2001 AUDIE AWARD WINNERS

The Audio Publishers Association announced its 2001 Audie Award winners at the Art Institute of Chicago on June 1, 2001. The Audie Award --- the only fully juried award covering audiobooks --- is presented in 26 categories and honors excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment. This year, over 600 audiobooks were submitted for consideration, with the finalists and winners being selected by a panel of 140 judges.

And some of the winners were...

-- FICTION, Abridged --

RAVELING
Peter Moore Smith
read by Eric Stoltz
Time Warner AudioBooks
ISBN: 1570429103

 

 

-- FICTION, Unabriged --

FIERCE INVALIDS HOME FROM HOT CLIMATES
Tom Robbins
read by Keith Szarabajka
BDD Audio
ISBN: 0553527320

 

 

-- MYSTERY --

THE NAKED DETECTIVE
Laurence Shames
read by Ron McLarty
Recorded Books, LLC
ISBN: 0788743627

 

 

-- CLASSIC, Fiction --

THE SHORT STORIES OF WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
William Somerset Maugham
read by Charlton Griffin
Audio Connoisseur
ISBN: 1929718004

 

-- NONFICTION, Abridged --

THE TIMES OF MY LIFE AND MY LIFE WITH THE TIMES
Max Frankel
read by Max Frankel
Airplay
ISBN: 1885608233

-- NONFICTION, Unabridged --

THE MEASURE OF A MAN
Sidney Poitier
read by Sidney Poitier
Harper Audio
ISBN: 0694521965

 

 

-- CHILDREN'S TITLES FOR AGES 0-7 --

OUCH!
Natalie Babbitt
illustrated by Fred Marcellino
read by Martin Jarvis
Live Oak Media
ISBN: 0874996791

 

-- CHILDREN'S TITLES FOR AGES 8+ --

THE SUBTLE KNIFE
Philip Pullman
read by Philip Pullman and a full cast
Listening Library, Random House
ISBN: 0807281859

 

-- HUMOR --

BRIDGET JONES: The Edge of Reason
Helen Fielding
read by Tracie Bennett
Random House AudioBooks
ISBN: 0375416048

 

 

-- POETRY --

OUR SOULS HAVE GROWN DEEP LIKE THE RIVERS: Black Poets Read Their Poetry
various artists
read by various artists
Rhino Entertainment

-- SHORT STORIES/ESSAYS/COLLECTIONS --

TEN BY MAUGHAM
W. Somerset Maugham
read by a British Cast
KCRW