Audie Award Winners Announced!
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
Audie Award Winners Announced!
Looking for some new audio books to listen to this season? There’s no better time than now to check out new audio books. That’s because, the best of the best audio books were recently announced for the 2011 Audie Awards.
The list below features all the winners within their categories.
Audiobook of the Year
Life
Keith Richards
Read by Keith Richards, Johnny Depp, Joe Hurley
Audio Drama
Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue
George Bernard Shaw
Read by Amy Irving, Edward Herrmann, Stefan Rudnicki, and a Full Cast
Audiobook Adapation
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
Read by Sean Barrett
Biography/Memoir
Life
Keith Richards, James Fox
Read by Keith Richards, Johnny Depp, Joe Hurley
Business/Educational
The Intelligent Entrepreneur
Bill Murphy, Jr.
Read by LJ Ganser, Fred Berman
Children’s Titles for Ages 8-12
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Jacqueline Kelly
Read by Natalie Ross
Children’s Titles for Ages up to 8
The Jazz Man
Karen Ehrhardt
Read by James “D Train” Williams
Classic
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
Read by Roger Rees, Rosalyn Landor, John Lee, Judy Geeson
Distinguished Achievement in Production
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
Walter Dean Myers
Read by Muhammad Cunningham, Michael Early, Patricia R. Floyd, Kevin R. Free, Arthur French, Dion Graham, Nathan Hinton, Ezra Knight, Robin Miles, Lizan Mitchell, Gail Nelson, Monica Patton, Charles Turner
Fiction
Winter’s Bone
Daniel Woodrell
Read by Emma Galvin
History
EMPIRE OF LIBERTY: A History of the Early Republic
Gordon S. Wood
Read by Robert Fass
Humor
OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES: 5,000 Years of Funny Bits and Not-So-Kosher Laughs
Sam Hoffman, Eric Spiegelman
Read by Sam Hoffman, Eric Spiegelman, and a full cast
Inspirational/Faith-Based Fiction
FIREFLIES IN DECEMBER
Jennifer Erin Valent
Read by Kate Forbes
Inspirational/Faith-Based Non-Fiction
IN A HEARTBEAT
Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sean Tuohy w/Sally Jenkins
Read by Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sean Tuohy, et al.
Judges’ Award – Paranormal
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
Read by Kevin T. Collins
Literary Fiction
SNAKEWOMAN OF LITTLE EGYPT
Robert Hellenga
Read by Coleen Marlo
Multi-Voiced Performance
JITTERS: A Quirky Little Audio Book
Adele Park
Read by a Full Cast
Mystery & Suspense
THE REVERSAL
Michael Connelly
Read by Peter Giles
Narration by the Author or Authors
NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS
Emma Thompson
Read by Emma Thompson
Non-Fiction
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS
Rebecca Skloot
Read by Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
Original Work
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF MICKEY SPILLANE’S MIKE HAMMER, VOL. 2: The Little Death
Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins
Read by Stacy Keach and a Full Cast
Package Design
THE VERY BEST OF BOB AND RAY: Legends of Comedy
Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding
Read by Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding
Personal Development
PUT ON YOUR CROWN
Queen Latifah
Read by Queen Latifah
Romance
THE SECRET DIARIES OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Syrie James
Read by Bianca Amato
Science Fiction/Fantasy
THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT
Harry Harrison
Read by Phil Gigante
Short Stories/Collections
STORIES
Neil Gaiman [Ed.], Al Sarrantonio [Ed.], Joe Hill, Lawrence Block, Carolyn Parkhurst, Joanne Harris, et al.
Read by Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Peter Francis James, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton
Solo Narration – Female
GLORIOUS
Bernice L. McFadden
Read by Alfre Woodard
Solo Narration – Male
ZORGAMAZOO
Robert Paul Weston
Read by Alan Cumming
Teens
THE ROCK AND THE RIVER
Kekla Magoon
Read by Dion Graham
Thriller/Suspense
THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST
Stieg Larsson
Read by Simon Vance
With so many to choose from, why not listen to them all! If you’ve already heard some of the winners, leave us a comment and let the rest of the audio book community know what you thought of the winning title.
