Audie Award for Best Male Narrator

The Audie Award for Best Male Narrator is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in audiobook narration by a man released in a given year. Before 2016 the award was given as the Audie Award for Male Solo Narration. It has been awarded since 1998, when it superseded the Audie Award for Solo Narration.

Winners and finalists

1990s

Year of Release	Audiobook	Author	Narrator	Audiobook Publisher
1998[1] 3rd	American Pastoral (1997)	Philip Roth	Ron Silver	Dove Audio
	Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (1997)	Walter Mosley	Paul Winfield	Dove Audio
	The Classic Pooh Treasury: Volume 3 (1926–1928)	A. A. Milne	Peter Dennis	K-tel International USA
1999[2] 4th	City of Darkness (1976)	Ben Bova	Harlan Ellison	Dove Audio
	Cloudsplitter (1998)	Russell Banks	George DelHoyo	Audio Literature
	The Men of Brewster Place (1999)	Gloria Naylor	Joe Morton	Simon & Schuster Audio

2000s

Year of Release	Audiobook	Author(s)	Narrator	Audiobook Publisher
2000 5th	The Fencing Master (1988)	Arturo Perez-Reverte	Michael York	NewStar Media, Inc.
	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)	Mark Twain	Patrick Fraley	The Audio Partners Publishing Corp.
2001 6th	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)	J. K. Rowling	Jim Dale	Random House Audio
	Boone's Lick (2000)	Larry McMurtry	Will Patton	Simon & Schuster Audio
	Code to Zero (2000)	Ken Follett	George Guidall	Recorded Books
2002 7th	Coldheart Canyon (2001)	Clive Barker	Frank Muller	HarperAudio
	The Bad Beginning (1999)	Lemony Snicket	Tim Curry	Listening Library
	The Magician of Lublin (1960)	Isaac Bashevis Singer	Larry Keith	Jewish Contemporary Classics
2003 8th	Tishomingo Blues (2002)	Elmore Leonard	Frank Muller	Recorded Books
	The Beach House (2002)	James Patterson and Peter de Jonge	Gil Bellows	Time Warner AudioBooks
	Mortal Prey (2002)	John Sandford	Richard Ferrone	Putnam Berkley Audio
	Pale Horse Coming (2001)	Stephen Hunter	William Dufris	BBC Audiobooks America
	Street Boys (2002)	Lorenzo Carcaterra	Joe Mantegna	Random House Audio
2004 9th	Last Car to Elysian Fields (2003)	James Lee Burke	Will Patton	Simon & Schuster Audio
	Don Quixote (1615)	Miguel de Cervantes (trans. Edith Grossman)	George Guidall	Recorded Books
	Fear Itself (2003)	Walter Mosley	Don Cheadle	Time Warner AudioBooks
	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)	J. K. Rowling	Jim Dale	Listening Library
	Oryx and Crake (2003)	Margaret Atwood	Campbell Scott	Random House Audio
2005 10th	Peter and the Starcatchers (2004)	Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson	Jim Dale	Brilliance Audio
	The Breathtaker (2003)	Alice Blanchard	Peter Coyote	Time Warner AudioBooks
	The Enemy (2004)	Lee Child	Dick Hill	Brilliance Audio
	I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004)	Tom Wolfe	Dylan Baker	Audio Renaissance
	Shoot the Moon (2004)	Billie Letts	Lou Diamond Phillips	Time Warner AudioBooks
2006[3] 11th	Moby-Dick (1851)	Herman Melville	William Hootkins	Naxos AudioBooks, Ltd
	Assassin (2004)	Ted Bell	John Shea	Brilliance Audio
	One Shot (2005)	Lee Child	Dick Hill	Brilliance Audio
	Shibumi (1979)	Trevanian	Joe Barrett	Blackstone Audio
	The Shining (1977)	Stephen King	Campbell Scott	Simon & Schuster Audio
2007[4] 12th	Peter and the Shadow Thieves (2006)	Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson	Jim Dale	Brilliance Audio
	Shantaram (2003)	Gregory David Roberts	Humphrey Bower	Blackstone Audio
	The Dead Yard (2006)	Adrian McKinty	Gerard Doyle	Blackstone Audio
	The Old Man and the Sea (1952)	Ernest Hemingway	Donald Sutherland	Simon & Schuster Audio
	War and Peace Vol. 1 (1869)	Leo Tolstoy	Neville Jason	Naxos AudioBooks Ltd.
2008[5][1] 13th	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)	J. K. Rowling	Jim Dale	Random House Audio/Listening Library
	Catch-22 (1961)	Joseph Heller	Jay O. Sanders	HarperAudio/Caedmon
	The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (2007)	David Halberstam	Edward Herrmann	Hyperion Audiobooks
	The Long Walk (1956)	Sławomir Rawicz	John Rafter Lee	Blackstone Audio
2009[6][7] 14th	The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)	Alexandre Dumas	John Rafter Lee	Blackstone Audio
	Lush Life (2008)	Richard Price	Bobby Cannavale	Macmillan Audio
	The Art of Racing in the Rain (2008)	Garth Stein	Christopher Evan Welch	HarperAudio
	The Silver Swan (2008)	Benjamin Black	Timothy Dalton	Macmillan Audio
	The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (2008)	David Wroblewski	Richard Poe	Recorded Books
	The White Tiger (2008)	Aravind Adiga	John Rafter Lee	Tantor Audio

2010s

Year of Release	Audiobook	Author(s)	Narrator	Audiobook Publisher
2010[8] 15th	Great Expectations (1860–1861)	Charles Dickens	Charlton Griffin	Audio Connoisseur
	A Christmas Carol (1843)	Charles Dickens	Charlton Griffin	Audio Connoisseur
	The Birthing House (2008)	Christopher Ransom	Edward Herrmann	Blackstone Audio
	Jesus' Son (1992)	Denis Johnson	Will Patton	Macmillan Audio
	Beat the Reaper (2009)	Josh Bazell	Robert Petkoff	Hachette Audio
2011[9] 16th	Zorgamazoo (2008)	Robert Paul Weston	Alan Cumming	Penguin Audio
	The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes: Volume II (1887–1927)	Arthur Conan Doyle	Charlton Griffin	Audio Connoisseur
	The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2007)	Mathias Malzieu	Jim Dale	Blackstone Audio
	Innocent (2010)	Scott Turow	Edward Herrmann	Hachette Audio
	Every Man Dies Alone (1947)	Hans Fallada	George Guidall	Recorded Books
2012[10][11] 17th	The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy (2010)	Mark Logue and Peter Conradi	Simon Vance	Tantor Audio
	The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes: Volume III (1887–1927)	Arthur Conan Doyle	Charlton Griffin	Audio Connoisseur
	Going to Meet the Man (1965)	James Baldwin	Dion Graham	AudioGO
	Hard Magic (2011)	Larry Correia	Bronson Pinchot	Audible
	Heart of Darkness (1899)	Joseph Conrad	Kenneth Branagh	Audible
2013[12] 18th	Beautiful Ruins (2012)	Jess Walter	Edoardo Ballerini	HarperAudio
	The Absolutist (2011)	John Boyne	Michael Maloney	Tantor Audio
	Being There (1970)	Jerzy Kosinski	Dustin Hoffman	Audible
	The End of the Affair (1951)	Graham Greene	Colin Firth	Audible
	The Tao of Pooh (1982)	Benjamin Hoff	Simon Vance	Tantor Audio
2014[13] 19th	The Goldfinch (2013)	Donna Tartt	David Pittu	Hachette Audio
	Dimension of Miracles (1968)	Robert Sheckley	John Hodgman	Audible
	Doctor Sleep (2013)	Stephen King	Will Patton	Simon & Schuster Audio
	Frankenstein (1818)	Mary Shelley	Dan Stevens	Audible
	In a Glass Grimmly (2012)	Adam Gidwitz	Johnny Heller	Recorded Books
	Warbound (2013)	Larry Correia	Bronson Pinchot	Audible
2015[14] 20th	The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw (2012)	Christopher Healy	Bronson Pinchot	HarperAudio
	Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (2014)	A. J. Hartley and David Hewson	Richard Armitage	Audible
	The Martian (2011)	Andy Weir	R. C. Bray	Podium Publishing
	Mr. Mercedes (2014)	Stephen King	Will Patton	Simon & Schuster Audio
	The Other Story (2013)	Tatiana de Rosnay	Simon Vance	Macmillan Audio
	Radiance of Tomorrow (2014)	Ishmael Beah	Dion Graham	Macmillan Audio
2016[15] 21st	Gabriel Allon: The English Spy (2015)	Daniel Silva	George Guidall	HarperAudio
	Breakfast of Champions (1973)	Kurt Vonnegut	John Malkovich	Audible
	Classic Love Poems (2015)	Various	Richard Armitage	Audible
	Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (2015)	Erik Larson	Scott Brick	Books on Tape/Penguin Random House Audio
	Finders Keepers (2015)	Stephen King	Will Patton	Simon & Schuster Audio
	Jurassic Park (1990)	Michael Crichton	Scott Brick	Brilliance Audio
2017[16] 22nd	Jerusalem (2016)	Alan Moore	Simon Vance	Recorded Books
	Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff (2016)	Sean Penn	Sean Penn	Audible
	End of Watch (2016)	Stephen King	Will Patton	Simon & Schuster Audio
	The Last Tribe (2015)	Brad Manuel	Scott Brick	Podium Publishing
	The Purloined Poodle (2016)	Kevin Hearne	Luke Daniels	Kevin Hearne/ACX
	Underground Airlines (2016)	Ben H. Winters	William DeMeritt	Hachette Audio
2018[17] 23rd	Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (2016)	Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Audible
	The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (2017)	Mackenzi Lee	Christian Coulson	HarperAudio
	Glass Houses (2017)	Louise Penny	Robert Bathurst	Macmillan Audio
	Murder on the Orient Express (1934)	Agatha Christie	Kenneth Branagh	HarperAudio
	Sherlock Holmes (1887–1927)	Arthur Conan Doyle (with Stephen Fry)	Stephen Fry	Audible
2019[18] 24th	Watchers (1987)	Dean Koontz	Edoardo Ballerini	Brilliance Audio
	The Devil's Half Mile (2018)	Paddy Hirsch	Euan Morton	Macmillan Audio
	Harry Clarke (2017)	David Cale	Billy Crudup	Audible
	Pet Sematary (1983)	Stephen King	Michael C. Hall	Simon & Schuster Audio
	Threadbare: Stuff and Nonsense (2017)	Andrew Seiple	Tim Gerard Reynolds	Podium Publishing

2020s

Year of Release	Audiobook	Author	Narrator	Audiobook Publisher
2020[19] 25th	Kingdom of the Blind (2018)	Louise Penny	Robert Bathurst	Macmillan Audio
	The Dutch House (2019)	Ann Patchett	Tom Hanks	HarperAudio
	Everything Is Illuminated (2002)	Jonathan Safran Foer	Robert Petkoff	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
	The Nickel Boys (2019)	Colson Whitehead	JD Jackson	Penguin Random House Audio
	Watership Down (1972)	Richard Adams	Peter Capaldi	Blackstone Audio
2021[20] 26th	The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley (1965)	Malcolm X and Alex Haley	Laurence Fishburne	Audible
	All the Devils Are Here (2020)	Louise Penny	Robert Bathurst	Macmillan Audio
	The Glimme	Emily Rodda and Marc McBride	Andrew Scott	Bolinda Audio
	A Man Called Ove (2012)	Fredrik Backman with Henning Koch (trans.)	J. K. Simmons	Simon & Schuster Audio
	Squeeze Me (2020)	Carl Hiaasen	Scott Brick	Penguin Random House Audio
2022[21] 27th	Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (2021)	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	Lin-Manuel Miranda	Simon & Schuster Audio
	The Didomenico Fragment	Amor Towles	John Lithgow	Audible Originals
	Legends of the North Cascades	Jonathan Evison	Edoardo Ballerini	Workman Audio
	The Madness of Crowds	Louise Penny	Robert Bathurst	Macmillan Audio
	The Sweetness of Water (2021)	Nathan Harris	William DeMeritt	Hachette Audio
2023[22] 28th	Fairy Tale (2022)	Stephen King	Seth Numrich	Simon & Schuster Audio
	The Silent Sisters	Robert Dugoni	Edoardo Ballerini	Brilliance Publishing
	Narrator	Landon Beach	Scott Brick	Brick By Brick Audiobooks
	The Violin Conspiracy	William DeMeritt	JD Jackson	Penguin Random House Audio
	Sleepwalk	Dan Chaon	John Pirhalla	Macmillan Audio

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External links

• Audie Award winners
• Audie Awards official website