The winners of the 2016 Audie Awards were just announced. These awards are given to audio-books in several categories including narration, production and by genre. Winners were announced at this year’s Book Expo America.
The winners are:
Audio Drama
- Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories, Rudyard Kipling, read by Bill Bailey, Richard E. Grant, Colin Salmon, Tim McInnerny, Bernard Cribbins, Celia Imrie & Martin Shaw (Audible Studios)
Fantasy
- Nice Dragons Finish Last, Rachel Aaron, read by Vikas Adam (Audible Studios)
Middle Grade
- Echo, Pam Muñoz Ryan, read by Mark Bramhall, David de Vries, MacLeod Andrews & Rebecca Soler (Scholastic Audio)
Multi-Voiced Performance
- Illuminae, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, read by Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lincoln Hoppe & Jonathan McClain (Listening Library/Penguin Random House Audio)
Paranormal
- White Trash Zombie Gone Wild, Diana Rowland, read by Allison McLemore (Audible Studios)
Science Fiction
- Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, read by Scott Brick (Brilliance Audio)
Young Adult
- Lair of Dreams, Libba Bray, read by January LaVoy (Listening Library/Penguin Random House)
Young Listeners
- Little Shop of Monsters, R.L. Stine & Marc Brown, read by Jack Black (Hachette Audio)
Excellence in Design
- The Hunger Games Trilogy Collection, Suzanne Collins, design by Kathlyn Miller (Scholastic Audio)
Excellence in Marketing
- Locke & Key, Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez, read by Haley Joel Osment, Tatiana Maslany, Kate Mulgrew, and a full cast (Audible Studios)
Excellence in Production
- Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories, Rudyard Kipling, read by Bill Bailey, Richard E. Grant, Colin Salmon, Tim McInnerny, Bern
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