Audie Awards 2022

by Audio Publishers Association

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101 books

The Audie Awards® is the premier awards program in the United States recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment. Publishers and rights holders enter titles in various categories for recognition of achievement. Finalists are selected, and then one winner is awarded in each category at the Audies Gala.

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Audiobook Of The Year

Winner

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir, 2021

Finalists

A Promised Land

Barack Obama, 2020

The Storyteller

Tales of Life and Music

Dave Grohl, 2021

The Sweetness of Water

Nathan Harris, 2021

Autobiography/Memoir

Winner

Somebody's Daughter

Ashley C. Ford, 2021

Finalists

Act Like You Got Some Sense

Jamie Foxx, 2021

The Boys

A Memoir of Hollywood and Family

Ron Howard, Clint Howard, 2021

Listen Mama

M. S. P. Williams, 2021

Business/Personal Development

Winner

Machiavelli for Women

Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace

Stacey Vanek Smith, 2021

Finalists

Badass Habits

Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick

Jen Sincero, 2020

Carry On

Reflections for a New Generation

John Lewis, Andrew Young, Kabir Sehgal, 2021

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

Emmanuel Acho, 2020

What Happened to You?

Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D. Perry, 2021

Español - Spanish Language

Winner

The House Of Bernarda Alba

La casa de Bernarda Alba

Federico García Lorca, 2019

Finalists

25 cuentos populares de Perú para crecer juntos

José Morán Orti, Anna Clariana, Elisenda Nogué, 2020

Desierto Sonoro

Valeria Luiselli, 2019

Gabo y Mercedes: una despedida

Rodrigo García, 2021

Valentine \ Amor y furia (Spanish edition)

Elizabeth Wetmore, 2021

Faith-based Fiction or Non-fiction

Winner

The Gift of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois, 2021

Finalists

Crazy Faith

It's Only Crazy Until It Happens

Michael Todd, 2021

The Happiest Man on Earth

The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

Eddie Jaku, 2022

He Saw That It Was Good

Reimagining Your Creative Life to Repair a Broken World

Sho Baraka, 2021

Home Sweet Road

Finding Love, Making Music and Building a Life One City at a Time

Johnnyswim, 2021

Fantasy

Winner

Rhythm of War

Book Four of The Stormlight Archive

Brandon Sanderson, 2020

Finalists

The Jasmine Throne

Tasha Suri, 2021

Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

Tamsyn Muir, 2021

The Sandman

The doll's house. Vol. 2

Neil Gaiman, 2012

The Witch's Heart

Genevieve Gornichec, 2021

Fiction

Winner

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

Dawnie Walton, 2021

Finalists

All the Lonely People

Mike Gayle, 2021

The Four Winds

Kristin Hannah, 2021

The Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles, 2021

The Nature of Fragile Things

Susan Meissner, 2022

History/Biography

Winner

Clanlands

Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other

Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish, 2020

Finalists

Music Is History

Questlove, 2021

Somersett

Or Why and How Benjamin Franklin Orchestrated the American Revolution

Phillip Goodrich, 2020

The Code Breaker

Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Walter Isaacson, 2021

Weekend with Pablo Picasso

Florian Rodari, 1996

Humor

Winner

How Y'all Doing?

Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

Leslie Jordan, 2021

Finalists

A Carnival of Snackery

Diaries (2003-2020)

David Sedaris, 2021

The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit

John V. Petrocelli, 2021

The Seven Day Switch

Kelly Harms, 2021

Literary Fiction & Classics

Winner

All Creatures Great and Small

James Herriot, 2014

Finalists

Ariadne

Jennifer Saint, 2021

Mary Jane

Jessica Anya Blau, 2021

Matrix

Lauren Groff, 2021

Moby Dick

Herman Melville, 2022

Middle Grade

Winner

Playing the Cards You're Dealt

Varian Johnson, 2021

Finalists

Class Act

Jerry Craft, 2020

Frankie & Bug

Gayle Forman, 2021

Stamped (For Kids)

Racism, Antiracism, and You

Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, 2021

Temple Alley Summer

Sachiko Kashiwaba, 2021

Multi-voiced Performance

Winner

Heresy

Melissa Lenhardt, 2018

Finalists

The Anatomy of Desire

L. R. Dorn, 2021

Bourdain

The Definitive Oral Biography

Laurie Woolever, 2021

Four Hundred Souls

A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain, 2022

Twins (Twins #1)

Varian Johnson, 2020

Mystery

Winner

Later

Stephen King, 2021

Finalists

The Bucket List

An Agent John Adderley Novel

Peter Mohlin, Peter Nyström, 2021

Murder in Old Bombay

Nev March, 2020

The Man in the Brown Suit

Agatha Christie, 2020

The Midnight Man

A gripping new crime series introducing Detective Sarah Noble

Caroline Mitchell, 2021

Narration by the Author

Winner

A Promised Land

Barack Obama, 2020

Finalists

All the Rage

A Partial Memoir in Two Acts and a Prologue

Brad Fraser, 2021

Going There

Katie Couric, 2021

Stories to Tell

Richard Marx, 2021

The Truth About Lies

The Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit

Aja Raden, 2021

Vulnerable AF

Tarriona Ball, 2021

Non-fiction

Winner

The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration

Sarah Everts, 2021

Finalists

Freedom

Sebastian Junger, 2021

Last Call

A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

Elon Green, 2022

The Menopause Manifesto

Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism

Dr. Jen Gunter, 2021

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

Michael Lewis, 2021

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan, 2021

Romance

Winner

Reel

A Hollywood Renaissance Novel

Kennedy Ryna, 2021

Finalists

The Charm Offensive

Alison Cochrun, 2021

Mine to Protect

Kennedy L. Mitchell, 2019

Pause

Kylie Scott, 2021

Science Fiction

Winner

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir, 2021

Finalists

Day Zero

C. Robert Cargill, 2021

Pastel Pink

Nikki Minty, 2021

Ready Player Two

Ernest Cline, 2021

Short Stories/Collections

Winner

Blackout

Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon, 2021

Finalists

The Best American Short Stories 2021

Jesmyn Ward, Heidi Pitlor, 2021

Binge

60 Stories to Make Your Brain Feel Different

Douglas Coupland, 2021

Lyrics for Rock Stars

Heather Mateus Sappenfield, 2020

Thriller/Suspense

Winner

Local Woman Missing

Mary Kubica, 2021

Finalists

The Last Thing He Told Me

Laura Dave, 2021

Never Far Away

Michael Koryta, 2021

The Night She Disappeared

Lisa Jewell, 2021

Razorblade Tears

S. A. Cosby, 2021

Young Adult

Winner

Be Dazzled

Ryan La Sala, 2021

Finalists

Firekeeper's Daughter

Angeline Boulley, 2021

The Prison Healer

Lynette Noni, 2021

The Project

Courtney Summers, 2021

A Sitting in St. James

Rita Williams-Garcia, 2021

Young Listeners

Winner

I and I Bob Marley

Tony Medina, 2022

Finalists

Boogie Boogie, Y'all

C. G. Esperanza, 2021

The Couch Potato

Jory John, 2020

Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen

Debbi Michiko Florence, 2017

Remember to Dream, Ebere

Cynthia Erivo, 2021