2015 Audie Award winners — every category
The 2015 Audie Awards, presented by the Audio Publishers Association (APA), recognized 22 winning audiobooks across 22 categories tracked in this index. The year's top prize, Audiobook of the Year, went to Mandela: An Audio History by Nelson Mandela (with Joe Richman), narrated by Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Joe Richman.
| Category | Audiobook | Author | Narrator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audiobook of the Year | Mandela: An Audio History | Nelson Mandela (with Joe Richman) | Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Joe Richman |
| Audio Drama | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by David Pichette, R. Hamilton Wright | Geoffrey Arend, Wilson Bethel, Seamus Dever, Sarah Drew, Henri Lubatti, James Marsters, Christopher Neame, Moira Quirk, Darren Richardson |
| Autobiography or Memoir | Not My Father's Son | Alan Cumming | Alan Cumming |
| Best Female Narrator | Yellow Crocus | Laila Ibrahim | Bahni Turpin |
| Best Male Narrator | The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw | Christopher Healy | Bronson Pinchot |
| Business and Personal Development | A More Beautiful Question | Warren Berger | Michael Quinlan |
| Faith-Based Fiction and Nonfiction | The Auschwitz Escape | Joel C. Rosenberg | Christopher Lane |
| Fantasy | Words of Radiance | Brandon Sanderson | Kate Reading, Michael Kramer |
| Fiction | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | Zach Appelman |
| History or Biography | The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism | Doris Kearns Goodwin | Edward Herrmann |
| Humor | Yes Please | Amy Poehler | Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Mike Schur, Eileen Poehler, William Poehler, Patrick Stewart, Kathleen Turner |
| Middle Grade | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | Neil Gaiman, Derek Jacobi, Robert Madge, Clare Corbett, Miriam Margolyes, Andrew Scott, Julian Rhind-Tutt, full cast |
| Multi-Voiced Performance | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | Neil Gaiman, Derek Jacobi, Robert Madge, Clare Corbett, Miriam Margolyes, Andrew Scott, Julian Rhind-Tutt, full cast |
| Mystery | The Silkworm | Robert Galbraith | Robert Glenister |
| Nonfiction | Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him | David Henry; Joe Henry | Dion Graham |
| Original Work | Mandela: An Audio History | Nelson Mandela | Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Joe Richman |
| Romance | The Bridges of Madison County | Robert James Waller | Kelli O'Hara, Steven Pasquale |
| Science Fiction | The Martian | Andy Weir | R. C. Bray |
| Short Stories or Collection | The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher | Hilary Mantel | Jane Carr |
| Thriller & Suspense | Those Who Wish Me Dead | Michael Koryta | Robert Petkoff |
| Young Adult | Egg and Spoon | Gregory Maguire | Michael Page |
| Young Listeners | H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination | Christopher Myers | Christopher Myers, Dion Graham |
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