These are the Finalists for the Best Audiobooks of the Year

The Audie Awards, presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association, described itself arsenic the “premier awards programme successful the United States recognizing favoritism successful audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.” Each year, they admit audiobooks successful respective categories, and they’ve conscionable released their database of finalists.

Here are the finalists successful conscionable a fewer of the Audie Awards categories.

Audiobook of the Year

• The 1619 Project created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine; edited by Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein; and narrated by Nikole Hannah-Jones, January LaVoy, Claudia Rankine, et al.
• Finding Me written and narrated by Viola Davis
• Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon by Malcolm Gladwell and Bruce Headlam, narrated by Paul Simon, Malcolm Gladwell, and Bruce Headlam
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, narrated by Marin Ireland and Michael Urie
• Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts adapted by Tyler English-Beckwith, based connected the graphic caller by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez, narrated by DeWanda Wise, Chanté Adams, Jerrie Johnson, et al.

Best Female Narrator

• Joniece Abbott-Pratt for Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
• January Lavoy for Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
• Stephanie Németh-Parker for NSFW by Isabel Kaplan
• Thandiwe Newton for War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude
• Rosamund Pike for The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Best Male Narrator

• Edoardo Ballerini for The Silent Sisters by Robert Dugoni
• Scott Brick for Narrator by Landon Beach
• JD Jackson for The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
• Seth Numrich for Fairy Tale by Stephen King
• John Pirhalla for Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon

To spot the finalists successful each categories — including Audio Drama, Spanish Language, Autobiography/Memoir, Nonfiction, Erotica, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Listeners, and much — cheque retired the Audio Publishers Association website.

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