# Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections

The Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections 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 collection of short stories released in a given year. From 2000 to 2001 it was given as the Audie Award for Short Stories, Essays, or Collections. It has been awarded since 2000.

## Winners and finalists

Winners are listed at the beginning of each year and are highlighted in green.

### 2000s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2000 5th | Malice Domestic: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1997) | Anne Perry et al. | Patrick Macnee, Juliet Mills, Judy Geeson, Christopher Cazenove, Stephanie Beacham, Reed Diamond, and William Windom | NewStar Media | Winner |
| 2000 5th | Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories (1993) | Philip Roth | Theodore Bikel, Harlan Ellison, Elliott Gould, John Rubinstein, and Jerry Zaks | NewStar Media | Finalist |
| 2000 5th | Zoe Caldwell reads Oscar Wilde Fairy Tales (1999) | Oscar Wilde | Christopher Plummer and Zoe Caldwell | NYS Theatre Institute/Family Classic Audio Books | Finalist |
| 2001 6th | Ten by Maugham (2000) | W. Somerset Maugham | Full cast | KCRW | Winner |
| 2001 6th | High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (1998) | Clint Willis | Eric Conger, George Guidall, Simon Prebble, and Alan Sklar | Listen & Live Audio | Finalist |
| 2001 6th | Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000) | David Sedaris | David Sedaris | Time Warner AudioBooks | Finalist |
| 2002 7th | Blood: Stories of Life and Death from the Civil War (2000) | Ulysses S. Grant et al. | Christopher Graybill, Colleen Delany, Grover Gardner, Barrett Whitener, and Delores King Williams | Listen & Live Audio | Winner |
| 2002 7th | Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1989) | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Robert Sean Leonard, Peter Gallagher, Blythe Danner, Eric Stoltz, Martha Plimpton, Dylan Baker, Parker Posey, Bill Irwin, and Campbell Scott | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2002 7th | Texas Bound IV (2001) | Kay Cattarulla | Marcia Gay Harden, Larry Hagman, and Judith Ivey | Arts & Letters Live/Southern Methodist University Press | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Classic Women's Short Stories (1994) | Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin, and Virginia Woolf | Carole Boyd, Liza Ross, and Teresa Gallagher | Naxos Audiobooks | Winner |
| 2003 8th | Classic Chinese Short Stories (vol. 1) (2003) | Feng Meng-lung, Lin Yu Tang, P'u Sung-ling, et al. | Charlton Griffin | Audio Connoisseur | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | In the Ravine & Other Short Stories (1900) | Anton Chekhov | Kenneth Branagh | Naxos Audiobooks | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | My Man Jeeves (1919) | P. G. Wodehouse | Martin Jarvis | Audio Partners | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | The Copper Peacock and Other Stories (1991) | Ruth Rendell | Penelope Keith | BBC Audiobooks America | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Home on the Prairie: Stories from Lake Wobegon (2003) | Garrison Keillor | Garrison Keillor | HighBridge Audio | Winner |
| 2004 9th | Classic Chinese Short Stories (vol. 2) (2004) | Yuan Chen, Lien Pu, Hsieh Liang, Mao Tun, and Feng Meng-lung | Charlton Griffin | Audio Connoisseur | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (2003) | ZZ Packer | Shirley Jordan | HighBridge Audio | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Shepherds Abiding (2003) | Jan Karon | John McDonough | Penguin Audiobooks | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | The John Cheever Audio Collection (2003) | John Cheever | John Cheever, Blythe Danner, Peter Gallagher, Edward Herrmann, George Plimpton, and Meryl Streep | Caedmon/HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004) | David Sedaris | David Sedaris | Time Warner AudioBooks | Winner |
| 2005 10th | Chain of Command (2004) | Seymour M. Hersh | Peter Friedman and Seymour Hersh | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations (1995) | Alexander McCall Smith | Simon Prebble, Lisette Lecat, and Susan Lyons | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | The Short Stories of W. S. Maugham, Vol. 3 (2004) | W. Somerset Maugham | Charlton Griffin | Audio Connoisseur | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | Twisted (2003) | Jeffery Deaver | Boyd Gaines, Michele Pawk, and Frederick Weller | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Runaway (2004) | Alice Munro | Kymberly Dakin | BBC Audiobooks America | Winner |
| 2006 11th | Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (1990) | Yann Martel | Jeff Woodman, Johnny Stange, Randolph Jones, Barbara Caruso, and David Ledoux | HighBridge Audio | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Fairy Tales (TBD) | Hans Christian Andersen (trans. Tina Nunnally) | Kate Reading and Richard Matthews | Penguin Audiobooks | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | The Girl Who Married a Lion (2004) | Alexander McCall Smith | Davina Porter, Lisette Lecat, Steven Crossley, Danai Gurira, and Nyambi Nyambi | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | The Noël Coward Collection (2007) | Noël Coward | Noël Coward, Simon Jones, and Margaret Leighton | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | This I Believe (2006) | Jay Allison and Dan Gediman | Bill Gates, Martha Graham, et al. | Audio Renaissance | Winner |
| 2007 12th | Fragile Things (2006) | Neil Gaiman | Neil Gaiman | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | A Grown-Up's Halloween (2006) | Yuri Rasovsky | Yuri Rasovsky | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Paris Stories (2002) | Mavis Gallant | Lorna Raver and Yuri Rasovsky | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | The Turning (2005) | Tim Winton | Humphrey Bower and Caroline Lee | Bolinda Audio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | 20th Century Ghosts (2005) | Joe Hill | David Ledoux | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2008 13th | Big Country (2007) | Louis L'Amour | Stefan Rudnicki | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Grace Under Fire (2007) | Andrew Carroll | Patrick Lawlor | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Growing Up Ethnic in America (1999) | Maria Mazziotti Gillan et al. | Full cast | Penguin Audio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Selected Readings from The Portable Dorothy Parker (2006) | Marion Meade | Lorna Raver | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) | Kurt Vonnegut | Rip Torn and Michael Vonnegut | Penguin Audio | Winner |
| 2009 14th | Fine Just the Way It Is (2008) | Annie Proulx | Will Patton | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | The Bandana Republic (2008) | Louis Reyes Rivera and Bruce George | Full cast | Audible | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | This I Believe II (2004) | Jay Allison and Dan Gediman | Full cast | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008) | David Sedaris | David Sedaris | Hachette Audio | Finalist |

### 2010s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2010 15th | Black Magazine Audio Magazine (Vol. 1) (2009) | Hugh B. Cave, Paul Cain, Frederick Nebel, Reuben J. Shay, Dashiell Hammett, and William Cole | Full cast | Blackstone Audio | Winner |
| 2010 15th | The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1 (1887–1927) | Arthur Conan Doyle | Charlton Griffin | Audio Connoisseur | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Just After Sunset (2008) | Stephen King | Stephen King, Jill Eikenberry, Holter Graham, George Guidall, Ron McLarty, Denis O'Hare, and full cast | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Love Letters of Great Men (vol. 2) (2008) | Ursula Doyle | Anton Lesser | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Nothing with Strings (2008) | Bailey White | Lorna River | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Stories: All-New Tales (2010) | Neil Gaiman | Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Peter Francis James, Katherine Kellgren, and Euan Morton | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2011 16th | A Matter of Matter (1949) | L. Ron Hubbard | Corey Burton, R. F. Daley, Jim Meskimen, Tait Ruppert, and Josh Thompson | Galaxy Press | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | And Thereby Hangs a Tale (2010) | Jeffrey Archer | Gerard Doyle | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | How Did You Get This Number (2010) | Sloane Crosley | Sloane Crosley | Penguin Audio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Ford County (2009) | John Grisham | John Grisham | Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | A Touch of Dead (2009) | Charlaine Harris | Johanna Parker | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Long After Midnight (1976) | Ray Bradbury | Michael Prichard | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Selected Shorts: New American Stories (2011) | Aleksandar Hemon, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Sherman Alexie | Boyd Gaines, Rita Wolf, Condola Rashad, and BD Wong | Symphony Space | Winner |
| 2012 17th | Black Mask Stories (Vol. 1) (2011) | Keith Alan Deutsch, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, George Harmon Coxe, Frederick Nebel, and Lester Dent | Full cast | HighBridge Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Bullfighting (2011) | Roddy Doyle | Lorcan Cranitch | AudioGO | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1980) | Eudora Welty | Barbara Rosenblat, Gabra Zackman, Marc Vietor, Kevin Pariseau, L. J. Ganser, Katherine Kellgren, Allyson Johnson, Victor Bevine, Elisabeth Rodgers, Jonathan Davis, Oliver Wyman, Jeremy Gage, Eileen Stevens, Joe Barrett, Jessica Almasy, Khristine Hvam, Suzanne Toren, Gayle Hendriz, and Mark Boyett | Audible | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories (1892–1914) | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Kirsten Potter | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | You Known When the Men Are Gone (2011) | Siobhan Fallon | Cassandra Campbell | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Astray (2012) | Emma Donoghue | Khristine Hvam, James Langton, Robert Petkoff, Suzanne Toren, and Dion Graham | Hachette Audio | Winner |
| 2013 18th | I Am an Executioner (2012) | Rajesh Parameswaran | Neil Shah and Lina Patel | Dreamscape Media | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) | Joan Didion | Diane Keaton | Audible | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Welcome to Bordertown (2011) | Holly Black and Ellen Kushner | Holly Black, Ellen Kushner, Cassandra Campbell, and MacLeod Andrews | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | When It Happens to You (2012) | Molly Ringwald | Molly Ringwald | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Sherlock Holmes in America (2009) | Jon L. Lellenberg, Martin H. Greenberg, and Daniel Stashower | Graeme Malcolm | Audible | Winner |
| 2014 19th | The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951) | Carson McCullers | David Ledoux, Joe Barrett, Thérèse Plummer, Kevin Pariseau, Suzanne Toren, Edoardo Ballerini, and Barbara Rosenblat | Audible | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | The Cage Keeper and Other Stories (1989) | Andre Dubus III | Andre Dubus III | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Nine Inches (2013) | Tom Perrotta | William Dufris, Andi Arndt, Tom Perrotta, and Rupert Degas | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Nothing Gold Can Stay (2013) | Ron Rash | Alexander Cendese, Robert Petkoff, Prentice Onayemi, Christian Baskous, and Phoebe Strole | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | We Live in Water (2013) | Jess Walter | Edoardo Ballerini and Jess Walter | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (2014) | Hilary Mantel | Jane Carr | Macmillan Audio | Winner |
| 2015 20th | Dangerous Women (2014) | George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois | Claudia Black, Scott Brick, Karen Dotrice, Jonathan Frakes, Iain Glen, Janis Ian, Stana Katic, Inna Korobkina, Jenna Lamia, Lee Meriwether, Emily Rankin, Maggi-Meg Reed, Fred Sanders, Allan Scott-Douglas, Sophie Turner, Harriet Walter, and Jake Weber | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Faceoff (2014) | Linwood Barclay, Steve Berry, Lee Child, Lincoln Child, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Linda Fairstein, Joseph Finder, Lisa Gardner, Heather Graham, Peter James, Raymond Khoury, Dennis Lehane, John Lescroart, Steve Martini, T. Jefferson Parker, Douglas Preston, Ian Rankin, James Rollins, M. J. Rose, John Sandford, R. L. Stine, and F. Paul Wilson | Dylan Baker, Dennis Boutsikaris, Jeremy Bobb, Daniel Gerroll, January LaVoy, and David Baldacci | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths (1966) | Bernard Evslin | Todd Haberkorn | Graymalkin Media | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | The Legend of Drizzt (1988–2014) | R. A. Salvatore | Dan Harmon, Danny Pudi, Al Yankovic, Felicia Day, Greg Grunberg, Melissa Rauch, Michael Chiklis, Sean Astin, Tom Felton, David Duchovny, Ice T, and Wil Wheaton | Audible | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | The Wily O'Reilly (2014) | Patrick Taylor | John Keating | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017 22nd | The Brink (2015) | Austin Bunn | Austin Bunn, Luke Daniels, Tanya Eby, Talph Lister, Amy McFadden, Mikael Naramore, and Nick Podehl | Blunder Woman Productions (via ACX) | Winner |
| 2017 22nd | Certain Dark Things (2015) | M. J. Pack | Jacob York | Audible | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Coffee at Luke's (2007) | Jennifer Crusie | Colby Elliott | Last Word Audio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001) | Arthur C. Clarke | Ray Porter, Jonathan Davis, and Ralph Lister | Audible | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | East, West (1994) | Salman Rushdie | Sunil Malhotra and Steven Crossley | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Killer Women (2016) | Louise Millar, Alex Marwood, and Tammy Cohen | Clare Corbett, Adjoa Andoh, Rachel Atkins, and Carl Prekopp | Audible | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | The Language of Thorns (2017) | Leigh Bardugo | Lauren Fortgang | Audible | Winner |
| 2018 23rd | Difficult Women (2017) | Roxane Gay | Robin Miles | Audible | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Good Behavior (2016) | Blake Crouch | Blake Crouch and Julia Whelan | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972) | Charles Bukowski | Will Patton | Audible | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (2017) | Sherman Alexie | Sherman Alexie | Hachette Audio Books | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Heads of the Colored People (2019) | Nafissa Thompson-Spires | Adenrele Ojo | HighBridge Audio (Recorded Books) | Winner |
| 2019 24th | Eveningland (2017) | Michael Knight | Scott Sowers | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | The Flame (2018) | Leonard Cohen | Margaret Atwood, Seth Rogen, Michael Shannon, Will Patton, Rodney Crowell, John Doe, Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Maggie Hoffman, Ross Marquand, and Neela Vaswani | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | The Grass Harp (1951) | Truman Capote | Cody Roberts | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | You Think It, I'll Say It (2018) | Curtis Sittenfeld | Emily Rankin and Mark Deakins | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |

### 2020s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2020 25th | Full Throttle (2019) | Joe Hill | Zachary Quinto, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Neil Gaiman, Ashleigh Cummings, Joe Hill, Laysla De Oliveira, Nate Corddry, Connor Jessup, Stephen Lang, and George Guidall | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2020 25th | Evidence of the Affair (2018) | Taylor Jenkins Reid | Julia Whelan, George Newbern, James Daniels, and Dara Rosenberg | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Forward (2019) | Veronica Roth, Blake Crouch, N. K. Jemisin, Amor Towles, Paul Tremblay, and Andy Weir | Evan Rachel Wood, Rosa Salazar, Jason Isaacs, David Harbour, Steven Strait, and Janina Gavankar | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | I'm Telling the Truth but I'm Lying (2019) | Bassey Ikpi | Bassey Ikpi | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Kabu Kabu (2013) | Nnedi Okorafor and Whoopi Goldberg | Yetide Badaki | Tantor Audio (Recorded Books) | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | The Chekhov Collection of Short Stories (2020) | Anton Chekhov | Richard Armitage | Audible | Winner |
| 2021 26th | Burnt Tongues (2014) | Neil Krolicki, Chris Lewis Carter, Gayle Towell, Tony Liebhard, Michael De Vito, Jr., Tyler Jones, Phil Jourdan, Richard Lemmer, Amanda Gowin, Matt Egan, Fred Venturini, Brandon Tietz, Adam Skorupskas, Bryan Howie, Brien Piechos, Jason M. Fylon, Terence James Eeles, Keith Bule, Gus Moreno, and Daniel W. Broallt | Christopher David, Jordan Killam, Pete Cross, Cady Zuckerman, Nick Mondelli, David Bendena, Pat Grimes, Mark Owen, Kat Rose-Martin, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Katherine Littrell, James Patrick Cronin, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Cary Hite, Qarie Marshall, Jack Meloche, Thom Rivera, Steve West, Steve Wojtas, Tanya Eby, and Patrick Lawlor | Dreamscape | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Inquire Within (2020) | IN-Q | IN-Q | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Inside Jobs: Tales from a Time of Quarantine (2020) | Ben H. Winters | Scott Aiello, Kevin T. Collins, and Ellen Archer | Audible Originals | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020) | Cathy Park Hong | Cathy Park Hong | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Blackout (2021) | Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon | Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Dion Graham, Imani Parks, Jordan Cobb, Shayna Small, A.J. Beckles, and Bahni Turpin | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2022 27th | The Best American Short Stories 2021 | Jesmyn Ward and Heidi Pitlor (editors) | Lisa Flanagan et al. | HMH Audio (HarperCollins) | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Binge | Douglas Coupland | Douglas Coupland et al. | Penguin Random House Canada | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | How It Ends | Rachel Howzell Hall | Joniece Abbott-Pratt | Audible Originals | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Lyrics for Rock Stars | Heather Mateus Sappenfield | Michael Crouch | V Press LC | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Getaway | Sally Hepworth, Zakiya Dalila Harris, Catherine Steadman, Luanne Rice, Jess Lourey, and Rumaan Alam | Candice Moll, Shayna Small, Samara Naeymi, Jennifer Jill Araya, Carly Robins, and Fajer Al-Kaisi | Brilliance Publishing | Winner |
| 2023 28th | Generation Wonder | Barry Lyga and others | Emily Lawrence, Jaime Lincoln Smith, Sarah Naughton, Mark Sanderlin, Ron Butler, James Anderson Foster, Jennifer Aquino, Tim Campbell, Jeanette Illidge, Ariana Delawari, Frankie Corzo, Kenny Ramos, and Eunice Wong | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Giving the Devil His Due: A Charity Anthology | Rebecca Brewer (ed.) Writers: Lee Murray, Jason Sanford, Peter Tieryas, Kelley Armstrong, Kenesha Williams, Linda D. Addison, Christina Henry, Hillary Monahan, Nisi Shawl, Leanna Renee Hieber, Kaaron Warren, Stephen Graham Jones, Errick Nunnally, Angela Yuriko Smith, Dana Cameron, and Nicholas Kaufmann | Alyssa Bresnahan, Brian Nishii, Christina Moore, Cynthia Farrell, Edoardo Ballerini, Erin Moon, Karen Chilton, Kate Forbes, Nancy Wu, Robin Miles, Samuel Roukin, and Stephanie Cozart | The Pixel Project | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Marriage: From the Feminine Perspective | Christine Mascott (ed.) | Christine Mascott | Christine Mascott | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Rebent Sinner | Ivan Coyote | Ivan Coyote | ECW Press Ltd. | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver | Mary Oliver, with the contributions by Sophia Bush, Ross Gay, Samin Nosrat, Rainn Wilson, and Susan Cain | Sophia Bush | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2024 29th | The Adventures of Finn MacCool & Other Irish Folk Tales | Liam Gerrard (editor) | Liam Gerrard | Raconteurs Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | The Best American Short Stories 2023 (2023) | Min Jin Lee and Heidi Pitlor | Laura Copland, Jeena Yi, and a full cast | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | A Guest at the Feast | Colm Tóibín | Colm Tóibín | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | Obsession Collection | Nita Prose, B.A. Paris, Minka Kent, Julie Clark, Chris Bohjalian, and Alyssa Cole | Susan Dalian, Kimberly Woods, and a full cast | Brilliance Publishing | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | You Like It Darker: Stories | Stephen King | Will Patton with Stephen King, afterword read by Sean Patrick Hopkins | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner |
| 2025 30th | Glory Days | Simon Rich | John Tóibín | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | The History of Sound | Ben Shattuck | Ben Shattuck, Zachary Chastain, and a full cast | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | Letters from Klara | Tove Jansson | Indira Varma | Saga Egmont | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | What If We Get It Right? | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |