Audie Award for Best Female Narrator

Audie Award for Best Female Narrator
Awarded forExcellence in audiobook narration by a woman
Sponsored byAudio Publishers Association (APA)
DateAnnually
First award1998

The Audie Award for Best Female Narrator is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in audiobook narration by a woman released in a given year. Before 2016 the award was given as the Audie Award for Female Solo Narration. It has been awarded since 1998, when it superseded the Audie Award for Solo Narration. The award was disestablished in 2024, at which point it was replaced by the Audie Awards for Best Fiction and Non-Fiction Narrator.[1]

Winners and finalists

1990s

Year Title Author Narrator(s) Publisher Result Ref.
1998
3rd 		Land Girls (1995) Angela Huth Carole Boyd Isis Publishing Winner [2]
Sin (1992) Josephine Hart Diana Rigg Dove Audio Finalist [2]
To the Lighthouse (1927) Virginia Woolf Eileen Atkins Penguin Audiobooks Finalist [2]
1999
4th 		Oliver Twist (1837–1839) Charles Dickens Miriam Margolyes The Audio Partners Publishing Corp. Winner [3]
Black Coffee (1930) Agatha Christie Alexandra Thomas Soundelux Audio Publishing Finalist [3]
Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen Irene Sutcliffe The Audio Partners Publishing Corp. Finalist [3]

2000s

Year Title Author Narrator(s) Publisher Result Ref.
2000
5th 		Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) Helen Fielding Barbara Rosenblat Recorded Books, LLC Winner [4]
Daughter of Fortune (1998) Isabel Allende Blair Brown HarperAudio Finalist [4]
These Is My Words (1998) Nancy E. Turner Valerie Leonard Chivers North America Finalist [4]
2001
6th 		Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) Zora Neale Hurston Ruby Dee HarperAudio Winner [5]
The Blind Assassin (2000) Margaret Atwood Margot Dionne Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Finalist [5]
Winter Solstice (2000) Rosamunde Pilcher Lynn Redgrave Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Finalist [5]
2002
7th 		My Dream of You (2001) Nuala O'Faolain Dearbhla Molloy Simon & Schuster Audio Winner [6]
Lord of the Silent (2001) Elizabeth Peters Barbara Rosenblat HarperAudio Finalist [6]
Portrait in Sepia (2000) Isabel Allende Blair Brown HarperAudio Finalist [6]
2003
8th 		Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood (1982) Kate Simon Barbara Rosenblat Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc. Winner [7]
Breathing Room (2002) Susan Elizabeth Phillips Kate Fleming Chivers North America Finalist [7]
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (1996) Rebecca Wells Judith Ivey HarperAudio Finalist [7]
Quentins (2002) Maeve Binchy Terry Donnelly Penguin Audiobooks Finalist [7]
The Secret Life of Bees (2001) Sue Monk Kidd Jenna Lamia HighBridge Audio Finalist [7]
2004
9th 		The Nazi Officer's Wife (1999) Edith Hahn Beer Barbara Rosenblat Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc. Winner [8]
A Corner of the Universe (2002) Ann M. Martin Judith Ivey Listening Library Finalist [8]
Blow Fly (2003) Patricia Cornwell Kate Reading Putnam Berkley Audio/Books on Tape Finalist [8]
Inkheart (2003) Cornelia Funke Lynn Redgrave Listening Library Finalist [8]
Stuffed (2001) Patricia Volk Barbara Rosenblat Blackstone Audio Finalist [8]
2005
10th 		The Full Cupboard of Life (2003) Alexander McCall Smith Lisette Lecat Recorded Books, LLC Winner [9]
Destination Unknown (1954) Agatha Christie Emilia Fox The Audio Partners Publishing Corp. Finalist [9]
A Fugue in Hell's Kitchen (2004) Hal Glazer Barbara Rosenblat Audio-Playwrights Finalist [9]
When We Were Very Young (1924) A. A. Milne Miranda Richardson HarperAudio Finalist [9]
Now We Are Six (1927) A. A. Milne Miranda Richardson HarperAudio Finalist [9]
Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down (2003) Neta Jackson Barbara Rosenblat Oasis Audio Finalist [9]
2006
11th 		A Breath of Snow and Ashes (2005) Diana Gabaldon Davina Porter Recorded Books, LLC Winner [10][11]
The Ice Queen (2005) Alice Hoffman Nancy Travis Time Warner AudioBooks Finalist [11]
Last Days of Dogtown (2005) Anita Diamant Kate Nelligan Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [11]
Pretty Birds (2005) Scott Simon Christina Moore Recorded Books, LLC Finalist [11]
Up from Orchard Street (2005) Eleanor Widmer Lorna Raver Blackstone Audio Finalist [11]
2007
12th 		Telegraph Days (2006) Larry McMurtry Annie Potts Simon & Schuster Audio Winner [12][13]
Darkfever (2006) Karen Marie Moning Joyce Bean Brilliance Audio Finalist [13]
Fortunate Son (2006) Walter Mosley Lorraine Toussaint Hachette Audio Finalist [13]
Leave a Candle Burning (2006) Lori Wick Barbara Rosenblat Oasis Audio Finalist [13]
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) Harper Lee Sissy Spacek Harper Audio/Caedmon Finalist [13]
2008
13th 		Tallgrass (2008) Sandra Dallas Lorelei King Macmillan Audio Winner [14][15]
The Blood of Flowers (2007) Anita Amirrezvani Shohreh Aghdashloo Hachette Audio Finalist [16]
Boomsday (2007) Christopher Buckley Janeane Garofalo Hachette Audio Finalist [16]
Taking Flight (2009) Adriana Sevahn Nichols Adriana Sevahn Nichols L.A. Theatre Works Finalist [16]
The Teahouse Fire (2006) Ellis Avery Barbara Caruso HighBridge Audio Finalist [16]
2009
14th 		Curse of the Blue Tattoo (2004) L. A. Meyer Katherine Kellgren Listen & Live Audio Winner [17][18]
Amarcord: Marcella Remembers (2008) Marcella Hazan Concetta Tomei HarperAudio Finalist [19]
The Age of Innocence (1920) Edith Wharton Lorna Raver Blackstone Audio Finalist [19]
The Lace Reader (2006) Brunonia Barry Alyssa Bresnahan HarperAudio Finalist [19]
The Palace of Illusions (2008) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Sneha Mathan Blackstone Audio Finalist [19]

2010s

Year Title Author Narrator(s) Publisher Result Ref.
2010
15th 		The Chosen One (2009) Carol Lynch Williams Jenna Lamia Macmillan Audio Winner [20]
In the Belly of the Bloodhound (2006) L. A. Meyer Katherine Kellgren Listen & Live Audio Finalist [21]
Mississippi Jack (2007) L. A. Meyer Katherine Kellgren Listen & Live Audio Finalist [21]
Washington Square (1880) Henry James Lorna Raver Tantor Audio Finalist [21]
Fatally Flaky (2009) Diane Mott Davidson Barbara Rosenblat HarperAudio Finalist [21]
2011
16th 		Glorious (2010) Bernice McFadden Alfre Woodard Audible Winner [22]
The Invisible Order (2010) Paul Crilley Katherine Kellgren Audible Finalist [23]
The Magician's Elephant (2009) Kate DiCamillo Juliet Stevenson Brilliance Audio Finalist [23]
Rapture of the Deep: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy (2009) L. A. Meyer Katherine Kellgren Listen & Live Audio Finalist [23]
The Golden Notebook (1962) Doris Lessing Juliet Stevenson Naxos AudioBooks Finalist [23]
Spoken from the Heart (2010) Laura Bush Laura Bush Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [23]
2012
17th 		The Winter Sea (2008) Susanna Kearsley Rosalyn Landor Audible Winner [24][25]
Ashes Trilogy: Ashes (2011) Ilsa J. Bick Katherine Kellgren Audible/Brilliance Audio Finalist [26]
First Grave on the Right (2011) Darynda Jones Lorelei King Macmillan Audio Finalist [26]
Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter (1976) Loretta Lynn and George Vecsey Sissy Spacek Random House Audio/Books on Tape Finalist [26]
The Wake of the Lorelei Lee (2010) L. A. Meyer Katherine Kellgren Listen & Live Audio Finalist [26]
2013
18th 		The Boy in the Suitcase (2011) Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis Katherine Kellgren AudioGO Winner [27]
Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s (2002) Jennifer Worth Nicola Barber HighBridge Audio Finalist [28]
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place (2012) Maryrose Wood Katherine Kellgren HarperAudio Finalist [28]
Juliet in August / Cool Water (2010) Dianne Warren Cassandra Campbell Tantor Audio Finalist [28]
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) L. Frank Baum Anne Hathaway Audible Finalist [28]
2014
19th 		The Twelve Clues of Christmas (2012) Rhys Bowen Katherine Kellgren Audible Winner [29]
Heartburn (1983) Nora Ephron Meryl Streep Random House Audio/Books on Tape Finalist [29]
My Beloved World (2013) Sonia Sotomayor Rita Moreno Random House Audio/Books on Tape Finalist [29]
NOS4A2 (2013) Joe Hill Kate Mulgrew HarperAudio Finalist [29]
The Testament of Mary (2012) Colm Tóibín Meryl Streep Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [29]
2015
20th 		Yellow Crocus (2010) Laila Ibrahim Bahni Turpin Brilliance Audio Winner [30]
Boston Jacky (2013) L. A. Meyer Katherine Kellgren Listen & Live Audio Finalist [30]
Life Drawing (2014) Robin Black Cassandra Campbell Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [30]
Murphy's Law (2001) Rhys Bowen Nicola Barber Audible Finalist [30]
Until the End of the World (2013) Sarah Lyons Fleming Julia Whelan Podium Publishing Finalist [30]
Written in My Own Heart's Blood (2014) Diana Gabaldon Davina Porter Recorded Books Finalist [30]
2016
21st 		Wild Rover No More (2014) L. A. Meyer Katherine Kellgren Listen & Live Audio Winner [31]
All the Stars in the Heavens (2015) Adriana Trigiani Blair Brown HarperAudio Finalist [31]
The Boston Girl (2014) Anita Diamant Linda Lavin Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [31]
Lair of Dreams (2015) Libba Bray January LaVoy Listening Library/Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [31]
The Lost Landscape (2015) Joyce Carol Oates Cassandra Campbell HarperAudio Finalist [31]
The Nightingale (2015) Kristin Hannah Polly Stone Macmillan Audio Finalist [31]
2017
22nd 		Be Frank with Me (2016) Julia Claiborne Johnson Tavia Gilbert HarperAudio Winner [32]
Another Brooklyn (2016) Jacqueline Woodson Robin Miles HarperAudio Finalist [32]
The Little Red Chairs (2015) Edna O'Brien Juliet Stevenson Hachette Audio Finalist [32]
The Turn of the Screw (1898) Henry James Emma Thompson Audible Finalist [32]
The Underground Railroad (2016) Colson Whitehead Bahni Turpin Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape Finalist [32]
2018
23rd 		The Hate U Give (2017) Angie Thomas Bahni Turpin HarperAudio Winner [33]
The Alice Network (2017) Kate Quinn Saskia Maarleveld HarperAudio Finalist [33]
Anne of Green Gables (1908) Lucy Maud Montgomery Rachel McAdams Audible Finalist [33]
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (1990) Jennifer Lynch Sheryl Lee Audible Finalist [33]
The Stone Sky (2017) N. K. Jemisin Robin Miles Hachette Audio Finalist [33]
2019
24th 		Educated Tara Westover Julia Whelan Penguin Random House Audio Winner [34][35]
Barracoon Zora Neale Hurston Robin Miles HarperAudio Finalist [35]
Girls & Boys Dennis Kelly Carey Mulligan Audible Studios Finalist [35]
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock Imogen Hermes Gowar Juliet Stevenson HarperAudio Finalist [35]
Transcription Kate Atkinson Fenella Woolgar Hachette Audio Finalist [35]

2020s

Year Title Author Narrator(s) Publisher Result Ref.
2020
25th 		Nothing to See Here (2019) Kevin Wilson Marin Ireland HarperAudio Winner [36]
All the Lost Things (2019) Michelle Sacks Cassandra Morris Hachette Audio Finalist [36]
The Boy (2018) Tami Hoag Hillary Huber Brilliance Audio Finalist [36]
Prime Suspect (1991) Lynda La Plante Rachel Atkins Zaffle Finalist [36]
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019) Alix E. Harrow January LaVoy Hachette Audio Finalist [36]
2021
26th 		The City We Became (2020) N. K. Jemisin Robin Miles Hachette Audio Winner [37]
The Color Purple (1982) Alice Walker Samira Wiley Audible Finalist [37]
The Lying Life of Adults (2019) Elena Ferrante with Ann Goldstein (trans.) Marisa Tomei Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [37]
One by One (2020) Ruth Ware Imogen Church Simon & Schuster Audio Finalist [37]
Such a Fun Age (2019) Kiley Reid Nicole Lewis Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [37]
2022
27th 		The Parted Earth Anjali Enjeti Deepti Gupta Novel audio Winner [37]
Before She Disappeared Lisa Gardner Hillary Huber Brilliance Publishing Finalist [37]
The Four Winds Kristin Hannah Julia Whelan Macmillan Audio Finalist [37]
The Morning After Lisa Jackson Natalie Naudus Brilliance Publishing Finalist [37]
Wild Swan: A Story of Florence Nightingale Patti Callahan Cynthia Erivo Audible Finalist [37]
2023
27th 		The Eye of the World (1990) Robert Jordan Rosamund Pike Macmillan Audio Winner [38]
Nightcrawling (2022) Leila Mottley Joniece Abbott-Pratt Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [38]
Thistlefoot GennaRose Nethercott January LaVoy Penguin Random House Audio Finalist [38]
NSFW Isabel Kaplan Stephanie Nemeth-Parker Macmillan Audio Finalist [38]
War and Peace (1869) Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Aylmer and Louise Maude Thandiwe Newton Audible Studios Finalist [38]

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