2003 Audies Award Winners:
Fiction, Abridged
Jackdaws
Ken Follett, read by Barbara Rosenblat and Colin Stinton
(Penguin Audiobooks )
Fiction, Unbridged
Middlesex: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides, read by Kristoffer Tabori
(Audio Renaissance )
Mystery, Fiction
Jolie Blon’s Bounce
James Lee Burke, read by Will Patton
(Simon & Schuster Audio )
Science Fiction
The Butlerian Jihad (Legends of Dune, Book 1)
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson,
read by Scott Brick
(Books on Tape, Inc. )
Inspirational/Faith-Based Fiction
Hidden Victory : A Historical Novel of Jesus
Herbert Francis Smith, S.J., read by Richard Ferrone
(Recorded Books, LLC )
Classic
THE SHORT STORIES OF W.S. MAUGHAM , VOL. 2
William Somerset Maugham, read by Charlton Griffin
(Audio Connoisseur )
Non-Fiction, Abridged
A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar, read by Edward Herrmann
(Simon & Schuster Audio )
Non-fiction, Unabridged
3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
by Sean Flynn, read by Richard Rohan
(Listen & Live Audio, Inc. )
Biography/Memoir
Lucky Man: A Memoir
Michael J. Fox, read by Michael J. Fox
(Simon & Schuster Audio )
Personal Development/Motivational
Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World
Kent M. Keith, read
by Kent M. Keith
(Putnam Berkley Audio )
Business Information/Educational
The Art of Profitability
Adrian Slywotzky, read by Scott Mosenson and Jack Ong, with an introduction by Adrian Slywotzky
(Time Warner AudioBooks )
Children’s Titles For Ages 0-7
Blues of Flats Brown
Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by
Nina Laden, read by Charles Turner
(Live Oak Media )
Children’s Titles For Ages 8+
Troy
Adéle Geras, read by Miriam Margolyes
(Listening Library, an imprint of Random House Audio)
Inspirational/Spiritual
Conversations With God for Teens
Neale Donald Walsch,
read by Neale Donald Walsch, Alanis Morissette, and LeVar Burton
with a full cast
(Listening Library, an imprint of Random House Audio)
Humor
Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight
Peter Ackerman, read by Jeffrey Donovan, Richard Kind, Clea Lewis, Alan Mandell, Mandy Siegfried, and Joey Slotnik
(L.A. Theatre Works)
Poetry
Good Poems: Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor
selected and introduced by Garrison Keillor, read by Garrison Keillor and poets
(HighBridge)
Short Stories/Collections
Classic Women’s Short Stories (Classic Literature with Classical Music)
Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin, and Virginia Woolf, read by Carole Boyd, Liza Ross, and Teresa Gallagher
(Naxos AudioBooks, Ltd. )
Original Work
Getting to Know William Shakespeare (Road Scholar Series)
Joy Wake, read by Fred Child
(Echo Peak Productions )
Solo Narration – Male
Frank Muller, Tishomingo Blues
Elmore Leonard
(Recorded Books, LLC )
Solo Narration – Female
Barbara Rosenblat, Bronx Primitive – Portraits in a Childhood
Kate Simon
(Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc. )
Solo Narration by the Author or Authors
Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow
(Random House Audio Publishing )
Multi-Voiced Performance
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
Joyce Carol Oates, read by Hilary Swank & Chad Lowe
(HarperCollins Publishers )
Audio Drama
The Guys
Anne Nelson, read by Swoosie Kurtz & Bill Irwin
(Random House Audible )
Fiction or Non-Fiction, Licensed or Distributed
Two Plays for Voices
Neil Gaiman, read by Brian Dennehy, Bebe Neuwirth and a full cast
(HarperCollins Publishers)
Package Design
John Adams
David McCullough, read by Nelson Runger
(Simon & Schuster Audio )
Achievement in Production
The Silver Chair CD (Narnia)
C.S. Lewis, read by a full cast
(Focus on the Family )