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Finally! The 2010 Audie Awards Have Arrived!

Tonight – May 25th – the 2010 Audies are going to be taking place. How exciting!
Simply Audiobooks would like to extend good luck to all nominees.

Click HERE to see the full list of nominees on the Audio Publisher’s Association Audie Awards page.

To experience for yourself what true audiobook excellence sounds like, click HERE to view the nominee titles that Simply Audiobooks has available for rent or download.

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Congratulations to all nominees and best of luck tonight!

Happy Listening… to Excellence.

Neil Gaiman‘s The Graveyard Book continues to dominate the awards circuit, picking up the Hugo Award for best novel at Worldcon in Montreal over the weekend.

The Graveyard Book has also won America’s major children’s fiction prize, the Newbery Medal, the Locus young adult award, and was named Audiobook of the Year at this year’s Audie awards.

We’d like to give Gaiman a high five as well as comb his hair … but only so we can tousle it again in a congratulatory head pat.

Congratulations to Neil Gaiman, winner of the 2009 Audiobook of the Year for The Graveyard Book!

Gaiman’s book, which won The Newbery Medal earlier this year,  took top honours at The Audies in New York last friday. Often referred to as the ‘Oscars of the audiobook world’, the Audies is the only awards program in the U.S. entirely devoted to recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.

The Graveyard Book also took home the Audie for Children’s Titles for Ages 8-12, Gaiman’s  very first Audie win.

Other big winners were Curse of the Blue Tattoo, taking home The Audies for Distinguished Achievement in Production, Solo Narration – Female, and Teens; Thomas L. Friedman took home the Audies for Politics and Non-Fiction for Hot, Flat, and Crowded,

Full list of Winners:

• FICTION (TIE)

Duma Key, by Stephen King, read by John Slattery
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, read by Various Artists

• LITERARY FICTION

Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis, read by Anthony Heald

• MYSTERY

Voice of the Violin, by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli, read by Grover Gardner

• THRILLER/SUSPENSE

Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith, read by Dennis Boutsikaris

• DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION

Curse of the Blue Tattoo, by L.A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren

• ROMANCE

The Dark Highlander, by Karen Marie Moning, read by Phil Gigante

• CHILDREN’S TITLES FOR AGES UP TO 8

James Herriot’s Treasury for Children, James Herriot, read by Jim Dale

• CHILREN’S TITLES FOR AGES 8-12

The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman, read by Neil Gaiman

• TEENS

Curse of the Blue Tattoo, by L.A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren

• NON-FICTION

Hot, Flat, and Crowded, by Thomas L. Friedman, read by Oliver Wyman

• SOLO NARRATION – FEMALE

Curse of the Blue Tattoo, by L.A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren

• SOLO NARRATION – MALE

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, read by John Lee

• AUDIO DRAMA

The Odyssey, by Homer, read by Tim McInnery, Amanda Redman

• AUDIOBOOK ADAPTATION

English Majors, by Garrison Keillor, read by Garrison Keillor

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch, read by Erik Singer

• BUSINESS/EDUCATIONAL

Little Red Book of Selling, by Jeffrey Gitomer, read by Jeffrey Gitomer

• CLASSIC

Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, read by Simon Vance

• HISTORY

Gandhi & Churchill, by Arthur Herman, read by John Curless

• HUMOR

The Learners, by Chip Kidd, read by Bronson Pinchot

• INSPIRATIONAL/FAITH-BASED FICTION

The Prague Counterpoint, by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene, read by Sean Barrett

• INSPIRATIONAL/FAITH-BASED NON-FICTION

The World of Promise: Next Generation – New Testament, read by Sean Astin, AnnaSophia Robb, Jordin Sparks, et al

• MULTI-VOICED

Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan, read by Ezra Knight et al

• NARRATION BY THE AUTHOR

When You Are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris, read by David Sedaris

• ORIGINAL WORK

Louis Vuitton Soundwalk: Beijing, by Stephan Crasneanscki, read by Gong Li

• PACKAGE DESIGN

The Founding Fathers Collection, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ED., read by Richard Rohan, Ira Claffey

• PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

You: Staying Young, by Mehmet C. Oz, Michael F. Roizen, read by Johnny Heller

• POLITICS

Hot, Flat, and Crowded, by Thomas L. Friedman, read by Oliver Wyman

• SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

Calculating God, by Robert J. Sawyer, read by Jonathan Davis

• SHORT STORIES/COLLECTIONS

Armageddon in Retrospect, by Kurt Vonnegut, read by Rip Torn, Mark Vonnegut

• SPANISH LANGUAGE

Por un dia mas/For One More Day, by Mitch Albom, read by Jose Manuel Vieira