# Audie Award for Fiction

The Audie Award for Fiction is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It recognizes excellence in narration, production, and content for a fiction audiobook released in a given year, typically excluding speculative fiction. Before 2008, the award was known as the Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction. It has been awarded since 1996.

## Winners and finalists
### 1990s

| Award Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 1996 1st | The Homecoming (1964) | Earl Hamner, Jr. | Richard Thomas | Audio Renaissance | Winner |
| 1996 1st | Dead Man's Walk (1995) | Larry McMurtry | Will Patton | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 1996 1st | Montana 1948 (1993) | Larry Watson | Beau Bridges | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 1997 2nd | The Green Mile (1996) | Stephen King | Frank Muller | Penguin Audiobooks | Winner |
| 1997 2nd | The Runaway Jury (1996) | John Grisham | Frank Muller | Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 1997 2nd | Odyssey (8th-7th century BC) | Homer (trans. Robert Fagles) | Ian McKellen | Penguin Audiobooks | Finalist |
| 1998 3rd | The Breaker (1973) | Kit Denton | Terence Donovan | Bolinda Audio | Winner |
| 1998 3rd | American Pastoral (1997) | Philip Roth | Ron Silver | Dove Audio | Finalist |
| 1998 3rd | Lolita (1955) | Vladimir Nabokov | Jeremy Irons | Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 1999 4th | A Widow for One Year (1998) | John Irving | George Guidall | Random House Audio | Winner |
| 1999 4th | Oliver Twist (1838) | Charles Dickens | Miriam Margolyes | Audio Partners Publishing Corp. | Finalist |
| 1999 4th | Summer Sisters (1998) | Judy Blume | Kate Reading | Books on Tape | Finalist |

### 2000s

| Award Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2000 5th | I Know This Much Is True (1998) | Wally Lamb | George Guidall | Recorded Books | Winner |
| 2000 5th | Duane's Depressed (1999) | Larry McMurtry | Larry McMurtry | NewStar Media | Finalist |
| 2000 5th | The Testament (1999) | John Grisham | Frank Muller | Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio | Finalist |
| 2001 6th | Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000) | Tom Robbins | Keith Szarabajka | Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio | Winner |
| 2001 6th | Dubliners (1914) | James Joyce | Frank McCourt, Malachy McCourt, Dan O'Herlihy, Brendan Coyle, Aaron Hinds, T. P. McKenna, et al. | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2001 6th | War of the Rats (1999) | David L. Robbins | George Guidall | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2002 7th | The Talisman (1984) | Stephen King and Peter Straub | Frank Muller | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner |
| 2002 7th | Bel Canto (2001) | Ann Patchett | Anna Fields | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2002 7th | Priestess of Avalon (2000) | Marion Zimmer Bradley | Bernadette Dunne | Books on Tape | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Middlesex (2002) | Jeffrey Eugenides | Kristoffer Tabori | | Winner |
| 2003 8th | Atonement (2001) | Ian McEwan | Jill Tanner | | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Austerlitz (2001) | W. G. Sebald | Richard Matthews | | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Sea Glass (2002) | Anita Shreve | Judith Ann Gantly | | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Unless (2002) | Carol Shields | Joan Allen | | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | All Over Creation (2004) | Ruth Ozeki | Anna Fields | | Winner |
| 2004 9th | The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003) | Mitch Albom | Erik Singer | | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Monstrous Regiment (2003) | Terry Pratchett | Stephen Briggs | | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | The Namesake (2003) | Jhumpa Lahiri | Sarita Choudhury | | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | The Last Detective (2003) | Robert Crais | James Daniels | | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | The Darling (2005) | Russell Banks | Mary Beth Hurt | | Winner |
| 2005 10th | Going Postal (2004) | Terry Pratchett | Stephen Briggs | | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004) | Tom Wolfe | Dylan Baker | | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004) | Susanna Clarke | Simon Prebble | | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | Our Sunshine (1991 | Robert Drewe | Michael Veitch | | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | A Slight Trick of the Mind (2005) | Mitch Cullin | Simon Jones | | Winner |
| 2006 11th | The Last Kingdom (2004) | Bernard Cornwell | Jamie Glover | | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Road to Purgatory (2004) | Max Allan Collins | Stanley Tucci | | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Survivor in Death (2005) | J. D. Robb | Susan Ericksen | | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | The Motive (2004) | John Lescroart | David Colacci | | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Rise and Shine (2006) | Anna Quindlen | Carol Monda | | Winner |
| 2007 12th | Restless (2006) | William Boyd | Rosamund Pike | | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Telegraph Days (2006) | Larry McMurtry | Annie Potts | | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | The Prestige (1995) | Christopher Priest | Simon Vance | | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | The Two-Minute Rule (2006) | Robert Crais | Christopher Graybill | | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Water for Elephants (2006) | Sara Gruen | David LeDoux and John Randolph-Jones | | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Tallgrass (2008) | Sandra Dallas | Lorelei King | | Winner |
| 2008 13th | Exile (2007) | Richard North Patterson | Dennis Boutsikaris | | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | The Friday Night Knitting Club (2006) | Kate Jacobs(writer) | Carrington MacDuffie | | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | The Tenderness of Wolves (2006) | Stef Penney | Sally Armstrong and Adam Sims | | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2007) | Maggie O'Farrell | Anne Flosnick | | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | Duma Key (2008) | Stephen King | John Slattery | | Winner |
| 2009 14th | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008) | Mary Ann Shaffer | Paul Boehmer, Susan Duerdan, and full cast | | Winner |
| 2009 14th | Change of Heart (2008) | Jodi Picoult | Danielle Ferland, Jim Frangione, Jenny Ikeda, Stafford Clarke-Price, and Nicole Poole | | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | A Prisoner of Birth (2008) | Jeffrey Archer | Roger Allam | | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | The Lace Reader (2006) | Brunonia Barry | Alyssa Bresnahan | | Finalist |

### 2010s

| Award Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2010 15th | The Help (2009) | Kathryn Stockett | Cassandra Campbell, Jenna Lamia, Octavia Spencer, and Bahni Turpin | Penguin Audiobooks | Winner |
| 2010 15th | The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) | Tom Wolfe | Joe Barrett | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Face of Betrayal (2009) | Lis Wiehl and April Henry | Pam Turlow | Oasis Audio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | The Pigman (1968) | Paul Zindel | Eden Riegel and Charlie McWade | Graymalkin Media | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Slumdog Millionaire (2005) | Vikas Swarup | Christopher Simpson | BBC Audiobooks America | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Winter's Bone (2006) | Daniel Woodrell | Emma Galvin | Hachette Audio | Winner |
| 2011 16th | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009) | Seth Grahame-Smith | Katherine Kellgren | Audible | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | The Postmistress (2010) | Sarah Blake | Orlagh Cassidy | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Fall of Giants (2010) | Ken Follett | John Lee | Penguin Audio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | The Lonely Polygamist (2010) | Brady Udall | David Aaron Baker | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Every Last One (2010) | Anna Quindlen | Hope Davis | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Alas, Babylon (1959 | Pat Frank | Will Patton | Audible | Winner |
| 2012 17th | American Gods (2001) | Neil Gaiman | Dennis Boutsikaris and full cast | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Heat Rises (2011) | Richard Castle | Johnny Heller | Hyperion Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Portrait of a Spy (2011) | Daniel Silva | Simon Vance | HarperAudio/Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | The Winds of War (1971) | Herman Wouk | Kevin Pariseau | Audible | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | The Handmaid's Tale (1985) | Margaret Atwood | Claire Danes | Audible | Winner |
| 2013 18th | The Bartender's Tale (2012) | Ivan Doig | David Aaron Baker | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Beautiful Ruins (2012) | Jess Walter | Edoardo Ballerini | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | A Rage in Harlem (1985) | Chester Himes | Samuel L. Jackson | Audible | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Speaks the Nightbird (2002) | Robert R. McCammon | Edoardo Ballerini | Audible | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Doctor Sleep (2013) | Stephen King | Will Patton | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner |
| 2014 19th | The Golem and the Jinni (2013) | Helene Wecker | George Guidall | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | The Good House (2013) | Ann Leary | Mary Beth Hurt | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | The Imposter Bride (2012) | Nancy Richler | Tavia Gilbert | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Jacob's Oath (2013) | Martin Fletcher | George Guidall | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2012) | Neil Gaiman | Neil Gaiman | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | All the Light We Cannot See (2014) | Anthony Doerr | Zach Appelman | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner |
| 2015 20th | Five and Twenty-Fives (2014) | Michael Pitre | Kevin T. Collins, Nick Sullivan, Jay Snyder, Fajer Al-Kaisi, and Michael Pitre | Audible | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | The Invention of Wings (2014) | Sue Monk Kidd | Sue Monk Kidd, Jenna Lamia, and Adepero Oduye | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Mr. Mercedes (2014) | Stephen King | Will Patton | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Us (2014) | David Nicholls | David Haig | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Written in My Own Heart's Blood (2014) | Diana Gabaldon | Davina Porter | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | The Nightingale (2015) | Kristin Hannah | Polly Stone | Macmillan Audio | Winner |
| 2016 21st | Citizens Creek (2015) | Lalita Tademy | Bahni Turpin and J. D. Jackson | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | A God in Ruins (2015) | Kate Atkinson | Alex Jennings | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Kitchens of the Great Midwest (2015) | J. Ryan Stradal | Amy Ryan and Michael Stuhlbarg | Books on Tape/Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | The Last Bus to Wisdom (2015) | Ivan Doig | David Baker | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | The Sellout (2015) | Paul Beatty | Prentice Onayemi | Audible | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Sister of Mine (2016) | Sabra Waldfogel | Bahni Turpin | Brilliance Audio | Winner |
| 2017 22nd | America's First Daughter (2016) | Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie | Cassandra Campbell | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Belgravia (2026 | Julian Fellowes | Juliet Stevenson | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Darktown (2016) | Thomas Mullen | Andre Holland | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | End of Watch (2016) | Stephen King | Will Patton | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017) | Gail Honeyman | Cathleen McCarron | Penguin Audio | Winner |
| 2018 23rd | An Almond for a Parrot (2016) | Wray Delaney | Rachel Atkins | Harlequin Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Beartown (2016) | Fredrik Backman with Neil Smith (trans.) | Marin Ireland | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | I Liked My Life (2017) | Abby Fabiaschi | Susan Bennett, Dan Bittner, and Thérèse Plummer | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson (2013) | Nancy Peacock | JD Jackson | HighBridge Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (2017) | Lisa See | Ruthie Ann Miles, Kimiko Glenn, et al. | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2018) | Heather Morris | Richard Armitage | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2019 24th | An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (2018) | Hank Green | Kristen Sieh and Hank Green | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | The Clockmaker's Daughter (2018) | Kate Morton | Joanne Froggatt | Bolinda Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | The Great Alone (2018) | Kristin Hannah | Julia Whelan | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Life of Pi (2001) | Yann Martel | Vikas Adam | Audible | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Sanctuary (2017) | Judy Nunn | John Derum | | Finalist |

### 2020s

| Award Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2020 25th | City of Girls (2019) | Elizabeth Gilbert | Blair Brown | Penguin Random House Audio | Winner |
| 2020 25th | The Age of Light (2019) | Whitney Scharer | Thérèse Plummer | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Cilka's Journey (2019) | Heather Morris | Louise Brealey | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Colombiano (2017) | Rusty Young | Rusty Young and Brian J. Ramos | Bolinda Audio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | The House We Grew Up In (2013) | Lisa Jewell | Karina Fernandez | Dreamscape | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Such a Fun Age (2019) | Kiley Reid | Nicole Lewis | Penguin Random House Audio | Winner |
| 2021 26th | Big Lies in a Small Town (2020) | Diane Chamberlain | Susan Bennett | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | The Last Story of Mina Lee (2020) | Nancy Jooyoun Kim | Greta Jung | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | The Midnight Library (2020) | Matt Haig | Carey Mulligan | Canongate Books UK/Penguin Random House Audio US | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Sex and Vanity (2020) | Kevin Kwan | Lydia Look | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | The Final Revival of Opal & Nev (2021) | Dawnie Walton | Janina Edwards, Bahni Turpin, James Langton, Gabra Zackman, Dennis Boutsikaris, Steve West, André De Shields, Matthew Lloyd Davies, David Sadzin, Fiona Hardingham, George Newbern, Leon Nixon, Ines del Castillo, Jackie Sanders, Pete Simonelli, Priya Ayyar, and Robin Miles | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner |
| 2022 27th | All the Lonely People (2020) | Mike Gayle | Ben Onwukwe | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah | Julia Whelan | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | The Lincoln Highway (2021) | Amor Towles | Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland, and Dion Graham | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | The Nature of Fragile Things | Susan Meissner | Alana Kerr Collins and Jason Culp | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 27th | Mad Honey | Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan | Carrie Coon, Key Taw, Jodi Picoult, and Jennifer Finney Boylan | Penguin Random House Audio | Winner |
| 2023 27th | Across a Hundred Mountains | Reyna Grande | Marisa Blake and Cynthia Farrell | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 27th | The Bright Side of Running Club | Josie Lloyd | Danielle Cohen | Dreamscape Media | Finalist |
| 2023 27th | A House Full of Windsor | Kristin Contino | Barrie Kreinik | Wyatt-MacKenzie & Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 27th | Less is Lost (2017) | Andrew Sean Greer | Robert Petkoff | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 27th | Tracy Flick Can't Win (2022) | Tom Perrotta | Lucy Liu, Dennis Boutsikaris, Jeremy Bobb, Ramona Young, Ali Andre Ali, and Pete Simonelli, with a full cast | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | Tom Lake (2023) | Ann Patchett | Meryl Streep | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2024 29th | Birnam Wood (2023) | Eleanor Catton | Saskia Maarleveld | Audible Studios | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | Maame | Jessica George | Heather Agyepong | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | One Blood | Denene Millner | Bahni Turpin, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, and Tina Lifford | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | Yellowface (2023) | R. F. Kuang | Helen Laser | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | Rednecks | Taylor Brown | Ramiz Monsef | Recorded Books | Winner |
| 2025 30th | The Evolution of Annabel Craig | Lisa Grunwald | Erin Bennett | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | Hamlet's Children | Richard Kluger | Paul Woodson | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | The Ministry of Time: A Novel | Kaliane Bradley | George Weightman and Katie Leung | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | The Women (2024) | Kristin Hannah | Julia Whelan | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |