More 2017 Audie Awards Finalists
The Audio Publishers Association has announced finalists for the 2017 Audie Awards, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.
These are in addition to the finalists announced in February.
Audie finalists of genre interest include:
Audiobook of the Year
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, read by Bahni Turpin (Penguin Random House)
Excellence in Design
- 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)
- Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley, design by Jessica Daigle, read by C.S.E. Cooney (HighBridge/Recorded Books)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
Winners will be revealed at the Audies Gala on June 1, 2017, at the French Institute Alliance Francaise in New York.
