I know some of the readers listen to audiobooks, and Sandie Herron regularly reviews audiobooks for “Have You Heard?”. So, each year, I share the Audie Award winners. The Audio Publishers Association recently announced the winners of the 2022 Audie Awards, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment. Here are the winners.

Excuse the formatting. It always seems to be a little off when I do lists like this. It probably doesn’t help that there’s a cat on my keyboard.

AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR

Project Hail Mary       

Written by Andy Weir 

Narrated by Ray Porter         

Published by Audible Studios

AUDIO DRAMA

Sherlock Holmes – The Seamstress of Peckham Rye          

Written by Jonathan Barnes  

Performed by Nicholas Briggs, Richard Earl, Lucy Briggs-Owen, India Fisher, James Joyce, Anjella MacKintosh, Glen McCready, and Mark Elstob

Published by Big Finish Productions

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

Somebody’s Daughter           

Written and narrated by Ashley C. Ford        

Published by Macmillan Audio

BEST FEMALE NARRATOR

Deepti Gupta

The Parted Earth       

Written by Anjali Enjeti          

Published by Novel Audio

BEST MALE NARRATOR

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World         

Written by Benjamin Alire Sáenz      

Published by Simon & Schuster Audio

BUSINESS/PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Machiavelli for Women          

Written and narrated by Stacey Vanek Smith

Published by Simon & Schuster Audio

FAITH-BASED FICTION OR NON-FICTION

The Gift of Black Folk

Written by W.E.B. Du Bois    

Narrated by Arnell Powell      

Published by Brilliance Publishing

FANTASY

Rhythm of War           

Written by Brandon Sanderson         

Narrated by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading

Published by Macmillan Audio

FICTION

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev       

Written by Dawnie Walton     

Narrated by Janina Edwards, Bahni Turpin, James Langton, André De Shields, Dennis Boutsikaris, Steve West, Gabra Zackman, Robin Miles, and a full cast

Published by Simon & Schuster Audio

HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY

Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other       

Written and narrated by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish (with a foreword written and narrated by Diana Gabaldon)        

Published by Hodder & Stoughton

HUMOR

How Y’all Doing?       

Written and narrated by Leslie Jordan          

Published by HarperAudio

LITERARY FICTION & CLASSICS

All Creatures Great and Small          

Written by James Herriot       

Narrated by Nicholas Ralph  

Published by Macmillan Audio

MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE

Heresy

Written by Melissa Lenhardt  

Narrated by Barrie Kreinik, Bailey Carr, Ella Turenne, Nikki Massoud, Natalie Naudus, Imani Jade Powers, and James Fouhey           

Published by Hachette Audio

MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE

Heresy

Written by Melissa Lenhardt  

Narrated by Barrie Kreinik, Bailey Carr, Ella Turenne, Nikki Massoud, Natalie Naudus, Imani Jade Powers, and James Fouhey           

Published by Hachette Audio

NARRATION BY THE AUTHOR(S)

A Promised Land       

Written and narrated by Barack Obama       

Published by Penguin Random House Audio

NON-FICTION

The Joy of Sweat

Written by Sarah Everts

Narrated by Sophie Amoss

Published by Penguin Random House Audio

ORIGINAL WORK

Heroine          

Written and narrated by Mary Jane Wells     

Published by Author’s Republic

ROMANCE

Reel: Hollywood Renaissance, Book 1         

Written by Kennedy Ryan     

Narrated by Eboni Flowers, Jakobi Diem, Nicole Small, and April Christina

Published by Scribechick Media LLC, Produced by Lyric Audiobooks

SCIENCE FICTION

Project Hail Mary

Written by Andy Weir

Narrated by Ray Porter

Published by Audible Studios

SHORT STORIES/COLLECTIONS

Blackout         

Written by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon           

Narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Dion Graham, Imani Parks, Jordan Cobb, Shayna Small, A.J. Beckles, and Bahni Turpin     

Published by HarperAudio

THRILLER/SUSPENSE

Local Woman Missing

Written by Mary Kubica

Narrated by Brittany Pressley, Jennifer Jill Araya, Gary Tiedemann, and Jesse Vilinsky Published by HarperAudio