The Audio Publishers Association (APA) has announced the finalists for the 2025 Audie Awards, “recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.” Winners were announced at the Audie Awards Gala at The Avalon in Los Angeles on March 4, 2025.
Here are the finalists for 2025 that are in the TBP collection.
Audiobook of the Year
MY NAME IS BARBRA by Barbra Streisand and narrated by the author (DB 116687)
PLAYGROUND: A NOVEL by Richard Powers and narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Siegerman, Eunice Wong, Pun Bandhu, Krys Janae, and Kevin R. Free (DB 124700)
POOR DEER by Claire Oshetsky and narrated by Sophie Amoss (DB 122755)
SING SING FILES: ONE JOURNALIST, SIX INNOCENT MEN, AND A TWENTY-YEAR FIGHT FOR JUSTICE by Dan Slepian and narrated by the author (DB 126173)
Autobiography/Memoir
IN MY TIME OF DYING: HOW I CAME FACE TO FACE WITH THE IDEA OF AN AFTERLIFE by Sebastian Junger and narrated by the author (DB 123521)
KNIFE: MEDITATIONS AFTER AN ATTEMPTED MURDER by Salman Rushdie and narrated by the author (DB 120670)
MY NAME IS BARBRA by Barbra Streisand and narrated by the author (DB 116687)
THIRD GILMORE GIRL: A MEMOIR by Kelly Bishop and narrated by the author (DB 124981)
Best Fiction Narrator
Elle Fanning for MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES by Rufi Thorpe (DB 122178)
Dominic Hoffman for JAMES by Percival Everett (DB 120063)
Saskia Maarleveld for BRIAR CLUB by Kate Quinn (DB 122866)
Julia Whelan for WOMEN by Kristin Hannah (DB 118896)
Best Nonfiction Narrator
Peter Noble for WIDE WIDE SEA: IMPERIAL AMBITION, FIRST CONTACT AND THE FATEFUL FINAL VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK by Hampton Sides (DB 120831)
Malcolm Gladwell for REVENGE OF THE TIPPING POINT: OVERSTORIES, SUPERSPREADERS, AND THE RISE OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING by Malcolm Gladwell (DB 124574)
Business/Personal Development
AND THEN WE RISE: A GUIDE TO LOVING AND TAKING CARE OF SELF by Common and narrated by the author (DB 118989)
FLUKE: CHANCE, CHAOS, AND WHY EVERYTHING WE DO MATTERS by Brian Klaas and narrated by the author (DB 120430)
Español – Spanish Language
ISLA OCULTA por Abraham Jiménez Enoa narrated by Ernesto Rumbaut and Javier Lacroix (DB 121746)
Faith-Based Fiction or Nonfiction
AMERICAN QUEEN by Vanessa Miller and narrated by Angel Pean (DB 125706 IN PROCESS)
DO THE NEW YOU by Steven Furtick and narrated by the author (DB 120437)
MOSTLY WHAT GOD DOES: REFLECTIONS ON SEEKING AND FINDING HIS LOVE EVERYWHERE by Savannah Guthrie and narrated by the author (DB 120654)
Fantasy
BLACK SHIELD MAIDEN by Willow Smith and Jess Hendel and narrated by Willow Smith (DB 126966 IN PROCESS)
BRIGHT SWORD: A NOVEL OF KING ARTHUR by Lev Grossman and narrated by the author and Nicholas Guy Smith (DB 122990)
GODDESS OF THE RIVER by Vaishnavi Patel and narrated by Sneha Mathan (DB 125631)
Fiction
MINISTRY OF TIME by Kaliane Bradley and narrated by George Weightman and Katie Leung (DB 121556)
WOMEN by Kristin Hannah and narrated by Julia Whelan (DB 118896)
History/Biography
CHALLENGER: A TRUE STORY OF HEROISM AND DISASTER ON THE EDGE OF SPACE by Adam Higginbotham and narrated by Jacques Roy (DB 122096)
CODENAME NEMO: THE HUNT FOR A NAZI U-BOAT AND THE ELUSIVE ENIGMA MACHINE by Charles Lachman and narrated by Qarie Marshall (DB 123531)
DEMON OF UNREST: A SAGA OF HUBRIS, HEARTBREAK, AND HEROISM AT THE DAWN OF THE CIVIL WAR by Erik Larson and narrated by the author and Will Patton (DB 120675)
LOVES OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT: THE WOMEN WHO CREATED A PRESIDENT by Edward F. O’Keefe and narrated by the author (DB 123403)
SHOWMAN: INSIDE THE INVASION THAT SHOOK THE WORLD AND MADE A LEADER OF VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY by Simon Shuster and narrated by Daniel Gamburg (DB 119252)
Humor
GLORY DAYS: STORIES by Simon Rich and narrated by John Mulaney (DB 124328)
Judges Category- Horror
ANGEL OF INDIAN LAKE by Stephen Graham Jones and narrated by the author and Isabella Star LaBlanc, Barbara Crampton, Angela Goethals, Andrew J. Robinson, with Stephen King (DB 120300)
I WAS A TEENAGE SLASHER by Stephen Graham Jones narrated by the author and Michael Crouch (DB 123048)
SWARM by Jennifer D. Lyle and narrated by Krystal Hammond (DB 117572)
Literary Fiction and Classics
JAMES by Percival Everett and narrated by Dominic Hoffman (DB 120063)
MIGHTY RED by Louise Erdrich and narrated by Marin Ireland (DB 124843)
Multi-Voiced Performance
BUTCHER: FATHER OF MODERN GYNO-PSYCHIATRY by Joyce Carol Oates and narrated by Amy Shiels, Edoardo Ballerini, Cassandra Campbell, Robert Fass, Tavia Gilbert, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Danny Campbell, and Max Meyers (DB 121699)
FROM HERE TO THE GREAT UNKNOWN: A MEMOIR by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough and narrated by Julia Roberts and Riley Keough (DB 124764)
WHEN THE SEA CAME ALIVE: AN ORAL HISTORY OF D-DAY by Garrett M. Graff and narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Garrett M. Graff, Arthur Bishop, Nicholas Boulton, Holter Graham, Imogen Church, Raphael Corkhill, Kevin R. Free, Billie Fulford-Brown, Gary Furlong, Adam Grupper, Graham Halstead, Simon Jones, Elizabeth Lagelée, James Langton, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Saskia Maarleveld, Ron May, Leon Nixon, Jacques Roy, Rob Shapiro, and Eunice Wong (DB 122991)
Mystery
LISTEN FOR THE LIE by Amy Tintera and narrated by Will Damron and January LaVoy (DB 119654)
MIDNIGHT FEAST by Lucy Foley and narrated by Joe Eyre, Sarah Slimani, Roly Botha, Laurence Dobiesz, and Tuppence Middleton (DB 122574)
STILL SEE YOU EVERYWHERE by Lisa Gardner and narrated by Hillary Huber (DB 119891)
THIS IS WHY WE LIED by Karin Slaughter and narrated by Kathleen Early (DB 124323)
Narration by Author
BITS AND PIECES: MY MOTHER, MY BROTHER, AND ME written and narrated by Whoopi Goldberg (DB 121637)
KNIFE: MEDITATIONS AFTER AN ATTEMPTED MURDER written and narrated by Salman Rushdie (DB 120670)
Nonfiction
SITUATION ROOM: THE INSIDE STORY OF PRESIDENTS IN CRISIS by George Stephanopoulos with Lisa Dickey and narrated by George Stephanopoulos, Peter Ganim, and Elisabeth Rodgers (DB 121216)
WHEN WOMEN RAN FIFTH AVENUE: GLAMOUR AND POWER AT THE DAWN OF AMERICAN FASHION by Julie Satow and narrated by Karen Murray (DB 122466)
Romance
LOVE YOU A LATKE by Amanda Elliot and narrated by Kelli Tager (DB 124977)
ROM-COMMERS by Katherine Center and narrated by Patti Murin (DB 122047)
Science Fiction
BOOK OF DOORS: A NOVEL by Gareth Brown and narrated by Miranda Raison (DB 119678)
LAKE OF SOULS: THE COLLECTED SHORT FICTION by Ann Leckie and narrated by Adjoa Andoh (DB 120243)
MAL GOES TO WAR by Edward Ashton and narrated by John Pirhalla and Katharine Chin (DB 121330)
SYSTEM COLLAPSE by Martha Wells and narrated by Kevin R. Free (DB 117861)
Thriller/Suspense
FIRST LIE WINS by Ashley Elston and narrated by Saskia Maarleveld (DB 118733)
FOREST OF LOST SOULS by Dean R. Koontz and narrated by January LaVoy (DB 125187 IN PROCESS)
LONE WOLF by Gregg Hurwitz and narrated by Scott Brick (DB 119099)
RETURN OF ELLIE BLACK by Emiko Jean and narrated by Mizuo Peck, Tessa Albertson, Nicole Lewis, Rebecca Lowman, Joy Osmanski, Angel Pean, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Erin Ruth Walker, and CJ Wilson (DB 121780)
Young Adult
HEIR by Sabaa Tahir and narrated by Vidish Athavale, Esme Lonsdale, Joe Pitts, Marco Young, and Rachel Petladwala (DB 124830)
