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Audie Award Finalists and Winners

The Audie Awards recognize distinction in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment and are sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). 2020 was the 25th year of annual Audie Awards.

Winners were announced at the Audies Gala, March 2.

Explore the 2020 Audie Award Winners and Finalists with sound clips and reviews in all categories below. Browse prior years' awards: 2019 Audies, 2018 Audies, 2017 Audies, 2016 Audies, 2015 Audies, 2014 Audies.

Romance

RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE

Casey McQuiston, Read by Ramon de Ocampo

Narrator Ramón de Ocampo brings out all the emotion in this tender, serious, funny, and warmly... Read More

Science Fiction

EMERGENCY SKIN

WINNER

N.K. Jemisin, Read by Jason Isaacs

Narrator Jason Isaacs’s voice is the perfect mix of insistent, pedantic, and scornful as he portrays... Read More

Science Fiction

HOLLOW KINGDOM

Kira Jane Buxton, Read by Robert Petkoff

Robert Petkoff spends most of this audiobook narrating from the point of view of a sentient talking... Read More

Science Fiction

THE LAST ASTRONAUT

David Wellington, Read by Megan Tusing

As we learned from the iconic thriller ALIEN--"in space, no one can hear you scream." But thanks to... Read More

Science Fiction

THE LESSON

Cadwell Turnbull, Read by Janina Edwards, Ron Butler

A culture clash between humans and aliens is brought to life in the narration of Janina Edwards and... Read More

Science Fiction

PERMAFROST

Alastair Reynolds, Read by Natasha Soudek

Narrator Natasha Soudek presents a bleak version of our future in 2080. Food is running out,... Read More

Short Stories/Collections

EVIDENCE OF THE AFFAIR

Taylor Jenkins Reid, Read by Julia Whelan, George Newbern, James Daniels, Dara Rosenberg

This short story is ideal for multiple narrators as it is composed solely of a series of letters.... Read More

Short Stories/Collections

FORWARD

Veronica Roth, Blake Crouch, N.K. Jemisin, Amor Towles, Paul Tremblay, Andy Weir, Read by Evan Rachel Wood, Rosa Salazar, Jason Isaacs, David Harbour, Steven Strait, Janina Gavankar

ARK--Part of an Amazon Original collection of six stories, this work by DIVERGENT author Veronica... Read More

Short Stories/Collections

FULL THROTTLE

WINNER

Joe Hill, Read by Zachary Quinto, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Neil Gaiman, Ashleigh Cummings, Joe Hill, Laysla De Oliveira, Nate Corddry, Connor Jessup, Stephen Lang, George Guidall

A terrific cast of narrators lend their voices to 13 stories by Joe Hill, two of which are cowritten... Read More