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).
Winners are listed first and highlighted in green.
Year | Title | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2016 21st |
Little Big Man (1964) | Thomas Berger | Scott Sowers and David Aaron Baker | Recorded Books | Winner | [1] |
The Fishermen (2015) | Chigozie Obioma | Chukwudi Iwuji | Hachette Audio | Finalist | [1] | |
Kidnapped (1886) | Robert Louis Stevenson | Kieron Elliott | Recorded Books | Finalist | [1] | |
Sweetland (2014) | Michael Crummey | John Lee | HighBridge Audio/Recorded Books | Finalist | [1] | |
Til the Well Runs Dry (2014) | Lauren Francis-Sharma | Ron Butler and Bahni Turpin | Tantor Audio | Finalist | [1] | |
2017 22nd |
Homegoing (2016) | Yaa Gyasi | Dominic Hoffman | Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Winner | [2] |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1864) | Lewis Carroll | Scarlett Johansson | Audible | Finalist | [2] | |
Another Brooklyn (2016) | Jacqueline Woodson | Robert Miles | HarperAudio | Finalist | [2] | |
David Copperfield (1850) | Charles Dickens | Richard Armitage | Audible | Finalist | [2] | |
LaRose (2016) | Louise Erdrich | Louise Erdrich | HarperAudio | Finalist | [2] | |
The Underground Railroad (2016) | Colson Whitehead | Bahni Turpin | Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist | [2] | |
2018 23rd |
House of Names (2017) | Colm Tóibín | Juliet Stevenson et al. | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner | [3] |
Beast (2016) | Paul Kingsnorth | Simon Vance | Tantor Audio | Finalist | [3] | |
Daisy Miller (1878) | Henry James | Kitty Hendrix | Spoken Realms | Finalist | [3] | |
Dracula (1897) | Bram Stoker | Nick Sandys | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | [3] | |
The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition (1985) | Margaret Atwood and Valerie Martin | Claire Danes, Margaret Atwood, and a full cast | Audible | Finalist | [3] | |
Phineas Finn (1869) | Anthony Trollope | David Shaw-Parker | Naxos AudioBooks | Finalist | [3] | |
2019 24th |
Bleak House (1853) | Charles Dickens | Miriam Margolyes | Audible | Winner | [4][5] |
Crime and Punishment (1866) | Fyodor Dostoevsky | James Anderson Foster | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | [5] | |
Housegirl (2018) | Michael Donkor | Adjoa Andoh | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | [5] | |
Miguel Street (1959) | V. S. Naipaul | Ron Butler | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | [5] | |
Musashi (1935) | Eiji Yoshikawa | Brian Nishii | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | [5] | |
Split Tooth (2018) | Tanya Tagaq | Tanya Tagaq | Penguin Random House Canada | Finalist | [5] |
Year | Title | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2020 25th |
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] | |
2021 26th |
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] |
Winners are listed first and highlighted in green.
Year | Title | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2001 6th |
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] | |
2002 7th |
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] | |
2003 8th |
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] | |
2004 9th |
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] | |
2005 10th |
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] | |
2006 11th |
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 | ||
2007 12th |
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 | ||
2008 13th |
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 | ||
2009 14th |
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 |
Winners are listed first and highlighted in green.
Year | Title | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | ||
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2005 10th |
An Unpardonable Crime (2003) | Andrew Taylor | Derek Jacobi | Hyperion Audiobooks | Winner | [13][18] |
The Crimson Petal and the White (2002) | Michel Faber | Jill Tanner | Recorded Books | Finalist | [18] | |
The Egyptian (1945) | Mika Waltari | Charlton Griffin | Audio Connoisseur | Finalist | [18] | |
Gould's Book of Fish (2001) | Richard Flanagan | Humphrey Bower | Bolinda Audio | Finalist | [18] | |
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004) | Susanna Clarke | Simon Prebble | Audio Renaissance | Finalist | [18] | |
The Mark of the Angel (1998) | Nancy Huston | Richard Aspel | Bolinda Audio | Finalist | [18] | |
The Master (2004) | Colm Tóibín | Geoffrey Howard | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | [18] | |
2006 11th |
Upstate (2005) | Kalisha Buckhanon | Heather Simms and Chadwick Boseman | Audio Renaissance | Winner | [13] |
Brother Fish (2004) | Bryce Courtenay | Humphrey Bower | Bolinda Audio | Finalist | ||
Casanova in Bolzano (1940) | Sandor Marai | Simon Prebble | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | ||
Cloud Atlas (2004) | David Mitchell | Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, John Lee, and Richard Matthews | Books on Tape | Finalist | ||
The Highest Tide (2005) | Jim Lynch | Fisher Stevens | Audio Renaissance | Finalist | ||
2007 12th |
The Thirteenth Tale (2006) | Diane Setterfield | Ruthie Henshall and Lynn Redgrave | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner | [13][19] |
Absurdistan (2006) | Gary Shteyngart | Arte Johnson | Phoenix Books | Finalist | ||
After This (2006) | Alice McDermott | Martha Plimpton | Audio Renaissance | Finalist | ||
All the King's Men (1946) | Robert Penn Warren | Michael Emerson | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||
Suite Française (1942) | Irène Némirovsky | Daniel Oreskes and Barbara Rosenblat | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | ||
2008 13th |
Tree of Smoke (2007) | Denis Johnson | Will Patton | Macmillan Audio | Winner | [13][20] |
Blood Meridian (1985) | Cormac McCarthy | Richard Poe | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||
The Inheritance of Loss (2006) | Kiran Desai | Meera Simhan | Penguin Audio | Finalist | ||
Portrait of an Unknown Woman (2007) | Vanora Bennett | Josephine Bailey | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||
The Yiddish Policeman's Union (2007) | Michael Chabon | Peter Riegert | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||
2009 14th |
Elmer Gantry (1926) | Sinclair Lewis | Anthony Heald | Blackstone Audio | Winner | [13][21] |
Crime and Punishment (1866) | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Anthony Heald | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||
The Enchantress of Florence (2008) | Salman Rushdie | Firdous Bamji | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||
Lush Life (2008) | Richard Price | John Lee | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||
The White Tiger (2008) | Aravind Adiga | John Lee | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
Year | Title | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2010 15th |
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 | ||
2011 16th |
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 | ||
2012 17th |
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 | ||
2013 18th |
[[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] | |
2014 19th |
[[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] | |
2015 20th |
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] |