The Audie Awards is an annual ceremony that recognizes excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment. This year’s winners were recently announced at a gala in New York City, and the list of finalists and winners included celebrities like Elton John and Kate McKinnon and one of my favorite narrators, Julia Whelan (who narrated Kristin Hannah’s The Women). Awards were also given out for children’s books and titles narrated by multiple voices. There’s something for every listener at the Audies!
Fountaindale has many of the finalists and winners for you to download and enjoy. To get started, visit our Digital Collection to download Libby, hoopla or Boundless on your smartphone or tablet. Check out all of the Audie Awards finalists and winners in your favorite categories, or discover a new favorite!
Audiobook of the Year & Best Autobiography/Memoir
My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
Read by the author
Available to download: Libby and Boundless
Summary: In her own words, the living legend tells the story of her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in NY nightclubs, her breakout performance in Funny Girl, and the long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed.
Best Literary Fiction and Classic
James by Percival Everett
Read by Dominic Hoffman
Available to download: Libby and Boundless
Summary: A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view
Best Mystery
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
Read by January LaVoy and Will Damron
Available to download on Libby and Boundless
Summary: What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And what if everyone else thinks that, too? And what if the truth didn’t matter? When Lucy’s friend Savvy is murdered, anyone could be the killer, even Lucy, and soon enough, a true-crime podcast comes investigating. At the bequest of her grandmother, Lucy returns to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend’s murder, even if she is the one who did it.
Best Science Fiction
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
Read by Miranda Raison
Available to download on Libby, hoopla and Boundless
Summary: When her favorite customer, a lonely yet charming old man, dies right in front of her, Cassie holds on to the last book he was reading, which turns out to be a rare volume that has great power, and she is tasked with protecting it from those who will do evil.
Best Fantasy
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Read by the author
Available to download on Libby and hoopla
Series: Prequel to Legends & Lattes
Summary: Injured while hunting for a notorious necromancer, Rackam’s Ravens mercenary Viv is forced to recuperate in Murk, spending hours at a beleaguered bookshop with a foul-mouthed proprietor in the prequel to Legends & Lattes.
Best Romance
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan
Read by Ines del Castillo, Jakobi Diem and the author
Available to download on Libby and Boundless
Series: Book 2 in the Skyland Series
Summary: When her life explodes in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion, Soledad Barnes, while working to support her daughters, rediscovers herself, but when a man she shouldn’t want but can’t resist enters the picture, she wonders if she can be brave enough to make room for what could be.