Audie Awards
The Audie Awards (often for short: The Audies ) are prizes that the Philadelphia- based Audio Publishers Association (APA) has given annually to outstanding audio books produced in the United States since 1996 . The prize is currently awarded in around 30 categories, including “Audiobook of the Year”, “Outstanding Production Performance”, “Multi-Part Staging”, “Radio Play”, “Original Work”, “Female Narrator”, “Male Narrator”, as well as for a whole range fictional and non-fictional genres.
Award winners
Audiobook of the year
- 2004 - JK Rowling : Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , read by Jim Dale (Listening Library)
- 2005 - Bill Clinton : My Life (Books on Tape, Inc.)
- 2006 - Douglas Adams : The Hitchhiker's Guide Through the Galaxy , read by Simon Jones (BBC Audiobooks America)
- 2007 - TNIV New Testament (Zondervan)
- 2008 - Various authors: The Chopin Manuscript , read by Alfred Molina ( Audible )
- 2009 - Neil Gaiman : The Graveyard Book , read by the author (Harper Collins)
- 2010 - Nelson Mandela : Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales , read by Samuel L. Jackson , Helen Mirren and others. a. (Hachette Audio)
- 2011 - Keith Richards : Life , read by Johnny Depp and Joe Hurley (Hachette Audio)
- 2012 - Tina Fey : Bossypants (Hachette Audio)
- 2013 - Graham Greene : The End of the Affair , read by Colin Firth (Audible)
- 2014 - Billy Crystal : Still Foolin 'Em (Macmillan Audio)
- 2015 - Mandela: An Audio History (Highbridge, Recorded Books)
Fiction, unabridged
- 1996 - Earl Hamner : The Homecoming , read by Richard Thomas (Audio Renaissance Tapes)
- 1997 - Stephen King : Green Mile Audio Box Set , read by Frank Muller (Simon & Schuster Audio)
- 1998 - Kit Denton : The Breaker , read by Terence Donovan (Bolinda Audio)
- 1999 - John Irving : A Widow for One Year , read by George Guidall (Random House Audio)
- 2000 - Wally Lamb : I Know This Much is True , read by Ken Howard (Harper Audio)
- 2001 - Tom Robbins : Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates , read by Keith Szarabajka (Random House Audio)
- 2002 - Stephen King : The Talisman , read by Peter Straub (Simon & Schuster Audio)
- 2003 - Jeffrey Eugenides : Middlesex , read by Kristoffer Tabori (Macmillan Audio)
- 2004 - Ruth L. Ozeki : All Over Creation , read by Anna Fields (Blackstone Audiobooks)
- 2005 - Russell Banks : The Darling , read by Mary Beth Hurt (Chivers Sound Library)
- 2006 - Mitch Cullin : A Slight Trick of the Mind (Highbridge Audio)
- 2007 - Anna Quindlen : Rise and Shine , read by Carol Monda (Recorded Books)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Audies Award Winners - Best Audio Books of 2009. ( Memento of 7 July 2010 at the Internet Archive ) Posted on July 9th of 2009.