The best autobiography or memoir audiobooks, by award record: every Audie Autobiography or Memoir winner

Looking for a autobiography or memoir audiobook that's actually worth a credit? This is the complete record of the Audie Award's Autobiography or Memoir category — 12 winners from 2015 to 2026, the audiobook industry's own pick for the best autobiography or memoir production of each year. The most recent winner is Matriarch: A Memoir by Tina Knowles, narrated by Tina Knowles, Beyonce, Solange Knowles, Kelly Rowland, Angie Beyince.

Last verified 2026-06-10 · Source: Wikipedia + APA

Year	Narrator	Audiobook	Author
2026	Tina Knowles, Beyonce, Solange Knowles, Kelly Rowland, Angie Beyince	Matriarch: A Memoir	Tina Knowles
2025	Barbra Streisand	My Name Is Barbra	Barbra Streisand
2024	Patrick Stewart	Making It So	Patrick Stewart
2023	Billy Porter	Unprotected: A Memoir	Billy Porter
2022	Ashley C. Ford	Somebody's Daughter	Ashley C. Ford
2021	Laurence Fishburne	The Autobiography of Malcolm X	Malcolm X and Alex Haley
2020	Michelle Obama	Becoming	Michelle Obama
2019	Julia Whelan	Educated	Tara Westover
2018	Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run	Bruce Springsteen
2017	Dion Graham	The Greatest: My Own Story	Muhammad Ali and Richard Durham
2016	Simon Bubb	Ghost Boy	Martin Pistorius
2015	Alan Cumming	Not My Father's Son	Alan Cumming

Every Audie Autobiography or Memoir finalist (the full nominee record)

The Audie Autobiography or Memoir category names finalists alongside each winner. These 28 audiobooks were nominated but didn't win — also sourced; each title's full record is in the A–Z index.

Year	Finalist	Author	Narrator(s)
2026	Cher: Part One	Cher	Cher and Stephanie J. Block
2026	Code Name: Pale Horse	Scott Payne	Scott Payne with Michelle Shephard
2026	Nobody's Girl	Virginia Roberts Giuffre	Thérèse Plummer and Gabra Zackman
2026	The Heart of a Woman	Maya Angelou	Uzo Aduba
2025	Farewell Yellow Brick Road	Elton John	Richard Armitage, Vikas Adam, full cast
2025	In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife	Sebastian Junger	Sebastian Junger
2025	Knife	Salman Rushdie	Salman Rushdie
2025	The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir	Kelly Bishop	Kelly Bishop
2024	A Place for Us	Brandon J. Wolf	Brandon J. Wolf
2024	Behind the Seams	Dolly Parton	Dolly Parton, Holly George-Warren, Rebecca Seaver
2024	La Finca: Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island	Corky Parker	Corky Parker
2024	Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make it Home	Benjamin Hall	Benjamin Hall
2023	Hello, Molly	Molly Shannon	Molly Shannon
2023	Left on Tenth	Delia Ephron	Delia Ephron
2023	Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope	Patrick Dylan	Raúl E. Esparza
2023	The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man	Paul Newman	Jeff Daniels, Melissa Newman, Clea Newman Soderlund, Ari Fliakos, January LaVoy, John Rubinstein, Emily Wachtel
2022	Act Like You Got Some Sense	Jamie Foxx	Jamie Foxx, Corinne Foxx
2022	Fits and Starts: A Memoir of Living with Epilepsy	Franziska Thomas	Tracy Wiles and Franziska Thomas
2022	Listen Mama	M. S. P. Williams	JD Jackson
2022	The Boys	Ron Howard and Clint Howard	Ron Howard, Clint Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard
2021	Becoming Duchess Goldblatt	Anonymous	Gabra Zackman (feat. J. Smith-Cameron and Lyle Lovett)
2021	Mr. New Orleans: The Life of a Big Easy Underworld Legend	Frenchy Brouillette and Matthew Randazzo	Louis Herthum
2021	Sigh, Gone	Phuc Tran	Phuc Tran
2021	Uncanny Valley	Anna Wiener	Suehyla El-Attar
2020	From Scratch	Tembi Locke	Tembi Locke
2020	Me	Elton John	Taron Egerton and Elton John
2020	MotherStruck!	Staceyann Chin	Staceyann Chin
2020	Too Much Is Not Enough	Andrew Rannells	Andrew Rannells

See also: Audiobook of the Year · Best Narrator winners · Grammy audiobook winners.