# Audie Award for Narration by the Author

The Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in audiobook narration for an audiobook narrated by the author released in a given year. Before 2002 the award was given as the Audie Award for Solo Narration by the Author or Authors. It has been awarded since 1998.

## Winners and finalists

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

### 1990s

| Year | Audiobook | Author/Narrator | Publisher | Result |
| 1998 3rd | Sula (1973) | Toni Morrison | Random House Audio | Winner |
| 1998 3rd | My Brother (1997) | Jamaica Kincaid | Penguin Audiobooks | Finalist |
| 1998 3rd | Wobegon Boy (1997) | Garrison Keillor | HighBridge Audio | Finalist |
| 1999 4th | Still Me (1998) | Christopher Reeve | Random House Audio | Winner |
| 1999 4th | Big Screen Drive-In Theater (1998) | Donald Davis | August House | Finalist |
| 1999 4th | Reporting Live (1999) | Lesley Stahl | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |

### 2000s

| Year | Audiobook | Author/Narrator | Publisher | Result |
| 2000 5th | The Exorcist (1971) | William Peter Blatty | NewStar Media | Winner |
| 2000 5th | Hannibal (1999) | Thomas Harris | Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio | Finalist |
| 2000 5th | 'Tis (1999) | Frank McCourt | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2001 6th | The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (2000) | Sidney Poitier | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2001 6th | From This Day Forward (2000) | Cokie Roberts and Steve Roberts | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2001 6th | John Glenn (1999) | John Glenn | Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio | Finalist |
| 2002 7th | Ava's Man (2002) | Rick Bragg | Random House Audio | Winner |
| 2002 7th | Believing It All (2002) | Marc Parent | Time Warner AudioBooks | Finalist |
| 2002 7th | The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001) | Amy Tan (narrated with Joan Chen) | New Millennium Audio | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Standing in the Rainbow (2002) | Fannie Flagg | Random House Audio | Winner |
| 2003 8th | Lucky Man (2002) | Michael J. Fox | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Nothing Is Impossible (2002) | Christopher Reeve | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore (2001) | Ron Powers | Audio Partners | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Vernon Can Read! (2001) | Vernon Jordan (written with Annette Gordon-Reed) | BBC Audiobooks America | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Naked in Baghdad (2003) | Anne Garrels | Audio Renaissance | Winner |
| 2004 9th | I Am the Central Park Jogger (2003) | Trisha Meili | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (2003) | Al Franken | HighBridge Audio | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Madam Secretary (2003) | Madeleine Albright | BBC Audiobooks America | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | The Great Unraveling (2003) | Paul Krugman | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | The Lakota Way (2002) | Joseph M. Marshall III | Makoche | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | Against All Enemies (2004) | Richard A. Clarke | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner |
| 2005 10th | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004) | David Sedaris | AudioBooks | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | My Life (2004) | Bill Clinton | Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | Off the Cuff (2004) | Carson Kressley | HighBridge Audio | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | There and Back Again (2004) | Sean Astin (written with Joe Layden) | Audio Renaissance | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | The Tender Bar (2005) | J. R. Moehringer | Time Warner AudioBooks | Winner |
| 2006 11th | 1776 (2005) | David McCullough | Simon & Schuster | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Kiss Me Like a Stranger (2005) | Gene Wilder | Audio Renaissance | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | My Life So Far (1999) | Jane Fonda | Books on Tape | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | The Truth (with Jokes) (2005) | Al Franken | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | The Tortilla Curtain (1995) | T. C. Boyle | Blackstone Audio | Winner |
| 2007 12th | Marian McPartland's Jazz World: All in Good Time (1975) | Marian McPartland | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood (2006) | Teri Garr | Penguin Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Teacher Man (2005) | Frank McCourt | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | The Mighty and the Almighty (2006) | Madeleine Albright | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (2007) | Garrison Keillor | HighBridge Audio | Winner |
| 2008 13th | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2007) | Barbara Kingsolver (narrated with Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp) | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Here If You Need Me (2007) | Kate Braestrup | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Michael Tolliver Lives (2007) | Armistead Maupin | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Neverwhere (1996) | Neil Gaiman | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Traveler (2007) | Ron McLarty | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008) | David Sedaris | Hachette Audio | Winner |
| 2009 14th | Just Who Will You Be? (2008) | Maria Shriver | HyperionAudio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | Ladies of Liberty (2009) | Cokie Roberts | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | Letter to My Daughter (2008) | Maya Angelou | Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | The Girl Who Stopped Swimming (2008) | Joshilyn Jackson | Hachette Audio | Finalist |

### 2010s

| Year | Audiobook | Author/Narrator | Publisher | Result |
| 2010 15th | Odd and the Frost Giants (2008) | Neil Gaiman | HarperChildrensAudio | Winner |
| 2010 15th | Manhood for Amateurs (2009) | Michael Chabon | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | A Little Bit Wicked (2009) | Kristin Chenoweth | Oasis Audio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Baseball Great (2009) | Tim Green | HarperChildrensAudio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Half Broke Horses (2009) | Jeannette Walls | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Nanny McPhee Returns (2010) | Emma Thompson | Macmillan Audio | Winner |
| 2011 16th | Crazy Heart (1987) | Thomas Cobb | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | A Christmas Blizzard (2009) | Garrison Keillor | HighBridge Audio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | The Color Purple (1982) | Alice Walker | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Role Models (2010) | John Waters | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Beauty Queens (2011) | Libba Bray | Scholastic Audio | Winner |
| 2012 17th | Bossypants (2011) | Tina Fey | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Drama (2011) | John Lithgow | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Seriously…I'm Kidding (2011) | Ellen DeGeneres | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Stories I Only Tell My Friends (2011) | Rob Lowe | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Society's Child (2008) | Janis Ian | Audible | Winner |
| 2013 18th | American Dervish (2012) | Ayad Akhtar | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | How to Be Black (2012) | Baratunde Thurston | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Most Talkative (2012) | Andy Cohen | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | When It Happens to You (2012) | Molly Ringwald | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Yes, Chef (2012) | Marcus Samuelsson (written with Veronica Chambers) | Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? (2013) | Billy Crystal | Macmillan Audio | Winner |
| 2014 19th | Grace: A Memoir (2012) | Grace Coddington (written with Michael Roberts) | Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | I, Rhoda (2013) | Valerie Harper | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish (2013) | David Rakoff | Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013) | Neil Gaiman | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Shirley Jones (2013) | Shirley Jones | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Not My Father's Son (2014) | Alan Cumming | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2015 20th | A Fighting Chance (2014) | Elizabeth Warren | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (2014) | Herbie Hancock (written with Lisa Dickey) | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | What I Know for Sure (2014) | Oprah Winfrey | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Yes Please (2014) | Amy Poehler (narrated with Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Mike Schur, Eileen and William Poehler, Patrick Stewart, and Kathleen Turner) | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Born with Teeth (2015) | Kate Mulgrew | Hachette Audio | Winner |
| 2016 21st | The Art of Asking (2014) | Amanda Palmer | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Furiously Happy (2015) | Jenny Lawson | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | I Must Say (2014) | Martin Short | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Thirteen Ways of Looking (2015) | Colum McCann | Books on Tape/Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | A Life in Parts (2016) | Bryan Cranston | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner |
| 2017 22nd | Dear Mr. You (2015) | Mary-Louise Parker | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo (2016) | Amy Schumer | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | In Such Good Company (2016) | Carol Burnett | Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | LaRose (2016) | Louise Erdrich | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | The View from the Cheap Seats (2016) | Neil Gaiman | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Norse Mythology (2017) | Neil Gaiman | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2018 23rd | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017) | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Born a Crime (2016) | Trevor Noah | Audible | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Love Poems (1997) and A Good Cry (2017) | Nikki Giovanni | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | This Fight Is Our Fight (2017) | Elizabeth Warren | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | The Secret of Nightingale Wood (2016) | Lucy Strange | Scholastic Audio | Winner |
| 2019 24th | How Not to Get Shot (2018) | D. L. Hughley | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | In Pieces (2018) | Sally Field | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | My Pride (2017) | Alton Fitzgerald White | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | The Poet X (2018) | Elizabeth Acevedo | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Promise Me, Dad (2017) | Joe Biden | Audible | Finalist |

### 2020s

| Year | Audiobook | Author/Narrator | Publisher | Result |
| 2020 25th | With the Fire on High (2019) | Elizabeth Acevedo | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2020 25th | Becoming (2018) | Michelle Obama | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Inside Out (2019) | Demi Moore | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Madame Badobedah (2019) | Sophie Dahl | Bolinda Audio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Shortest Way Home (2019) | Pete Buttigieg | HighBridge Audio (Recorded Books) | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Tough Love (2019) | Susan Rice | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | More Myself (2020) | Alicia Keys | Macmillan Audio | Winner |
| 2021 26th | Acid for the Children (2019) | Flea | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Hollywood Park (2020) | Mikel Jollett | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Homie (2020) | Danez Smith | HighBridge Audio (Recorded Books) | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | In Dependence (2009) | Sarah Ladipo Manyika | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Little Weirds (2019) | Jenny Slate | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | A Promised Land (2020) | Barack Obama | Penguin Random House Audio | Winner |
| 2022 27th | All the Rage: A Partial Memoir in Two Acts and a Prologue | Brad Fraser | Penguin Random House Canada | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Going There | Katie Couric | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Stories to Tell (2021) | Richard Marx | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | The Truth About Lies | Aja Raden | Brilliance Publishing | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Vulnerable AF | Tarriona Ball | Andrews McMeel Publishing | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Finding Me (2022) | Viola Davis | Harper Audio | Winner |
| 2023 28th | Apparently There Were Complaints | Sharon Gless | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Hello, Molly! | Molly Shannon | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Ten Steps to Nanette | Hannah Gadsby | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Waypoints | Sam Heughan | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | It. Goes. So. Fast. - The Year of No Do-Overs | Mary Louise Kelly | Macmillan Audio | Winner |
| 2024 29th | The Covenant of Water (2023) | Abraham Verghese | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | Sisters of the Lost Marsh | Lucy Strange | Scholastic Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | The Light We Carry | Michelle Obama | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | Making It So | Patrick Stewart | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 30th | Bits and Pieces | Whoopi Goldberg | Blackstone Publishing | Winner |
| 2024 30th | The 23rd Hero | Rebecca Anne Nguyen | Castle Bridge Media | Finalist |
| 2024 30th | Bookshops & Bonedust | Travis Baldree | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 30th | Knife | Salman Rushdie | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 30th | Sorry for the Inconvenience | Farah Naz Rishi | Brilliance Publishing | Finalist |