2016 Audie Awards Winners

The Audio Publishers Association has announced the 2016 Audie Awards winners, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.

Winners of genre interest include:

Audio Drama

• Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories, Rudyard Kipling, read by Bill Bailey, Richard E. Grant, Colin Salmon, Tim McInnerny, Bernard Cribbins, Celia Imrie & Martin Shaw (Audible Studios)

Fantasy

• Nice Dragons Finish Last, Rachel Aaron, read by Vikas Adam (Audible Studios)

Middle Grade

• Echo, Pam Muñoz Ryan, read by Mark Bramhall, David de Vries, MacLeod Andrews & Rebecca Soler (Scholastic Audio)

Multi-Voiced Performance

• Illuminae, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, read by Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lincoln Hoppe & Jonathan McClain (Listening Library/Penguin Random House Audio)

Paranormal

• White Trash Zombie Gone Wild, Diana Rowland, read by Allison McLemore (Audible Studios)

Science Fiction

• Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, read by Scott Brick (Brilliance Audio)

Young Adult

• Lair of Dreams, Libba Bray, read by January LaVoy (Listening Library/Penguin Random House)

Young Listeners

• Little Shop of Monsters, R.L. Stine & Marc Brown, read by Jack Black (Hachette Audio)

Excellence in Design

• The Hunger Games Trilogy Collection, Suzanne Collins, design by Kathlyn Miller (Scholastic Audio)

Excellence in Marketing

• Locke & Key, Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez, read by Haley Joel Osment, Tatiana Maslany, Kate Mulgrew, and a full cast (Audible Studios)

Excellence in Production

• Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories, Rudyard Kipling, read by Bill Bailey, Richard E. Grant, Colin Salmon, Tim McInnerny, Bernard Cribbins, Celia Imrie, & Martin Shaw (Audible Studios)

The winners were announced at BookExpo America, held May 11, 2016, at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.