The Audie Award for Literary Fiction or Classics is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for an audiobook adaptation released in a given year of a work of literary fiction or a classic. Before 2016 this was given as two distinct awards, the Audie Award for Classics (awarded since 2001, before 2003 as the Audie Award for Classics, Fiction) and the Audie Award for Literary Fiction (awarded since 2005).
Winners are listed first and highlighted in green.
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Little Big Man (1964) | and David Aaron Baker | Recorded Books | Winner | [1] | |
| (2015) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Kidnapped (1886) | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||||
| Sweetland (2014) | HighBridge Audio/Recorded Books | Finalist | ||||
| Til the Well Runs Dry (2014) | and Bahni Turpin | Tantor Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2017 | Homegoing (2016) | Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Winner | [2] | ||
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1864) | Audible | Finalist | ||||
| Another Brooklyn (2016) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| David Copperfield (1850) | Audible | Finalist | ||||
| LaRose (2016) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| (2016) | Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist | ||||
| 2018 | House of Names (2017) | Juliet Stevenson et al. | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner | [3] | |
| Beast (2016) | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Daisy Miller (1878) | Spoken Realms | Finalist | ||||
| Dracula (1897) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||||
Special Edition (1985) | and Valerie Martin | , Margaret Atwood, and a full cast | Audible | Finalist | ||
| Phineas Finn (1869) | Naxos AudioBooks | Finalist | ||||
| 2019 | Bleak House (1853) | Audible | Winner | [4] [5] | ||
| Crime and Punishment (1866) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Housegirl (2018) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Miguel Street (1959) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Musashi (1935) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Split Tooth (2018) | Penguin Random House Canada | Finalist |
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Penguin Random House Audio | Winner | [6] | |||
| Milkman | Dreamscape Media | Finalist | ||||
| Mythos | Chronicle Books | Finalist | ||||
| Macmillan Audio | Finalist | |||||
| Red at the Bone | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2021 | and Chukwudi Iwuji | Penguin Random House Audio | Winner | [7] | ||
| Audible Studios | Finalist | |||||
| Deacon King Kong | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Pew | Brilliance Publishing | Finalist | ||||
| These Ghosts Are Family | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2022 | All Creatures Great and Small | Macmillan Audio | Winner | [8] | ||
| Ariadne | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Mary Jane | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| Matrix (2021) | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Moby Dick (1851) | Alison Larkin Presents | Finalist | ||||
| 2023 | War and Peace (1869) | , trans. by Aylmer and Louise Maude | Audible Studios | Winner | [9] [10] | |
| Flaubert's Parrot (1984) | Recorded Books | Finalist | [11] | |||
| Horse | , Lisa Flanagan, Graham Halstead, Katherine Littrell, and Michael Obiora | Penguin Random House | Finalist | |||
| (1831) | , trans. by Isabel Florence Hapgood | Oasis Audio | Finalist | |||
| Yerba Buena | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2024 | Homer, translated by Emily Wilson | Audible Studios | Winner | [12] | ||
| Harold and Maude (1971) | Blackstone Publishing | Finalist | ||||
| Blackstone Publishing with Skyboat Media | Finalist | |||||
| , with a full cast | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Oliver Twist (1837–1839) | , adapted by Marty Ross, presented by Sam Mendes | , Daniel Kaluuya, and a full cast | Audible Studios | Finalist |
Winners are listed first and highlighted in green.
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Complete Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume I (1899–1952) | Audio Connoisseur | Winner | [13] [14] | ||
| Invisible Man (1952) | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||||
| Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| 2002 | (1943) | HarperAudio | Winner | [15] | ||
| (1953) | , Michael York, Fionnula Flanagan, Madolyn Smith, and René Auberjonois | L.A. Theatre Works | Finalist | |||
| Gone with the Wind (1936) | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||||
| 2003 | Complete Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume II (1899–1952) | Audio Connoisseur | Winner | [16] | ||
| Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories, Volume I (1923–1969) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Moby-Dick (1851) | Books on Tape | Finalist | ||||
| Spoon River Anthology (1915) | , Edward Asner, and full cast | The Audio Partners Publishing | Finalist | |||
| (1925) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| 2004 | East of Eden (1952) | Recorded Books | Winner | [17] | ||
| (1953) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories, Volume II (1923–1969) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Treasure Island (1883) | Books on Tape | Finalist | ||||
| Wuthering Heights (1847) | Books on Tape | Finalist | ||||
| 2005 | (1843) | Listening Library | Winner | [18] | ||
| Bless Me, Ultima (1972) | Recorded Book | Finalist | ||||
| (1945) | Audio Connoisseur | Finalist | ||||
| (1940) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| Ulysses (1922) | and Marcella Riordan | Naxos Audiobooks | Finalist | |||
| 2006 | Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) | Random House Audio | Winner | |||
| (1972) | , Noël Coward, and Margaret Leighton | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| (1910) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (1859) | Naxos Audiobooks | Finalist | ||||
| (1870) | Alcazar AudioWorks | Finalist | ||||
| 2007 | To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) | Sissy Spacek | HarperAudio/Caedmon | Winner | [19] | |
| (1925) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (1926) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (1855) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (1937) | BBC Audiobooks America | Finalist | ||||
| 2008 | Treasure Island (1882) | Random House Audio/Listening Library | Winner | [20] | ||
| 1984 (1949) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (1903) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Catch-22 (1961) | Scholastic Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (1962) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| White Fang (1906) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2009 | Great Expectations (1861) | Tantor Audio | Winner | [21] | ||
| Galápagos (1985) | Audible | Finalist | ||||
| (1876) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (1845) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (1891) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Great Expectations (1861) | Audio Connoisseur | Winner | [22] | ||
| (1400) | Full cast | BBC Audiobooks America | Finalist | |||
| (1843) | Audio Connoisseur | Finalist | ||||
| Tristram Shandy (1759) | Naxos AudioBooks | Finalist | ||||
| (1898) | and Vanessa Benjamin | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2011 | (1859) | , Rosalyn Landar, John Lee, and Judy Geeson | Blackstone Audio | Winner | [23] | |
| Light in August (1932) | Audible | Finalist | ||||
| (1859) | Audio Connoisseur | Finalist | ||||
| Watership Down (1972) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (1645) | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2012 | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1839) | Tantor Audio | Winner | [24] | ||
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) | Audible | Finalist | ||||
| Deliverance (1970) | Audible | Finalist | ||||
| Heart of Darkness (1899) | Audible | Finalist | ||||
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) | Books on Tape | Finalist | ||||
| 2013 | Dombey and Son (1848) | Audio Connoisseur | Winner | [25] | ||
| A Death in the Family (1948) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Dracula (1897) | Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, et al. | Audible | Finalist | |||
| The Mark of Zorro (2011) | and full cast | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | |||
| The Prime Minister (1876) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2014 | (1887–1927) | Brilliance Audio | Winner | [26] | ||
| Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968) | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Frankenstein (1818) | Audible | Finalist | ||||
| (1925) | Audible | Finalist | ||||
| Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2015 | The New York Stories (1966) | , Becky Ann Baker, Dylan Baker, Bobby Cannavale, Jon Hamm, Richard Kind, Jan Maxwell, Gretchen Mol, and Dallas Roberts | Penguin Random House Audio | Winner | [27] | |
| Andersonville (1955) | Audible | Finalist | ||||
| Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) | Audible | Finalist | ||||
| Darkwater (1920) | , Dion Graham, Lisa Renee Pitts, Bahni Turpin, and Mirron Willis | Skyboat Media/Blackstone Audio | Finalist | |||
| The Odyssey (8th–7th century B.C.) | Homer (trans. Robert Fitzgerald) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
Winners are listed first and highlighted in green.
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | (2003) | Hyperion Audiobooks | Winner | |||
| (2002) | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||||
| (1945) | Audio Connoisseur | Finalist | ||||
| Gould's Book of Fish (2001) | Bolinda Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004) | Audio Renaissance | Finalist | ||||
| (1998) | Bolinda Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2004) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2006 | Upstate (2005) | and Chadwick Boseman | Audio Renaissance | Winner | ||
| Brother Fish (2004) | Bolinda Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Casanova in Bolzano (1940) | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Cloud Atlas (2004) | , Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, John Lee, and Richard Matthews | Books on Tape | Finalist | |||
| (2005) | Audio Renaissance | Finalist | ||||
| 2007 | (2006) | and Lynn Redgrave | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner | ||
| Absurdistan (2006) | Phoenix Books | Finalist | ||||
| After This (2006) | Audio Renaissance | Finalist | ||||
| All the King's Men (1946) | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||||
| Suite Française (1942) | and Barbara Rosenblat | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2008 | Tree of Smoke (2007) | Macmillan Audio | Winner | |||
| Blood Meridian (1985) | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||||
| (2006) | Penguin Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Portrait of an Unknown Woman (2007) | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2007) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| 2009 | Elmer Gantry (1926) | Blackstone Audio | Winner | |||
| Crime and Punishment (1866) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2008) | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||||
| Lush Life (2008) | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2008) | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Wolf Hall (2009) | Macmillan Audio | Winner | |||
| Come Sunday (2009) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2009) | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2006) | and Cassandra Morris | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | |||
| Good-bye and Amen (2008) | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2011 | Snakewoman of Little Egypt (2010) | Tantor Audio | Winner | |||
| Beautiful Maria of My Soul (2010) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Freedom (2010) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| My Life As a Man (1974) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2010) | and Paula Wilcox | Recorded Books | Finalist | |||
| 2012 | State of Wonder (2011) | HarperAudio | Winner | |||
| Emily and Einstein (2011) | and Cassandra Campbell | Tantor Audio | Finalist | |||
| Follow the River (1981) | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2011) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| No One in the World (2011) | and R. M. Johnson | Tantor Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2013 | (1951) | Audible | Winner | |||
| Heft (2012) | and Keith Szarabajka | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | |||
| (1989) | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Remember Ben Clayton (2011) | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||||
| 2014 | (2013) | Hachette Audio | Winner | |||
| Amy Falls Down (2013) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2013) | , Erik Bergmann, and George Guidall | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| (2013) | , Kate Mulgrew, Scott Shepherd, and Clifton Collins, Jr. | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| (2012) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2015 | Euphoria (2014) | and Xe Sands | Blackstone Audio | Winner | ||
| (2014) | , Leon Williams, Colin Mace, Steven Crossley, Laurel Lefkow, and Anna Bentinck | Recorded Books | Finalist | |||
| Nora Webster (2014) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2014) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2014) | Audible | Finalist | ||||
| Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? (2014) | , March Cashman, Mark Deakins, Michelle Gonzalez, Rebecca Lowman, John H. Mayer, Kate McGregor-Stewart, and Bruce Turk | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |