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.
Award Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Audiobook Publisher |
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1996 [1] 1st | The Homecoming (1964) | Earl Hamner, Jr. | Richard Thomas | Audio Renaissance |
Dead Man's Walk (1995) | Larry McMurtry | Will Patton | Simon & Schuster Audio | |
Montana 1948 (1993) | Larry Watson | Beau Bridges | Simon & Schuster Audio | |
1997 [2] 2nd | The Green Mile (1996) | Stephen King | Frank Muller | Penguin Audiobooks |
The Runaway Jury (1996) | John Grisham | Frank Muller | Random House Audio | |
Odyssey (8th-7th century BC) | Homer (trans. Robert Fagles) | Ian McKellen | Penguin Audiobooks | |
1998 [3] 3rd | The Breaker (1973) | Kit Denton | Terence Donovan | Bolinda Audio |
American Pastoral (1997) | Philip Roth | Ron Silver | Dove Audio | |
Lolita (1955) | Vladimir Nabokov | Jeremy Irons | Random House Audio | |
1999 [4] 4th | A Widow for One Year (1998) | John Irving | George Guidall | Random House Audio |
Oliver Twist (1838) | Charles Dickens | Miriam Margolyes | Audio Partners Publishing Corp. | |
Summer Sisters (1998) | Judy Blume | Kate Reading | Books on Tape |
Award Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Audiobook Publisher |
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2020 [28] 25th | City of Girls (2019) | Elizabeth Gilbert | Blair Brown | Penguin Random House Audio |
The Age of Light (2019) | Whitney Scharer | Thérèse Plummer | Hachette Audio | |
Cilka's Journey (2019) | Heather Morris | Louise Brealey | Macmillan Audio | |
Colombiano (2017) | Rusty Young | Rusty Young and Brian J. Ramos | Bolinda Audio | |
The House We Grew Up In (2013) | Lisa Jewell | Karina Fernandez | Dreamscape | |
2021 [29] 26th | Such a Fun Age (2019) | Kiley Reid | Nicole Lewis | Penguin Random House Audio |
Big Lies in a Small Town (2020) | Diane Chamberlain | Susan Bennett | Macmillan Audio | |
The Last Story of Mina Lee (2020) | Nancy Jooyoun Kim | Greta Jung | HarperAudio | |
The Midnight Library (2020) | Matt Haig | Carey Mulligan | Canongate Books UK/Penguin Random House Audio US | |
Sex and Vanity (2020) | Kevin Kwan | Lydia Look | Penguin Random House Audio | |
2022 [30] 27th | The Final Revival of Opal & Nev | 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 |
All the Lonely People (2020) | Mike Gayle | Ben Onwukwe | Hachette Audio | |
The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah | Julia Whelan | Macmillan Audio | |
The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles | Edoardo Ballerini , Marin Ireland, and Dion Graham | Penguin Random House Audio | |
The Nature of Fragile Things | Susan Meissner | Alana Kerr Collins and Jason Culp | Penguin Random House Audio | |
2023 [31] 27th | Mad Honey | Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan | Carrie Coon , Key Taw, Jodi Picoult, and Jennifer Finney Boylan | Penguin Random House Audio |
Across a Hundred Mountains | Reyna Grande | Marisa Blake and Cynthia Farrell | Simon & Schuster Audio | |
The Bright Side of Running Club | Josie Lloyd | Danielle Cohen | Dreamscape Media | |
A House Full of Windsor | Kristin Contino | Barrie Kreinik | Wyatt-MacKenzie & Blackstone Audio | |
Less is Lost (2017) | Andrew Sean Greer | Robert Petkoff | Hachette Audio | |
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 | |
2024 [32] 29th | Tom Lake (2023) | Ann Patchett | Meryl Streep | HarperAudio |
Birnam Wood (2023) | Eleanor Catton | Saskia Maarleveld | Audible Studios | |
Maame | Jessica George | Heather Agyepong | Macmillan Audio | |
One Blood | Denene Millner | Bahni Turpin , Joniece Abbott-Pratt, and Tina Lifford | Macmillan Audio | |
Yellowface (2023) | R. F. Kuang | Helen Laser | HarperAudio |
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