Audie Award for Best Female Narrator

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 It has been awarded since 1998, when it superseded the Audie Award for Solo Narration.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

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Winners are listed first each year and are highlighted in light green.

### 1990s

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Year of Release  | Audiobook  | Author  | Narrator  | Audiobook Publisher  | Result

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

### 2000s

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Year of Release  | Audiobook  | Author  | Narrator  | Audiobook Publisher  | Result

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2000
5th | Bridget Jones's Diary (1996)  | Helen Fielding | Barbara Rosenblat | Recorded Books, LLC  | Winner
Daughter of Fortune (1998)  | Isabel Allende | Blair Brown | HarperAudio  | Finalist
These Is My Words (1998)  | Nancy E. Turner | Valerie Leonard | Chivers North America  | Finalist
2001
6th | Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)  | Zora Neale Hurston | Ruby Dee | HarperAudio  | Winner
The Blind Assassin (2000)  | Margaret Atwood | Margot Dionne | Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio  | Finalist
Winter Solstice (2000)  | Rosamunde Pilcher | Lynn Redgrave | Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio  | Finalist
2002
7th | My Dream of You (2001)  | Nuala O'Faolain | Dearbhla Molloy | Simon & Schuster Audio  | Winner
Lord of the Silent (2001)  | Elizabeth Peters | Barbara Rosenblat | HarperAudio  | Finalist
Portrait in Sepia (2000)  | Isabel Allende | Blair Brown | HarperAudio  | Finalist
2003
8th | Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood (1982)  | Kate Simon | Barbara Rosenblat | Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc.  | Winner
Breathing Room (2002)  | Susan Elizabeth Phillips | Kate Fleming | Chivers North America  | Finalist
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (1996)  | Rebecca Wells | Judith Ivey | HarperAudio  | Finalist
Quentins (2002)  | Maeve Binchy | Terry Donnelly | Penguin Audiobooks  | Finalist
The Secret Life of Bees (2001)  | Sue Monk Kidd | Jenna Lamia | HighBridge Audio  | Finalist
2004
9th | The Nazi Officer's Wife (1999)  | Edith Hahn Beer | Barbara Rosenblat | Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc.  | Winner
A Corner of the Universe (2002)  | Ann M. Martin | Judith Ivey | Listening Library  | Finalist
Blow Fly (2003)  | Patricia Cornwell | Kate Reading | Putnam Berkley Audio/Books on Tape  | Finalist
Inkheart (2003)  | Cornelia Funke | Lynn Redgrave | Listening Library  | Finalist
Stuffed (2001)  | Patricia Volk | Barbara Rosenblat | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist
2005
10th | The Full Cupboard of Life (2003)  | Alexander McCall Smith | Lisette Lecat | Recorded Books, LLC  | Winner
Destination Unknown (1954)  | Agatha Christie | Emilia Fox | The Audio Partners Publishing Corp.  | Finalist
A Fugue in Hell's Kitchen (2004)  | Hal Glazer | Barbara Rosenblat | Audio-Playwrights  | Finalist
When We Were Very Young (1924)  | A. A. Milne | Miranda Richardson | HarperAudio  | Finalist
Now We Are Six (1927)  | A. A. Milne | Miranda Richardson | HarperAudio  | Finalist
Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down (2003)  | Neta Jackson | Barbara Rosenblat | Oasis Audio  | Finalist
2006[2]
11th | A Breath of Snow and Ashes (2005)  | Diana Gabaldon | Davina Porter | Recorded Books, LLC  | Winner
The Ice Queen (2005)  | Alice Hoffman | Nancy Travis | Time Warner AudioBooks  | Finalist
Last Days of Dogtown (2005)  | Anita Diamant | Kate Nelligan | Simon & Schuster Audio  | Finalist
Pretty Birds (2005)  | Scott Simon | Christina Moore | Recorded Books, LLC  | Finalist
Up from Orchard Street (2005)  | Eleanor Widmer | Lorna Raver | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist
2007[3]
12th | Telegraph Days (2006)  | Larry McMurtry | Annie Potts | Simon & Schuster Audio  | Winner
Darkfever (2006)  | Karen Marie Moning | Joyce Bean | Brilliance Audio  | Finalist
Fortunate Son (2006)  | Walter Mosley | Lorraine Toussaint | Hachette Audio  | Finalist
Leave a Candle Burning (2006)  | Lori Wick | Barbara Rosenblat | Oasis Audio  | Finalist
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)  | Harper Lee | Sissy Spacek | Harper Audio/Caedmon  | Finalist
2008[4][5]
13th | Tallgrass (2008)  | Sandra Dallas | Lorelei King | Macmillan Audio  | Winner
The Blood of Flowers (2007)  | Anita Amirrezvani | Shohreh Aghdashloo | Hachette Audio  | Finalist
Boomsday (2007)  | Christopher Buckley | Janeane Garofalo | Hachette Audio  | Finalist
Taking Flight (2009)  | Adriana Sevahn Nichols | Adriana Sevahn Nichols | L.A. Theatre Works  | Finalist
The Teahouse Fire (2006)  | Ellis Avery | Barbara Caruso | HighBridge Audio  | Finalist
2009[6][7]
14th | Curse of the Blue Tattoo (2004)  | L. A. Meyer | Katherine Kellgren | Listen & Live Audio  | Winner
Amarcord: Marcella Remembers (2008)  | Marcella Hazan | Concetta Tomei | HarperAudio  | Finalist
The Age of Innocence (1920)  | Edith Wharton | Lorna Raver | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist
The Lace Reader (2006)  | Brunonia Barry | Alyssa Bresnahan | HarperAudio  | Finalist
The Palace of Illusions (2008)  | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | Sneha Mathan | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist

### 2010s

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Year of Release  | Audiobook  | Author  | Narrator  | Audiobook Publisher  | Result

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2010[8]
15th | The Chosen One (2009)  | Carol Lynch Williams | Jenna Lamia | Macmillan Audio  | Winner
In the Belly of the Bloodhound (2006)  | L. A. Meyer | Katherine Kellgren | Listen & Live Audio  | Finalist
Mississippi Jack (2007)  | L. A. Meyer | Katherine Kellgren | Listen & Live Audio  | Finalist
Washington Square (1880)  | Henry James | Lorna Raver | Tantor Audio  | Finalist
Fatally Flaky (2009)  | Diane Mott Davidson | Barbara Rosenblat | HarperAudio  | Finalist
2011[9]
16th | Glorious (2010)  | Bernice McFadden | Alfre Woodard | Audible  | Winner
The Invisible Order (2010)  | Paul Crilley | Katherine Kellgren | Audible  | Finalist
The Magician's Elephant (2009)  | Kate DiCamillo | Juliet Stevenson | Brilliance Audio  | Finalist
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
The Golden Notebook (1962)  | Doris Lessing | Juliet Stevenson | Naxos AudioBooks  | Finalist
Spoken from the Heart (2010)  | Laura Bush | Laura Bush | Simon & Schuster Audio  | Finalist
2012[10][11]
17th | The Winter Sea (2008)  | Susanna Kearsley | Rosalyn Landor | Audible  | Winner
Ashes Trilogy: Ashes (2011)  | Ilsa J. Bick | Katherine Kellgren | Audible/Brilliance Audio  | Finalist
First Grave on the Right (2011)  | Darynda Jones | Lorelei King | Macmillan Audio  | Finalist
Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter (1976)  | Loretta Lynn and George Vecsey | Sissy Spacek | Random House Audio/Books on Tape  | Finalist
The Wake of the Lorelei Lee (2010)  | L. A. Meyer | Katherine Kellgren | Listen & Live Audio  | Finalist
2013[12]
18th | The Boy in the Suitcase (2011)  | Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis | Katherine Kellgren | AudioGO  | Winner
Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s (2002)  | Jennifer Worth | Nicola Barber | HighBridge Audio  | Finalist
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place (2012)  | Maryrose Wood | Katherine Kellgren | HarperAudio  | Finalist
Juliet in August / Cool Water (2010)  | Dianne Warren | Cassandra Campbell | Tantor Audio  | Finalist
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)  | L. Frank Baum | Anne Hathaway | Audible  | Finalist
2014[13]
19th | The Twelve Clues of Christmas (2012)  | Rhys Bowen | Katherine Kellgren | Audible  | Winner
Heartburn (1983)  | Nora Ephron | Meryl Streep | Random House Audio/Books on Tape  | Finalist
My Beloved World (2013)  | Sonia Sotomayor | Rita Moreno | Random House Audio/Books on Tape  | Finalist
NOS4A2 (2013)  | Joe Hill | Kate Mulgrew | HarperAudio  | Finalist
The Testament of Mary (2012)  | Colm Tóibín | Meryl Streep | Simon & Schuster Audio  | Finalist
2015[14]
20th | Yellow Crocus (2010)  | Laila Ibrahim | Bahni Turpin | Brilliance Audio  | Winner
Boston Jacky (2013)  | L. A. Meyer | Katherine Kellgren | Listen & Live Audio  | Finalist
Life Drawing (2014)  | Robin Black | Cassandra Campbell | Penguin Random House Audio  | Finalist
Murphy's Law (2001)  | Rhys Bowen | Nicola Barber | Audible  | Finalist
Until the End of the World (2013)  | Sarah Lyons Fleming | Julia Whelan | Podium Publishing  | Finalist
Written in My Own Heart's Blood (2014)  | Diana Gabaldon | Davina Porter | Recorded Books  | Finalist
2016[15]
21st | Wild Rover No More (2014)  | L. A. Meyer | Katherine Kellgren | Listen & Live Audio  | Winner
All the Stars in the Heavens (2015)  | Adriana Trigiani | Blair Brown | HarperAudio  | Finalist
The Boston Girl (2014)  | Anita Diamant | Linda Lavin | Simon & Schuster Audio  | Finalist
Lair of Dreams (2015)  | Libba Bray | January LaVoy | Listening Library/Penguin Random House Audio  | Finalist
The Lost Landscape (2015)  | Joyce Carol Oates | Cassandra Campbell | HarperAudio  | Finalist
The Nightingale (2015)  | Kristin Hannah | Polly Stone | Macmillan Audio  | Finalist
2017[16]
22nd | Be Frank with Me (2016)  | Julia Claiborne Johnson | Tavia Gilbert | HarperAudio  | Winner
Another Brooklyn (2016)  | Jacqueline Woodson | Robin Miles | HarperAudio  | Finalist
The Little Red Chairs (2015)  | Edna O'Brien | Juliet Stevenson | Hachette Audio  | Finalist
The Turn of the Screw (1898)  | Henry James | Emma Thompson | Audible  | Finalist
The Underground Railroad (2016)  | Colson Whitehead | Bahni Turpin | Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape  | Finalist
2018[17]
23rd | The Hate U Give (2017)  | Angie Thomas | Bahni Turpin | HarperAudio  | Winner
The Alice Network (2017)  | Kate Quinn | Saskia Maarleveld | HarperAudio  | Finalist
Anne of Green Gables (1908)  | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Rachel McAdams | Audible  | Finalist
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (1990)  | Jennifer Lynch | Sheryl Lee | Audible  | Finalist
The Stone Sky (2017)  | N. K. Jemisin | Robin Miles | Hachette Audio  | Finalist
2019[18]
24th | Educated | Tara Westover | Julia Whelan | Penguin Random House Audio  | Winner
Barracoon | Zora Neale Hurston | Robin Miles | HarperAudio  | Finalist
Girls & Boys | Dennis Kelly | Carey Mulligan | Audible Studios  | Finalist
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock | Imogen Hermes Gowar | Juliet Stevenson | HarperAudio  | Finalist
Transcription | Kate Atkinson | Fenella Woolgar | Hachette Audio  | Finalist

### 2020s

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Year of Release  | Audiobook  | Author  | Narrator  | Audiobook Publisher  | Result

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2020[19]
25th | Nothing to See Here (2019)  | Kevin Wilson | Marin Ireland | HarperAudio  | Winner
All the Lost Things (2019)  | Michelle Sacks | Cassandra Morris | Hachette Audio  | Finalist
The Boy (2018)  | Tami Hoag | Hillary Huber | Brilliance Audio  | Finalist
Prime Suspect (1991)  | Lynda La Plante | Rachel Atkins | Zaffle  | Finalist
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019)  | Alix E. Harrow | January LaVoy | Hachette Audio  | Finalist
2021[20]
26th | The City We Became (2020)  | N. K. Jemisin | Robin Miles | Hachette Audio  | Winner
The Color Purple (1982)  | Alice Walker | Samira Wiley | Audible  | Finalist
The Lying Life of Adults (2019)  | Elena Ferrante with Ann Goldstein (trans.)  | Marisa Tomei | Penguin Random House Audio  | Finalist
One by One (2020)  | Ruth Ware | Imogen Church | Simon & Schuster Audio  | Finalist
Such a Fun Age (2019)  | Kiley Reid | Nicole Lewis | Penguin Random House Audio  | Finalist
2022[20]
27th | The Parted Earth | Anjali Enjeti | Deepti Gupta | Novel audio  | Winner
Before She Disappeared | Lisa Gardner | Hillary Huber | Brilliance Publishing  | Finalist
The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah | Julia Whelan | Macmillan Audio  | Finalist
The Morning After | Lisa Jackson | Natalie Naudus | Brilliance Publishing  | Finalist
Wild Swan: A Story of Florence Nightingale | Patti Callahan | Cynthia Erivo | Audible  | Finalist
2023[21]
27th | The Eye of the World (1990)  | Robert Jordan | Rosamund Pike | Macmillan Audio | Winner
Nightcrawling (2022)  | Leila Mottley | Joniece Abbott-Pratt | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist
Thistlefoot | GennaRose Nethercott | January LaVoy | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist
NSFW | Isabel Kaplan | Stephanie Nemeth-Parker | Macmillan Audio | Finalist
War and Peace (1869)  | Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Aylmer and Louise Maude | Thandiwe Newton | Audible Studios | Finalist

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## External links

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* Audie Award winners
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Audie Awards

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General awards|

* Audiobook of the Year
* Original Work
* Audio Drama
* Short Stories / Collections
* Best Female Narrator
* Best Male Narrator
* Multi-Voiced Performance
* Narration by the Author

Genre awards|

* General Fiction
* Literary Fiction / Classics
* Mystery
* Thriller / Suspense
* Science Fiction
* Fantasy
* Romance
* Nonfiction
* History / Biography
* Autobiography / Memoir
* Business & Personal Development
* Faith-Based
* Humor
* Young Listener
* Middle Grade
* Young Adult
* Spanish Language

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* Special Audie Awards
* Discontinued Audie Awards

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