2012 Audie Awards Winners

The Audio Publishers Association has announced the 2012 Audie Awards winners, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.

Following is a list of those Audie winners of genre interest:

Fantasy:

• Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor, read by Khristine Hvam (Hachette Audio)

Fiction:

• Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank, read by Will Patton (Audible)

Humor:

• Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large, William Shatner, read by William Shatner (Penguin Audio)

Narration by the Author or Authors:

• Beauty Queens, Libba Bray, read by Libba Bray (Scholastic Audiobooks)

Original Work:

• Metatropolis: Cascadia, Jay Lake, read by a full cast (Audible)

Paranormal:

• Hard Magic, Larry Correia, read by Bronson Pinchot (Audible)

Romance:

• New York to Dallas, J.D. Robb, read by Susan Eriksen (Brilliance Audio)

Science Fiction:

• Fuzzy Nation, John Scalzi, read by Wil Wheaton (Audible)

Solo Narration, Female:

• The Winter Sea, Susanna Kearsley, read by Rosalyn Landor (Audible)

The winners were announced at the Audies Gala, held June 5, 2012, at The New York Historical Society in New York City.