2021 Audie Awards Finalists

Science Fiction

• Ruins of the Galaxy, J.N. Chaney & Christopher Hopper, read by R.C. Bray (Podium)
• Axiom’s End, Lindsay Ellis, read by Stephanie Willis & Oliver Thorn (Macmillan Audio)
• Aliens: Phalanx, Scott Sigler, read by Bronson Pinchot (Blackstone)
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes,
  read by Daveed Diggs (Simon & Schuster Audio)
• Heaven’s River, Dennis E. Taylor, read by Ray Porter (Audible Originals)
• Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising, Timothy Zahn, read by Marc Thompson (Penguin Random House Audio)

Fantasy

• The Last Smile in Sunder City, Luke Arnold, read by the author (Hachette Audio)
• Raybearer, Jordan Ifueko, read by Joniece Abbott-Pratt (Blackstone)
• The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin, read by Robin Miles (Hachette Audio)
• The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune, read by Daniel Henning (Macmillan Audio)
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab, read by Julia Whelan (Macmillan Audio)

Audiobook of the Year

• Piranesi, Susanna Clarke, read by Chiwetel Ejiofor (Bloomsbury)

Audio Drama

• Doctor Who: Stranded 1, Matt Fitton, David K Barnes, Lisa McMullin & John Dorney,
  read by Paul McGann, Nicola Walker, Hattie Morahan, Rebecca Root, Tom Price & Tom
  Baker (Big Finish)
• Frankenstein: A Stage Adaptation, A.S. Peterson, read by Jared Reinfeldt,
  Euriamis Losada, Henry O. Arnold, Kim Bretton, Morgan Davis, Matt Rose, Micah Williams,
  Brooks Bennett, Austin Olive & Garris Wimmer (Oasis)

Best Female Narrator

• The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin, read by Robin Miles (Hachette Audio)

Best Male Narrator

• The Glimme, Emily Rodda & Marc McBride, read by Andrew Scott (Bolinda)

Fiction

• The Midnight Library, Matt Haig, read by Carey Mulligan (Canongate UK/Penguin Random House Audio US)

History/Biography

• J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend, Colin Duriez, read by Simon Vance (Oasis)

Literary Fiction & Classics

• The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi, read by Yetide Badaki & Chukwudi Iwuji (Penguin Random House Audio)
• Pew, Catherine Lacey, read by Bahni Turpin (Brilliance)

Middle Grade

• King and the Dragonflies, Kacen Callender, read by Ron Butler (Scholastic Audio)
• The Good Hawk, Joseph Elliott, read by Fiona Hardingham & Gary Furlong (Brilliance)
• We Dream of Space, Erin Entrada Kelly, read by Ramon de Ocampo (HarperAudio)
• Shuri: A Black Panther Novel, Book 1, Nic Stone, read by Anika Noni Rose (Scholastic Audio)

Short Stories/Collections

• Burnt Tongues, Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas & Dennis Widmyer, eds., read by
  Christopher David, Jordan Killam, Pete Cross, et al. (Dreamscape)
• Inside Jobs: Tales from a Time of Quarantine, Ben H. Winters, read by Scott Aiello, Kevin
  T. Collins & Ellen Archer (Audible Originals)

Thrillers/Suspense

• The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones, read by Shaun Taylor-Corbett (Simon & Schuster Audio)
• If It Bleeds, Stephen King, read by Will Patton, Danny Burstein & Steven Weber (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Young Adult

• Poisoned, Jennifer Donnelly, read by Rosie Jones (Scholastic Audio)
• A Song Below Water, Bethany C. Morrow, read by Jennifer Haralson & Andrea Laing (Macmillan Audio)