Audie Award for Narration by the Author

The Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in audiobook narration for an audiobook narrated by the author released in a given year. Before 2002 the award was given as the Audie Award for Solo Narration by the Author or Authors. It has been awarded since 1998.

Winners and finalists

Winners are listed first each year and are highlighted in green.

1990s

Year	Audiobook	Author/Narrator	Publisher	Result	Ref.
1998 3rd	Sula (1973)	Toni Morrison	Random House Audio	Winner	[1] [2]
	My Brother (1997)	Jamaica Kincaid	Penguin Audiobooks	Finalist	[2]
	Wobegon Boy (1997)	Garrison Keillor	HighBridge Audio	Finalist	[2]
1999 4th	Still Me (1999)	Christopher Reeve	Random House Audio	Winner	[1] [3]
	Big Screen Drive-In Theater (1998)	Donald Davis	August House	Finalist	[3]
	Reporting Live (1999)	Lesley Stahl	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[3]

2000s

Year	Audiobook	Author/Narrator	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2000 5th	The Exorcist (1971)	William Peter Blatty	NewStar Media	Winner	[1] [4]
	Hannibal (1999)	Thomas Harris	Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio	Finalist	[4]
	'Tis (1999)	Frank McCourt	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[4]
2001 6th	The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (2000)	Sidney Poitier	HarperAudio	Winner	[1] [5]
	From This Day Forward (2000)	Cokie Roberts and Steve Roberts	Brilliance Audio	Finalist	[5]
	John Glenn (1999)	John Glenn	Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio	Finalist	[5]
2002 7th	Ava's Man (2002)	Rick Bragg	Random House Audio	Winner	[1] [6]
	Believing It All (2002)	Marc Parent	Time Warner AudioBooks	Finalist	[6]
	The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001)	Amy Tan (narrated with Joan Chen)	New Millennium Audio	Finalist	[6]
2003 8th	Standing in the Rainbow (2002)	Fannie Flagg	Random House Audio	Winner	[1] [7]
	Lucky Man (2002)	Michael J. Fox	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[7]
	Nothing Is Impossible (2002)	Christopher Reeve	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[7]
	Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore (2001)	Ron Powers	Audio Partners	Finalist	[7]
	Vernon Can Read! (2001)	Vernon Jordan (written with Annette Gordon-Reed)	BBC Audiobooks America	Finalist	[7]
2004 9th	Naked in Baghdad (2003)	Anne Garrels	Audio Renaissance	Winner	[1] [8]
	I Am the Central Park Jogger (2003)	Trisha Meili	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[8]
	Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (2003)	Al Franken	HighBridge Audio	Finalist	[8]
	Madam Secretary (2003)	Madeleine Albright	BBC Audiobooks America	Finalist	[8]
	The Great Unraveling (2003)	Paul Krugman	HarperAudio	Finalist	[8]
	The Lakota Way (2002)	Joseph M. Marshall III	Makoche	Finalist	[8]
2005 10th	Against All Enemies (2004)	Richard A. Clarke	Simon & Schuster Audio	Winner	[1] [9]
	Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)	David Sedaris	AudioBooks	Finalist	[9]
	My Life (2004)	Bill Clinton	Random House Audio	Finalist	[9]
	Off the Cuff (2004)	Carson Kressley	HighBridge Audio	Finalist	[9]
	There and Back Again (2004)	Sean Astin (written with Joe Layden)	Audio Renaissance	Finalist	[9]
2006 11th	The Tender Bar (2005)	J. R. Moehringer	Time Warner AudioBooks	Winner	[1]
	1776 (2005)	David McCullough	Simon & Schuster	Finalist
	Kiss Me Like a Stranger (2005)	Gene Wilder	Audio Renaissance	Finalist
	My Life So Far (1999)	Jane Fonda	Books on Tape	Finalist
	The Truth (with Jokes) (2005)	Al Franken	Brilliance Audio	Finalist
2007 12th	The Tortilla Curtain (1995)	T. C. Boyle	Blackstone Audio	Winner	[1] [10]
	Marian McPartland's Jazz World: All in Good Time (1975)	Marian McPartland	Blackstone Audio	Finalist
	Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood (2006)	Teri Garr	Penguin Audio	Finalist
	Teacher Man (2005)	Frank McCourt	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist
	The Mighty and the Almighty (2006)	Madeleine Albright	HarperAudio	Finalist
2008 13th	Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (2007)	Garrison Keillor	HighBridge Audio	Winner	[1] [11]
	Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2007)	Barbara Kingsolver (narrated with Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp)	HarperAudio	Finalist
	Here If You Need Me (2007)	Kate Braestrup	Hachette Audio	Finalist
	Michael Tolliver Lives (2007)	Armistead Maupin	HarperAudio	Finalist
	Neverwhere (1996)	Neil Gaiman	HarperAudio	Finalist
	Traveler (2007)	Ron McLarty	Recorded Books	Finalist
2009 14th	When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008)	David Sedaris	Hachette Audio	Winner	[1] [12]
	Just Who Will You Be? (2008)	Maria Shriver	HyperionAudio	Finalist
	Ladies of Liberty (2009)	Cokie Roberts	HarperAudio	Finalist
	Letter to My Daughter (2008)	Maya Angelou	Random House Audio	Finalist
	The Girl Who Stopped Swimming (2008)	Joshilyn Jackson	Hachette Audio	Finalist

2010s

Year	Audiobook	Author/Narrator	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2010 15th	Odd and the Frost Giants (2008)	Neil Gaiman	HarperChildrensAudio	Winner	[1] [13]
	Manhood for Amateurs (2009)	Michael Chabon	HarperAudio	Finalist
	A Little Bit Wicked (2009)	Kristin Chenoweth	Oasis Audio	Finalist
	Baseball Great (2009)	Tim Green	HarperChildrensAudio	Finalist
	Half Broke Horses (2009)	Jeannette Walls	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist
2011 16th	Nanny McPhee Returns (2010)	Emma Thompson	Macmillan Audio	Winner	[1] [14]
	Crazy Heart (1987)	Thomas Cobb	HarperAudio	Finalist
	A Christmas Blizzard (2009)	Garrison Keillor	HighBridge Audio	Finalist
	The Color Purple (1982)	Alice Walker	Recorded Books	Finalist
	Role Models (2010)	John Waters	Tantor Audio	Finalist
2012 17th	Beauty Queens (2011)	Libba Bray	Scholastic Audio	Winner	[1] [15] [16]
	Bossypants (2011)	Tina Fey	Hachette Audio	Finalist
	Drama (2011)	John Lithgow	HarperAudio	Finalist
	Seriously…I'm Kidding (2011)	Ellen DeGeneres	Hachette Audio	Finalist
	Stories I Only Tell My Friends (2011)	Rob Lowe	Macmillan Audio	Finalist
2013 18th	Society's Child (2008)	Janis Ian	Audible	Winner	[1] [17]
	American Dervish (2012)	Ayad Akhtar	Hachette Audio	Finalist
	How to Be Black (2012)	Baratunde Thurston	HarperAudio	Finalist
	Most Talkative (2012)	Andy Cohen	Macmillan Audio	Finalist
	When It Happens to You (2012)	Molly Ringwald	HarperAudio	Finalist
	Yes, Chef (2012)	Marcus Samuelsson (written with Veronica Chambers)	Random House Audio	Finalist
2014 19th	Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? (2013)	Billy Crystal	Macmillan Audio	Winner	[1] [18]
	Grace: A Memoir (2012)	Grace Coddington (written with Michael Roberts)	Random House Audio/Books on Tape	Finalist	[18]
	I, Rhoda (2013)	Valerie Harper	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[18]
	Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish (2013)	David Rakoff	Random House Audio/Books on Tape	Finalist	[18]
	The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013)	Neil Gaiman	HarperAudio	Finalist	[18]
	Shirley Jones (2013)	Shirley Jones	Tantor Audio	Finalist	[18]
2015 20th	Not My Father's Son (2014)	Alan Cumming	HarperAudio	Winner	[1] [19]
	A Fighting Chance (2014)	Elizabeth Warren	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[19]
	Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (2014)	Herbie Hancock (written with Lisa Dickey)	Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[19]
	What I Know for Sure (2014)	Oprah Winfrey	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[19]
	Yes Please (2014)	Amy Poehler (narrated with Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Mike Schur, Eileen and William Poehler, Patrick Stewart, and Kathleen Turner)	HarperAudio	Finalist	[19]
2016 21st	Born with Teeth (2015)	Kate Mulgrew	Hachette Audio	Winner	[1] [20]
	The Art of Asking (2014)	Amanda Palmer	Hachette Audio	Finalist	[20]
	Furiously Happy (2015)	Jenny Lawson	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[20]
	I Must Say (2014)	Martin Short	HarperAudio	Finalist	[20]
	Thirteen Ways of Looking (2015)	Colum McCann	Books on Tape/Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[20]
2017 22nd	A Life in Parts (2016)	Bryan Cranston	Simon & Schuster Audio	Winner	[1] [21]
	Dear Mr. You (2015)	Mary-Louise Parker	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[21]
	The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo (2016)	Amy Schumer	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[21]
	In Such Good Company (2016)	Carol Burnett	Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape	Finalist	[21]
	LaRose (2016)	Louise Erdrich	HarperAudio	Finalist	[21]
	The View from the Cheap Seats (2016)	Neil Gaiman	HarperAudio	Finalist	[21]
2018 23rd	Norse Mythology (2017)	Neil Gaiman	HarperAudio	Winner	[1] [22]
	Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017)	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Blackstone Audio	Finalist	[22]
	Born a Crime (2016)	Trevor Noah	Audible	Finalist	[22]
	Love Poems (1997) and A Good Cry (2017)	Nikki Giovanni	HarperAudio	Finalist	[22]
	This Fight Is Our Fight (2017)	Elizabeth Warren	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[22]
2019 24th	The Secret of Nightingale Wood (2016)	Lucy Strange	Scholastic Audio	Winner	[1] [23]
	How Not to Get Shot (2018)	D. L. Hughley	HarperAudio	Finalist
	In Pieces (2018)	Sally Field	Hachette Audio	Finalist
	My Pride (2017)	Alton Fitzgerald White	Blackstone Audio	Finalist
	The Poet X (2018)	Elizabeth Acevedo	HarperAudio	Finalist
	Promise Me, Dad (2017)	Joe Biden	Audible	Finalist

2020s

Year	Audiobook	Author/Narrator	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2020 25th	With the Fire on High (2019)	Elizabeth Acevedo	HarperAudio	Winner	[24]
	Becoming (2018)	Michelle Obama	Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[24]
	Inside Out (2019)	Demi Moore	HarperAudio	Finalist	[24]
	Madame Badobedah (2019)	Sophie Dahl	Bolinda Audio	Finalist	[24]
	Shortest Way Home (2019)	Pete Buttigieg	HighBridge Audio (Recorded Books)	Finalist	[24]
	Tough Love (2019)	Susan Rice	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[24]
2021 26th	More Myself (2020)	Alicia Keys	Macmillan Audio	Winner	[25]
	Acid for the Children (2019)	Flea	Hachette Audio	Finalist	[25]
	Hollywood Park (2020)	Mikel Jollett	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[25]
	Homie (2020)	Danez Smith	HighBridge Audio (Recorded Books)	Finalist	[25]
	In Dependence (2009)	Sarah Ladipo Manyika	Recorded Books	Finalist	[25]
	Little Weirds (2019)	Jenny Slate	Hachette Audio	Finalist	[25]
2022 27th	A Promised Land (2020)	Barack Obama	Penguin Random House Audio	Winner	[26]
	All the Rage: A Partial Memoir in Two Acts and a Prologue	Brad Fraser	Penguin Random House Canada	Finalist	[26]
	Going There	Katie Couric	Hachette Audio	Finalist	[26]
	Stories to Tell (2021)	Richard Marx	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[26]
	The Truth About Lies	Aja Raden	Brilliance Publishing	Finalist	[26]
	Vulnerable AF	Tarriona Ball	Andrews McMeel Publishing	Finalist	[26]
2023 28th	Finding Me (2022)	Viola Davis	Harper Audio	Winner	[27]
	Apparently There Were Complaints	Sharon Gless	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[27]
	Hello, Molly!	Molly Shannon	HarperAudio	Finalist	[27]
	Ten Steps to Nanette	Hannah Gadsby	Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[27]
	Waypoints	Sam Heughan	Hachette Audio	Finalist	[27]
2024 29th	It. Goes. So. Fast. - The Year of No Do-Overs	Mary Louise Kelly	Macmillan Audio	Winner	[28]
	The Covenant of Water (2023)	Abraham Verghese	Recorded Books	Finalist	[28]
	Sisters of the Lost Marsh	Lucy Strange	Scholastic Audio	Finalist	[28]
	The Light We Carry	Michelle Obama	Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[28]
	Making It So	Patrick Stewart	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[28]

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External links

• Audie Award winners
• Audie Awards official website