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Audiobook lovers and people wanting to dip your ears into the format, this yr’s finalists for greatest audiobooks throughout the 27 classes of the Audie Awards have been introduced. The Audies, offered by the Audio Publishers Association, acknowledge excellence and distinction in audiobook and spoken-word leisure. They are given to the performer of the audiobook.
Several adjustments have been made to this yr’s slate of awards. Among them are the altering of Best Female Narrator and Best Male narrator. To be extra inclusive, these classes are actually Best Fiction Narrator and Best Nonfiction Narrator.
This yr additionally marks the primary time that the Audies have launched the APA Choice Awards. The award acknowledges audiobooks which have develop into cultural phenomena and stored listeners hooked.
Find the finalists in a few of the class beneath. Winners can be introduced on the annual Audio Publishers Association Gala, which takes place this yr on March 4 in Los Angeles. Learn extra in regards to the Audies and the Audio Publishers Association and get the complete roster of finalists in every class right here.
AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR
- Inside Voice: My Obsession with How We Sound written and narrated by Lake Bell
- Sing a Black Girl’s Song by Ntozake Shange, edited by Imani Perry, foreword by Tarana Burke; narrated by Alfre Woodard, D. Woods, Regina Taylor, Lynn Whitfield, Okwui Okpokwasili, Ifa Bayeza, Imani Perry, Robin Miles, Tarana Burke, and Savannah Shange
- Surrender written and narrated by Bono
- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, narrated by Meryl Streep
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
- Behind the Seams written and narrated by Dolly Parton, Holly George-Warren, and Rebecca Seaver
- Saved written and narrated by Benjamin Hall
BEST FICTION NARRATOR
- Meryl Streep for Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
BEST NON-FICTION NARRATOR
FANTASY
- Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian, narrated by John Pirhalla
FICTION
- Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton, narrated by Saskia Maarleveld
- Maame by Jessica George, narrated by Heather Agyepong
- One Blood by Denene Millner, narrated by Bahni Turpin, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, and Tina Lifford
- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, narrated by Meryl Streep
MYSTERY
- The Golden Gate by Amy Chua, narrated by Robb Moreira, Tim Campbell, and Suzanne Toren
NON-FICTION
ROMANCE
SCIENCE FICTION
- Wool by Hugh Howey, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
THRILLER/SUSPENSE
- Bad Cree by Jessica Johns, narrated by Tanis Parenteau
- None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell, narrated by Nicola Walker, Louise Brealey, and a full solid together with Kristin Atherton, Ayesha Antoine, Alix Dunmore, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Lisa Jewell, Thomas Judd, Dominic Thorburn, and Jenny Walser
YOUNG ADULT
- Beholder by Ryan La Sala, narrated by Vikas Adam
- Stolen Heir by Holly Black, narrated by Saskia Maarleveld
The audiobooks named as the primary APA Choice honorees are Fourth Wing, Never Finished, Spare, The Covenant of Water, and The Woman in Me.
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