2017 Audie Awards Finalists

The Audio Publishers Association has announced the 2017 Audie Awards finalists, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.

Audie finalists of genre interest include:

Audio Drama

• Doctor Who: The War Doctor: Only the Monstrous, Nicholas Briggs, read by John Hurt, Jacqueline Pearce, Carolyn Seymour & Lucy Briggs-Owen (Big Finish)
• Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Death and the Queen, James Goss, read by David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Alice Krige, Blake Ritson, Beth Chalmers & Alan Cox (Big Finish)
• 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)
• In the Embers, Jerry Stearns & Brian Price, read by Robin Miles, Edwin Strout, Dean Johnson, and a full cast (Great Northern Audio Theatre/Blackstone)

Best Female Narrator

• The Turn of the Screw, Henry James, read by Emma Thompson (Audible)
• The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, read by Bahni Turpin (Penguin Random House)

Best Male Narrator

• The Purloined Poodle, Kevin Hearne, read by Luke Daniels (self-published)
• End of Watch, Stephen King, read by Will Patton (Simon & Schuster)
• The Last Tribe, Brad Manuel, read by Scott Brick (Podium)
• Jerusalem, Alan Moore, read by Simon Vance (Recorded Books)
• Underground Airlines, Ben H. Winters, read by William DeMeritt (Hachette)

Business/Personal Development

• Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek, Manu Saadia, read by Oliver Wyman (Audible)

Fantasy

• The Everything Box, Richard Kadrey, read by Oliver Wyman (HarperAudio)
• The Hike, Drew Magary, read by Christopher Lane (Brilliance)
• The League of Dragons, Naomi Novik, read by Simon Vance (Tantor)
• The Bands of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson, read by Michael Kramer (Macmillan)
• The Black Prism, Brent Weeks, read by Simon Vance (Hachette)

Fiction

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

Literary Fiction & Classics

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, read by Scarlett Johansson (Audible)
• The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, read by Bahni Turpin (Penguin Random House)

Middle Grade

• The Enchanted Files: Hatched, Bruce Coville, read by a full cast (Listening Library)
• How to Train Your Dragon: How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury, Cressida Cowell, read by David Tennant (Hachette)
• The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, Adam Gidwitz, read by Adam Gidwitz and various (Listening Library)
• Demon Dentist, David Walliams, read by David Walliams, Jocelyn Jee Esien & Nitin Ganatra (HarperAudio)

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

• The View from the Cheap Seats, Neil Gaiman, read by Neil Gaiman (HarperAudio)

Original Work

• The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent, Larry Correia, read by Adam Baldwin (Audible)
• 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)
• In the Embers, Jerry Stearns & Brian Price, read by Robin Miles, Edwin Strout, Dean Johnson, and a full cast (Great Northern Audio Theatre/Blackstone)

Paranormal

• 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)
• Ghost Gifts, Laura Spinella, read by Nicol Zanzarella (Brilliance)
• The Raven King, Maggie Stiefvater, read by Will Patton (Scholastic)

Science Fiction

• The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Meg Elison, read by Angela Dawe (Brilliance)
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Alan Dean Foster, read by Marc Thomson (Penguin Random House)
• Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel, read by a full cast (Penguin Random House)
• The Dispatcher, John Scalzi, read by Zachary Quinto (Audible)
• Crosstalk, Connie Willis, read by Mia Barron (Recorded Books)

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)

The winners will be announced at the Audies Gala on June 1, 2017, at the French Institute Alliance Francaise in New York.