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

• In the Embers, Jerry Stearns & Brian Price, read by Robin Miles, Edwin Strout, Dean Johnson, and a full cast (Great Northern Audio Theatre/Blackstone)
• 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)

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

• Jerusalem, Alan Moore, read by Simon Vance (Recorded Books)
• 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)
• 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 Hike, Drew Magary, read by Christopher Lane (Brilliance)
• The Everything Box, Richard Kadrey, read by Oliver Wyman (HarperAudio)
• 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

• How to Train Your Dragon: How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury, Cressida Cowell, read by David Tennant (Hachette)
• The Enchanted Files: Hatched, Bruce Coville, read by a full cast (Listening Library)
• 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 Dispatcher, John Scalzi, read by Zachary Quinto (Audible)
• 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)
• 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

• 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

• Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Alan Dean Foster, read by Marc Thomson (Penguin Random House)
• The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Meg Elison, read by Angela Dawe (Brilliance)
• 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)

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)