These are the Finalists for the Best Audiobooks of the Year

Audiobook of the Year

• The 1619 Project created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine; edited by Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein; and narrated by Nikole Hannah-Jones, January LaVoy, Claudia Rankine, et al.
• Finding Me written and narrated by Viola Davis
• Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon by Malcolm Gladwell and Bruce Headlam, narrated by Paul Simon, Malcolm Gladwell, and Bruce Headlam
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, narrated by Marin Ireland and Michael Urie
• Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts adapted by Tyler English-Beckwith, based on the graphic novel by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez, narrated by DeWanda Wise, Chanté Adams, Jerrie Johnson, et al.

Best Female Narrator

• Joniece Abbott-Pratt for Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
• January Lavoy for Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
• Stephanie Németh-Parker for NSFW by Isabel Kaplan
• Thandiwe Newton for War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude
• Rosamund Pike for The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Best Male Narrator

• Edoardo Ballerini for The Silent Sisters by Robert Dugoni
• Scott Brick for Narrator by Landon Beach
• JD Jackson for The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
• Seth Numrich for Fairy Tale by Stephen King
• John Pirhalla for Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon

To see the finalists in all categories — including Audio Drama, Spanish Language, Autobiography/Memoir, Nonfiction, Erotica, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Listeners, and more — check out the Audio Publishers Association website.

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