2023 Audie Awards Finalists

Science Fiction

• Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc, Ash Bishop, narrated by Scott Brick and Suzanne Elise Freeman (CamCat Books)
• Ymir, Rich Larson, narrated by Alan Medcroft (Hachette Audio)
• How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu, narrated by Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, MacLeod Andrews, Jeanne Sakata, Greg Watanabe, Kurt Kanazawa, Matthew Bridges, Kotaro Watanabe, Brianna Ishibashi, Joe Knezevich, Micky Shiloah, Stephanie Komure, and Jason Culp (HarperAudio)
• No Kindness Too Soon, Sylvain Neuvel, narrated by Melanie Nicholls-King, Deepti Gupta, Neil Hellegers, Gabriel Vaughan, Kathy Searle, Imani Jade Powers, Nicolette Chin, Gopal Divan, and Garrett Michael Brown (Audible Originals)
• Noor, Nnedi Okorafor, narrated by Délé Ogundiran (Tantor Audio)

Fantasy

• Legends & Lattes, written and narrated by Travis Baldree (Macmillan Audio)
• Cold as Hell, Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle, narrated by Roger Clark (Blackstone)
• The Art of Prophecy, Wesley Chu, narrated by Natalie Naudus (Penguin Random House Audio)
• Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Prachett, performed by Rebecca Front, Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Katherine Kingsley, Arthur Darvill, Peter Forbes, Gabrielle Glaister, Louis Davison, Pixie Davis, Chris Nelson, Ferdinand Frisby Williams, Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, John Hopkins, Lorelei King, Matt Reeves, and Lemn Sissay (HarperAudio)
• The Monsters We Defy, Leslye Penelope, narrated by Shayna Small (Hachette Audio)

Audio Drama

• Coraline, Neil Gaiman, performed by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pixie Davies, Katherine Kingsley, Julian Clary, Jacqueline Boatswain, Kevin McNally, Adjoa Andoh, Adrian Schiller, Heather Nicol, William Parker, and Nicole Davis (HarperAudio)
• Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Prachett, performed by Rebecca Front, Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Katherine Kingsley, Arthur Darvill, Peter Forbes, Gabrielle Glaister, Louis Davison, Pixie Davis, Chris Nelson, Ferdinand Frisby Williams, Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, John Hopkins, Lorelei King, Matt Reeves, and Lemn Sissay (HarperAudio)
• 1984, George Orwell, performed by Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Rhianne Barreto, Michael Maloney, Clare Corbett, Homer Todiwala, Jonathan Keeble, Rupert Holliday Evans, Sarah Paul, Simon Shepherd, Theo Solomon, Wayne Forester, Finnigan Morris, Hugo Whysall, Jake Turner, Jo Ashe, Katrina Cooke, Linton Tulloch, Morgan Denman, Bronwen Denman, Muriel Abehsera, and Rob Wilson (Storytel Original)

Best Female Narrator

• The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan, narrated by Rosamund Pike (Macmillan Audio)
• Thistlefoot, GennaRose Nethercott, narrated by January Lavoy (Penguin Random House Audio)

Best Male Narrator

• Sleepwalk, Dan Chaon, narrated by John Pirhalla (Macmillan Audio)
• Fairy Tale, Stephen King, narrated by Seth Numrich (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Middle Grade

• The Ogress and the Orphans, Kelly Barnhill, narrated bu Suzanne Toren (Hachette Audio)
• Coraline, Neil Gaiman, performed by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pixie Davies, Katherine Kingsley, Julian Clary, Jacqueline Boatswain, Kevin McNally, Adjoa Andoh, Adrian Schiller, Heather Nicol, William Parker, and Nicole Davis (HarperAudio)
• Stuntboy, in the Meantime, Jason Reynolds, narrated by Guy Lockard, Nile Bullock, Angel Pean, James Fouhey, Soneela Nankani, Leon Nixon, Chanté McCormick, Lamarr Gulley, and DePre Owens (Simon & Schuster Audio)
• The Last Mapmaker, Christina Soontornvat, narrated by Sura Siu (OrangeSky Audio)

Original Work

• Star Trek: Picard: No Man’s Land, Kirsten Beyer & Mike Johnson, narrated by Michelle Hurd, Jeri Ryan, Jack Cutmore-Scott, John Kassir, Fred Tatasciore, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Lisa Flanagan, Gibson Frazier, Lameece Issaq, Natalie Naudus, Xe Sands, and Emily Woo Zeller (Simon & Schuster Audio)
• The River of Silver, S.A Chakraborty, narrated by Soneela Nankani (HarperAudio)
• The Babysitter Lives, Stephen Graham Jones, narrated by Isabella Star LaBlanc and Stephen Graham Jones (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Romance

• You Made a Fool of Death with your Beauty, Akwaeke Emezi, narrated by Bahni Turpin (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Short Stories/Collections

• Giving the Devil his Due, Rebecca Brewer, ed., narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan, Brian Nishii, Christina Moore, Cynthia Farrell, Edoardo Ballerini, Erin Moon, Karen Chilton, Kate Forbes, Nancy Wu, Robin Miles, Samuel Roukin, and Stephanie Cozart (The Pixel Project)
• Generation Wonder, Barry Lyga, ed., narrated by Emily Lawrence, Jaime Lincoln Smith, Sarah Naughton, Mark Sanderlin, Ron Butler, James Anderson Foster, Jennifer Aquino, Tim Campbell, Jeanette Illidge, Ariana Delawari, Frankie Corzo, Kenny Ramos, and Eunice Wong (Blackstone Publishing)

Spanish Language

• Velorio, Xavier Navarro Aquino, narrated by Diana Pou, Vico Ortiz, María Victoria Martínez, Gil René Rodríguez, Jesús E. Martínez, Gabriel S. Rivera Vázquez, and Yetta Gottesman (HarperAudio)

Young Adult

• Demon in the Wood Graphic Novel, Leigh Bardugo, narrated by Ben Barnes, Benjamin Valic, Cassandra Morris, Eason Rytter, James Fouhey, Mary McCartney, Matt Leisy, Salli Saffioti, Sean Gormley, and Tom Bromhead (Macmillan Audio)
• The Drowned Woods, Emily Lloyd-Jones, narrated by Moira Quirk (Hachette Audio)