The Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance, established in 1996, is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in audiobooks narrated by multiple performers who do not interact. Only English-language texts are eligible.
Between 1996 and 2001, two awards were presented annually, one for multi-voiced performance and one for multi-voiced narration.
Winners are listed first each year and are highlighted in green.
| Year | Category | Title | Author(s) | Narrators | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Multi-Voiced Performance | Myst: The Book of Atrys | and Robyn Miller with David Wingrove | , Kevin Dewey, Bruch Goodh, Graeme Malcom, Annie Meisels, Alexandra Ospina, and Barbara Rosenblat | Random House Audio | Winner | [1] |
| Burns & Allen | Original Radio Broadcasts | and | Radio Spirits, Inc. | Finalist | |||
| David Copperfield (1849–1850) | (dramatized by Betty Davies) | Full cast (including Gary Cady, Miriam Margolyes, John Moffatt, Timothy Spall and Sheila Hancock)[2] [3] | Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio | Finalist | |||
| 1997 | Multi-Voiced Narration | Grow Old Along with Me the Best is Yet to Be | , Ellen Burstyn, CCH Pounder, and Alfre Woodard | Audio Literature | Winner | [4] | |
| Star Wars: Return of the Jedi | (adapted by Brian Daley) | , John Lithgow, Edward Asner, and a full cast | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | |||
| William Shakespeare (selected by Charles, the Prince of Wales[5]) | Full cast | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 1998 | Multi-Voiced Narration | , Adam Arkin, Donovan Sylvest, David Magee, and Jason Culp | Random House Audio | Winner | [6] | ||
| Abuse of Power | Dove Audio | Finalist | |||||
| The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells (adapted by Howard Koch) | Listening Library | Finalist | ||||
| Multi-Voiced Performance | Women in the Material World | and Peter Menzel | Audio Literature | Winner | |||
| Star Wars—Dark Forces Soldier of the Empire | and a full cast | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Voices of the Civil War: Gettysburg | Time Life Books | Full cast | Time Warner AudioBooks | Finalist | |||
| 1999 | Multi-Voiced Narration | , Old Testament | Dove Audio | and a full cast | Dove Audio | Winner | [7] [8] |
| Oasis Audio | Oasis Audio | Finalist | |||||
| Sales Closing for Dummies | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||||
| 1999 | Multi-Voiced Performance | and a full cast | Dove Audio | Winner | |||
| Lost Civilizations: Pompeii | Time Life Books | , David McCallum, and a full cast | Time Warner AudioBooks | Finalist | |||
| Star Wars—Dark Forces: Rebel Agent | Full cast | HighBridge Audio | Finalist |
| Year | Category | Title | Author(s) | Narrators | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Multi-Voiced Narration | Translated by Mark Twain | , Betty Buckley, and Mandy Patinkin | Fair Oaks Audio | Winner | [9] [10] | |
| Friendship with God | , Edward Asner, and Ellen Burstyn | NewStar Media, Inc. | Finalist | ||||
| Song of the Sun | Sounds True | Finalist | |||||
| Multi-Voiced Performance | Sherlock's Secret Life | and Will Severin | Karl Malden and a full cast | NYS Theatre Institute/Family Classic Audio Books | Winner | ||
| In the Name of Security | , John Rubinstein, John de Lancie, Ella Joyce, and Amy Pietz | L.A. Theatre Works | Finalist | ||||
| Misadventures in the (213) | , Jack Plotnick, Rachel Harris, Gregg Rainwater, Shane Jacobson, Rob Nash, Robert Abele, and Dennis Hensley | The Publishing Mills | Finalist | ||||
| 2001 | Multi-Voiced Narration | Pay It Forward (1999) | and a full cast | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner | [11] [12] | |
| Complete Shakespeare Sonnets | , Patrick Stewart, Al Pacino, Lindsay Crouse, Eli Wallach, and a full cast | Airplay | Finalist | ||||
| Ten | British cast | KCRW | Finalist | ||||
| Multi-Voiced Performance | Cakewalk | and Bruce Davison | L.A. Theatre Works | Winner | |||
| (1997) | Full cast | Random House Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Too Dead To Swing | Full cast | Audio-Playwrights | Finalist | ||||
| 2002 | Multi-Voiced Performance | (2000) | and a full cast | Listening Library | Winner | [13] [14] | |
| (1953) | , Stacy Keach, Michael York, Fionnula Flanagan, Madolyn Smith, and René Auberjonois | L.A. Theatre Works | Finalist | ||||
| War Letters | , Steve Zahn, and a full cast | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2003 | Multi-Voiced Performance | Big Mouth & Ugly Girl | and Chad Lowe | HarperAudio | Winner | [15] | |
| Every Tongue Got to Confess | and Ossie Davis | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| Seek | Full cast | Listening Library | Finalist | ||||
| Shadowlands (1989) | , Martin Jarvis, and a full cast | L.A. Theatre Works | Finalist | ||||
| and Tracy Sallows | Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc. | Finalist | |||||
| 2004 | Multi-Voiced Performance | Ghost Riders | and Susie Breck | Brilliance Audio | Winner | [16] | |
| , Robert Frost, John McCain, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Caroline Kennedy, James Earl Jones, Vanessa Williams, Edward M. Kennedy, and a full cast | Hyperion Audiobooks | Finalist | |||||
| Recorded Books, LLC | Finalist | ||||||
| Hey Nostradamus! | , David Ledoux, Jillian Crane, and John Randolph Jones | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | ||||
| and the Full Cast Family | Full Cast Audio | Finalist | |||||
| 2005 | Multi-Voiced Performance | My Sister's Keeper (2004) | , Jenny Ikeda, Richard Poe and a full cast | Recorded Books, LLC | Winner | [17] | |
| (1950–1956) | and a full cast | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| Kiss Me While I Sleep | and Dick Hill | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Queer Eye for the Straight Guy | Random House Audio | Finalist | |||||
| Will They Ever Trust Us Again? | and a full cast | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2006 | Multi-Voiced Performance | Raymond and Hannah | and David LeDoux | Winner | [18] | ||
| Assassination Vacation | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||||
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005) | , Barbara Caruso, and Richard Ferrone | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||||
| (2005) | , Rosalyn Landor, Robin Atkin Downes, Dennis Boutsikaris, and Joanne Whalley | Time Warner AudioBooks | Finalist | ||||
| Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers | with Joanne Rogers (intro) | , BD Wong, Blair Brown, and Richard Kind with Joanne Rogers (foreword) | Time Warner AudioBooks | Finalist | |||
| 2007 | Multi-Voiced Performance | World War Z (2006) | , Alan Alda, John Turturro, and Rob Reiner | Winner | [19] | ||
| Airborn | and a full cast | Full Cast Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Operation Homecoming | , and David Birney | Blackstone Audio, Inc. | Finalist | ||||
| Suite Francaise | and Barbara Rosenblat | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | ||||
| and Lynn Redgrave | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||||
| 2008 | Multi-Voiced Performance | Inspired by ... The Bible Experience (Old Testament) | Media Group | , Cuba Gooding Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, and a full cast | Zondervan Publishing | Winner | [20] |
| Dune (1965) | , Simon Vance, and a full cast | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| I Am America (And So Can You!) | with Paul Dinello, Kevin Dorff, Greg Hollimon, Evie McGee, David Pasquesi, Allison Silverman, Brian Stack, and Jon Stewart | Hachette Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Thomas Nelson, Inc. | Full cast | Thomas Nelson, Inc. | Finalist | ||||
| Hollowville | NYS Theatre Institute | Finalist | |||||
| 2009 | Multi-Voiced Performance | Mudbound | , Peter Jay Fernandez, Kate Forbes, Ezra Knight, Brenday Pressley, and Tom Stechschulte | Recorded Books | Winner | [21] | |
| Family Audio Bible | , Marsha Mason, Andrew McCarthy, Martha Plimpton, and Tom Wopat | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| (2008) | and Kathleen McInerney | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| Nelson Bibles | , Cody Linley, AnnaSophia Robb, Jordin Sparks, and a full cast | Thomas Nelson, Inc. | Finalist |
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Narrators | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktalkes | Full Cast | Hachette Audio | Winner | [22] [23] | |
| (c. 1400) | Full Cast (Ric Jerrom, Bill Wallis, Cameron Stewart, Mark Meadows, Kim Hicks, Maggie Ollerenshaw[24]) | BBC Audiobooks America | Finalist | |||
| (c. 1400) | and a full cast | Blackstone Audio, Inc. | Finalist | |||
| , James Gleason, Lily Rabe, David Strathairn, and Shannon Cochran | L.A. Theatre Works | Finalist | ||||
| Nelson Bibles | , Richard Dreyfuss, Gary Sinise, and a full cast | Thomas Nelson, Inc. | Finalist | |||
| 2011 | Jitters | Full cast | Straight to Audio Productions | Winner | [25] [26] | |
| Great Classic Science Fiction | , Stanley G. Weinbaum, Lester del Rey, Fritz Leiber, James H. Schmitz, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, Andre Norton | Simon Vance, Nick Sullivan, Robert Fass, Katherine Kellgren, Stephen R. Thorne, Greg Itzin, Scott Brick, Barbara Rosenblat[27] | AudioGO | Finalist | ||
| Room (2010) | , Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff, and Suzanne Toren | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| , Debbie Ford, and Marianne Williamson | , Debbie Ford, and Marianne Williamson | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| , Charles Busch, Neil Dickson, Jill Gascoine, James Marsters, Christopher Neame, and Matthew Wolf | L.A. Theatre Works | Finalist | ||||
| 2012 | (1959) | , Rutina Wesley, Mirron Willis, and a full cast | L.A. Theatre Works | Winner | [28] [29] [30] | |
| Bruiser | , Kate Rudd, Luke Daniels, and Laura Hamilton | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | |||
| (1963) | and Terry Johnson, Calder Willingham, and adapted by Buck Henry | , Matthew Rhys, and a full cast | L.A. Theatre Works | Finalist | ||
| 1Q84 (2009–2010) | and Jay Rubin, with Philip Gabriel (trans.) | , Marc Vietor, and Mark Boyett | Audible, Inc./Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||
| (2011) | , Phil Gigante, Christopher Lane, Laural Merlington, and Angela Dawe | Brilliance Audio/Candlewick | Finalist | |||
| 2013 | Dracula (1897) | , Tim Curry, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren, Susan Duerden, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm, Steven Crossley, and a full cast | Audible, Inc. | Winner | [31] [32] [33] [34] | |
| My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan | and a full cast | Audible, Inc. | Finalist | |||
| October Mourning | and a full cast | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | |||
| and a full cast | SueMedia Productions for Neil Gaiman Presents/ACX | Finalist | ||||
| Suddenly, A Knock on the Door | and a full cast | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | |||
| That is All | and a full cast | Penguin Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2014 | World War Z (2006) | , Alfred Molina, and a full cast | Random House/Books on Tape | Winner | [35] [36] [37] | |
| Ender's Game Alive | Full cast | Audible, Inc. | Finalist | [38] | ||
| and Delia Sherman | and a full cast | SueMedia Productions for Neil Gaiman Presents/Audible, Inc. | Finalist | |||
| Snowbound | , T. Ryder Smith, Robert Ian Mackenzie, James Colby, Cellest Ciulla, and Scott Sowers | Recorded Books | Finalist | |||
| William Shakespeare's Star Wars | , Jonathan Davis, January LaVoy, and Marc Thompson | Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist | |||
| 2015 | , Derek Jacobi, Robert Madge, Clare Corbett, Miriam Margolyes, Andrew Scott, Julian Rhind-Tutt, and a full cast | HarperAudio | Winner | [39] [40] [41] | ||
| , Peter Altschuler, Emma Jayne Appleyard, Hannah Curtis, Gildart Jackson, Bruce Mann, and Steve West | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Land of Love and Drowning | , Korey Jackson, Rachel Leslie, and Myra Lucretia Taylor | Recorded Books | Finalist | |||
| , Jennifer Ikeda, and Pilar Witherspoon | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||||
| , Will Damron, and MacLeod Andrews | Brilliance Publishing | Finalist | ||||
| Stars | and Mike Resnick (editors) | , Emily Rankin, Gabrielle du Cuir, John Rubinstein, Kathe Mazur, Kristoffer Tabori, Paul Boehmer, Sile Bermingham, Stefan Rudnicki and Susan Hanfield | Audible, Inc. | Finalist | ||
| 2016 | Illuminae (2015) | and Jay Kristoff | , Lincoln Hoppe, and Johnathan McClain | Listening Library/Penguin Random House Audio | Winner | [42] [43] |
| Clockwork Lives | and Neil Peart | , George Guidall, Richard Poe, Jim Jenner, Tandy Cronyn, Pete Bradbury, Barbara Rosenblat, and Brian Hutchison | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||
| How It Went Down | , Shari Peele, Kevin R. Free, Avery Glymph, Patricia R. Floyd, and Brian Hutchison | Recorded Books | Finalist | |||
| Just Kids from the Bronx | , Arlene Alda, and Christina Delaine with Milton Glaser, Regis Philbin, Robert Klein, Gabrielle Salvatto, and Carlos Serrano | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | |||
| With Lee in Virginia (1890) | Brian Blessed, Sean Astin, Kirk Cameron, and a full cast | Heirloom Audio Productions | Finalist | |||
| 2017 | Small Great Things | , Cassandra Campbell, and Ari Fliakos | Penguin Random House Audio / Books on Tape | Winner | [44] [45] | |
| Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) | Choderlos de Laclos | , Janet McTeer, Una Stubbs, Elaine Cassidy, Adjoa Andoh, Edward Holcroft, and Morfydd Clark | Audible Studios | Finalist | ||
| (2015) | , Roger McGuinn, Ingrid Michaelson, John Pizzarelli, Paul Stanley, George Guidall, and a full cast | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Pruno, Ramen, and a Side of Hope | and Nikki Pope | and Bill Kurtis | Post Hill Press | Finalist | ||
| Thomas Jefferson-From Boy to Man | , Alexander Brinkley, and Christina Rideout | James Brinkley/Jayne D'Alessandro-Cox | Finalist | |||
| and Billy Hough | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2018 | Restart | , Laura Knight Keating, Ramon de Ocampo, Andy Paris, Suzy Jackson, Graham Halstead, and John Kroft | Recorded Books | Winner | [46] [47] [48] | |
| Lincoln in the Bardo | , Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, and 163 others | Random House Audio | Finalist | |||
| , Robin Miles, and Julia Whelan | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| , Kimiko Glenn, and a full cast | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| , Chris Carter, and Dirk Maggs | , Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, and Bruce Harwood | Audible Studios | Finalist | |||
| 2019 | Dreamland Burning | and Luke Slattery | Hachette Audio | Winner | [49] [50] [51] | |
| and Sean Crisden | HighBridge Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Any Man | , Ben Foster, Marc Maron, Jason Ritter, John Roberts, Russ Tamblyn, Amber Tamblyn, January LaVoy, Phoebe Strole, Robin Miles, Thérèse Plummer, Dan Bittner, James Fouhey, and Michael Crouch | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales | and a full cast | Penguin Random House Audio/ Listening Library | Finalist | |||
| Sadie (2018) | , Rebecca Soler, Gabra Zackman, and Fred Berman | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | |||
| There There (2018) | , Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo, and Kyla Garcia | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Narrators | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | An Oral History of 9/11 | Full 45-person cast | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner | [52] [53] [54] | |
| 200 Women | , Ruth Hobday, Sharon Gelman, Marianne Lassandro, and Kieran Scott | Full cast | Chronicle Books | Finalist | [55] | |
| Daisy Jones & The Six | , Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, Pablo Schreiber, and a full cast | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | |||
| (Star Wars) | , Euan Morton, Marc Thompson, Pete Bradbury, Jonathan Davis, Neil Hellegers, Sean Kenin, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Carol Monda, Robert Petkoff, and Rebecca Soler | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | |||
| Hey, Kiddo (2018) | , Jeanne Birdsall, Richard Ferrone, Jenna Lamia, and a full cast | Scholastic Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2021 | Clap When You Land (2020) | and Melania-Luisa Marte | HarperAudio | Winner | [56] [57] | |
| How the Penguins Saved Veronica | , Andrew Fallaize, and Mandy Williams | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | |||
| No Name | , Lucy Scott, Rachel Atkins, David Rintoul, Russell Bentley, and John Foley | Naxos AudioBooks c/o Naxos of America, Inc. | Finalist | |||
| and Alison Steadman | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| , George C. McNamee, and Daniel L. Greenberg | , Jeff Daniels, Chris Jackson, Corey Stoll, John Hawkes, Chris Chalk, Luke Kirby, Norbert Leo Butz, George Newbern, and a full cast | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| Women Who Wrote | , Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Gertrude Stein, and Phillis Wheatley | , Jude Mason, and Tyra Kennedy | Thomas Nelson | Finalist | ||
| 2022 | Heresy | , Bailey Carr, Ella Turenne, Nikki Massoud, Natalie Naudus, Imani Jade Powers, and James Fouhey | Hachette Audio | Winner | [58] [59] | |
| , Shelby Young, Marin Ireland, JD Jackson, Dan Bittner, Vikas Adam, Gabra Zackman, Fred Berman, Darrell Dennis, Oliver Wyman, Jonathan Davis, Hillary Huber, Lisa Flanagan, and Sharahn LaRue | HarperAudio | Finalist | [60] | |||
| Bourdain | Full 92-person cast | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 | , Keisha N. Blain (ed.) | Full 87-person cast | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | [61] | |
| Twins | Ahnya O'Riordan, Grace Capeless, Mashari Bain, Malcolm Bowen, Antoinette Comer, André Blake, Armand Xavier, and Rufen-Blanchette | Scholastic Audio | Finalist | |||
| 2023 | Sparring Partners | , Ethan Hawke, January LaVoy, and John Grisham | Penguin Random House Audio | Winner | [62] [63] | |
| (2021) | and The New York Times Magazine, edited by Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein | , January LaVoy, Claudia Rankine, Nikky Finney, Janina Edwards, Dorothy Roberts, Shayna Small, Terrance Hayes, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Yusef Komunyakaa, Eve L. Ewing, Karen Chilton, Aaron Goodson, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Erin Miles, Dominic Hoffman, Adenrele Ojo, Matthew Desmond, Tyehimba Jess, Tim Seibles, Jamelle Bouie, Cornelius Eady, Minka Wiltz, Martha S. Jones, Darryl Pinckney, ZZ Packer, Carol Anderson, Tracy K. Smith, Evie Shockley, Bryan Stevenson, William DeMeritt, Jasmine Mans, Trymaine Lee, A. Van Jordan, Yaa Gyasi, Linda Villarosa, Danez Smith, Terry McMillan, Anthea Butler, Rita Dove, Camille T. Dungy, Wesley Morris, Natasha Trethewey, Joshua Bennett, Chanté McCormick, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Ron Butler, Kevin M. Kruse, Bahni Turpin, Gregory Pardlo, Ibram X. Kendi, JD Jackson, Jason Reynolds, and Sonia Sanchez | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | ||
| Acts of Violet | , Amy McFadden, Dan Bittner, Fred Berman, Hillary Huber, Johnny Heller, Katharine Chin, Ramón de Ocampo, Suzanne Toren, and Alejandro Ruiz | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | |||
| and Joe Knezevich | Zando | Finalist | ||||
| , Cindy Kay, Mirai, Natalie Naudus, Sura Siu, Emily Woo Zeller, Nancy Wu, and Jamie Ford | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Richard Marsh: The Beetle | , Jonathan Aris, Natalie Simpson, Andrew Wincott, and John Foley | Naxos AudioBooks | Finalist | |||
| 2024 | No Two Persons | , Braden Wright, and a full cast | Macmillan Audio | Winner | ||
| Coleman Hill | and Dion Graham | Zando | Finalist | |||
| , Traber Burns, and a full cast | Blackstone Publishing | Finalist | ||||
| Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! | , Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker | , Arne Schmidt, and a full cast | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||
| Sing Her Down | , Kimberly M. Wetherell, and a full cast | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |