2024 Audie Award Finalists
January 30, 2024
Ten RBmedia titles are finalists in the 2024 Audie Awards! The Audies, often promoted as the “Oscars of the audiobook industry,” is the premier awards program in the U.S., recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment. Winners will be announced at the Audies Gala on March 4.
At this year’s ceremony the APA will also recognize audiobooks that not only captivated listeners but also became cultural phenomenons. This year’s inaugural APA Choice honorees include two RB titles: Fourth Wing and The Covenant of Water.
Narration by the Author
Published by Recorded Books
Written by Abraham Verghese
Performed by Abraham Verghese
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, and following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret
Business/Personal Development
DIVA 2.0: 12 Life Lessons from Me for You
Published by Recorded Books
Written by Sheryl Lee Ralph
Performed by Sheryl Lee Ralph
Emmy, Tony and Spirit Award-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph knows a thing or two about staying power in the capricious world of Hollywood. A seasoned professional who has taken the best lessons learned and used them to move her stellar career forward, she now shares them with you.
Erotica
Published by Recorded Books
Written by Avery Flynn
Performed by Kirsten Leigh and Lance Greenfield
Shy paleontologist Thea Pope just wants to get through her sister’s ’80s-themed monstrosity of a TV reality-show wedding so she can get to her summer field work. The only problem? Her sister has turned into the ultimate bridezilla – as in pink parasols, organza hats, forcing people to shave and dye their hair levels of over-the-top, it’s-my-day antics – all while on location in a place literally called hell that reeks of sulfur and lost hopes.
Faith-Based Fiction or Non-Fiction
Published by Recorded Books
Written by Cindy Morgan
Performed by Sisi Aisha Johnson
The Year of Jubilee is a lyrical coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the turbulent South in the early 1960s.
Young Listeners
There Was a Party for Langston
Published by Recorded Books
Written by Jason Reynolds, Jerome Pumphrey – illustrator, Jarrett Pumphrey – illustrator
Performed by Jason Reynolds
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’s debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired.
Non-Fiction
A Refugee’s American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service
Published by Tantor Audio
Written by Leth Oun, Joe Samuel Starnes – contributor
Performed by Tim Lounibos
A survivor of the Cambodian Killing Fields—having spent a torturous three years, eight months, and ten days imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge—Oun thrived in America, learning English, becoming a citizen, and working as an officer in the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division. In A Refugee’s American Dream, Oun shares hard memories of Cambodia, where his father was executed, and his family enslaved in labor camps.
History/Biography
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh
Published by Tantor Audio
Written by Ann Thwaite
Performed by Simon Vance
Goodbye Christopher Robin is a story of celebrity, a story of both the joys and pains of success, and, ultimately, the story of how one man created a series of enchanting tales that brought hope and comfort to an England ravaged by the First World War.
Audio Drama
Red Rising (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]
Published by Graphic Audio
Written by Pierce Brown
Performed by Full cast, Stewart Crank, John Kielty, Richard Rohan, Stephanie Nemeth-Parker, Jenna Sharpe, Kay Eluvian, Jon Vertullo, Ian Russell, Alejandro Ruiz, Andrew Colford, and Bradley Foster Smith
New York Times bestseller. Pierce Brown’s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.
Original Work
Hellboy: A Plague of Wasps [Dramatized Adaptation]
Published by Graphic Audio
Written by Christopher Golden
Performed by Jasmine Hyde, Scott McCormick, Stewart Crank, Carolla Parmejano, Sebastian Zancanaro, Peter Holdway, Kay Eluvian, Bia Borin, Vinicius Faria Zinn, Stephanie Nemeth-Parker, and Eric Messner
Hellboy has accompanied his girlfriend, Anastasia Bransfield, on a trip to Brazil to help colleagues who are conducting an archaeological dig in the jungle. It becomes clear that something sinister and supernatural is at play here.
Espanol – Spanish Language
La guardiana de recuerdos de Kyiv (The Memory Keeper of Kiev)
Published by BookaVivo
Written by Erin Litteken
Performed by Eva Coll and Marta Moreno
This is a story of the resilience of the human spirit, the love that sees us through our darkest hours and the true horror of what happened during the Holodomor.
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