2020 Audie Award Finalists

The Audio Publisher’s Association has announced the nominees for the 2020 Audie Awards, honoring excellence in audiobooks and spoken entertainment. The 2020 Audie Awards includes Audiobooks of the year, audio drama, best female narrator, best male narrator, autobiography/memoir, business/personal development, fantasy, fiction, etc. And winners will be revealed at the Audie Awards® Gala on March 2 in New York City.
Below is a complete list of 2020 Audie Award Finalists:
AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner.
Becoming, written and narrated by Michelle Obama
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White.
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff
The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

BEST FEMALE NARRATOR
All the Lost Things by Michelle Sacks
The Boy by Tami Hoag
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Prime Suspect by Lynda La Plante
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

BEST MALE NARRATOR
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer
Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Watership Down by Richard Adams

AUDIO DRAMA
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey by James Lecesne
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner
Birthday Suit by Lauren Blakely
Have a Nice Day by Billy Crystal and Quinton Peeples
Puss in Boots by Neil Fishman, Harvey Edelman, and Khristine Hvam

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Becoming, written and narrated by Michelle Obama
From Scratch, written and narrated by Tembi Locke
Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by Elton John
MotherStruck!, written and narrated by Staceyann Chin
Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood, written and narrated by Andrew Rannells

BUSINESS/PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Barefoot Spirit by Michael Houlihan, Bonnie Harvey, and Rick Kushman
Calm the F*ck Down, written and narrated by Sarah Knight
Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World, written and narrated by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall
So You Want to Start a Podcast?, written and narrated by Kristen Meinzer
Wolfpack, written and narrated by Abby Wambach

FAITH-BASED FICTION & NON-FICTION
Breathe Again, written and narrated by Niki Hardy
How the Light Gets In by Jolina Petersheim
Jezebel: The Prequel by Jacquelin Thomas

FANTASY
Beasts of the Frozen Sun by Jill Criswell
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Time’s Children by D.B. Jackson

FICTION
The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer
Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Colombiano by Rusty Young
The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell

HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY
American Moonshot by Douglas Brinkley
The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
The Queen by Josh Levin, narrated by January LaVoy
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense by Dan Abrams and David Fisher

HUMOR
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
Idiot, written and narrated by Laura Clery
More Bedtime Stories for Cynics by Kirsten Kearse, Gretchen Enders, Aparna Nancherla, Cirocco Dunlap, and Dave Hill
Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations, written and narrated by Craig Ferguson
A Woman First: First Woman, written and narrated by Selina Meyer

LITERARY FICTION & CLASSICS
Milkman by Anna Burns
Mythos, written and narrated by Stephen Fry
The Night Tiger, written and narrated by Yangsze Choo
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

MIDDLE GRADE
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
New Kid by Jerry Craft
Our Castle by the Sea, written and narrated by Lucy Strange
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart

MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE
200 Women by Geoff Blackwell, Ruth Hobday, Sharon Gelman, Marianne Lassandro, and Kieran Scott
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Dooku: Jedi Lost (Star Wars) by Cavan Scott
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff, narrated by a full cast with Holter Graham

MYSTERY
Along Came a Spider (25 anniversary edition) by James Patterson, narrated by Taye Diggs
The Boy by Tami Hoag, narrated by Hillary Huber
The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup, narrated by Peter Noble
The Lost Man by Jane Harper, narrated by Stephen Shanahan
The New Iberia Blues by James Lee Burke

NARRATION BY THE AUTHOR OR AUTHORS
Becoming, written and narrated by Michelle Obama
Inside Out, written and narrated by Demi Moore
Madame Badobedah, written and narrated by Sophie Dahl
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future, written and narrated by Pete Buttigieg
Tough Love, written and narrated by Susan Rice
With the Fire on High, written and narrated by Elizabeth Acevedo

NON-FICTION
Grace Will Lead Us Home by Jennifer Berry Hawes
Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves by Frans de Waal
The Perfect Predator by Steffanie Strathdee, Thomas Patterson, and Teresa Barker
Talking to Strangers, written and narrated by Malcolm Gladwell
We Are the Weather, written and narrated by Jonathan Safran Foer

ORIGINAL WORK
Evil Eye by Madhuri Shekar
I Eat Men Like Air by Alice Berman
Lustily Ever After: The Audiobook Musical by Stephanie Bentley and Miranda Ray
Nevertheless We Persisted: Me Too, written and performed by a chorus of voices
Our Harlem: Seven Days of Cooking, Music and Soul at the Red Rooster by Marcus Samuelsson

ROMANCE
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
Devil’s Daughter by Lisa Kleypas
The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
Gimme Some Sugar by Molly Harper
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

SCIENCE FICTION
Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull
Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds

SHORT STORIES/COLLECTIONS
Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forward by Veronica Roth, Blake Crouch, N.K. Jemisin, Amor Towles, Paul Tremblay, and Andy Weir
Full Throttle by Joe Hill
I’m Telling the Truth But I’m Lying, written and narrated by Bassey Ikpi
Kabu Kabu by Nnedi Okorafor and Whoopi Goldberg (foreword)

THRILLER/SUSPENSE
Blood in the Water by Jack Flynn
Freefall by Jessica Barry
The Institute by Stephen King
Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman
Winter Dark by Alex Callister

YOUNG ADULT
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
Lovely War by Julie Berry
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas, narrated by Bahni Turpin
With the Fire on High, written and narrated by Elizabeth Acevedo

YOUNG LISTENERS (UP TO AGE 8)
How to Read a Book, written and narrated by Kwame Alexander
The Lion King by Elizabeth Rudnick and Disney Press
The Pigeon HAS to Go to School!, written and narrated by Mo Willems
Rumple Buttercup: A Story of Bananas, Belonging, and Being Yourself, written and narrated by Matthew Gray Gubler
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell
The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds

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