Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance

The Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance, established in 1996, is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in audiobooks narrated by multiple performers who do not interact. Only English-language texts are eligible.

Between 1996 and 2001, two awards were presented annually, one for multi-voiced performance and one for multi-voiced narration.

Winners and finalists

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

1990s

Year	Category	Title	Author(s)	Narrators	Publisher	Result	Ref.
1996	Multi-Voiced Performance	Myst: The Book of Atrys	Rand Miller and Robyn Miller with David Wingrove	Eric Conger, Kevin Dewey, Bruch Goodh, Graeme Malcom, Annie Meisels, Alexandra Ospina, and Barbara Rosenblat	Random House Audio	Winner	[1]
		Burns & Allen	Original Radio Broadcasts	George Burns and Gracie Allen	Radio Spirits, Inc.	Finalist	[1]
		David Copperfield (1849–1850)	Charles Dickens (dramatized by Betty Davies)	Full cast (including Gary Cady, Miriam Margolyes, John Moffatt, Timothy Spall and Sheila Hancock)[2][3]	Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio	Finalist	[1]
1997	Multi-Voiced Narration	Grow Old Along with Me the Best is Yet to Be	Sandra Haldeman Martz	Edward Asner, Ellen Burstyn, CCH Pounder, and Alfre Woodard	Audio Literature	Winner	[4]
		Star Wars: Return of the Jedi	George Lucas (adapted by Brian Daley)	Anthony Daniels, John Lithgow, Edward Asner, and a full cast	HighBridge Audio	Finalist	[4]
		The Prince's Choice	William Shakespeare (selected by Charles, the Prince of Wales[5])	Full cast	HighBridge Audio	Finalist	[4]
1998	Multi-Voiced Narration	Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery	Dayton Duncan	Ken Burns, Adam Arkin, Donovan Sylvest, David Magee, and Jason Culp	Random House Audio	Winner	[6]
		Abuse of Power	Stanley Kutler	David Ackroyd, David Dukes, and William Windom	Dove Audio	Finalist	[6]
		The War of the Worlds	H. G. Wells (adapted by Howard Koch)	Leonard Nimoy, Jerry Hardin, Gates McFadden, Dwight Schultz, Armin Shimerman, Brent Spiner, and Wil Wheaton	Listening Library	Finalist	[6]
	Multi-Voiced Performance	Women in the Material World	Faith D'Alusio and Peter Menzel	CCH Pounder	Audio Literature	Winner	[6]
		Star Wars—Dark Forces: Soldier of the Empire	William C. Dietz	Randall Berger and a full cast	HighBridge Audio	Finalist	[6]
		Voices of the Civil War: Gettysburg	Time Life Books	Full cast	Time Warner AudioBooks	Finalist	[6]
1999	Multi-Voiced Narration	The Complete Audio Bible, Old Testament	Dove Audio	Michael York and a full cast	Dove Audio	Winner	[7][8]
		The New Testament	Oasis Audio	Max McLean	Oasis Audio	Finalist	[7]
		Sales Closing for Dummies	Tom Hopkins	Tom Hopkins	HarperAudio	Finalist	[7]
1999	Multi-Voiced Performance	The Titanic Disaster Hearings: The Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigation	Tom Kuntz	Michael York and a full cast	Dove Audio	Winner	[7][8]
		Lost Civilizations: Pompeii	Time Life Books	Blair Brown, David McCallum, and a full cast	Time Warner AudioBooks	Finalist	[7]
		Star Wars—Dark Forces: Rebel Agent	William C. Dietz	Full cast	HighBridge Audio	Finalist	[7]

2000s

Year	Category	Title	Author(s)	Narrators	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2000	Multi-Voiced Narration	The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain	Mark Twain	Walter Cronkite, Betty Buckley, and Mandy Patinkin	Fair Oaks Audio	Winner	[9][10]
		Friendship with God	Neale Donald Walsch	Neale Donald Walsch, Edward Asner, and Ellen Burstyn	NewStar Media, Inc.	Finalist	[9]
		Song of the Sun	Andrew Harvey	Andrew Harvey	Sounds True	Finalist	[9]
	Multi-Voiced Performance	Sherlock's Secret Life	Ed Lange and Will Severin	Karl Malden and a full cast	NYS Theatre Institute/Family Classic Audio Books	Winner	[10]
		In the Name of Security	Peter Goodchild	David Hyde Pierce, John Rubinstein, John de Lancie, Ella Joyce, and Amy Pietz	L.A. Theatre Works	Finalist	[9]
		Misadventures in the (213)	Dennis Hensley	Kathy Griffin, Jack Plotnick, Rachel Harris, Gregg Rainwater, Shane Jacobson, Rob Nash, Robert Abele, and Dennis Hensley	The Publishing Mills	Finalist	[9]
2001	Multi-Voiced Narration	Pay It Forward (1999)	Catherine Ryan Hyde	Debra Monk and a full cast	Simon & Schuster Audio	Winner	[11][12]
		Complete Shakespeare Sonnets	William Shakespeare	Kathleen Turner, Patrick Stewart, Al Pacino, Lindsay Crouse, Eli Wallach, and a full cast	Airplay	Finalist	[11]
		Ten	W. Somerset Maugham	British cast	KCRW	Finalist	[11]
	Multi-Voiced Performance	Cakewalk	Peter Feibleman	Elaine Stritch and Bruce Davison	L.A. Theatre Works	Winner	[11][12]
		The Subtle Knife (1997)	Philip Pullman	Full cast	Random House Audio	Finalist	[11]
		Too Dead To Swing	Hal Glatzer	Full cast	Audio-Playwrights	Finalist	[11]
2002	Multi-Voiced Performance	The Amber Spyglass (2000)	Philip Pullman	Philip Pullman and a full cast	Listening Library	Winner	[13][14]
		The Crucible (1953)	Arthur Miller	Richard Dreyfuss, Stacy Keach, Michael York, Fionnula Flanagan, Madolyn Smith, and René Auberjonois	L.A. Theatre Works	Finalist	[13]
		War Letters	Andrew Carroll	Noah Wyle, Steve Zahn, and a full cast	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[13]
2003	Multi-Voiced Performance	Big Mouth & Ugly Girl	Joyce Carol Oates	Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe	HarperAudio	Winner	[15]
		Every Tongue Got to Confess	Zora Neale Hurston	Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis	HarperAudio	Finalist	[15]
		Seek	Paul Fleischman	Full cast	Listening Library	Finalist	[15]
		Shadowlands (1989)	William Nicholson	Harriet Harris, Martin Jarvis, and a full cast	L.A. Theatre Works	Finalist	[15]
		The Slave	Isaac Bashevis Singer	David Chandler and Tracy Sallows	Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc.	Finalist	[15]
2004	Multi-Voiced Performance	Ghost Riders	Sharyn McCrumb	Dick Hill and Susie Breck	Brilliance Audio	Winner	[16]
		A Patriot's Handbook	Caroline Kennedy	Neil Armstrong, Robert Frost, John McCain, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Caroline Kennedy, James Earl Jones, Vanessa Williams, Edward M. Kennedy, and a full cast	Hyperion Audiobooks	Finalist	[16]
		A Venetian Affair	Andrea di Robilant	Paul Hecht	Recorded Books, LLC	Finalist	[16]
		Hey Nostradamus!	Douglas Coupland	Jenna Lamia, David Ledoux, Jillian Crane, and John Randolph Jones	HighBridge Audio	Finalist	[16]
		The Misfits	James Howe	Spencer Murphy and the Full Cast Family	Full Cast Audio	Finalist	[16]
2005	Multi-Voiced Performance	My Sister's Keeper (2004)	Jodi Picoult	Julia Gibson (narrator), Jenny Ikeda, Richard Poe and a full cast	Recorded Books, LLC	Winner	[17]
		The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956)	C.S. Lewis	Kenneth Branagh and a full cast	HarperAudio	Finalist	[17]
		Kiss Me While I Sleep	Linda Howard	Joyce Bean and Dick Hill	Brilliance Audio	Finalist	[17]
		Queer Eye for the Straight Guy	Ted Allen	Ted Allen	Random House Audio	Finalist	[17]
		Will They Ever Trust Us Again?	Michael Moore	Michael Moore and a full cast	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[17]
2006	Multi-Voiced Performance	Raymond and Hannah	Stephen Marche	Kathleen McInerney and David LeDoux		Winner	[18]
		Assassination Vacation	Sarah Vowell	Sarah Vowell	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[18]
		Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005)	Jonathan Safran Foer	Jeff Woodman, Barbara Caruso, and Richard Ferrone	Recorded Books	Finalist	[18]
		The Historian (2005)	Elizabeth Kostova	Jim Ward, Rosalyn Landor, Robin Atkin Downes, Dennis Boutsikaris, and Joanne Whalley	Time Warner AudioBooks	Finalist	[18]
		Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers	Fred Rogers with Joanne Rogers (intro)	Lily Tomlin, BD Wong, Blair Brown, and Richard Kind with Joanne Rogers (foreword)	Time Warner AudioBooks	Finalist	[18]
2007	Multi-Voiced Performance	World War Z (2006)	Max Brooks	Max Brooks, Alan Alda, John Turturro, and Rob Reiner		Winner	[19]
		Airborn	Kenneth Oppel	David Kelly and a full cast	Full Cast Audio	Finalist	[19]
		Operation Homecoming	Andrew Carroll	Joe Barrett, and David Birney	Blackstone Audio, Inc.	Finalist	[19]
		Suite Francaise	Irène Némirovsky	Daniel Oreskes and Barbara Rosenblat	HighBridge Audio	Finalist	[19]
		The Thirteenth Tale	Diane Setterfield	Ruthie Henshall and Lynn Redgrave	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[19]
2008	Multi-Voiced Performance	Inspired by ... The Bible Experience (Old Testament)	Media Group	Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, and a full cast	Zondervan Publishing	Winner	[20]
		Dune (1965)	Frank Herbert	Scott Brick, Simon Vance, and a full cast	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[20]
		I Am America (And So Can You!)	Stephen Colbert	Stephen Colbert with Paul Dinello, Kevin Dorff, Greg Hollimon, Evie McGee, David Pasquesi, Allison Silverman, Brian Stack, and Jon Stewart	Hachette Audio	Finalist	[20]
		The Word of Promise...New Testament Audio Bible	Thomas Nelson, Inc.	Full cast	Thomas Nelson, Inc.	Finalist	[20]
		Hollowville	Mary Jane Hansen	Bruce Dern	NYS Theatre Institute	Finalist	[20]
2009	Multi-Voiced Performance	Mudbound	Hillary Jordan	Joely Collins, Peter Jay Fernandez, Kate Forbes, Ezra Knight, Brenday Pressley, and Tom Stechschulte	Recorded Books	Winner	[21]
		Family Audio Bible		Dick Cavett, Marsha Mason, Andrew McCarthy, Martha Plimpton, and Tom Wopat	HarperAudio	Finalist	[21]
		The Plague of Doves (2008)	Louise Erdrich	Peter Francis James and Kathleen McInerney	HarperAudio	Finalist	[21]
		The Word of Promise Next Generation: New Testament	Nelson Bibles	Sean Astin, Cody Linley, AnnaSophia Robb, Jordin Sparks, and a full cast	Thomas Nelson, Inc.	Finalist	[21]

2010s

Year	Title	Author(s)	Narrators	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2010	Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktalkes	Nelson Mandela	Full Cast	Hachette Audio	Winner	[22][23]
	The Canterbury Tales (c. 1400)	Geoffrey Chaucer	Full Cast (Ric Jerrom, Bill Wallis, Cameron Stewart, Mark Meadows, Kim Hicks, Maggie Ollerenshaw[24])	BBC Audiobooks America	Finalist	[22]
	The Canterbury Tales (c. 1400)	Geoffrey Chaucer	Martin Jarvis and a full cast	Blackstone Audio, Inc.	Finalist	[22]
	The Rivalry	Norman Corwin	Paul Giamatti, James Gleason, Lily Rabe, David Strathairn, and Shannon Cochran	L.A. Theatre Works	Finalist	[22]
	The Word of Promise Audio Bible	Nelson Bibles	Michael York, Richard Dreyfuss, Gary Sinise, and a full cast	Thomas Nelson, Inc.	Finalist	[22]
2011	Jitters	Adele Park	Full cast	Straight to Audio Productions	Winner	[25][26]
	Great Classic Science Fiction	H. G. Wells, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Lester del Rey, Fritz Leiber, James H. Schmitz, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, Andre Norton	Simon Vance, Nick Sullivan, Robert Fass, Katherine Kellgren, Stephen R. Thorne, Greg Itzin, Scott Brick, Barbara Rosenblat[27]	AudioGO	Finalist	[25]
	Room (2010)	Emma Donoghue	Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff, and Suzanne Toren	Hachette Audio	Finalist	[25]
	The Shadow Effect	Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, and Marianne Williamson	Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, and Marianne Williamson	HarperAudio	Finalist	[25]
	The Importance of Being Earnest	Oscar Wilde	Emily Bergl, Charles Busch, Neil Dickson, Jill Gascoine, James Marsters, Christopher Neame, and Matthew Wolf	L.A. Theatre Works	Finalist	[25]
2012	A Raisin in the Sun (1959)	Lorraine Hansberry	Judyann Elder, Rutina Wesley, Mirron Willis, and a full cast	L.A. Theatre Works	Winner	[28][29][30]
	Bruiser	Neal Shusterman	Nick Podehl, Kate Rudd, Luke Daniels, and Laura Hamilton	Brilliance Audio	Finalist	[28]
	The Graduate (1963)	Charles Webb and Terry Johnson, Calder Willingham, and adapted by Buck Henry	Kathleen Turner, Matthew Rhys, and a full cast	L.A. Theatre Works	Finalist	[28]
	1Q84 (2009–2010)	Haruki Murakami and Jay Rubin, with Philip Gabriel (trans.)	Alison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, and Mark Boyett	Audible, Inc./Brilliance Audio	Finalist	[28]
	The Watch That Ends the Night (2011)	Allan Wolf	Michael Page, Phil Gigante, Christopher Lane, Laural Merlington, and Angela Dawe	Brilliance Audio/Candlewick	Finalist	[28]
2013	Dracula (1897)	Bram Stoker	Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren, Susan Duerden, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm, Steven Crossley, and a full cast	Audible, Inc.	Winner	[31][32][33][34]
	My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan	Seth Rudetsky	Seth Rudetsky and a full cast	Audible, Inc.	Finalist	[31]
	October Mourning	Lesléa Newman	Lesléa Newman and a full cast	Brilliance Audio	Finalist	[31]
	The Privilege of the Sword	Ellen Kushner	Ellen Kushner and a full cast	SueMedia Productions for Neil Gaiman Presents/ACX	Finalist	[31]
	Suddenly, A Knock on the Door	Etgar Keret	Etgar Keret and a full cast	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[31]
	That is All	John Hodgman	John Hodgman and a full cast	Penguin Audio	Finalist	[31]
2014	World War Z (2006)	Max Brooks	Martin Scorsese, Alfred Molina, and a full cast	Random House/Books on Tape	Winner	[35][36][37]
	Ender's Game Alive	Orson Scott Card	Full cast	Audible, Inc.	Finalist	[35][38]
	The Fall of the Kings	Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman	Ellen Kushner and a full cast	SueMedia Productions for Neil Gaiman Presents/Audible, Inc.	Finalist	[35][38]
	Snowbound	Richard S. Wheeler	Brian Hutchison, T. Ryder Smith, Robert Ian Mackenzie, James Colby, Cellest Ciulla, and Scott Sowers	Recorded Books	Finalist	[35][38]
	William Shakespeare's Star Wars	Ian Doescher	Daniel Davis, Jonathan Davis, January LaVoy, and Marc Thompson	Random House Audio/Books on Tape	Finalist	[35][38]
2015	The Graveyard Book	Neil Gaiman	Neil Gaiman, Derek Jacobi, Robert Madge, Clare Corbett, Miriam Margolyes, Andrew Scott, Julian Rhind-Tutt, and a full cast	HarperAudio	Winner	[39][40][41]
	The Anatomy Lesson	Nina Siegal	Adam Alexi-Malle, Peter Altschuler, Emma Jayne Appleyard, Hannah Curtis, Gildart Jackson, Bruce Mann, and Steve West	Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[39]
	Land of Love and Drowning	Tiphanie Yanique	Cherise Boothe, Korey Jackson, Rachel Leslie, and Myra Lucretia Taylor	Recorded Books	Finalist	[39]
	A Long Time Gone	Karen White	Susan Bennett, Jennifer Ikeda, and Pilar Witherspoon	Recorded Books	Finalist	[39]
	The Sixteenth of June	Maya Lang	Julia Whelan, Will Damron, and MacLeod Andrews	Brilliance Publishing	Finalist	[39]
	Stars	Janis Ian and Mike Resnick (editors)	Janis Ian, Emily Rankin, Gabrielle du Cuir, John Rubinstein, Kathe Mazur, Kristoffer Tabori, Paul Boehmer, Sile Bermingham, Stefan Rudnicki and Susan Hanfield	Audible, Inc.	Finalist	[39]
2016	Illuminae (2015)	Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff	Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lincoln Hoppe, and Johnathan McClain	Listening Library/Penguin Random House Audio	Winner	[42][43]
	Clockwork Lives	Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart	Morgan Hallet, George Guidall, Richard Poe, Jim Jenner, Tandy Cronyn, Pete Bradbury, Barbara Rosenblat, and Brian Hutchison	Recorded Books	Finalist	[42]
	How It Went Down	Kekla Magoon	Cherise Boothe, Shari Peele, Kevin R. Free, Avery Glymph, Patricia R. Floyd, and Brian Hutchison	Recorded Books	Finalist	[42]
	Just Kids from the Bronx	Arlene Alda	Alan Alda, Arlene Alda, and Christina Delaine with Milton Glaser, Regis Philbin, Robert Klein, Gabrielle Salvatto, and Carlos Serrano	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[42]
	With Lee in Virginia (1890)	G.A. Henty	Brian Blessed, Sean Astin, Kirk Cameron, and a full cast	Heirloom Audio Productions	Finalist	[42]
2017	Small Great Things	Jodi Picoult	Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell, and Ari Fliakos	Penguin Random House Audio / Books on Tape	Winner	[44][45]
	Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782)	Choderlos de Laclos	Dominic West, Janet McTeer, Una Stubbs, Elaine Cassidy, Adjoa Andoh, Edward Holcroft, and Morfydd Clark	Audible Studios	Finalist	[44]
	The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto (2015)	Mitch Albom	Mitch Albom, Roger McGuinn, Ingrid Michaelson, John Pizzarelli, Paul Stanley, George Guidall, and a full cast	HarperAudio	Finalist	[44]
	Pruno, Ramen, and a Side of Hope	Courtney Lance and Nikki Pope	Whoopi Goldberg and Bill Kurtis	Post Hill Press	Finalist	[44]
	Thomas Jefferson-From Boy to Man	Jayne D'Alessandro-Cox	James Brinkley, Alexander Brinkley, and Christina Rideout	James Brinkley/Jayne D'Alessandro-Cox	Finalist	[44]
	A Wild Swan	Michael Cunningham	Lili Taylor and Billy Hough	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[44]
2018	Restart	Gordon Korman	Jonathan Todd Ross, Laura Knight Keating, Ramon de Ocampo, Andy Paris, Suzy Jackson, Graham Halstead, and John Kroft	Recorded Books	Winner	[46][47][48]
	Lincoln in the Bardo	George Saunders	George Saunders, Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, and 163 others	Random House Audio	Finalist	[46]
	The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo	Taylor Jenkins Reid	Alma Cuervo, Robin Miles, and Julia Whelan	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[46]
	The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane	Lisa See	Ruthie Ann Miles, Kimiko Glenn, and a full cast	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[46]
	The X-Files: Cold Cases	Joe Harris, Chris Carter, and Dirk Maggs	David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, and Bruce Harwood	Audible Studios	Finalist	[46]
2019	Dreamland Burning	Jennifer Latham	Pyeng Threadgill and Luke Slattery	Hachette Audio	Winner	[49][50][51]
	An American Marriage	Tayari Jones	Eisa Davis and Sean Crisden	HighBridge Audio	Finalist	[49]
	Any Man	Amber Tamblyn	Glenn Davis, Ben Foster, Marc Maron, Jason Ritter, John Roberts, Russ Tamblyn, Amber Tamblyn, January LaVoy, Phoebe Strole, Robin Miles, Thérèse Plummer, Dan Bittner, James Fouhey, and Michael Crouch	HarperAudio	Finalist	[49]
	Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales	Hans Christian Andersen	F. Murray Abraham and a full cast	Penguin Random House Audio/ Listening Library	Finalist	[49]
	Sadie (2018)	Courtney Summers	Dan Bittner, Rebecca Soler, Gabra Zackman, and Fred Berman	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[49]
	There There (2018)	Tommy Orange	Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo, and Kyla Garcia	Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[49]

2020s

Year	Title	Author(s)	Narrators	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2020	The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11	Garrett M. Graff	Full 45-person cast	Simon & Schuster Audio	Winner	[52][53][54]
	200 Women	Geoff Blackwell, Ruth Hobday, Sharon Gelman, Marianne Lassandro, and Kieran Scott	Full cast	Chronicle Books	Finalist	[52][55]
	Daisy Jones & The Six	Taylor Jenkins Reid	Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, Pablo Schreiber, and a full cast	Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[52][55]
	Dooku: Jedi Lost (Star Wars)	Cavan Scott	Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Marc Thompson, Pete Bradbury, Jonathan Davis, Neil Hellegers, Sean Kenin, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Carol Monda, Robert Petkoff, and Rebecca Soler	Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[52][55]
	Hey, Kiddo (2018)	Jarrett J. Krosoczka	Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Jeanne Birdsall, Richard Ferrone, Jenna Lamia, and a full cast	Scholastic Audio	Finalist	[52][55]
2021	Clap When You Land (2020)	Elizabeth Acevedo	Elizabeth Acevedo and Melania-Luisa Marte	HarperAudio	Winner	[56][57]
	How the Penguins Saved Veronica	Hazel Prior	Helen Lloyd, Andrew Fallaize, and Mandy Williams	Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[56]
	No Name	Wilkie Collins	Nicholas Boulton, Lucy Scott, Rachel Atkins, David Rintoul, Russell Bentley, and John Foley	Naxos AudioBooks c/o Naxos of America, Inc.	Finalist	[56]
	The Switch	Beth O'Leary	Daisy Edgar-Jones and Alison Steadman	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[56]
	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Mark L. Levine, George C. McNamee, and Daniel L. Greenberg	J. K. Simmons, Jeff Daniels, Chris Jackson, Corey Stoll, John Hawkes, Chris Chalk, Luke Kirby, Norbert Leo Butz, George Newbern, and a full cast	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[56]
	Women Who Wrote	Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Gertrude Stein, and Phillis Wheatley	Chloe Dolandis, Jude Mason, and Tyra Kennedy	Thomas Nelson	Finalist	[56]
2022	Heresy	Melissa Lenhardt	Barrie Kreinik, Bailey Carr, Ella Turenne, Nikki Massoud, Natalie Naudus, Imani Jade Powers, and James Fouhey	Hachette Audio	Winner	[58][59]
	The Anatomy of Desire	L. R. Dorn	Santino Fontana, Shelby Young, Marin Ireland, JD Jackson, Dan Bittner, Vikas Adam, Gabra Zackman, Fred Berman, Darrell Dennis, Oliver Wyman, Jonathan Davis, Hillary Huber, Lisa Flanagan, and Sharahn LaRue	HarperAudio	Finalist	[58][60]
	Bourdain	Laurie Woolever	Full 92-person cast	HarperAudio	Finalist	[58][60]
	Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019	Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain (ed.)	Full 87-person cast	Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[58][61]
	Twins	Varian Johnson	Ahnya O'Riordan, Grace Capeless, Mashari Bain, Malcolm Bowen, Antoinette Comer, André Blake, Armand Xavier, and Rufen-Blanchette	Scholastic Audio	Finalist	[58][60]
2023	Sparring Partners	John Grisham	Jeff Daniels, Ethan Hawke, January LaVoy, and John Grisham	Penguin Random House Audio	Winner	[62][63]
	The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (2021)	Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine, edited by Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein	Nikole Hannah-Jones, January LaVoy, Claudia Rankine, Nikky Finney, Janina Edwards, Dorothy Roberts, Shayna Small, Terrance Hayes, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Yusef Komunyakaa, Eve L. Ewing, Karen Chilton, Aaron Goodson, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Erin Miles, Dominic Hoffman, Adenrele Ojo, Matthew Desmond, Tyehimba Jess, Tim Seibles, Jamelle Bouie, Cornelius Eady, Minka Wiltz, Martha S. Jones, Darryl Pinckney, ZZ Packer, Carol Anderson, Tracy K. Smith, Evie Shockley, Bryan Stevenson, William DeMeritt, Jasmine Mans, Trymaine Lee, A. Van Jordan, Yaa Gyasi, Linda Villarosa, Danez Smith, Terry McMillan, Anthea Butler, Rita Dove, Camille T. Dungy, Wesley Morris, Natasha Trethewey, Joshua Bennett, Chanté McCormick, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Ron Butler, Kevin M. Kruse, Bahni Turpin, Gregory Pardlo, Ibram X. Kendi, JD Jackson, Jason Reynolds, and Sonia Sanchez	Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[62]
	Acts of Violet	Margarita Montimore	Brittany Pressley, Amy McFadden, Dan Bittner, Fred Berman, Hillary Huber, Johnny Heller, Katharine Chin, Ramón de Ocampo, Suzanne Toren, and Alejandro Ruiz	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[62]
	The Butcher and the Wren	Alaina Urquhart	Sophie Amoss and Joe Knezevich	Zando	Finalist	[62]
	The Many Daughters of Afong Moy	Jamie Ford	Jennifer Lim, Cindy Kay, Mirai, Natalie Naudus, Sura Siu, Emily Woo Zeller, Nancy Wu, and Jamie Ford	Simon & Schuster Audio	Finalist	[62]
	Richard Marsh: The Beetle	Richard Marsh	Gunnar Cauthery, Jonathan Aris, Natalie Simpson, Andrew Wincott, and John Foley	Naxos AudioBooks	Finalist	[62]
2024 29th	No Two Persons	Erica Bauermeister	Barrie Kreinik, Braden Wright, and a full cast	Macmillan Audio	Winner	[18]
	Coleman Hill	Kim Coleman Foote	Bahni Turpin and Dion Graham	Zando	Finalist	[18]
	The Ghost Sequences	A. C. Wise	Erica Sullivan, Traber Burns, and a full cast	Blackstone Publishing	Finalist	[18]
	Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!	David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker	"Weird Al" Yankovic, Arne Schmidt, and a full cast	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[18]
	Sing Her Down	Ivy Pochoda	Frankie Corzo, Kimberly M. Wetherell, and a full cast	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[18]
2025 30th	When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day	Garrett M. Graff	Edoardo Ballerini, Garrett M. Graff, and a full cast	Simon & Schuster Audio	Winner	[64]
	Anita de Monte Laughs Last	Xochitl Gonzalez	Stacy Gonzalez, Jonathan Gregg, and Jessica Pimentel	Macmillan Audio	Finalist	[64]
	Butcher	Joyce Carol Oates	Amy Shiels, Edoardo Ballerini, and a full cast	Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[64]
	Five Broken Blades	Mai Corland	Donald Chang, Greg Chun, Zion Jang, Sophie Oda, Jaine Ye, and Roger Yeh	Recorded Books, Inc.	Finalist	[64]
	From Here to the Great Unknown (2024)	Lisa Marie Presley and Byand Riley Keough	Julia Roberts and Riley Keough	Penguin Random House Audio	Finalist	[64]
	Snake Oil	Kelsey Rae Dimberg	Andi Arndt, Renata Friedman, and Kristen Sieh	HarperCollins Publishers	Finalist	[64]