At the 2024 Audie Awards, the Avalon Hollywood audience in Los Angeles, March 4. Image: Stewart Cook for APA
By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson
Patrick Stewart Wins for S&S Audio’s ‘Making It So’
As Publishing Perspectives readers know, the Audie Awards from the Audio Publishers Association moved their prize ceremony to the Avalon Hollywood in Los Angeles this year from New York City for the first time since 2008. The event was held overnight (March 4).
Going west can pay off when a celebrity attached to a shortlisted property shows up, and there was an in-person win for Simon & Schuster Audio when Patrick Stewart took the category of Autobiography and Memoir for his self-written and self-read Making It So.
And while voice work has never commanded the sort of glitz-fever that film and television do, the program did feature actress Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding 1 and 2), with presenters Lake Bell (No Escape); Felicia Day (The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Podcast); and Samira Wiley (Orange Is the New Black).
Day won in the Audio Drama category, in fact, for Third Eye; Bell was shortlisted for Inside Voice: My Obsession with How We Sound; and Wiley was a finalist in 2021.
The big win went to Bono, not unsurprisingly, for his Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story from Penguin Random House Audio. And Meryl Streep won for her reading of Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake from Harper Audio.
Here is the complete list of tonight’s winners, and you can review our full listing of the shortlisted finalists in 27 categories here.
2024 Audie Award Winners
Patrick Stewart wins the 2024 Autobiography/Memoir Audie at the Avalon Hollywood for ‘Making It So’ from Simon & Schuster Audio. Image: Stewart Cook, for APA
Audiobook of the Year
Surrender
- Written and narrated by Bono
- Published by Penguin Random House Audio
Audio Drama
Third Eye
- By Felicia Day
- Performed by Felicia Day, Neil Gaiman, Sean Astin, Lily Pichu, London Hughes, Wil Wheaton, Hudson Yang, Danny Pudi, Alan Tudyk, and Christopher Judge
- Published by Audible Originals
Autobiography/Memoir
Making It So
- Written and narrated by Patrick Stewart
- Published by Simon & Schuster Audio
Best Fiction Narrator
Billie Fulford-Brown for The Last Lifeboat
- By Hazel Gaynor
- Published by Penguin Random House Audio
Best Nonfiction Narrator
Dion Graham for King: A Life
- By Jonathan Eig
- Published by Macmillan Audio
Business/Personal Development
The Light We Carry
- Written and narrated by Michelle Obama
- Published by Penguin Random House Audio
Erotica
Anger Bang
- By Avery Flynn
- Narrated by Kirsten Leigh and Lance Greenfield
- Published by Recorded Books
Español
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
- By Miguel de Cervantes
- Narrated by Israel Elejalde, Pedro Casablanc, Pepe Viyuela, Víctor Clavijo, María Agúndez, Íñigo Álvarez de Lara, Eugenio Barona, Sol de la Barreda, Laura Carrero del Tío, David Carrillo, Raúl García Arrondo, Óscar Goikoetxea, Eugenio Gómez, Rebeca Hernando, Paula Iwasaki, Arturo Lopez, Ariana Martínez, Antonio Martínez Asensio, Íñigo Montero, Juan Ochoa, Pepe Ocio, Javier Portugués “Portu”, Ignacio Rengel, Diego Rousselon, Asier Sola, Charo Soria, Fernando Soto, and Elsa Veiga.
- Published by Penguin Random House Audio
Faith-Based Fiction or Nonfiction
Dark Fall
- By Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson
- Narrated by MacLeod Andrews
- Published by Tyndale House Publishers
Fantasy
The Dragon Reborn
- By Robert Jordan
- Narrated by Rosamund Pike
- Published by Macmillan Audio
Fiction
Tom Lake
- By Ann Patchett
- Narrated by Meryl Streep
- Published by HarperAudio
At the 2024 Audie Awards, the Avalon Hollywood audience in Los Angeles, March 4. Image: Stewart Cook for APA
History/Biography
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh
- By Ann Thwaite, preface by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
- Narrated by Simon Vance
- Published by Tantor Audio, a division of Recorded Books
Humor
Leslie F*cking Jones
- Written and narrated by Leslie Jones, foreword by Chris Rock
- Published by Hachette Audio
Judges’ Category: UK-Produced Audiobook
Sponsored by the UK Publishers Association, Audio Publishers Group
Someone Else’s Shoes
- By Jojo Moyes
- Narrated by Daisy Ridley
- Published by Penguin Random House Audio UK
Literary Fiction and Classics
The Iliad
- By Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
- Narrated by Audra McDonald
- Published by Audible Studios
Middle Grade
What Happened to Rachel Riley?
- By Claire Swinarski
- Narrated by Ferdelle Capistrano, Alexandra Hunter, Karla Serrato, Gail Shalan, Reena Dutt, Caitlin Davies, Andrew Eiden, and Kirby Heyborne
- Published by HarperAudio
Multivoiced Performance
No Two Persons
- By Erica Bauermeister
- Narrated by Barrie Kreinik, Braden Wright, Carol Jacobanis, Cassandra Campbell, Gabra Zackman, George Newbern, Jesse Vilinsky, Max Meyers, Rachel L. Jacobs, and Stephen Graybill
- Published by Macmillan Audio
Mystery
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
- By Jesse Q. Sutanto
- Narrated by Eunice Wong
- Published by Penguin Random House Audio
Narration by the Author(s)
It. Goes. So. Fast.; The Year of No Do-Overs
- Written and narrated by Mary Louise Kelly
- Published by Macmillan Audio
Billie Fulfard-Brown wins the Best Fiction Narrator award for her reading of Hazel Gaynor’s ‘The Last Lifeboat’ from Penguin Random House Audio. Image: Stewart Cook for APA
Nonfiction
Poverty, by America
- By Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by Dion Graham
- Published by Penguin Random House Audio
Original Work
Exodus: The Shanghai Jews
- By Kate McAll
- Performed by Edyta Brychta, Michael Canavan, Shannon Cochran, Arye Gross, Anna Mathias, Alan Shearman, André Sogliuzzo, and Joanne Whalley
- Published by L.A. Theatre Works
Romance
The True Love Experiment
- By Christina Lauren
- Narrated by Jonathan Cole and Cindy Kay
- Published by Simon & Schuster Audio
Science Fiction
Cassandra in Reverse
- By Holly Smale
- Narrated by Kristin Atherton
- Published by HarperAudio
Short Stories/Collections
Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver
- By Mary Oliver, with the contributions by Sophia Bush, Ross Gay, Samin Nosrat, Rainn Wilson, and Susan Cain
- Narrated by Sophia Bush
- Published by Pushkin Industries
Thriller/Suspense
All the Sinners Bleed
- By S.A. Cosby
- Narrated by Adam Lazarre-White
- Published by Macmillan Audio
Young Adult
This Terrible True Thing
- By Jenny Laden
- Narrated by Gail Shalan
- Published by Blackstone Publishing
Young Listeners
The Skull
- By Jon Klassen
- Narrated by Fairuza Balk and Jon Klassen
- Published by Dreamscape Media
Inside the Avalon Hollywood before the Audies show starts. Image: Rob Latour for APA
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