The Audie Award for Literary Fiction or Classics 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 adaptation released in a given year of a work of literary fiction or a classic. Before 2016 this was given as two distinct awards, the Audie Award for Classics (awarded since 2001, before 2003 as the Audie Award for Classics, Fiction) and the Audie Award for Literary Fiction (awarded since 2005).
Winners are listed first and highlighted in green.
Winners are listed first and highlighted in green.
Winners are listed first and highlighted in green.
Year | Title | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2010 15th | Wolf Hall (2009) | Hilary Mantel | Simon Slater | Macmillan Audio | Winner | [13] [22] |
Come Sunday (2009) | Isla Morley | Jennifer Wiltsie | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||
The Coral Thief (2009) | Rebecca Stott | Simon Prebble | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006) | Muriel Barbery | Barbara Rosenblat and Cassandra Morris | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | ||
Good-bye and Amen (2008) | Beth Gutcheon | Joyce Bean | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||
2011 16th | Snakewoman of Little Egypt (2010) | Robert Hellenga | Coleen Marlo | Tantor Audio | Winner | [13] [23] |
Beautiful Maria of My Soul (2010) | Oscar Hijuelos | Armando Duran | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||
Freedom (2010) | Jonathan Franzen | David LeDoux | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||
My Life As a Man (1974) | Philip Roth | Dan John Miller | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) | David Mitchell | Jonathan Aris and Paula Wilcox | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||
2012 17th | State of Wonder (2011) | Ann Patchett | Hope Davis | HarperAudio | Winner | [13] [24] |
Emily and Einstein (2011) | Linda Francis Lee | Dan John Miller and Cassandra Campbell | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||
Follow the River (1981) | James Alexander Thom | David Drummond | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||
The Marriage Plot (2011) | Jeffrey Eugenides | David Pittu | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||
No One in the World (2011) | E. Lynn Harris and R. M. Johnson | Alan Bomar Jones | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||
2013 18th | The End of the Affair (1951) | Graham Greene | Colin Firth | Audible | Winner | [13] [25] |
Heft (2012) | Liz Moore | Kirby Heyborne and Keith Szarabajka | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | [25] | |
The Remains of the Day (1989) | Kazuo Ishiguro | Simon Prebble | Tantor Audio | Finalist | [25] | |
Remember Ben Clayton (2011) | Stephen Harrigan | George Guidall | Recorded Books | Finalist | [25] | |
2014 19th | The Goldfinch (2013) | Donna Tartt | David Pittu | Hachette Audio | Winner | [25] |
Amy Falls Down (2013) | Jincy Willett | Amy McFadden | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | [13] [26] | |
The Curiosity (2013) | Stephen Kiernan | Kate Udall , Erik Bergmann, and George Guidall | HarperAudio | Finalist | [26] | |
The Son (2013) | Philipp Meyer | Will Patton , Kate Mulgrew, Scott Shepherd, and Clifton Collins, Jr. | HarperAudio | Finalist | [26] | |
The Testament of Mary (2012) | Colm Tóibín | Meryl Streep | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | [26] | |
2015 20th | Euphoria (2014) | Lily King | Simon Vance and Xe Sands | Blackstone Audio | Winner | [26] |
The Bone Clocks (2014) | David Mitchell | Jessica Ball , Leon Williams, Colin Mace, Steven Crossley, Laurel Lefkow, and Anna Bentinck | Recorded Books | Finalist | [13] [27] | |
Nora Webster (2014) | Colm Tóibín | Fiona Shaw | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | [27] | |
The Patrick Melrose Novels (2014) | Edward St Aubyn | Alex Jennings | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | [27] | |
An Unnecessary Woman (2014) | Rabih Alameddine | Suzanne Toren | Audible | Finalist | [27] | |
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? (2014) | Dave Eggers | MacLeod Andrews , March Cashman, Mark Deakins, Michelle Gonzalez, Rebecca Lowman, John H. Mayer, Kate McGregor-Stewart, and Bruce Turk | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | [27] |
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