Audie Award for History or Biography
Audio Publishers Association award for best history or biography audiobook
The Audie Award for History or Biography is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for a history or biography audiobook released in a given year. Before 2015 this was given as two distinct awards, the Audie Award for Biography or Memoir (awarded since 2003; also split into the modern Audie Award for Autobiography or Memoir ) and the Audie Award for History (awarded since 2009).
Winners and finalists
Winners are listed first and highlighted in green.
2010s
Year
Title
Author(s)
Narrator(s)
Publisher
2015[ 1] 20th
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (2013)
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Edward Herrmann
Simon & Schuster Audio
Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed (2014)
John F. Ross
Edward Herrmann
Macmillan Audio
Enemy Coast Ahead: Uncensored (2003)
Guy Gibson
Simon Vance
Tantor Audio
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (2014)
Hampton Sides
Arthur Morey
Penguin Random House Audio
Lincoln's Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months That Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War (2014)
Todd Brewster
Todd Brewster
Brilliance Audio
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (2014)
Ben Macintyre
John Rafter Lee
Penguin Random House Audio
2016[ 2] 21st
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts (1994)
Andrew Chaikin and Tom Hanks
Bronson Pinchot
Audiobooks.com Publishing
In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife (2015)
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Simon Vance
HighBridge Audio/Recorded Books
Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide (2015)
Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian
Hachette Audio
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers (1991)
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester
HarperAudio
Texas Rising: The Epic True Story of the Lone Star Republic (2015)
Stephen L. Moore
P. J. Ochlan
HarperAudio
2017[ 3] 22nd
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (2001)
Doug Stanton
Mark Boyett
Audible
Paul McCartney: The Life (2016)
Philip Norman
Jonathan Keeble
Recorded Books
A Time to Die : The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy (2002)
Robert Moore
Pete Cross
Dreamscape
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (2016)
Nathaniel Philbrick
Scott Brick
Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape
The Year of Lear : Shakespeare in 1606 (2015)
James S. Shapiro
Robert Fass
Tantor Audio
2018[ 4] 23rd
Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case (2017)
Patricia Hruby Powell
Adenrele Ojo and MacLeod Andrews
Dreamscape
Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud (1989)
Shaun Considine
January LaVoy
Graymalkin Media
Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope (2015)
Wendy Holden
Elizabeth Wiley
Tantor Audio
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II (2017)
Liza Mundy
Erin Bennett
Hachette Audio
The Home Front : Life in America During World War II (2017)
Audible Originals , Martin Sheen , and Dan Gediman
Martin Sheen
Audible Originals
My Life, My Love, My Legacy (2017)
Coretta Scott King and Barbara Reynolds
Phylicia Rashad and January LaVoy
Macmillan Audio
2019[ 5] 24th
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought Us Back from the Brink (2018)
Anthony McCarten
John Rafter Lee
HarperAudio
The Good Neighbor : The Life and Work of Fred Rogers (2018)
Maxwell King
LeVar Burton
Oasis Audio
Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Navy History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man (2018)
Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic
John Bedford Lloyd
Simon & Schuster Audio
Robin (2018)
Dave Itzkoff
Fred Berman and Dave Itzkoff
Macmillan Audio
We Were Soldiers Once… and Young (1992)
Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway
Jonathan Davis
Tantor Audio
2020s
Year
Title
Author(s)
Narrator(s)(s)
Publisher
2020[ 6] 25th
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race (2019)
Douglas Brinkley
Stephen Graybill
HarperAudio
The First Conspiracy : The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington (2019)
Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
Scott Brick
Macmillan Audio
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (2019)
Casey Cep
Hillary Huber
Penguin Random House Audio
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth (2019)
Josh Levin
January LaVoy
Hachette Audio
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense (2019)
Dan Abrams and David Fisher
Roger Wayne and Dan Abrams
Harlequin
2021[ 7] 26th
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope (2020)
Jon Meacham
JD Jackson
Penguin Random House Audio
The Dead Are Arising : The Life of Malcolm X (2020)
Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Dion Graham
Recorded Books
Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South (2020)
Matthew Van Meter
Brad Sanders
Hachette Audio
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend (2012)
Colin Duriez
Simon Vance
Oasis Audio
Just Us: An American Conversation (2020)
Claudia Rankine
Janina Edwards
Audible
The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977)
Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
Scott Brick
Macmillan Audio
2022[ 8] 27th
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other
Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish
Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish
Hodder & Stoughton
Music Is History
Ahmir Khalib Thompson (Questlove)
Ahmir Khalib Thompson (Questlove)
Recorded Books
Somersett: Benjamin Franklin and the Masterminding of American Independence
Philip Goodrich
Robert Petkoff , Joe Morton , Simon Jones, Euan Morton, Nicola Barber, and the author (Author's note and afterword)
Blackstone Publishing and May Wuthrich Productions
The Code Breaker (2021)
Walter Isaacson
Kathe Mazur with Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster Audio
A Weekend with Pablo Picasso
Herbert Sigüenza
Herbert Sigüenza
L.A. Theatre Works
2023[ 9] 27th
Summer of '85
Chris Morrow , Kevin Hart , Tara Thomas , Nicole Shelton, Charlamagne Tha God , Marc Gerald , Dave Becky , Mike Stein , Thai Randolph , Bryan Smiley , and Karen Kinney
Kevin Hart
Audible Originals
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
Kyle T. Mays
Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Beacon Press Audio
His Name is George Floyd (2022)
Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
Dion Graham , Robert Samuels, and Toluse Olorunnipa
Penguin Random House Audio
Last Slave Ship
Ben Raines
Kevin R. Free
Simon & Schuster Audio
Undelivered
Jeff Nussbaum
Adam Gifford , Brian Bowles, Elisa Roth, Garrick Hagon , Glen McCready , Greg Lockett , James Lailey , Jeff Nussbaum , Johnny Heller , Kathleen Chalfant , Kurt Kanazawa , and Lance Blair
Macmillan Audio
2024[ 10]
29th
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh
Ann Thwaite , preface by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Simon Vance
Tantor Audio
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
Jeremy Bobb and Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster Audio
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
Buddy Levy
Will Damron
Macmillan Audio
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (2023)
David Grann
Dion Graham with David Grann
Penguin Random House Audio
King: A Life
Jonathan Eig
Dion Graham
Macmillan Audio
Biography/Memoir winners and finalists 2003–2014
2000s
2010s
History winners and finalists 2009–2014
2000s
2010s
Award Year
Title
Author
Narrator(s)
Title Publisher
2010[ 20] 15th
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath (2009)
Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
Michael Prichard
Tantor Audio
1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History (2009)
Charles Bracelen Flood
Mel Foster
Tantor Audio
The Ascent of Money : A Financial History of the World (2008)
Niall Ferguson
Simon Prebble
Tantor Audio
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (1970)
Dee Brown
Grover Gardner
Blackstone Audio
The Long Knives Are Crying (2008)
Joseph M. Marshall III
Joseph M. Marshall III
Blackstone Audio
2011[ 21] 16th
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic (2009)
Gordon S. Wood
Robert Fass
Audible
1959: The Year Everything Changed (2009)
Fred Kaplan
Joe Barrett
Audible
The History of Rome , Volume 1 (9 BC)
Livy
Charlton Griffin
Audio Connoisseur
A People's History of the United States (1980)
Howard Zinn
Jeff Zinn
Harper Audio
Vikings of the Ice: Being the Log of a Tenderfoot on the Great (1924)
George Allan England
Frank Holden
Rattling Books
2012[ 22] [ 23] 17th
1861: The Civil War Awakening (2011)
Adam Goodheart
Jonathan Davis
Audible
1812: The Navy's War (2011)
George C. Daughan
Marc Vietor
Audible
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963)
Hannah Arendt
Wanda McCaddon
Tantor Audio
The Emperor of All Maladies : A Biography of Cancer (2010)
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Stephen Hoye
Tantor Audio
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (2011)
Erik Larson
Stephen Hoye
Random House Audio/Books on Tape
2013[ 24] 18th
The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret (2012)
Kent Hartman
Dan John Miller
Tantor Audio
Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image (2012)
Toby Lester
Stephen Hoye
Tantor Audio
L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City (2009)
John Buntin
Kirby Heyborne
Tantor Audio
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 (2011)
Ian W. Toll
Grover Gardner
Audible
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love (2012)
David Talbot
Arthur Morey
Brilliance Audio
Twelve Desperate Miles: The Epic World War II Voyage of the SS Contessa (2013)
Tim Brady
Joe Barrett
AudioGo
2014[ 25] 19th
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (2012)
Gilbert King
Peter Francis James
HarperAudio
C. C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America (2007)
Geoff Williams
Robertson Dean
Tantor Audio
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II (2013)
Mitchell Zuckoff
Mitchell Zuckoff
HarperAudio
The Hour of Peril : The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War (2013)
Daniel Stashower
Edoardo Ballerini
Macmillan Audio
Nero's Killing Machine: The True Story of Rome's Remarkable 14th Legion (2005)
Stephen Dando-Collins
Robert Fass
Audible
One Summer: America, 1927 (2013)
Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson
Random House Audio/Books on Tape
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