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 It has been awarded since 1998, when it superseded the Audie Award for Solo Narration.
Winners are listed first each year and are highlighted in light green.
| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Land Girls (1995) | Isis Publishing | Winner | ||
| Sin (1992) | Dove Audio | Finalist | |||
| To the Lighthouse (1927) | Virginia Woolf | Eileen Atkins | Penguin Audiobooks | Finalist | |
| 1999 | Oliver Twist (1837–1839) | The Audio Partners Publishing Corp. | Winner | ||
| Black Coffee (1930) | Soundelux Audio Publishing | Finalist | |||
| Pride and Prejudice (1813) | The Audio Partners Publishing Corp. | Finalist |
| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) | Recorded Books, LLC | Winner | ||
| Daughter of Fortune (1998) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| These Is My Words (1998) | Chivers North America | Finalist | |||
| 2001 | Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) | HarperAudio | Winner | ||
| (2000) | Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio | Finalist | |||
| Winter Solstice (2000) | Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2002 | My Dream of You (2001) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner | ||
| Lord of the Silent (2001) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Portrait in Sepia (2000) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| 2003 | Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood (1982) | Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc. | Winner | ||
| Breathing Room (2002) | Chivers North America | Finalist | |||
| Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (1996) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Quentins (2002) | Penguin Audiobooks | Finalist | |||
| (2001) | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2004 | (1999) | Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc. | Winner | ||
| A Corner of the Universe (2002) | Listening Library | Finalist | |||
| Blow Fly (2003) | Putnam Berkley Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist | |||
| Inkheart (2003) | Listening Library | Finalist | |||
| Stuffed (2001) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2005 | (2003) | Recorded Books, LLC | Winner | ||
| Destination Unknown (1954) | The Audio Partners Publishing Corp. | Finalist | |||
| (2004) | Audio-Playwrights | Finalist | |||
| When We Were Very Young (1924) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Now We Are Six (1927) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down (2003) | Oasis Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2006[1] | (2005) | Recorded Books, LLC | Winner | ||
| (2005) | Time Warner AudioBooks | Finalist | |||
| Last Days of Dogtown (2005) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| Pretty Birds (2005) | Recorded Books, LLC | Finalist | |||
| Up from Orchard Street (2005) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2007[2] | Telegraph Days (2006) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner | ||
| Darkfever (2006) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | |||
| Fortunate Son (2006) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| Leave a Candle Burning (2006) | Oasis Audio | Finalist | |||
| To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) | Harper Audio/Caedmon | Finalist | |||
| 2008[3] [4] | Tallgrass (2008) | Macmillan Audio | Winner | ||
| (2007) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| Boomsday (2007) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| Taking Flight (2009) | L.A. Theatre Works | Finalist | |||
| (2006) | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2009[5] [6] | Curse of the Blue Tattoo (2004) | Listen & Live Audio | Winner | ||
| Amarcord: Marcella Remembers (2008) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| (1920) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | |||
| (2006) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| (2008) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010[7] | (2009) | Macmillan Audio | Winner | ||
| In the Belly of the Bloodhound (2006) | Listen & Live Audio | Finalist | |||
| Mississippi Jack (2007) | Listen & Live Audio | Finalist | |||
| Washington Square (1880) | Tantor Audio | Finalist | |||
| Fatally Flaky (2009) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| 2011[8] | Glorious (2010) | Audible | Winner | ||
| (2010) | Audible | Finalist | |||
| (2009) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | |||
| Rapture of the Deep: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy (2009) | Listen & Live Audio | Finalist | |||
| (1962) | Naxos AudioBooks | Finalist | |||
| Spoken from the Heart (2010) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2012[9] [10] | (2008) | Audible | Winner | ||
| Ashes Trilogy: Ashes (2011) | Audible/Brilliance Audio | Finalist | |||
| First Grave on the Right (2011) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | |||
| Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter (1976) | and George Vecsey | Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist | ||
| (2010) | Listen & Live Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2013[11] | (2011) | and Agnete Friis | AudioGO | Winner | |
| Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s (2002) | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | |||
| (2012) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Juliet in August / Cool Water (2010) | Tantor Audio | Finalist | |||
| (1900) | Audible | Finalist | |||
| 2014[12] | (2012) | Audible | Winner | ||
| Heartburn (1983) | Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist | |||
| My Beloved World (2013) | Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist | |||
| NOS4A2 (2013) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| (2012) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2015[13] | Yellow Crocus (2010) | Brilliance Audio | Winner | ||
| Boston Jacky (2013) | Listen & Live Audio | Finalist | |||
| Life Drawing (2014) | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | |||
| Murphy's Law (2001) | Audible | Finalist | |||
| Until the End of the World (2013) | Podium Publishing | Finalist | |||
| Written in My Own Heart's Blood (2014) | Recorded Books | Finalist | |||
| 2016[14] | Wild Rover No More (2014) | Listen & Live Audio | Winner | ||
| All the Stars in the Heavens (2015) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| (2014) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| Lair of Dreams (2015) | Listening Library/Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | |||
| (2015) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| (2015) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2017[15] | Be Frank with Me (2016) | HarperAudio | Winner | ||
| Another Brooklyn (2016) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| (2015) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| (1898) | Audible | Finalist | |||
| (2016) | Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist | |||
| 2018[16] | (2017) | HarperAudio | Winner | ||
| (2017) | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Anne of Green Gables (1908) | Audible | Finalist | |||
| (1990) | Audible | Finalist | |||
| (2017) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2019[17] | Educated | Penguin Random House Audio | Winner | ||
| Barracoon | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Audible Studios | Finalist | ||||
| HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| Transcription | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020[18] | Nothing to See Here (2019) | HarperAudio | Winner | ||
| All the Lost Things (2019) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| (2018) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | |||
| Prime Suspect (1991) | Zaffle | Finalist | |||
| (2019) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2021[19] | (2020) | Robin Miles | Hachette Audio | Winner | |
| (1982) | Audible | Finalist | |||
| (2019) | with Ann Goldstein (trans.) | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | ||
| One by One (2020) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| Such a Fun Age (2019) | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2022 | Novel audio | Winner | |||
| Before She Disappeared | Brilliance Publishing | Finalist | |||
| Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Brilliance Publishing | Finalist | ||||
| Wild Swan: A Story of Florence Nightingale | Audible | Finalist | |||
| 2023[20] | (1990) | Macmillan Audio | Winner | ||
| Nightcrawling (2022) | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | |||
| Thistlefoot | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | |||
| NSFW | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | |||
| War and Peace (1869) | , trans. by Aylmer and Louise Maude | Audible Studios | Finalist |