2017 Audie Awards Winners

The Audio Publishers Association celebrated the 2017 Audie Awards winners, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment, at the Audies Gala on June 1, 2017 at the French Institute Alliance Francaise in New York.

Audie winners (in red) and finalists of genre interest include:

Audiobook of the Year

The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, read by Bahni Turpin (Penguin Random House)

Audio Drama

Best Female Narrator

Best Male Narrator

Business/Personal Development

Fantasy

Fiction

  • End of Watch, Stephen King, read by Will Patton (Simon & Schuster)

Literary Fiction & Classics

Middle Grade

Multi-Voiced Performance

  • The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, Mitch Albom, read by Mitch Albom, Roger McGuinn, Ingrid Michaelson, John Pizzarelli, Paul Stanley, George Guidall, and more (HarperAudio)
  • A Wild Swan, Michael Cunningham, read by Lili Taylor & Billy Hough (Macmillan)

Narration by the Author or Authors

Original Work

Paranormal

  • Ghost Gifts, Laura Spinella, read by Nicol Zanzarella (Brilliance)
  • Staked, Kevin Hearne, read by Luke Daniels (Penguin Random House)
  • Blood of the Earth, Faith Hunter, read by Khristine Hvam (Audible)
  • The Elementals, Michael McDowell, read by R. C. Bray (Valancourt)
  • The Raven King, Maggie Stiefvater, read by Will Patton (Scholastic)

Science Fiction

Short Stories/Collections

  • The Brink, Austin Bunn, read by Austin Bunn, Luke Daniels, Tanya Eby, Ralph Lister, Amy McFadden, Mikael Naramore, & Nick Podehl (Blunder Woman)
  • The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C. Clarke, read by Ray Porter, Jonathan Davis & Ralph Lister (Audible)
  • Certain Dark Things, M.J. Pack, read by Jacob York (Audible)
  • East, West, Salman Rushdie, read by Sunil Malhotra & Steven Crossley (Recorded Books)

Young Adult

  • The Game of Love and Death, Martha Brockenbrough, read by Susan Hanfield (Scholastic)
  • Gemina, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, read by Carla Corvo, Steve West, and various (Listening Library)
  • Stalking Jack the Ripper, Kerri Maniscalco & James Patterson, read by Nicola Barber (Hachette)
  • Winter, Marissa Meyer, read by Rebecca Soler (Macmillan)

Excellence in Design

  • Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley, design by Jessica Daigle, read by C.S.E. Cooney (HighBridge/Recorded Books)
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain, design by David Drummond, read by Nick Offerman (Audible)
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, design by Levente Szabo, read by Scarlett Johansson (Audible)
  • Alien: Out of the Shadows, Tim Lebbon & Dirk Maggs, design by James Jackson, read by Rutger Hauer, Corey Johnson, Matthew Lewis, Kathryn Drysdale, Laurel Lefkow, Andrea Deck & Mac McDonald (Audible)
  • Grimm’s Fairy Tales, the Brothers Grimm, design by Divya Srinivasan, read by Jim Dale, Katherine Kellgren, Alfred Molina and Janis Ian (Listening Library)

Excellence in Marketing

  • Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000, L. Ron Hubbard, read by Josh Clark, Scott Menville, Jim Meskimen, Phil Proctor, Stefan Rudnicki, Fred Tatasciore, and a full cast (Galaxy)
  • Alien: Out of the Shadows, Tim Lebbon & Dirk Maggs, read by Rutger Hauer, Corey Johnson, Matthew Lewis, Kathryn Drysdale, Laurel Lefkow, Andrea Deck & Mac McDonald (Audible)
  • The Dispatcher, John Scalzi, read by Zachary Quinto (Audible)

Excellence in Production

  • Alien: Out of the Shadows, Tim Lebbon & Dirk Maggs, read by Rutger Hauer, Corey Johnson, Matthew Lewis, Kathryn Drysdale, Laurel Lefkow, Andrea Deck & Mac McDonald (Audible)
  • Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000, L. Ron Hubbard, read by Josh Clark, Scott Menville, Jim Meskimen, Phil Proctor, Stefan Rudnicki, Fred Tatasciore, and a full cast (Galaxy)
  • Beric the Briton, G.A. Henty, read by Brian Blessed, Brian Cox, Tom Baker, Honeysuckle Weeks, John Rhys-Davies, and a full cast, including the author (Heirloom)
  • The Oedipus Plays: An Audible Original Drama, Sophocles (Ian Johnston trans.), read by Jamie Glover, Hayley Atwell, Michael Maloney, Samantha Bond, Julian Glover and David Horovitch (Audible)
  • A Wild Swan, Michael Cunningham, read by Lili Taylor & Billy Hough (Macmillan)