Audie Awards 2025

by Audio Publishers Association

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111 books

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Audiobook Of The Year

Winner

My Name Is Barbra

Barbra Streisand, 2023

Finalists

1984

George Orwell, 1983

Playground: A Novel

Richard Powers, 2024

Poor Deer

Claire Oshetsky, 2024

The Sing Sing Files

One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

Dan Slepian, 2024

Audio Drama

Winner

1984

George Orwell, 1983

Finalists

Journey's End

R. C. Sherriff, 1993

Wild with Happy

Colman Domingo, 2013

Autobiography/Memoir

Winner

My Name Is Barbra

Barbra Streisand, 2023

Finalists

Farewell Yellow Brick Road

Memories of My Life on Tour

Elton John, 2024

In My Time of Dying

How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Sebastian Junger, 2024

Knife

Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie, 2024

The Third Gilmore Girl

Kelly Bishop, 2024

Best Business/Personal Development

Winner

Come Together

The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections

Emily Nagoski, PhD, 2025

Finalists

And Then We Rise

A Guide to Loving and Taking Care of Self

Fluke

Why Small Changes Make a Big Difference

DR BRIAN. KLAAS, 2024

Humans who Teach

A Guide for Centering Love, Justice, and Liberation in Schools

Shamari Reid, 2024

Women Money Power

The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality

Josie Cox, 2024

Erotica

Winner

The Heartbreaker

Marni Mann, 2024

Finalists

The Beta

Avanne Michaels, 2022

Faking With Benefits

Roman | Die deutsche Ausgabe der extra spicy Why-Choose-Romance

Lily Gold, 2024

Hurt for Me

Heather Levy, 2024

Once You're Mine

A Dark Stalker Romance

Morgan Bridges, 2024

Faith-Based Fiction Or Non-Fiction

Winner

The American Queen

Vanessa Miller, 2024

Finalists

Do the New You

6 Mindsets to Become Who You Were Created to Be

Steven Furtick, 2024

Intercessor

John Robert Still, 2023

Life-Minded

8 Practices for Belonging to God and Each Other

Brady Boyd, 2024

Mostly What God Does

Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

Savannah Guthrie, 2024

Fantasy

Winner

Bookshops & Bonedust

Travis Baldree, 2023

Finalists

Black Shield Maiden

Willow Smith, Jess Hendel, 2024

The Bright Sword

A Novel of King Arthur

Lev Grossman, 2024

Goddess of the River

Vaishnavi Patel, 2024

Someone You Can Build a Nest In

John Wiswell, 2024

Fiction

Winner

Rednecks

Taylor Brown, 2024

Finalists

The Evolution of Annabel Craig

Lisa Grunwald, 2024

Hamlet's Children

Richard Kluger, 2023

The Ministry of Time

Kaliane Bradley, 2024

The Women

Kristin Hannah, 2024

History/Biography

Winner

The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt

The Women Who Created a President

Edward F. O'Keefe, 2024

Finalists

Challenger

A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam Higginbotham, 2024

Codename Nemo

The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and The Elusive Enigma Machine

Charles Lachman, 2024

The Demon of Unrest

A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson, 2024

The Showman

Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

Simon Shuster, 2024

Humor

Winner

The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science

Kate McKinnon, 2024

Finalists

Erasure

Percival Everett, 2011

Glory Days

Simon Rich, 2024

Joyful Recollections of Trauma

Paul Scheer, 2024

The Wilder Widows

Walk on the Wilder Side

Katherine Hastings, 2023

Judges category: Horror

Winner

Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle, 2024

Finalists

The Angel of Indian Lake

Stephen Graham Jones, 2024

A Darker Shade of Noir

New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers

Joyce Carol Oates, 2023

I Was A Teenage Slasher

Stephen Graham Jones, 2024

Swarm

Jennifer D. Lyle, 2023

Literary Fiction & Classics

Winner

James

Percival Everett, 2024

Finalists

Devil Is Fine

John Vercher, 2024

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar, 2024

The Mighty Red

Louise Erdrich, 2024

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

Min Jin Lee, 2017

Middle Grade

Winner

Black Star

Kwame Alexander, 2024

Finalists

Louder Than Hunger

John Schu, 2024

One Big Open Sky

Lesa Cline-Ransome, 2024

The Secret Garden

Skandar and the Chaos Trials

A.F. Steadman, 2024

Multi-Voiced Performance

Winner

When the Sea Came Alive

An Oral History of D-Day

Garrett M. Graff, 2024

Finalists

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Xochitl Gonzalez, 2024

Butcher

Joyce Carol Oates, 2024

Five Broken Blades

Mai Corland, 2024

From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough, 2024

Snake Oil

Kelsey Rae Dimberg, 2024

Mystery

Winner

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera, 2024

Finalists

The Midnight Feast

Lucy Foley, 2024

Rough Pages

Lev AC Rosen, 2024

Still See You Everywhere

Lisa Gardner, 2024

This Is Why We Lied

A Will Trent Thriller

Karin Slaughter, 2024

Narration By The Author(s)

Winner

Bits and Pieces

My Mother, My Brother, and Me

Whoopi Goldberg, 2024

Finalists

The 23rd Hero

Rebecca Anne Nguyen, 2024

Bookshops & Bonedust

Travis Baldree, 2023

Knife

Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie, 2024

Sorry for the Inconvenience

FARAH NAZ. RISHI, 2024

Non-Fiction

Winner

There's Always This Year

On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib, 2024

Finalists

Cool Food

Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time

Robert Downey Jr., Thomas Kostigen, 2024

The Situation Room

The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

George Stephanopoulos, 2024

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

Julie Satow, 2024

Romance

Winner

This Could Be Us

Kennedy Ryan, 2024

Finalists

Lights Out

An Into Darkness Novel

Navessa Allen, 2024

Love You a Latke

Amanda Elliot, 2024

The Rom-Commers

Katherine Center, 2024

Science Fiction

Winner

The Book of Doors

Gareth Brown, 2024

Finalists

Frontier

Grace Curtis, 2023

Lake of Souls

The Collected Short Fiction

Ann Leckie, 2024

Mal Goes to War

Edward Ashton, 2024

System Collapse

Martha Wells, 2023

Short Stories/Collections

Winner

You Like It Darker

Stephen King, 2024

Finalists

Glory Days

Simon Rich, 2024

The History of Sound

Ben Shattuck, 2024

Letters from Klara

Tove Jansson, 2017

What If We Get It Right?

Visions of Climate Futures

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, 2024

Thriller/Suspense

Winner

Lone Wolf

An Orphan X Novel

Gregg Hurwitz, 2024

Finalists

First Lie Wins

The No. 1 New York Times bestseller and Sunday Times Thriller of the Month

Ashley Elston, 2024

The Forest of Lost Souls

Dean Koontz, 2024

The Little Drummer Girl

John Le Carré, 1983

The Return of Ellie Black

Emiko Jean, 2024

Young Adult

Winner

The Real Education of Tj Crowley

Grant Overstake, 2018

Finalists

Flamboyants

The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known

George M. Johnson, 2024

Gamer Girls: Out of Control

Andrea Towers, 2024

Heir: 'a Tour de Force of Fantasy' Stephanie Garber

SABAA. TAHIR, 2025

Homebody

Theo Parish, 2024

Young Listeners

Winner

Nothing

John Cage and 4'33"

Nicholas Day, 2024

Finalists

Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King

Coretta Scott King, 2024

I Am My Ancestors' Wildest Dreams

Tanisia Moore, 2023

Millie Fleur's Poison Garden

Christy Mandin, 2024