# Audie Awards

The Audie Awards (/ˈɔːdi/, rhymes with "gaudy"; abbreviated from audiobook), or simply the Audies, are awards for achievement in spoken word, particularly audiobook narration and audiodrama performance, published in the United States of America. They are presented by the Audio Publishers Association (APA) annually in March.
The Audies are sometimes likened to the Academy Awards for their public recognition of merit in the audio industry. In order to win, works must be submitted for nomination. A panel of judges considers candidates based on consumer acceptance, sales performance, and marketing, and winners and finalists are chosen based on narration, production quality, and source content; formerly packaging was also evaluated.

## Awards

The Audio Publishers' Association currently awards 25 awards, listed below.

### Audiobook of the Year

* Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year

### Narration

* Audie Award for Audio Drama
* Audie Award for Fiction Narrator
* Audie Award for Narration by the Author
* Audie Award for Nonfiction Narrator
* Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance

### General

* Audie Award for Autobiography or Memoir
* Audie Award for Business and Personal Development
* Audie Award for Faith-Based Fiction and Nonfiction
* Audie Award for Erotica
* Audie Award for Fantasy
* Audie Award for Fiction
* Audie Award for History or Biography
* Audie Award for Humor
* Audie Award for Literary Fiction or Classics
* Audie Award for Middle Grade Title
* Audie Award for Mystery
* Audie Award for Nonfiction
* Audie Award for Original Work
* Audie Award for Romance
* Audie Award for Science Fiction
* Audie Award for Short Stories or Collection
* Audie Award for Spanish Language Title
* Audie Award for Thriller or Suspense
* Audie Award for Young Adult Title
* Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title
Numerous other awards have been discontinued or merged since the Audies' inception in 1996.

### Special awards
#### Special Achievement

| Year | Recipient | Role |
| 2001 | Paul Rush | Founder of Earful of Books |
| 2001 | Duvall and Siegrid Hecht | Founders of Books on Tape |
| 2001 | Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Mantell | Founders of Caedmon |
| 2001 | Jenny Frost | President of Random House Audio |
| 2005 | Timothy Ditlow and Helen Ditlow | Founders of Listening Library |
| 2007 | Don Katz | CEO and Founder of Audible |
| 2008 | Linda Olsen and Grady Hesters | President and CEO of Audio Editions |
| 2009 | Michael Snodgrass and Eileen Hutton | Brilliance Audio |
| 2012 | Craig Black | Founder and CEO of Blackstone Audio |
| 2013 | Bob and Debra Deyan | Co-founders of Deyan Audio |
| 2013 | Fifty Shades of Grey, written by E. L. James and narrated by Becca Battoe (Random House Audio) | |
| 2014 | George Guidall | Actor & Narrator |
| 2015 | Edward Herrmann | Actor & Narrator |

#### Special Industry Achievement

| Year | Recipient | Role | Ref. |
| 2023 | Richard Rieman | Founder and CEO of Imagination Storybooks | |
| 2023 | Amber Beard and Kelly Gildea | Penguin Random House audio producers | |

#### Judge's Award

| Year | Category | Title | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher |
| 2005 | Language Learning | Instant Immersion: Hawaiian | Kaliko Beamer-Trapp and Kiele Akana Gooch | Kaliko Beamer-Trapp and Kiele Akana Gooch | Topics Entertainment |
| 2005 | Language Learning | Pimsleur French Level 1 | Pimsleur | Ray Brown | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2005 | Language Learning | New Basic French | Berlitz Publishing | Full cast | Langenscheidt Publishing Group |
| 2006 | Spanish Language | El Codigo Da Vinci | Dan Brown | Raul Amundaray | FonoLibro Inc. |
| 2006 | Spanish Language | Cuando era Puetorriqueña | Esmeralda Santiago | Esmeralda Santiago | Recorded Books |
| 2006 | Spanish Language | Don Quijote de la Mancha | Miguel de Cervantes | Full cast | Yo Yo Libros |
| 2006 | Spanish Language | La Casa en Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros | Liliana Valenzuela | Random House Audio |
| 2006 | Spanish Language | La Vida Secreta de las Abejas | Sue Monk Kidd | Cristina Arsuaga | HighBridge Audio |
| 2007 | Politics | Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War | Michael Isikoff and David Corn | Stefan Rudnicki | Blackstone Audio |
| 2007 | Politics | Faith and Politics | Senator John Danforth | Senator John Danforth | Listen & Live Audio, Inc. |
| 2007 | Politics | In Time of War | Pierce O'Donnell | Raymond Todd | Blackstone Audio |
| 2007 | Politics | The One Percent Doctrine | Ron Suskind | Ed Herrmann | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2007 | Politics | Wake Up Call | Kristin Breitweiser | Kristin Breitweiser | Hachette Audio |
| 2009 | Politics | Hot, Flat, and Crowded | Thomas L. Friedman | Oliver Wyman | Macmillan Audio |
| 2009 | Politics | Descent into Chaos | Ahmed Rashid | Arthur Morey | Brilliance Audio |
| 2009 | Politics | Mike's Election Guide | Michael Moore | Michael Moore | Hachette Audio |
| 2009 | Politics | The War Within (2008) | Bob Woodward | Boyd Gaines | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2009 | Politics | The Way of the World | Ron Suskind | Alan Sklar | HarperAudio |
| 2011 | Paranormal | Beautiful Creatures | Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl | Kevin T. Collins | Hachette Audio |
| 2011 | Paranormal | Skinwalker | Faith Hunter | Khristine Hvam | Audible, Inc. |
| 2011 | Paranormal | So Cold the River | Michael Koryta | Robert Petkoff | Hachette Audio |
| 2011 | Paranormal | The Girl on Legare Street | Karen White | Aimee Bruneau | Listen & Live Audio |
| 2011 | Paranormal | Bayou Moon | Ilona Andrews | Renee Raudman | Tantor Media |
| 2015 | Science & Technology | The Second Machine Age | Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee | Jeff Cummings | Brilliance Publishing |
| 2015 | Science & Technology | The Copernicus Complex | Caleb Scharf | Caleb Scharf | Macmillan Audio |
| 2015 | Science & Technology | The Marshmallow Test | Walter Mischel | Alan Alda | Brilliance Publishing |
| 2015 | Science & Technology | A Primate's Memoir | Robert M. Sapolsky | Mike Chamberlain | Tantor Media |
| 2015 | Science & Technology | When Google Met Wikileaks | Julian Assange | Tom Pile | Audible, Inc. |

### Hall of Fame

| Year | Title | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Ref. |
| 2006 | The Harry Potter Audiobook Series | J. K. Rowling | Jim Dale | |
| 2008 | The Secret | Rhonda Byrne | Rhonda Byrne | |

## Audie Awards galas

The Audie Awards gala is the annual awards ceremony during which most of the Audie Awards are presented. It is hosted by the Audio Publishers Association and features a guest master of ceremonies (emcee), usually a notable figure in the world of audiobook narration or a celebrity audiobook enthusiast.
   Initially the Audies were handed out during a casual afternoon hosted by an industry insider. […] Now it's a formal evening, with cocktails beforehand and Champagne and dessert afterward.
The Audiobook of the Year award was not presented before 2004.
| # | Date | Audiobook of the Year | Master of Ceremonies | Venue |
| 1st | June 14, 1996 | — | — | Hyatt Regency Chicago Chicago, Illinois |
| 2nd | May 29, 1997 | — | — | McCormick Place Center Chicago, Illinois |
| 3rd | May 30, 1998 | — | — | McCormick Place Center Chicago, Illinois |
| 4th | April 30, 1999 | — | — | Regal Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles, California |
| 5th | June 2, 2000 | — | — | Chicago Field Museum Chicago, Illinois |
| 6th | June 1, 2001 | — | Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres | Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Illinois |
| 7th | May 3, 2002 | — | Dylan and Becky Ann Baker | United Nations Building New York, New York |
| 8th | May 31, 2003 | — | Marsha Mason | Petersen Automotive Museum Los Angeles, California |
| 9th | June 4, 2004 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (narr. Jim Dale) | Un­known | Winter Garden Room Chicago, Illinois |
| 10th | June 3, 2005 | My Life (narr. Bill Clinton) | Neil Gaiman | Tavern on the Green New York, New York |
| 11th | May 19, 2006 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase (narr. Simon Jones and full cast) | Grover Gardner | National Press Club Washington, D.C. |
| 12th | June 1, 2007 | Inspired by... The Bible Experience: New Testament (narr. Angela Bassett and full cast) | Jim Dale | Rainbow Room New York, New York |
| 13th | May 30, 2008 | The Chopin Manuscript: A Serial Thriller (narr. Alfred Molina) | Scott Brick | Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles, California |
| 14th | May 29, 2009 | The Graveyard Book (narr. Neil Gaiman) | Tony Roberts | New-York Historical Society New York, New York |
| 15th | May 25, 2010 | Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales (narr. Samuel L. Jackson and full cast) | Gary Dell'Abate | Museum of the City of New York New York, New York |
| 16th | May 24, 2011 | Life (narr. Johnny Depp and Joe Hurley) | Adriana Trigiani | The Times Center New York, New York |
| 17th | June 5, 2012 | Bossypants (narr. Tina Fey) | Michael Showalter | New-York Historical Society New York, New York |
| 18th | May 30, 2013 | The End of the Affair (narr. Colin Firth) | Daniel Handler | New-York Historical Society New York, New York |
| 19th | May 29, 2014 | Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? (narr. Billy Crystal) | Libba Bray | New York Academy of Medicine New York, New York |
| 20th | May 28, 2015 | Mandela: An Audio History (narr. Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, and Joe Richman) | Jack Gantos | New York Academy of Medicine New York, New York |
| 21st | May 11, 2016 | The Girl on the Train (narr. Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey, and India Fisher) | Paula Poundstone | Adler Planetarium Chicago, Illinois |
| 22nd | June 1, 2017 | Hamilton: The Revolution (narr. Mariska Hargitay, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Jeremy Carter) | Paula Poundstone | French Institute Alliance Française New York, New York |
| 23rd | May 31, 2018 | Lincoln in the Bardo (narr. Nick Offerman and full cast) | Simon Vance | New-York Historical Society New York, New York |
| 24th | March 3, 2019 | Children of Blood and Bone (narr. Bahni Turpin) | Tan France | Guastavino's New York, New York |
| 25th | March 2, 2020 | The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (narr. Holter Graham and full cast) | Mo Rocca | Guastavino's New York, New York |
| 26th | March 22, 2021 | Piranesi (narr. Chiwetel Ejiofor) | John Leguizamo | virtual (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) |
| 27th | March 4, 2022 | Project Hail Mary (narr. Ray Porter) | Kal Penn | virtual (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) |
| 28th | March 28, 2023 | Finding Me (narr. Viola Davis) | Michelle Buteau | Pier Sixty New York, New York |
| 29th | March 4, 2024 | Surrender (narr. Bono) | Nia Vardalos | The Avalon Los Angeles, California |