Audie Award for Literary Fiction or Classics
The Audie Award for Literary Fiction or Classics is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for an audiobook adaptation released in a given year of a work of literary fiction or a classic . Before 2016 this was given as two distinct awards, the Audie Award for Classics (awarded since 2001, before 2003 as the Audie Award for Classics, Fiction ) and the Audie Award for Literary Fiction (awarded since 2005).
Literary fiction or classics winners and finalists
Winners are listed first and highlighted in green.
2010s
2020s
Year
Title
Author(s)
Narrator(s)
Publisher
Result
Ref.
202025th
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Joe Morton
Penguin Random House Audio
Winner
[ 6]
Milkman
Anna Burns
Brid Brennan
Dreamscape Media
Finalist
[ 6]
Mythos
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
Chronicle Books
Finalist
[ 6]
The Night Tiger
Yangsze Choo
Yangsze Choo
Macmillan Audio
Finalist
[ 6]
Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson , with Quincy Tyler Bernstine , Peter Francis James , Shayna Small , and Bahni Turpin
Penguin Random House Audio
Finalist
[ 6]
202126th
The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi
Yetide Badaki and Chukwudi Iwuji
Penguin Random House Audio
Winner
[ 7]
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Samira Wiley
Audible Studios
Finalist
[ 7]
Deacon King Kong
James McBride
Dominic Hoffman
Penguin Random House Audio
Finalist
[ 7]
Pew
Catherine Lacey
Bahni Turpin
Brilliance Publishing
Finalist
[ 7]
These Ghosts Are Family
Maisy Card
Karl O'Brian Williams
Simon & Schuster Audio
Finalist
[ 7]
2022
27th
All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot
Nicholas Ralph
Macmillan Audio
Winner
[ 8]
Ariadne
Jennifer Saint
Barrie Kreinik
Macmillan Audio
Finalist
[ 8]
Mary Jane
Jessica Anya Blau
Caitlin Kinnunen
HarperAudio
Finalist
[ 8]
Matrix (2021)
Lauren Groff
Adjoa Andoh
Penguin Random House Audio
Finalist
[ 8]
Moby Dick (1851)
Herman Melville
Jonathan Epstein
Alison Larkin Presents
Finalist
[ 8]
2023
28th
War and Peace (1869)
Leo Tolstoy , trans. by Aylmer and Louise Maude
Thandiwe Newton
Audible Studios
Winner
[ 9] [ 10]
Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
Julian Barnes
Simon Vance
Recorded Books
Finalist
[ 9] [ 11]
Horse
Geraldine Brooks
James Fouhey , Lisa Flanagan , Graham Halstead , Katherine Littrell , and Michael Obiora
Penguin Random House
Finalist
[ 9] [ 11]
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831)
Victor Hugo , trans. by Isabel Florence Hapgood
Simon Vance
Oasis Audio
Finalist
[ 9] [ 11]
Yerba Buena
Nina LaCour
Julia Whelan
Macmillan Audio
Finalist
[ 9] [ 11]
2024
29th
The Iliad (c. 8th century BC )
Homer , translated by Emily Wilson
Audra McDonald
Audible Studios
Winner
[ 12]
Harold and Maude (1971)
Colin Higgins
Barbara Rosenblat
Blackstone Publishing
Finalist
[ 12]
The Quest of the Silver Fleece
W.E.B. Du Bois
Bahni Turpin
Blackstone Publishing with Skyboat Media
Finalist
[ 12]
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks , with a full cast
Penguin Random House Audio
Finalist
[ 12]
Oliver Twist (1837–1839)
Charles Dickens , adapted by Marty Ross , presented by Sam Mendes
Brian Cox , Daniel Kaluuya , and a full cast
Audible Studios
Finalist
[ 12]
Classics winners and finalists 2001–2015
Winners are listed first and highlighted in green.
2000s
Year
Title
Author(s)
Narrator(s)
Publisher
Result
Ref.
20016th
Complete Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume I (1899–1952)
W. Somerset Maugham
Charlton Griffin
Audio Connoisseur
Winner
[ 13] [ 14]
Invisible Man (1952)
Ralph Ellison
Peter Francis James
Recorded Books
Finalist
[ 14]
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Zora Neale Hurston
Ruby Dee
HarperAudio
Finalist
[ 14]
20027th
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)
Betty Smith
Stacy Keach
HarperAudio
Winner
[ 13] [ 15]
The Crucible (1953)
Arthur Miller
Stacy Keach , Michael York , Fionnula Flanagan , Madolyn Smith , and René Auberjonois
L.A. Theatre Works
Finalist
[ 15]
Gone with the Wind (1936)
Margaret Mitchell
Linda Stephens
Recorded Books
Finalist
[ 15]
20038th
Complete Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume II (1899–1952)
W. Somerset Maugham
Charlton Griffin
Audio Connoisseur
Winner
[ 13] [ 16]
Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories, Volume I (1923–1969)
Ernest Hemingway
Stacy Keach
Simon & Schuster Audio
Finalist
[ 16]
Moby-Dick (1851)
Herman Melville
Paul Boehmer
Books on Tape
Finalist
[ 16]
Spoon River Anthology (1915)
Edgar Lee Masters
Patrick Fraley , Edward Asner , and full cast
The Audio Partners Publishing
Finalist
[ 16]
The Great Gatsby (1925)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tim Robbins
HarperAudio
Finalist
[ 16]
20049th
East of Eden (1952)
John Steinbeck
Richard Poe
Recorded Books
Winner
[ 13] [ 17]
The Bell Jar (1953)
Sylvia Plath
Maggie Gyllenhaal
HarperAudio
Finalist
[ 17]
Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories, Volume II (1923–1969)
Ernest Hemingway
Stacy Keach
Simon & Schuster Audio
Finalist
[ 17]
Treasure Island (1883)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Richard Matthews
Books on Tape
Finalist
[ 17]
Wuthering Heights (1847)
Emily Brontë
Donada Peters
Books on Tape
Finalist
[ 17]
200510th
A Christmas Carol (1843)
Charles Dickens
Jim Dale
Listening Library
Winner
[ 13] [ 18]
Bless Me, Ultima (1972)
Rudolfo Anaya
Robert Ramirez
Recorded Book
Finalist
[ 18]
The Egyptian (1945)
Mika Waltari
Charlton Griffin
Audio Connoisseur
Finalist
[ 18]
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
Carson McCullers
Cherry Jones
HarperAudio
Finalist
[ 18]
Ulysses (1922)
James Joyce
Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan
Naxos Audiobooks
Finalist
[ 18]
200611th
Around the World in Eighty Days (1872)
Jules Verne
Jim Dale
Random House Audio
Winner
[ 13]
The Noël Coward Collection (1972)
Noël Coward
Simon Jones , Noël Coward , and Margaret Leighton
HarperAudio
Finalist
The Phantom of the Opera (1910)
Gaston Leroux
Ralph Cosham
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Charles Dickens
Anton Lesser
Naxos Audiobooks
Finalist
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
Charles Dickens
David Thorn
Alcazar AudioWorks
Finalist
200712th
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
Harper Lee
Sissy Spacek
HarperAudio/Caedmon
Winner
[ 13] [ 19]
The Painted Veil (1925)
W. Somerset Maugham
Kate Reading
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Ernest Hemingway
William Hurt
Simon & Schuster Audio
Finalist
The Warden (1855)
Anthony Trollope
Simon Vance
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
The Years (1937)
Virginia Woolf
Finty Williams
BBC Audiobooks America
Finalist
200813th
Treasure Island (1882)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Alfred Molina
Random House Audio/Listening Library
Winner
[ 13] [ 20]
1984 (1949)
George Orwell
Simon Prebble
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
The Call of the Wild (1903)
Jack London
John Lee
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
Catch-22 (1961)
Joseph Heller
Jay O. Sanders
Scholastic Audio
Finalist
A Clockwork Orange (1962)
Anthony Burgess
Tom Hollander
HarperAudio
Finalist
White Fang (1906)
Jack London
John Lee
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
200914th
Great Expectations (1861)
Charles Dickens
Simon Vance
Tantor Audio
Winner
[ 13] [ 21]
Galápagos (1985)
Kurt Vonnegut
Jonathan Davis
Audible
Finalist
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
Mark Twain
Grover Gardner
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
The Count of Monte Cristo (1845)
Alexandre Dumas
John Lee
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Oscar Wilde
Simon Vance
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
2010s
Year
Title
Author(s)
Narrator(s)
Publisher
Result
Ref.
201015th
Great Expectations (1861)
Charles Dickens
Charlton Griffin
Audio Connoisseur
Winner
[ 13] [ 22]
The Canterbury Tales (1400)
Geoffrey Chaucer
Full cast
BBC Audiobooks America
Finalist
A Christmas Carol (1843)
Charles Dickens
Charlton Griffin
Audio Connoisseur
Finalist
Tristram Shandy (1759)
Laurence Sterne
Anton Lesser
Naxos AudioBooks
Finalist
The Turn of the Screw (1898)
Henry James
Simon Vance and Vanessa Benjamin
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
201116th
The Woman in White (1859)
Wilkie Collins
Roger Ress , Rosalyn Landar, John Lee , and Judy Geeson
Blackstone Audio
Winner
[ 13] [ 23]
Light in August (1932)
William Faulkner
Will Patton
Audible
Finalist
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Charles Dickens
Charlton Griffin
Audio Connoisseur
Finalist
Watership Down (1972)
Richard Adams
Ralph Cosham
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
The Book of Five Rings (1645)
Miyamoto Musashi
Scott Brick
Tantor Audio
Finalist
201217th
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1839)
Charles Dickens
Simon Vance
Tantor Audio
Winner
[ 13] [ 24]
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
Mark Twain
Elijah Wood
Audible
Finalist
Deliverance (1970)
James Dickens
Will Patton
Audible
Finalist
Heart of Darkness (1899)
Joseph Conrad
Kenneth Branagh
Audible
Finalist
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Books on Tape
Finalist
201318th
Dombey and Son (1848)
Charles Dickens
Charlton Griffin
Audio Connoisseur
Winner
[ 13] [ 25]
A Death in the Family (1948)
James Agee
[[Fyodor Dostoyevsky|Lloyd James ]]
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
[ 25]
Dracula (1897)
Bram Stoker
Alan Cumming , Tim Curry , et al.
Audible
Finalist
[ 25]
The Mark of Zorro (2011)
Yuri Rasovsky
Val Kilmer and full cast
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
[ 25]
The Prime Minister (1876)
Anthony Trollope
Simon Vance
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
[ 25]
201419th
The Complete Sherlock Holmes: The Heirloom Collection (1887–1927)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Simon Vance
Brilliance Audio
Winner
[ 13] [ 26]
Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
Anne Moody
Lisa Reneé Pitts
Tantor Audio
Finalist
[ 26]
Frankenstein (1818)
Mary Shelley
Dan Stevens
Audible
Finalist
[ 26]
The Great Gatsby (1925)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jake Gyllenhaal
Audible
Finalist
[ 26]
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
Gabriel García Márquez
Armando Duran
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
[ 26]
201520th
The New York Stories (1966)
John O'Hara
E. L. Doctorow , Becky Ann Baker , Dylan Baker , Bobby Cannavale , Jon Hamm , Richard Kind , Jan Maxwell , Gretchen Mol , and Dallas Roberts
Penguin Random House Audio
Winner
[ 13] [ 27]
Andersonville (1955)
MacKinlay Kantor
Grover Gardner
Audible
Finalist
[ 27]
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958)
Truman Capote
Michael C. Hall
Audible
Finalist
[ 27]
Darkwater (1920)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Bernard K. Addison , Dion Graham , Lisa Renee Pitts, Bahni Turpin , and Mirron Willis
Skyboat Media/Blackstone Audio
Finalist
[ 27]
The Odyssey (8th–7th century B.C.)
Homer (trans. Robert Fitzgerald )
Dan Stevens
Macmillan Audio
Finalist
[ 27]
Literary fiction winners and finalists 2005–2015
Winners are listed first and highlighted in green.
2000s
2010s
Year
Title
Author(s)
Narrator(s)
Publisher
Result
Ref.
201015th
Wolf Hall (2009)
Hilary Mantel
Simon Slater
Macmillan Audio
Winner
[ 13] [ 22]
Come Sunday (2009)
Isla Morley
Jennifer Wiltsie
Macmillan Audio
Finalist
[[Rabih Alameddine|The Coral Thief ]] (2009)
Rebecca Stott
Simon Prebble
Tantor Audio
Finalist
[[The Elegance of the Hedgehog|The Elegance of the Hedgehog ]] (2006)
Muriel Barbery
Barbara Rosenblat and Cassandra Morris
HighBridge Audio
Finalist
Good-bye and Amen (2008)
Beth Gutcheon
Joyce Bean
Tantor Audio
Finalist
201116th
Snakewoman of Little Egypt (2010)
Robert Hellenga
Coleen Marlo
Tantor Audio
Winner
[ 13] [ 23]
Beautiful Maria of My Soul (2010)
Oscar Hijuelos
Armando Duran
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
Freedom (2010)
Jonathan Franzen
David LeDoux
Macmillan Audio
Finalist
My Life As a Man (1974)
Philip Roth
Dan John Miller
Brilliance Audio
Finalist
[[The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet|The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet ]] (2010)
David Mitchell
Jonathan Aris and Paula Wilcox
Recorded Books
Finalist
201217th
State of Wonder (2011)
Ann Patchett
Hope Davis
HarperAudio
Winner
[ 13] [ 24]
Emily and Einstein (2011)
Linda Francis Lee
Dan John Miller and Cassandra Campbell
Tantor Audio
Finalist
Follow the River (1981)
James Alexander Thom
[[Irène Némirovsky|David Drummond ]]
Tantor Audio
Finalist
[[The Marriage Plot|The Marriage Plot ]] (2011)
Jeffrey Eugenides
David Pittu
Macmillan Audio
Finalist
No One in the World (2011)
E. Lynn Harris and R. M. Johnson
Alan Bomar Jones
Tantor Audio
Finalist
201318th
[[The End of the Affair|The End of the Affair ]] (1951)
Graham Greene
Colin Firth
Audible
Winner
[ 13] [ 25]
Heft (2012)
Liz Moore
Kirby Heyborne and Keith Szarabajka
Blackstone Audio
Finalist
[ 25]
[[The Remains of the Day|The Remains of the Day ]] (1989)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Simon Prebble
Tantor Audio
Finalist
[ 25]
Remember Ben Clayton (2011)
Stephen Harrigan
George Guidall
Recorded Books
Finalist
[ 25]
201419th
[[The Goldfinch (novel)|The Goldfinch ]] (2013)
Donna Tartt
David Pittu
Hachette Audio
Winner
[ 25]
Amy Falls Down (2013)
Jincy Willett
Amy McFadden
Brilliance Audio
Finalist
[ 13] [ 26]
[[Rabih Alameddine|The Curiosity ]] (2013)
Stephen Kiernan
Kate Udall , Erik Bergmann, and George Guidall
HarperAudio
Finalist
[ 26]
The Son (2013)
Philipp Meyer
Will Patton , Kate Mulgrew , Scott Shepherd, and Clifton Collins, Jr.
HarperAudio
Finalist
[ 26]
The Testament of Mary (2012)
Colm Tóibín
Meryl Streep
Simon & Schuster Audio
Finalist
[ 26]
201520th
Euphoria (2014)
Lily King
Simon Vance and Xe Sands
Blackstone Audio
Winner
[ 26]
The Bone Clocks (2014)
David Mitchell
Jessica Ball , Leon Williams, Colin Mace, Steven Crossley, Laurel Lefkow, and Anna Bentinck
Recorded Books
Finalist
[ 13] [ 27]
Nora Webster (2014)
Colm Tóibín
Fiona Shaw
Simon & Schuster Audio
Finalist
[ 27]
The Patrick Melrose Novels (2014)
Edward St Aubyn
Alex Jennings
Macmillan Audio
Finalist
[ 27]
An Unnecessary Woman (2014)
Rabih Alameddine
Suzanne Toren
Audible
Finalist
[ 27]
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? (2014)
Dave Eggers
MacLeod Andrews , March Cashman, Mark Deakins, Michelle Gonzalez , Rebecca Lowman, John H. Mayer, Kate McGregor-Stewart , and Bruce Turk
Penguin Random House Audio
Finalist
[ 27]
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