest | Rachel Bonds, Holly Gleason, and Dub Cornett | Mandy Moore, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and a full cast | Audible Originals | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | Casanova LLC | Julia Whelan | Sebastian York, Julia Whelan, Edoardo Ballerini, and Johnathan McClain | Audiobrary | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | Earthlight | J. Michael Straczynski | Erik Braa, Pete Bradbury, and a full cast | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| | Two Can Play | Ali Hazelwood | Kelsey Navarro Foster | Spotify Audiobooks | Finalist |