The best multi-voiced performance audiobooks, by award record: every Audie Multi-Voiced Performance winner

Looking for a multi-voiced performance audiobook that's actually worth a credit? This is the complete record of the Audie Award's Multi-Voiced Performance category — 31 winners from 1996 to 2026, the audiobook industry's own pick for the best multi-voiced performance production of each year. The most recent winner is A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe by Mahogany L. Browne, narrated by Emana Rachelle, Ozzie Jacobs, Elena Rey, Mahogany L. Browne, Amir Royale, Nile Bullock, Andrea Emmes, Brandon Miles, Kiebpoli Calnek, Ali Nasser, Tyla Collier, Marie-Francoise Theodore, Ron Butler, Chantelle Ramdeen.

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

Year	Narrator	Audiobook	Author
2026	Emana Rachelle, Ozzie Jacobs, Elena Rey, Mahogany L. Browne, Amir Royale, Nile Bullock, Andrea Emmes, Brandon Miles, Kiebpoli Calnek, Ali Nasser, Tyla Collier, Marie-Francoise Theodore, Ron Butler, Chantelle Ramdeen	A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe	Mahogany L. Browne
2025	Edoardo Ballerini, Garrett M. Graff, full cast	When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day	Garrett M. Graff
2024	Barrie Kreinik, Braden Wright, full cast	No Two Persons	Erica Bauermeister
2023	Jeff Daniels, Ethan Hawke, January LaVoy, John Grisham	Sparring Partners	John Grisham
2022	Barrie Kreinik, Bailey Carr, Ella Turenne, Nikki Massoud, Natalie Naudus, Imani Jade Powers, James Fouhey	Heresy	Melissa Lenhardt
2021	Elizabeth Acevedo, Melania-Luisa Marte	Clap When You Land	Elizabeth Acevedo
2020	full cast	The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11	Garrett M. Graff
2019	Pyeng Threadgill, Luke Slattery	Dreamland Burning	Jennifer Latham
2018	Jonathan Todd Ross, Laura Knight Keating, Ramon de Ocampo, Andy Paris, Suzy Jackson, Graham Halstead, John Kroft	Restart	Gordon Korman
2017	Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell, Ari Fliakos	Small Great Things	Jodi Picoult
2016	Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lincoln Hoppe, Johnathan McClain	Illuminae	Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
2015	Neil Gaiman, Derek Jacobi, Robert Madge, Clare Corbett, Miriam Margolyes, Andrew Scott, Julian Rhind-Tutt, full cast	The Graveyard Book	Neil Gaiman
2014	Martin Scorsese, Alfred Molina, full cast	World War Z	Max Brooks
2013	Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren, Susan Duerden, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm, Steven Crossley, full cast	Dracula	Bram Stoker
2012	Judyann Elder, Rutina Wesley, Mirron Willis, full cast	A Raisin in the Sun	Lorraine Hansberry
2011	full cast	Jitters	Adele Park
2010	full cast	Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales	Nelson Mandela
2009	Joely Collins, Peter Jay Fernandez, Kate Forbes, Ezra Knight, Brenday Pressley, Tom Stechschulte	Mudbound	Hillary Jordan
2008	Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding Jr, Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, full cast	Inspired by ... The Bible Experience (Old Testament)	Media Group
2007	Max Brooks, Alan Alda, John Turturro, Rob Reiner	World War Z	Max Brooks
2006	Kathleen McInerney, David LeDoux	Raymond and Hannah	Stephen Marche
2005	Julia Gibson, Jenny Ikeda, Richard Poe, full cast	My Sister's Keeper	Jodi Picoult
2004	Dick Hill, Susie Breck	Ghost Riders	Sharyn McCrumb
2003	Hilary Swank, Chad Lowe	Big Mouth & Ugly Girl	Joyce Carol Oates
2002	Philip Pullman, full cast	The Amber Spyglass	Philip Pullman
2001	Elaine Stritch, Bruce Davison	Cakewalk	Peter Feibleman
2000	Karl Malden, full cast	Sherlock's Secret Life	Ed Lange, Will Severin
1999	Michael York, full cast	The Titanic Disaster Hearings	Tom Kuntz
1998	CCH Pounder	Women in the Material World	Faith D'Alusio, Peter Menzel
1997	Edward Asner, Ellen Burstyn, CCH Pounder, Alfre Woodard	Grow Old Along with Me the Best is Yet to Be	Sandra Haldeman Martz
1996	Eric Conger, Kevin Dewey, Bruce Goodh, Graeme Malcom, Annie Meisels, Alexandra Ospina, Barbara Rosenblat	Myst: The Book of Atrus	Rand Miller, Robyn Miller, David Wingrove

Most-awarded multi-voiced performance narrators

Barrie Kreinik (2 wins) · CCH Pounder (2 wins).

Most-awarded multi-voiced performance authors

Garrett M. Graff (2 wins) · Jodi Picoult (2 wins) · Max Brooks (2 wins).

Every Audie Multi-Voiced Performance finalist (the full nominee record)

The Audie Multi-Voiced Performance category names finalists alongside each winner. These 115 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	Dragon Day	Bob Proehl	Hayley Atwell, Michael Chiklis, Aldis Hodge, Greta Lee, Jimmi Simpson, full cast
2026	Heartwood	Amity Gaige	Justine Lupe, Alma Cuervo, Rebecca Lowman, Ali Andre Ali, Cary Hite, Helen Laser
2026	Southtrack	Jason Reynolds	Nile Bullock, Mekhi Hewling, Jade Williams, Brandon Miles, Ryan Vincent Anderson, Amir Royale, Jasmin Richardson, Christopher Grant, Khaya Fraites, Nadine Simmons, Robb Moreira, We Ani, Rocky Anicette, Brandiss Seward, Siho Ellsmore, Tyrell Buckner, Gina Daniels, Karen Murray, Jonathan Beville, Karla Moore, Ronald Peet
2026	The Correspondent	Virginia Evans	Maggi-Meg Reed, Jane Oppenheimer, Carly Robins, Jeff Ebner, David Pittu, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Mark Bramhall, Petrea Burchard, Robert Petkoff, Kimberly Farr, Jim Seybert, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Jade Wheeler, Peter Ganim, Steve West
2025	Anita de Monte Laughs Last	Xochitl Gonzalez	Stacy Gonzalez, Jonathan Gregg, Jessica Pimentel
2025	Butcher	Joyce Carol Oates	Amy Shiels, Edoardo Ballerini, full cast
2025	Five Broken Blades	Mai Corland	Donald Chang, Greg Chun, Zion Jang, Sophie Oda, Jaine Ye, Roger Yeh
2025	From Here to the Great Unknown	Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough	Julia Roberts, Riley Keough
2025	Snake Oil	Kelsey Rae Dimberg	Andi Arndt, Renata Friedman, Kristen Sieh
2024	Coleman Hill	Kim Coleman Foote	Bahni Turpin, Dion Graham
2024	Sing Her Down	Ivy Pochoda	Frankie Corzo, Kimberly M. Wetherell, full cast
2024	Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!	David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker	"Weird Al" Yankovic, Arne Schmidt, full cast
2024	The Ghost Sequences	A. C. Wise	Erica Sullivan, Traber Burns, full cast
2023	Acts of Violet	Margarita Montimore	Brittany Pressley, Amy McFadden, Dan Bittner, Fred Berman, Hillary Huber, Johnny Heller, Katharine Chin, Ramón de Ocampo, Suzanne Toren, Alejandro Ruiz
2023	Richard Marsh: The Beetle	Richard Marsh	Gunnar Cauthery, Jonathan Aris, Natalie Simpson, Andrew Wincott, John Foley
2023	The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story	Nikole Hannah-Jones	Nikole Hannah-Jones, January LaVoy, Claudia Rankine, Nikky Finney, Janina Edwards, Dorothy Roberts, Shayna Small, Terrance Hayes, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Yusef Komunyakaa, Eve L. Ewing, Karen Chilton, Aaron Goodson, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Erin Miles, Dominic Hoffman, Adenrele Ojo, Matthew Desmond, Tyehimba Jess, Tim Seibles, Jamelle Bouie, Cornelius Eady, Minka Wiltz, Martha S. Jones, Darryl Pinckney, ZZ Packer, Carol Anderson, Tracy K. Smith, Evie Shockley, Bryan Stevenson, William DeMeritt, Jasmine Mans, Trymaine Lee, A. Van Jordan, Yaa Gyasi, Linda Villarosa, Danez Smith, Terry McMillan, Anthea Butler, Rita Dove, Camille T. Dungy, Wesley Morris, Natasha Trethewey, Joshua Bennett, Chanté McCormick, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Ron Butler, Kevin M. Kruse, Bahni Turpin, Gregory Pardlo, Ibram X. Kendi, JD Jackson, Jason Reynolds, Sonia Sanchez
2023	The Butcher and the Wren	Alaina Urquhart	Sophie Amoss, Joe Knezevich
2023	The Many Daughters of Afong Moy	Jamie Ford	Jennifer Lim, Cindy Kay, Mirai, Natalie Naudus, Sura Siu, Emily Woo Zeller, Nancy Wu, Jamie Ford
2022	Bourdain	Laurie Woolever	Full 92-person cast
2022	Four Hundred Souls	Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain	Full 87-person cast
2022	The Anatomy of Desire	L. R. Dorn	Santino Fontana, Shelby Young, Marin Ireland, JD Jackson, Dan Bittner, Vikas Adam, Gabra Zackman, Fred Berman, Darrell Dennis, Oliver Wyman, Jonathan Davis, Hillary Huber, Lisa Flanagan, Sharahn LaRue
2022	Twins	Varian Johnson	Ahnya O'Riordan, Grace Capeless, Mashari Bain, Malcolm Bowen, Antoinette Comer, André Blake, Armand Xavier, Rufen-Blanchette
2021	How the Penguins Saved Veronica	Hazel Prior	Helen Lloyd, Andrew Fallaize, Mandy Williams
2021	No Name	Wilkie Collins	Nicholas Boulton, Lucy Scott, Rachel Atkins, David Rintoul, Russell Bentley, John Foley
2021	The Switch	Beth O'Leary	Daisy Edgar-Jones, Alison Steadman
2021	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Mark L. Levine, George C. McNamee, Daniel L. Greenberg	J. K. Simmons, Jeff Daniels, Chris Jackson, Corey Stoll, John Hawkes, Chris Chalk, Luke Kirby, Norbert Leo Butz, George Newbern, full cast
2021	Women Who Wrote	Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Gertrude Stein, Phillis Wheatley	Chloe Dolandis, Jude Mason, Tyra Kennedy
2020	200 Women	Geoff Blackwell, Ruth Hobday, Sharon Gelman, Marianne Lassandro, Kieran Scott	Full cast
2020	Daisy Jones & The Six	Taylor Jenkins Reid	Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, Pablo Schreiber, full cast
2020	Dooku: Jedi Lost	Cavan Scott	Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Marc Thompson, Pete Bradbury, Jonathan Davis, Neil Hellegers, Sean Kenin, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Carol Monda, Robert Petkoff, Rebecca Soler
2020	Hey, Kiddo	Jarrett J. Krosoczka	Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Jeanne Birdsall, Richard Ferrone, Jenna Lamia, full cast
2019	An American Marriage	Tayari Jones	Eisa Davis, Sean Crisden
2019	Any Man	Amber Tamblyn	Glenn Davis, Ben Foster, Marc Maron, Jason Ritter, John Roberts, Russ Tamblyn, Amber Tamblyn, January LaVoy, Phoebe Strole, Robin Miles, Thérèse Plummer, Dan Bittner, James Fouhey, Michael Crouch
2019	Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales	Hans Christian Andersen	F. Murray Abraham, full cast
2019	Sadie	Courtney Summers	Dan Bittner, Rebecca Soler, Gabra Zackman, Fred Berman
2019	There There	Tommy Orange	Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo, Kyla Garcia
2018	Lincoln in the Bardo	George Saunders	George Saunders, Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, 163 others
2018	The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo	Taylor Jenkins Reid	Alma Cuervo, Robin Miles, Julia Whelan
2018	The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane	Lisa See	Ruthie Ann Miles, Kimiko Glenn, full cast
2018	The X-Files: Cold Cases	Joe Harris, Chris Carter, Dirk Maggs	David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, Bruce Harwood
2017	A Wild Swan	Michael Cunningham	Lili Taylor, Billy Hough
2017	Les Liaisons dangereuses	Choderlos de Laclos	Dominic West, Janet McTeer, Una Stubbs, Elaine Cassidy, Adjoa Andoh, Edward Holcroft, Morfydd Clark
2017	Pruno, Ramen, and a Side of Hope	Courtney Lance, Nikki Pope	Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Kurtis
2017	The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto	Mitch Albom	Mitch Albom, Roger McGuinn, Ingrid Michaelson, John Pizzarelli, Paul Stanley, George Guidall, full cast
2017	Thomas Jefferson-From Boy to Man	Jayne D'Alessandro-Cox	James Brinkley, Alexander Brinkley, Christina Rideout
2016	Clockwork Lives	Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart	Morgan Hallet, George Guidall, Richard Poe, Jim Jenner, Tandy Cronyn, Pete Bradbury, Barbara Rosenblat, Brian Hutchison
2016	How It Went Down	Kekla Magoon	Cherise Boothe, Shari Peele, Kevin R. Free, Avery Glymph, Patricia R. Floyd, Brian Hutchison
2016	Just Kids from the Bronx	Arlene Alda	Alan Alda, Arlene Alda, Christina Delaine, Milton Glaser, Regis Philbin, Robert Klein, Gabrielle Salvatto, Carlos Serrano
2016	With Lee in Virginia	G.A. Henty	Brian Blessed, Sean Astin, Kirk Cameron, full cast
2015	A Long Time Gone	Karen White	Susan Bennett, Jennifer Ikeda, Pilar Witherspoon
2015	Land of Love and Drowning	Tiphanie Yanique	Cherise Boothe, Korey Jackson, Rachel Leslie, Myra Lucretia Taylor
2015	Stars	Janis Ian, Mike Resnick	Janis Ian, Emily Rankin, Gabrielle du Cuir, John Rubinstein, Kathe Mazur, Kristoffer Tabori, Paul Boehmer, Sile Bermingham, Stefan Rudnicki, Susan Hanfield
2015	The Anatomy Lesson	Nina Siegal	Adam Alexi-Malle, Peter Altschuler, Emma Jayne Appleyard, Hannah Curtis, Gildart Jackson, Bruce Mann, Steve West
2015	The Sixteenth of June	Maya Lang	Julia Whelan, Will Damron, MacLeod Andrews
2014	Ender's Game Alive	Orson Scott Card	Full cast
2014	Snowbound	Richard S. Wheeler	Brian Hutchison, T. Ryder Smith, Robert Ian Mackenzie, James Colby, Cellest Ciulla, Scott Sowers
2014	The Fall of the Kings	Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman	Ellen Kushner, full cast
2014	William Shakespeare's Star Wars	Ian Doescher	Daniel Davis, Jonathan Davis, January LaVoy, Marc Thompson
2013	My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan	Seth Rudetsky	Seth Rudetsky, full cast
2013	October Mourning	Lesléa Newman	Lesléa Newman, full cast
2013	Suddenly, A Knock on the Door	Etgar Keret	Etgar Keret, full cast
2013	That is All	John Hodgman	John Hodgman, full cast
2013	The Privilege of the Sword	Ellen Kushner	Ellen Kushner, full cast
2012	1Q84	Haruki Murakami	Alison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
2012	Bruiser	Neal Shusterman	Nick Podehl, Kate Rudd, Luke Daniels, Laura Hamilton
2012	The Graduate	Charles Webb	Kathleen Turner, Matthew Rhys, full cast
2012	The Watch That Ends the Night	Allan Wolf	Michael Page, Phil Gigante, Christopher Lane, Laural Merlington, Angela Dawe
2011	Great Classic Science Fiction	H. G. Wells, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Lester del Rey, Fritz Leiber, James H. Schmitz, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, Andre Norton	Simon Vance, Nick Sullivan, Robert Fass, Katherine Kellgren, Stephen R. Thorne, Greg Itzin, Scott Brick, Barbara Rosenblat
2011	Room	Emma Donoghue	Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff, Suzanne Toren
2011	The Importance of Being Earnest	Oscar Wilde	Emily Bergl, Charles Busch, Neil Dickson, Jill Gascoine, James Marsters, Christopher Neame, Matthew Wolf
2011	The Shadow Effect	Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, Marianne Williamson	Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, Marianne Williamson
2010	The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer	Ric Jerrom, Bill Wallis, Cameron Stewart, Mark Meadows, Kim Hicks, Maggie Ollerenshaw
2010	The Rivalry	Norman Corwin	Paul Giamatti, James Gleason, Lily Rabe, David Strathairn, Shannon Cochran
2010	The Word of Promise Audio Bible	Nelson Bibles	Michael York, Richard Dreyfuss, Gary Sinise, full cast
2009	Family Audio Bible		Dick Cavett, Marsha Mason, Andrew McCarthy, Martha Plimpton, Tom Wopat
2009	The Plague of Doves	Louise Erdrich	Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
2009	The Word of Promise Next Generation: New Testament	Nelson Bibles	Sean Astin, Cody Linley, AnnaSophia Robb, Jordin Sparks, full cast
2008	Dune	Frank Herbert	Scott Brick, Simon Vance, full cast
2008	Hollowville	Mary Jane Hansen	Bruce Dern
2008	I Am America (And So Can You!)	Stephen Colbert	Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Kevin Dorff, Greg Hollimon, Evie McGee, David Pasquesi, Allison Silverman, Brian Stack, Jon Stewart
2008	The Word of Promise...New Testament Audio Bible		Full cast
2007	Airborn	Kenneth Oppel	David Kelly, full cast
2007	Operation Homecoming	Andrew Carroll	Joe Barrett, David Birney
2007	Suite Francaise	Irène Némirovsky	Daniel Oreskes, Barbara Rosenblat
2007	The Thirteenth Tale	Diane Setterfield	Ruthie Henshall, Lynn Redgrave
2006	Assassination Vacation	Sarah Vowell	Sarah Vowell
2006	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	Jonathan Safran Foer	Jeff Woodman, Barbara Caruso, Richard Ferrone
2006	Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers	Fred Rogers	Lily Tomlin, B.D. Wong, Blair Brown, Richard Kind, Joanne Rogers
2006	The Historian	Elizabeth Kostova	Jim Ward, Rosalyn Landor, Robin Atkin Downes, Dennis Boutsikaris, Joanne Whalley
2005	Kiss Me While I Sleep	Linda Howard	Joyce Bean, Dick Hill
2005	Queer Eye for the Straight Guy	Ted Allen	Ted Allen
2005	The Chronicles of Narnia	C.S. Lewis	Kenneth Branagh, full cast
2005	Will They Ever Trust Us Again?	Michael Moore	Michael Moore, full cast
2004	A Patriot's Handbook	Caroline Kennedy	Neil Armstrong, Robert Frost, John McCain, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Caroline Kennedy, James Earl Jones, Vanessa Williams, Edward M. Kennedy, full cast
2004	A Venetian Affair	Andrea di Robilant	Paul Hecht
2004	Hey Nostradamus!	Douglas Coupland	Jenna Lamia, David Ledoux, Jillian Crane, John Randolph Jones
2004	The Misfits	James Howe	Spencer Murphy, Full Cast Family
2003	Every Tongue Got to Confess	Zora Neale Hurston	Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis
2003	Seek	Paul Fleischman	Full cast
2003	Shadowlands	William Nicholson	Harriet Harris, Martin Jarvis, full cast
2003	The Slave	Isaac Bashevis Singer	David Chandler, Tracy Sallows
2002	The Crucible	Arthur Miller	Richard Dreyfuss, Stacy Keach, Michael York, Fionnula Flanagan, Madolyn Smith, René Auberjonois
2002	War Letters	Andrew Carroll	Noah Wyle, Steve Zahn, full cast
2001	The Subtle Knife	Philip Pullman	Full cast
2001	Too Dead To Swing	Hal Glatzer	Full cast
2000	In the Name of Security	Peter Goodchild	David Hyde Pierce, John Rubinstein, John de Lancie, Ella Joyce, Amy Pietz
2000	Misadventures in the (213)	Dennis Hensley	Kathy Griffin, Jack Plotnick, Rachel Harris, Gregg Rainwater, Shane Jacobson, Rob Nash, Robert Abele, Dennis Hensley
1999	Lost Civilizations: Pompeii	Time Life Books	Blair Brown, David McCallum, full cast
1999	Star Wars—Dark Forces: Rebel Agent	William C. Dietz	Full cast
1998	Star Wars—Dark Forces: Soldier of the Empire	William C. Dietz	Randall Berger, full cast
1998	Voices of the Civil War: Gettysburg	Time Life Books	Full cast
1997	Star Wars: Return of the Jedi	George Lucas	Anthony Daniels, John Lithgow, Edward Asner, full cast
1997	The Prince's Choice	William Shakespeare	Full cast
1996	Burns & Allen	Original Radio Broadcasts	George Burns and Gracie Allen
1996	David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	Full cast including Miriam Margolyes, John Moffatt, Timothy Spall, Sheila Hancock

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