# Grammy Award al miglior album parlato

Il Grammy Award alla miglior registrazione di un audiolibro, narrazione e storytelling (Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording) è un premio dei Grammy Award conferito dalla National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences per la qualità del miglior album discografico parlato o opera narrata.
La categoria è stata modificata nel 2023 per includere anche gli audiolibri e lo storytelling. Fino al 2022, includeva anche la lettura di poesie che ora ha la sua categoria, Grammy Award al miglior album di poesie parlate (Best Spoken Word Poetry Album)..

## Storia del premio

Il premio è stato conferito a partire dal 1959.
Nel corso degli anni il nome del premio è variato. Qui sotto viene riportata la cronologia dei vari titoli del premio conferito.
* 1959: Best Performance, Documentary or Spoken Word
* 1960-1961: Best Performance – Documentary or Spoken Word (other than comedy)
* 1962-1963: Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording (other than comedy)
* 1964-1965: Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording (other than comedy)
* 1966: Best Spoken Word or Drama Recording
* 1967-1968: Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording
* 1969-1979: Best Spoken Word Recording
* 1980-1983: Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording
* 1984-1991: Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording
* 1992-1997: Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album
* 1998-2022: Best Spoken Word Album
* dal 2023: Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording.

## Vincitori e candidati
### Migliore interpretazione - documentario o parola parlata (1959-1961)

* 1959
** Stan Freberg - The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows
** Melvyn Douglas, Vincent Price, Carl Sandburg ed Ed Begley – Great American Speeches'
** Stan Freberg – Green Christmas
** Elaine May e Mike Nichols – Improvisations to Music
* 1960
** Carl Sandburg - Lincoln Portrait
** John Gielgud – Ages of Man
** Hal Holbrook – Mark Twain Tonight
** Basil Rathbone – Basil Rathbone Reads Sherlock Holmes
** Tony Schwartz – New York Taxi Driver
* 1961
** Robert Bialek - FDR Speaks
** Henry Fonda – Voices of the Twentieth Century
** John Gielgud – Ages of Man, Vol. 2 (One Man in His Time)
** Archibald MacLeish – J.B.

### Migliore registrazione parlata, documentario o dramma (1962-1991)
#### Anni 1960

* 1962
** Leonard Bernstein - Humor in Music
** Hal Holbrook – More of Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight!
** Dorothy Parker – The World of Dorothy Parker
** Carl Sandburg, Harlow Shapley, Jawaharlal Nehru e Jacques Lipchitz – Wisdom, Vol. 1
** Alexander Scourby – The Coming of Christ
* 1963
** Charles Laughton - The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton
** Carl Sandburg – Carl Sandburg Reading His Poetry
** Claude Rains e Glenn Gould – Enoch Arden
** Laurence Harvey – This Is My Beloved
** Stan Kenton – Mama Sang a Song
* 1964
** Melinda Dillon, George Grizzard, Uta Hagen e Arthur Hill - Chi ha paura di Virginia Woolf?
** Dane Clark, Anne Jackson, Lotte Lenya e Viveca Lindfors – Brecht on Brecht
** Martin Luther King con Joan Baez, Marian Anderson, Odetta, Rabbi Joachim Prinz e Bob Dylan – We Shall Overcome (The March on Washington, August 28, 1963)
** Goddard Lieberson, Pete Seeger ed altri – The Badmen
** Norman Weiser e David Teig – John F. Kennedy – The Presidential Years
* 1965
** Cast di That Was The Week That Was - BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy
** Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, John Gielgud, Alfred Drake, George Voskovec, Eileen Herlie, William Redfield e George Ross – Amleto
** Richard Burton e Peter O'Toole – Dialogue Highlights from Becket
** Alec Guinness e Kate Reid – Dylan
** John F. Kennedy, David Brinkley ed Adlai Stevenson – The Kennedy Wit
* 1966
** Goddard Lieberson (produttore) - John F. Kennedy: As We Remember Him
** Alec Guinness – A Personal Choice
** Chet Huntley e David Brinkley – A Time to Keep: '64
** Royal National Theatre – Molto rumore per nulla
** Adlai Stevenson – The Voice of the Uncommon Man
** Margaret Webster – The Brontes
* 1967
** Edward R. Murrow - Edward R. Murrow: A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I – The War Years
** Lee J. Cobb e Mildred Dunnock – Death of a Salesman
** Johnny Sea – Day for Decision
** Buddy Starcher – History Repeats Itself
* 1968
** Everett Dirksen - Gallant Men
** James Dickey – Poems of James Dickey
** Hal Holbrook – Mark Twain Tonight, Vol. 3
** Patrick Magee e Cyril Cusack – Il balcone
** Rod McKuen – The Earth
** Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller e Robert Shaw – Un uomo per tutte le stagioni
** Victor Lundberg – An Open Letter to My Teenage Son
* 1969
** Rod McKuen - Lonesome Cities
** Martin Luther King – I Have a Dream
** Paul Scofield – Assassinio nella cattedrale
** Martin Starkie – The Canterbury Pilgrims

#### Anni 1970

* 1970
** Art Linkletter e Diane Linkletter - We Love You, Call Collect
** Walter Cronkite – Man on the Moon
** James Earl Jones – La grande speranza bianca
* 1971
** Martin Luther King - Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam
** Ambrose, Dryden, Hecht, Molloy, Carawan, La Farge e Seeger – Poems and Ballads from 100-Plus American Poets
** Astronauti di Apollo 8, 11 e 12, John F. Kennedy e Richard Nixon – In the Beginning
** Bill Cosby – Grover Henson Feels Forgotten
** Everett Dirksen – Everett Dirksen's America
* 1972
** Les Crane - Desiderata
** Richard Chamberlain – Amleto (una presentazione di Hallmark Hall of Fame)
** Walter Cronkite – I Can Hear It Now/The Sixties
** Stacy Keach, Robert Ryan e Geraldine Fitzgerald – Lungo viaggio verso la notte
** James Whitmore – Will Rogers' USA
* 1973
** Cast originale di Broadway - Lenny
** Angela Davis – Angela Davis Speaks
** Rod McKuen – The Word
** Yevgeny Yevtushenko – Yevtushenko
* 1974
** Richard Harris - Il gabbiano Jonathan Livingston
** Billie Holiday – Songs and Conversations
** Vincent Price – Witches, Ghosts and Goblins
** Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – Mattatoio n. 5
** John Wayne – America, Why I Love Her
* 1975
** Peter Cook e Dudley Moore - Good Evening
** Sam Ervin – Senator Sam at Home
** Rod McKuen – Autumn
** Eric Sevareid – An Ear to the Sounds of Our History
* 1976
** James Whitmore - Give 'em Hell, Harry!
** Alistair Cooke – Talk About America
** Richard Harris – Il profeta
** Claudia McNeil – The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
** Maureen Stapleton – Il buio oltre la siepe
** Orson Welles – Immortal Sherlock Holmes (The Mercury Theatre on the Air|Mercury Theatre on the Air)
* 1977
** Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones e Orson Welles - Great American Documents
** Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
** Charlton Heston – Il vecchio e il mare
** James Mason – Racconto di due città
** William Shatner – Foundation: The Psychohistorians
* 1978
** Julie Harris - The Belle of Amherst
** Alex Haley – Alex Haley Tells the Story of His Search for Roots
** Cast originale e Ntozake Shange – For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
** Christopher Tolkien – Il Silmarillion
** Harry Truman e Ben Gradus – The Truman Tapes
* 1979
** Orson Welles - Citizen Kane (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
** Henry Fonda – Furore
** Judith Anderson, Claire Bloom, James Mason, George Rose e Gordon Gould – Cime tempestose
** Richard Nixon e David Frost – Interviste a Nixon
** AA.VV. – Radici (Original Television Soundtrack)

#### Anni 1980

* 1980
** John Gielgud - Ages of Man - Readings From Shakespeare
** Henry Fonda – The Ox-Bow Incident
** Jim Morrison – An American Prayer
** Ken Nordine – Stare with Your Ears
** AA.VV. – Apocalypse Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
** Orson Welles e Helen Hayes – Orson Welles & Helen Hayes at Their Best
* 1981
** Pat Carroll - Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein
** Mahalia Jackson – I Sing Because I'm Happy, Vols. 1 and 2
** Cast originale – Adventures of Luke Skywalker: The Empire Strikes Back
** Orson Welles – Obediently Yours
** Peter Ustinov – James Thurber: A Curb In The Sky And Other Stories
* 1982
** Orson Welles - Il cervello di Donovan
** E.G. Marshall – Justice Holmes' Decisions
** James Mason – Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
** Paul McCartney e Vic Garbarini – The McCartney Interview
** Ed McMahon – 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (da Christmas with Friends ft. Ed McMahon, Doc Severinsen e Tommy Newsom)
* 1983
** Tom Voegeli (produttore) - I predatori dell'arca perduta: The Movie on Record
** Roger Rees – Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby
** Isaac Asimov – L'orlo della Fondazione
** John Gielgud e Ralph Richardson – Terra di nessuno
** Arthur C. Clarke – 2010: Odissea due
* 1984
** William Warfield - A Lincoln Portrait
** Steve Allen e Jayne Meadows – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Home Computers
** Jane Fonda e Femmy De Lyser – Jane Fonda's Workout Record for Pregnancy, Birth and Recovery
** John Gielgud ed Irene Worth – Il libro dei gatti tuttofare
* 1985
** Ben Kingsley - The Words of Gandhi
** Jeremy Irons e Glenn Close – The Real Thing (Broadway Cast)
** Jesse Jackson – Our Time Has Come
** John Lennon e Yoko Ono – Heart Play (Unfinished Dialogue)
* 1986
** Mike Berniker (produttore) ed il cast di Broadway - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
** Alan Arkin – Comma 22
** Dick Cavett – Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn
** John le Carré – La spia che venne dal freddo
** Philip Roth – Zuckerman Bound
* 1987
** Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chips Moman, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins e Sam Phillips - Interviews From the Class of '55 Recording Sessions
** F. Murray Abraham – Intervista col vampiro
** Ray Bradbury – The Stories of Ray Bradbury
** Bill Cosby – Hardheaded Boys
** John Gielgud – Gulliver (composto da Patrick Williams)
* 1988
** Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegon Days
** Lauren Bacall – Lauren Bacall by Myself
** Katharine Hepburn – "Lincoln Portrait" (da Aaron Copland: Lincoln Portrait and Other Works di Erich Kunzel e della Cincinnati Pops Orchestra)
** Leonard Nimoy – Whales Alive
** Leonard Nimoy e George Takei – Rotta verso la Terra
* 1989
** Jesse Jackson - Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson, July 27 (da One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism)
** John Cleese – Le lettere di Berlicche
** John Gielgud – Canto di Natale
** Garrison Keillor e vari artisti – A Prairie Home Companion|A Prairie Home Companion: The 2nd Annual Farewell Performance
** Jonathan Winters – Winters' Tale

#### Anni 1990

* 1990
** Gilda Radner - It's Always Something
** Erma Bombeck – I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise
** Robert Fulghum – All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
** John Gielgud – Sir John Gielgud Reads Alice in Wonderland
** Jason Robards, Steve Allen, Douglas Edwards ed il Cast – The War of the Worlds 50th Anniversary Production
* 1991
** George Burns - Gracie: A Love Story
** Garrison Keillor – A Prairie Home Companion: The 4th Annual Farewell Performance
** John F. Kennedy Jr. – Ritratti del coraggio
** Kyle MacLachlan – "Diane..." The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper
** Jimmy Stewart – Jimmy Stewart and His Poems

### Miglior album parlato (1992-2022)

* 1992
** Ken Burns - The Civil War
** Douglas Adams – Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti
** Katharine Hepburn – Me: Stories of My Life
** Charles Kuralt – A Life on the Road
* 1993
** Magic Johnson e Robert O'Keefe - What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS
** Fannie Flagg – Pomodori verdi fritti al caffè di Whistle Stop
** Garrison Keillor – Stories
** Ken Nordine – Devout Catalyst
** Patrick Stewart – Canto di Natale
** Orson Welles e Peter Bogdanovich – This Is Orson Welles
* 1994
** Maya Angelou - On the Pulse of Morning
** LeVar Burton – Miles: The Autobiography
** Arlo Guthrie – Questa terra è la mia terra
** Paul Newman e Joanne Woodward – Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
** Emma Thompson – Casa Howard
* 1995
** Henry Rollins - Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag
** Kenneth Branagh e la Renaissance Theatre Company – Amleto
** Ken Burns – Baseball
** Ben Kingsley – La lista di Schindler
** Gregory Peck – Bibbia (Nuovo Testamento)
* 1996
** Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman
** Danny Glover – Lungo cammino verso la libertà
** Garrison Keillor – Guy Noir: Radio Private Eye
** Leonard Nimoy – I Am Spock
* 1997
** Hillary Clinton - It Takes a Village
** Ed Asner, Ellen Burstyn, C. C. H. Pounder ed Alfre Woodard – Grow Old Along with Me, the Best Is Yet to Be
** Lauren Bacall, Martin Landau, Jack Lemmon e Gregory Peck – Harry S Truman: A Journey to Independence
** Garrison Keillor – Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn
** Charles Kuralt – Charles Kuralt's America
* 1998
** Charles Kuralt - Charles Kuralt's Spring
** Maya Angelou – Even the Stars Look Lonesome
** Jimmy Carter – Living Faith
** Walter Cronkite – A Reporter's Life
** Jodie Foster – Contact
* 1999
** Christopher Reeve - Still Me
** Jimmy Carter – The Virtues of Aging
** David Holt e Bill Mooney – Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends
** Garrison Keillor – Wobegon Boy
** Toni Morrison – Amatissima

#### Anni 2000

* 2000
** LeVar Burton - The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
** Nanci Griffith – The Chieftains: The Unauthorized Biography
** Merle Haggard – Merle Haggard's My House of Memories
** Frank McCourt – Che paese, l'America
** Mandy Patinkin e Betty Buckley con Walter Cronkite – The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain
* 2001
** Sidney Poitier - The Measure of a Man
** Matt Dillon – Sulla strada
** Steve Martin – Shopgirl
** Jerry Stiller ed Anne Meara – Married to Laughter: A Love Story
** Vari artisti tra cui Kathleen Turner, Patrick Stewart ed Al Pacino – The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets
* 2002
** Quincy Jones - Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
** Jimmy Carter – An Hour Before Sunlight
** Garrison Keillor – Lake Wobegon Summer 1956
** Carl Reiner – Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain
** Vari artisti tra cui Rob Lowe, Noah Wyle, Joan Allen, Tom Brokaw e il narratore Harry Smith – War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars
* 2003
** Maya Angelou - A Song Flung Up to Heaven
** Tim Robbins – Il grande Gatsby
** Robert Evans – The Kid Stays in the Picture
** Michael J. Fox – Lucky Man
** Christopher Reeve – Nothing Is Impossible
* 2004
** Al Franken - Balle! E tutti i ballisti che ce le stanno raccontando
** Don Cheadle – Fear Itself
** Hillary Clinton – Living History
** Nikki Giovanni – The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection
** Bill Maher – When You Ride Alone You Ride with bin Laden
* 2005
** Bill Clinton - My Life
** Tyne Daly, John Lithgow, Joanne Rogers, Lily Tomlin ed Andre Watts – The World According to Mr. Rogers
** David Holt e Zeb Holt – Live & Kickin' at the National Storytelling Festival
** Steve Martin – The Pleasure of My Company
** David Sedaris – Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
* 2006
** Barack Obama - I sogni di mio padre
** George Carlin – When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
** Al Franken – The Al Franken Show Party Album
** Garrison Keillor – The Adventures of Guy Noir
** Sean Penn – Chronicles - Volume 1
* 2007
** Jimmy Carter - Our Endangered Values (ex aequo)
** Ossie Davis e Ruby Dee - Ossie and Ruby (ex aequo)
** Al Franken – The Truth (with Jokes)
** Bill Maher – New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
** Bob Newhart – I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!
* 2008
** Barack Obama - The Audacity of Hope
** Maya Angelou – Celebrations
** Bill Clinton – Giving
** Jimmy Carter – Sunday Mornings in Plains
** Alan Alda – Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
* 2009
** Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon e Blair Underwood - An Inconvenient Truth
** Steve Martin – Born Standing Up
** Stephen Colbert e il cast di The Colbert Report – I Am America (and So Can You!)
** Sidney Poitier – Life Beyond Measure
** David Sedaris – When You Are Engulfed in Flames

#### Anni 2010

* 2010
** Michael J. Fox - Always Looking Up
** Yuri Rasovsky e Josh Stanton – Il falcone maltese
** Richard Dreyfuss e David Strathairn – The Lincoln–Douglas Debates
** Jonathan Winters – A Very Special Time
** Jimmy Carter – We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land
** Carrie Fisher – Wishful Drinking
* 2011
** Jon Stewart e lo staff di The Daily Show - Earth (The Audiobook)
** Craig Ferguson – American on Purpose
** Sarah Silverman – The Bedwetter
** Michael J. Fox – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future
** Carol Burnett – This Time Together
** Woody Allen – The Woody Allen Collection
* 2012
** Betty White - If You Ask Me (and of Course You Won't)
** Tina Fey – Bossypants
** Nathan Burbank, Bryan Cumming, Dennis Scott e David Toledo – Fab Fan Memories: The Beatles Bond
** Dan Donohue e il cast dell'Oregon Shakespeare Festival – Amleto
** Val Kilmer e il cast di Hollywood Theater of the Ear – The Mark of Zorro
* 2013
** Janis Ian - Society's Child
** Scott Creswell e Dan Zitt – American Grown
** Bill Clinton – Back to Work
** Rachel Maddow – Drift
** Ellen DeGeneres – Seriously... I'm Kidding
* 2014
** Stephen Colbert - America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't
** Carol Burnett – Carrie and Me
** David Sedaris – Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
** Billy Crystal – Still Foolin' Em
** Pete Seeger – The Storm King
* 2015
** Joan Rivers - Diary of a Mad Diva
** James Franco – Actors Anonymous
** Jimmy Carter – A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
** John Waters – Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
** Elizabeth Warren – A Fighting Chance
** Gloria Gaynor – We Will Survive: True Stories of Encouragement, Inspiration and the Power of Song
* 2016
** Jimmy Carter - A Full Life: Reflections at 90
** Patti Smith – Sangue e neve
** Dick Cavett – Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments and Assorted Hijinks
** Janis Ian e Jean Smart – Patience and Sarah
** Amy Poehler – Yes Please
* 2017
** Carol Burnett - In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox
** Amy Schumer – The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
** Patti Smith – M Train
** Elvis Costello – Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
** AA.VV. – Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
* 2018
** Carrie Fisher - The Princess Diarist
** Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
** Shelly Peiken – Confessions of a Serial Songwriter
** Bernie Sanders e Mark Ruffalo – Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
** Neil deGrasse Tyson – Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
* 2019
** Jimmy Carter - Faith: A Journey for All
** Courtney B. Vance – Accessory to War
** David Sedaris – Calypso
** Questlove – Creative Quest
** Tiffany Haddish – The Last Black Unicorn

#### Anni 2020

* 2020
** Michelle Obama - Becoming
** Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Scott Sherratt & Dan Zitt (produttori) – The Beastie Boys Book
** Eric Alexandrakis – Catatonia: 20 Years as a Two-Time Cancer Survivor
** John Waters – Mr. Know-It-All
** Sekou Andrews & the String Theory – Sekou Andrews & the String Theory
* 2021
** Rachel Maddow - Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
** Flea – Acid for the Children: A Memoir
** Ken Jennings – Alex Trebek — The Answer Is...
** Ronan Farrow – Catch and Kill
** Meryl Streep e l'intero cast – La tela di Carlotta
* 2022
** Don Cheadle - Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation from John Lewis
** LeVar Burton – Aftermath
** J. Ivy – Catching Dreams: Live at Fort Knox Chicago
** Dave Chappelle ed Amir Sulaiman – 8:46
** Barack Obama – A Promised Land

### Miglior registrazione di un audiolibro, narrazione e storytelling
#### Anni 2020

* 2023
** Viola Davis - Finding Me
** Jamie Foxx – Act Like You Got Some Sense
** Mel Brooks – All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
** Lin-Manuel Miranda – Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
** Questlove – Music Is History
* 2024
** The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times – Michelle Obama
** Big Tree – Meryl Streep
** Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder – William Shatner
** The Creative Act: A Way of Being – Rick Rubin
** It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism – Bernie Sanders
* 2025
** Last Sunday in Plains: A Centennial Celebration – Jimmy Carter
** All You Need Is Love: The Beatles In Their Own Words – Guy Oldfield
** ...And Your Ass Will Follow – George Clinton
** Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones – Dolly Parton
** My Name Is Barbra – Barbra Streisand