The Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in audiobook narration for an audiobook narrated by the author released in a given year. Before 2002 the award was given as the Audie Award for Solo Narration by the Author or Authors. It has been awarded since 1998.
Winners are listed first each year and are highlighted in green.
| Year | Audiobook | Author/Narrator | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Sula (1973) | Random House Audio | Winner | [1] [2] | |
| My Brother (1997) | Penguin Audiobooks | Finalist | |||
| Wobegon Boy (1997) | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | |||
| 1999 | Still Me (1999) | Random House Audio | Winner | [3] | |
| Big Screen Drive-In Theater (1998) | August House | Finalist | |||
| Reporting Live (1999) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| Year | Audiobook | Author/Narrator | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | (1971) | NewStar Media | Winner | [4] | |
| Hannibal (1999) | Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio | Finalist | |||
| 'Tis (1999) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2001 | (2000) | HarperAudio | Winner | [5] | |
| From This Day Forward (2000) | and Steve Roberts | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||
| John Glenn (1999) | Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2002 | Ava's Man (2002) | Random House Audio | Winner | [6] | |
| Believing It All (2002) | Time Warner AudioBooks | Finalist | |||
| (2001) | (narrated with Joan Chen) | New Millennium Audio | Finalist | ||
| 2003 | Standing in the Rainbow (2002) | Random House Audio | Winner | [7] | |
| Lucky Man (2002) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| Nothing Is Impossible (2002) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore (2001) | Audio Partners | Finalist | |||
| Vernon Can Read! (2001) | (written with Annette Gordon-Reed) | BBC Audiobooks America | Finalist | ||
| 2004 | Naked in Baghdad (2003) | Audio Renaissance | Winner | [8] | |
| I Am the Central Park Jogger (2003) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (2003) | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | |||
| Madam Secretary (2003) | BBC Audiobooks America | Finalist | |||
| (2003) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| (2002) | Makoche | Finalist | |||
| 2005 | Against All Enemies (2004) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner | [9] | |
| Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004) | AudioBooks | Finalist | |||
| My Life (2004) | Random House Audio | Finalist | |||
| Off the Cuff (2004) | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | |||
| There and Back Again (2004) | (written with Joe Layden) | Audio Renaissance | Finalist | ||
| 2006 | (2005) | Time Warner AudioBooks | Winner | ||
| 1776 (2005) | Simon & Schuster | Finalist | |||
| Kiss Me Like a Stranger (2005) | Audio Renaissance | Finalist | |||
| My Life So Far (1999) | Books on Tape | Finalist | |||
| (2005) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2007 | (1995) | Blackstone Audio | Winner | [10] | |
| Marian McPartland's Jazz World: All in Good Time (1975) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | |||
| (2006) | Penguin Audio | Finalist | |||
| Teacher Man (2005) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| (2006) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| 2008 | (2007) | HighBridge Audio | Winner | [11] | |
| Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2007) | (narrated with Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||
| Here If You Need Me (2007) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| Michael Tolliver Lives (2007) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Neverwhere (1996) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Traveler (2007) | Recorded Books | Finalist | |||
| 2009 | When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008) | Hachette Audio | Winner | [12] | |
| Just Who Will You Be? (2008) | HyperionAudio | Finalist | |||
| Ladies of Liberty (2009) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Letter to My Daughter (2008) | Random House Audio | Finalist | |||
| (2008) | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| Year | Audiobook | Author/Narrator | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Odd and the Frost Giants (2008) | HarperChildrensAudio | Winner | [13] | |
| Manhood for Amateurs (2009) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| (2009) | Oasis Audio | Finalist | |||
| Baseball Great (2009) | HarperChildrensAudio | Finalist | |||
| Half Broke Horses (2009) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2011 | Nanny McPhee Returns (2010) | Macmillan Audio | Winner | [14] | |
| Crazy Heart (1987) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| (2009) | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | |||
| (1982) | Recorded Books | Finalist | |||
| Role Models (2010) | Tantor Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2012 | Beauty Queens (2011) | Scholastic Audio | Winner | [15] [16] | |
| Bossypants (2011) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| Drama (2011) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Seriously…I'm Kidding (2011) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| Stories I Only Tell My Friends (2011) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2013 | Society's Child (2008) | Janis Ian | Audible | Winner | [17] |
| American Dervish (2012) | Ayad Akhtar | Hachette Audio | Finalist | ||
| How to Be Black (2012) | Baratunde Thurston | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||
| Most Talkative (2012) | Andy Cohen | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||
| When It Happens to You (2012) | Molly Ringwald | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||
| Yes, Chef (2012) | Marcus Samuelsson (written with Veronica Chambers) | Random House Audio | Finalist | ||
| 2014 | Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? (2013) | Billy Crystal | Macmillan Audio | Winner | [18] |
| Grace: A Memoir (2012) | Grace Coddington (written with Michael Roberts) | Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist | ||
| I, Rhoda (2013) | Valerie Harper | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||
| Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish (2013) | David Rakoff | Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist | ||
| (2013) | Neil Gaiman | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||
| Shirley Jones (2013) | Shirley Jones | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||
| 2015 | Not My Father's Son (2014) | HarperAudio | Winner | [19] | |
| A Fighting Chance (2014) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | |||
| Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (2014) | (written with Lisa Dickey) | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | ||
| What I Know for Sure (2014) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | |||
| Yes Please (2014) | (narrated with Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Mike Schur, Eileen and William Poehler, Patrick Stewart, and Kathleen Turner) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||
| 2016 | Born with Teeth (2015) | Hachette Audio | Winner | [20] | |
| (2014) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| Furiously Happy (2015) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | |||
| I Must Say (2014) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Thirteen Ways of Looking (2015) | Books on Tape/Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2017 | A Life in Parts (2016) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner | [21] | |
| Dear Mr. You (2015) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| (2016) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| In Such Good Company (2016) | Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist | |||
| LaRose (2016) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| (2016) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| 2018 | Norse Mythology (2017) | HarperAudio | Winner | [22] | |
| Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | |||
| Born a Crime (2016) | Audible | Finalist | |||
| Love Poems (1997) and A Good Cry (2017) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| This Fight Is Our Fight (2017) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2019 | (2016) | Scholastic Audio | Winner | [23] | |
| How Not to Get Shot (2018) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| In Pieces (2018) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| My Pride (2017) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | |||
| (2018) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Promise Me, Dad (2017) | Audible | Finalist |
| Year | Audiobook | Author/Narrator | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | With the Fire on High (2019) | HarperAudio | Winner | [24] | |
| Becoming (2018) | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | |||
| Inside Out (2019) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Madame Badobedah (2019) | Bolinda Audio | Finalist | |||
| Shortest Way Home (2019) | HighBridge Audio (Recorded Books) | Finalist | |||
| Tough Love (2019) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2021 | More Myself (2020) | Macmillan Audio | Winner | [25] | |
| Acid for the Children (2019) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| Hollywood Park (2020) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | |||
| Homie (2020) | HighBridge Audio (Recorded Books) | Finalist | |||
| In Dependence (2009) | Recorded Books | Finalist | |||
| Little Weirds (2019) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2022 | (2020) | Penguin Random House Audio | Winner | [26] | |
| All the Rage: A Partial Memoir in Two Acts and a Prologue | Penguin Random House Canada | Finalist | |||
| Going There | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| Stories to Tell (2021) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| Brilliance Publishing | Finalist | ||||
| Vulnerable AF | Andrews McMeel Publishing | Finalist | |||
| 2023 | Finding Me (2022) | Harper Audio | Winner | [27] | |
| Apparently There Were Complaints | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| Hello, Molly! | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Ten Steps to Nanette | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | |||
| Waypoints | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2024 | It. Goes. So. Fast. - The Year of No Do-Overs | Macmillan Audio | Winner | [28] | |
| (2023) | Recorded Books | Finalist | |||
| Sisters of the Lost Marsh | Scholastic Audio | Finalist | |||
| Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Making It So | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |