Audie Award for Narration by the Author

The Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in audiobook narration for an audiobook narrated by the author released in a given year. Before 2002 the award was given as the Audie Award for Solo Narration by the Author or Authors. It has been awarded since 1998.

Winners and finalists

Winners are listed first each year and are highlighted in green.

1990s

Year Audiobook Author/Narrator Publisher Result Ref.
1998
3rd 		Sula (1973) Toni Morrison Random House Audio Winner [1][2]
My Brother (1997) Jamaica Kincaid Penguin Audiobooks Finalist [2]
Wobegon Boy (1997) Garrison Keillor HighBridge Audio Finalist [2]
1999
4th 		Still Me (1999) Christopher Reeve Random House Audio Winner [1][3]
Big Screen Drive-In Theater (1998) Donald Davis August House Finalist [3]
Reporting Live (1999) Lesley Stahl Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [3]

2000s

Year Audiobook Author/Narrator Publisher Result Ref.
2000
5th 		The Exorcist (1971) William Peter Blatty NewStar Media Winner [1][4]
Hannibal (1999) Thomas Harris Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Finalist [4]
'Tis (1999) Frank McCourt Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [4]
2001
6th 		The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (2000) Sidney Poitier HarperAudio Winner [1][5]
From This Day Forward (2000) Cokie Roberts and Steve Roberts Brilliance Audio Finalist [5]
John Glenn (1999) John Glenn Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Finalist [5]
2002
7th 		Ava's Man (2002) Rick Bragg Random House Audio Winner [1][6]
Believing It All (2002) Marc Parent Time Warner AudioBooks Finalist [6]
The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001) Amy Tan (narrated with Joan Chen) New Millennium Audio Finalist [6]
2003
8th 		Standing in the Rainbow (2002) Fannie Flagg Random House Audio Winner [1][7]
Lucky Man (2002) Michael J. Fox Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [7]
Nothing Is Impossible (2002) Christopher Reeve Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [7]
Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore (2001) Ron Powers Audio Partners Finalist [7]
Vernon Can Read! (2001) Vernon Jordan (written with Annette Gordon-Reed) BBC Audiobooks America Finalist [7]
2004
9th 		Naked in Baghdad (2003) Anne Garrels Audio Renaissance Winner [1][8]
I Am the Central Park Jogger (2003) Trisha Meili Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [8]
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (2003) Al Franken HighBridge Audio Finalist [8]
Madam Secretary (2003) Madeleine Albright BBC Audiobooks America Finalist [8]
The Great Unraveling (2003) Paul Krugman HarperAudio Finalist [8]
The Lakota Way (2002) Joseph M. Marshall III Makoche Finalist [8]
2005
10th 		Against All Enemies (2004) Richard A. Clarke Simon & Schuster Audio Winner [1][9]
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004) David Sedaris AudioBooks Finalist [9]
My Life (2004) Bill Clinton Random House Audio Finalist [9]
Off the Cuff (2004) Carson Kressley HighBridge Audio Finalist [9]
There and Back Again (2004) Sean Astin (written with Joe Layden) Audio Renaissance Finalist [9]
2006
11th 		The Tender Bar (2005) J. R. Moehringer Time Warner AudioBooks Winner [1]
1776 (2005) David McCullough Simon & Schuster Finalist
Kiss Me Like a Stranger (2005) Gene Wilder Audio Renaissance Finalist
My Life So Far (1999) Jane Fonda Books on Tape Finalist
The Truth (with Jokes) (2005) Al Franken Brilliance Audio Finalist
2007
12th 		The Tortilla Curtain (1995) T. C. Boyle Blackstone Audio Winner [1][10]
Marian McPartland's Jazz World: All in Good Time (1975) Marian McPartland Blackstone Audio Finalist
Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood (2006) Teri Garr Penguin Audio Finalist
Teacher Man (2005) Frank McCourt Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist
The Mighty and the Almighty (2006) Madeleine Albright HarperAudio Finalist
2008
13th 		Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (2007) Garrison Keillor HighBridge Audio Winner [1][11]
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2007) Barbara Kingsolver (narrated with Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp) HarperAudio Finalist
Here If You Need Me (2007) Kate Braestrup Hachette Audio Finalist
Michael Tolliver Lives (2007) Armistead Maupin HarperAudio Finalist
Neverwhere (1996) Neil Gaiman HarperAudio Finalist
Traveler (2007) Ron McLarty Recorded Books Finalist
2009
14th 		When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008) David Sedaris Hachette Audio Winner [1][12]
Just Who Will You Be? (2008) Maria Shriver HyperionAudio Finalist
Ladies of Liberty (2009) Cokie Roberts HarperAudio Finalist
Letter to My Daughter (2008) Maya Angelou Random House Audio Finalist
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming (2008) Joshilyn Jackson Hachette Audio Finalist

2010s

Year Audiobook Author/Narrator Publisher Result Ref.
2010
15th 		Odd and the Frost Giants (2008) Neil Gaiman HarperChildrensAudio Winner [1][13]
Manhood for Amateurs (2009) Michael Chabon HarperAudio Finalist
A Little Bit Wicked (2009) Kristin Chenoweth Oasis Audio Finalist
Baseball Great (2009) Tim Green HarperChildrensAudio Finalist
Half Broke Horses (2009) Jeannette Walls Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist
2011
16th 		Nanny McPhee Returns (2010) Emma Thompson Macmillan Audio Winner [1][14]
Crazy Heart (1987) Thomas Cobb HarperAudio Finalist
A Christmas Blizzard (2009) Garrison Keillor HighBridge Audio Finalist
The Color Purple (1982) Alice Walker Recorded Books Finalist
Role Models (2010) John Waters Tantor Audio Finalist
2012
17th 		Beauty Queens (2011) Libba Bray Scholastic Audio Winner [1][15][16]
Bossypants (2011) Tina Fey Hachette Audio Finalist
Drama (2011) John Lithgow HarperAudio Finalist
Seriously…I'm Kidding (2011) Ellen DeGeneres Hachette Audio Finalist
Stories I Only Tell My Friends (2011) Rob Lowe Macmillan Audio Finalist
2013
18th 		Society's Child (2008) Janis Ian Audible Winner [1][17]
American Dervish (2012) Ayad Akhtar Hachette Audio Finalist
How to Be Black (2012) Baratunde Thurston HarperAudio Finalist
Most Talkative (2012) Andy Cohen Macmillan Audio Finalist
When It Happens to You (2012) Molly Ringwald HarperAudio Finalist
Yes, Chef (2012) Marcus Samuelsson (written with Veronica Chambers) Random House Audio Finalist
2014
19th 		Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? (2013) Billy Crystal Macmillan Audio Winner [1][18]
Grace: A Memoir (2012) Grace Coddington (written with Michael Roberts) Random House Audio/Books on Tape Finalist [18]
I, Rhoda (2013) Valerie Harper Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [18]
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish (2013) David Rakoff Random House Audio/Books on Tape Finalist [18]
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013) Neil Gaiman HarperAudio Finalist [18]
Shirley Jones (2013) Shirley Jones Tantor Audio Finalist [18]
2015
20th 		Not My Father's Son (2014) Alan Cumming HarperAudio Winner [1][19]
A Fighting Chance (2014) Elizabeth Warren Macmillan Audio Finalist [19]
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (2014) Herbie Hancock (written with Lisa Dickey) Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [19]
What I Know for Sure (2014) Oprah Winfrey Macmillan Audio Finalist [19]
Yes Please (2014) Amy Poehler (narrated with Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Mike Schur, Eileen and William Poehler, Patrick Stewart, and Kathleen Turner) HarperAudio Finalist [19]
2016
21st 		Born with Teeth (2015) Kate Mulgrew Hachette Audio Winner [1][20]
The Art of Asking (2014) Amanda Palmer Hachette Audio Finalist [20]
Furiously Happy (2015) Jenny Lawson Macmillan Audio Finalist [20]
I Must Say (2014) Martin Short HarperAudio Finalist [20]
Thirteen Ways of Looking (2015) Colum McCann Books on Tape/Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [20]
2017
22nd 		A Life in Parts (2016) Bryan Cranston Simon & Schuster Audio Winner [1][21]
Dear Mr. You (2015) Mary-Louise Parker Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [21]
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo (2016) Amy Schumer Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [21]
In Such Good Company (2016) Carol Burnett Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape Finalist [21]
LaRose (2016) Louise Erdrich HarperAudio Finalist [21]
The View from the Cheap Seats (2016) Neil Gaiman HarperAudio Finalist [21]
2018
23rd 		Norse Mythology (2017) Neil Gaiman HarperAudio Winner [1][22]
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017) Neil deGrasse Tyson Blackstone Audio Finalist [22]
Born a Crime (2016) Trevor Noah Audible Finalist [22]
Love Poems (1997) and A Good Cry (2017) Nikki Giovanni HarperAudio Finalist [22]
This Fight Is Our Fight (2017) Elizabeth Warren Macmillan Audio Finalist [22]
2019
24th 		The Secret of Nightingale Wood (2016) Lucy Strange Scholastic Audio Winner [1][23]
How Not to Get Shot (2018) D. L. Hughley HarperAudio Finalist
In Pieces (2018) Sally Field Hachette Audio Finalist
My Pride (2017) Alton Fitzgerald White Blackstone Audio Finalist
The Poet X (2018) Elizabeth Acevedo HarperAudio Finalist
Promise Me, Dad (2017) Joe Biden Audible Finalist

2020s

Year Audiobook Author/Narrator Publisher Result Ref.
2020
25th 		With the Fire on High (2019) Elizabeth Acevedo HarperAudio Winner [24]
Becoming (2018) Michelle Obama Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [24]
Inside Out (2019) Demi Moore HarperAudio Finalist [24]
Madame Badobedah (2019) Sophie Dahl Bolinda Audio Finalist [24]
Shortest Way Home (2019) Pete Buttigieg HighBridge Audio (Recorded Books) Finalist [24]
Tough Love (2019) Susan Rice Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [24]
2021
26th 		More Myself (2020) Alicia Keys Macmillan Audio Winner [25]
Acid for the Children (2019) Flea Hachette Audio Finalist [25]
Hollywood Park (2020) Mikel Jollett Macmillan Audio Finalist [25]
Homie (2020) Danez Smith HighBridge Audio (Recorded Books) Finalist [25]
In Dependence (2009) Sarah Ladipo Manyika Recorded Books Finalist [25]
Little Weirds (2019) Jenny Slate Hachette Audio Finalist [25]
2022
27th 		A Promised Land (2020) Barack Obama Penguin Random House Audio Winner [26]
All the Rage: A Partial Memoir in Two Acts and a Prologue Brad Fraser Penguin Random House Canada Finalist [26]
Going There Katie Couric Hachette Audio Finalist [26]

Stories to Tell (2021)

Richard Marx Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [26]
The Truth About Lies Aja Raden Brilliance Publishing Finalist [26]
Vulnerable AF Tarriona Ball Andrews McMeel Publishing Finalist [26]
2023
28th 		Finding Me (2022) Viola Davis Harper Audio Winner [27]
Apparently There Were Complaints Sharon Gless Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [27]
Hello, Molly! Molly Shannon HarperAudio Finalist [27]
Ten Steps to Nanette Hannah Gadsby Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [27]
Waypoints Sam Heughan Hachette Audio Finalist [27]
2024

29th

It. Goes. So. Fast. - The Year of No Do-Overs Mary Louise Kelly Macmillan Audio Winner [28]
The Covenant of Water (2023) Abraham Verghese Recorded Books Finalist [28]
Sisters of the Lost Marsh Lucy Strange Scholastic Audio Finalist [28]
The Light We Carry Michelle Obama Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [28]
Making It So Patrick Stewart Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [28]

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