The best original work audiobooks, by award record: every Audie Original Work winner

Looking for a original work audiobook that's actually worth a credit? This is the complete record of the Audie Award's Original Work category — 31 winners from 1996 to 2026, the audiobook industry's own pick for the best original work production of each year. The most recent winner is The Big Fix: A Jack Bergin Mystery by John Mankiewicz, Jamie Napoli, Daniel Pyne, Katie Pyne, Aaron Lipstadt, narrated by Jon Hamm, Ana de la Reguera, Alia Shawkat, Omar Epps, Erin Moriarty, Sosie Bacon, John Slattery, full cast.

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

Year	Narrator	Audiobook	Author
2026	Jon Hamm, Ana de la Reguera, Alia Shawkat, Omar Epps, Erin Moriarty, Sosie Bacon, John Slattery, full cast	The Big Fix: A Jack Bergin Mystery	John Mankiewicz, Jamie Napoli, Daniel Pyne, Katie Pyne, Aaron Lipstadt
2025	Marni Penning, Scott McCormick, full cast	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Goddess of Manhattan	Christopher Golden, Thomas E. Sniegoski
2024	Edita Brychta, Michael Canavan, full cast	Exodus: The Shanghai Jews	Kate McAll
2023	Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, full cast	Mrs. Wickham	Sarah Page
2022	Mary Jane Wells	Heroine	Mary Jane Wells
2021	Kaitlyn Dever, Jesse Eisenberg, Finn Wolfhard	When You Finish Saving the World	Jesse Eisenberg
2020	Nick Choksi, Harsh Nayaar, Annapurna Sriram, Bernard White, Rita Wolf	Evil Eye	Madhuri Shekar
2019	Jim Dale, Barrett Leddy, Lisa Livesay, Nicola Barber, Khristine Hvam, Nick Sullivan, John Brady, Johnny Heller	Spin	Harvey Edelman, Neil Fishman
2018	Richard Armitage	Romeo and Juliet: A Novel	David Hewson
2017	Zachary Quinto	The Dispatcher	John Scalzi
2016	Alfred Molina, full cast	The Starling Project	Jeffery Deaver
2015	Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Joe Richman	Mandela: An Audio History	Nelson Mandela
2014	Barnaby Edwards, full cast	Thirteen	Scott Harrison et al.
2013	Joe Barrett, John Keating	Gun Church	Reed Farrel Coleman
2012	Rene Auberjonois, Kate Mulgrew, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton	METAtropolis: Cascadia	Jay Lake, Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, Ken Scholes, Karl Schroeder, Tobias Buckell
2011	Stacy Keach, full cast	New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (vol. 2)	Max Allan Collins
2010	Bryce Dallas Howard, Paula Poundstone, Wendy Hammers, Margot Rose, Jessica DiCicco, Yvette Freeman	Tell Me a Story 3: Women of Wonder	Amy Friedman
2009	Gong Li	Louis Vuitton Soundwalk, China: Beijing	Stephen Crasneanscki
2008	Phil Proctor, Simon Templeman, Moira Quirk, Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres, Robertson Dean, W. Morgan Sheppard	Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls	Yuri Rasovsky
2007	Joseph Piekarski, Pearl Gluck	Hasidic Williamsburg, Brooklyn for Men & Women	Soundwalk
2006	Marin Alsop	Famous Composers	Darren Henley
2005	Marin Alsop	The Story of Classical Music	Darren Henley
2004	Tony Morante	New York: The Bronx 2004	Soundwalk
2003	Fred Child	Getting to Know William Shakespeare	Joy Wake
2002	Jeremy Siepmann	The Life and Works of Chopin	Jeremy Siepmann
2001	Derek Jacobi, full cast	The History of the Theatre	David Timson
2000	Jeremy Irons, Graham Harley, Phelan Landry, Robert Lurtsema, Catherine McNally, Tracy Moore	Song of the Unicorn	Susan Hammond, Debra A. S. Olivia
1999	Gerald Drake, James Ahrens, Jonathan Poland, Jackie Perlman, Kevin Fitzgerald	Haunted Cattle Drive	Connie Kingrey
1998	full cast	Diana, Princess of Wales: A Radio Tribute	BBC Productions
1997	Stan Winiarski	Zeus: Thunderbolt from the Sky	Julie Fenster
1996	Dale Harris	Enjoying Italian Opera	Dale Harris

Most-awarded original work narrators

Marin Alsop (2 wins).

Most-awarded original work authors

Soundwalk (2 wins) · Darren Henley (2 wins).

Every Audie Original Work finalist (the full nominee record)

The Audie Original Work category names finalists alongside each winner. These 114 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	Doctor Who - Hooklight 1	Tim Foley	Peter Davison, Paul McGann, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Matthew Waterhouse, Kieran Bew, Alan Cox, Ruby Crepin-Glyne, David Holt, Celia Imrie, Harriet Kershaw, Shogo Miyakita, David Shaw-Parker, Theo Solomon, Issy Van Randwyck
2026	Shot Clock	Andrew Bourelle	Emma Love
2026	The Making of Jackson Parrish	Liv Constantine	Ari Fliakos, Suzanne Elise Freeman, Scott Brick
2026	What Could Go Wrong?	Scott Z. Burns	Scott Z. Burns
2025	Casanova LLC	Julia Whelan	Sebastian York, Julia Whelan, Edoardo Ballerini, Johnathan McClain
2025	Earthlight	J. Michael Straczynski	Erik Braa, Pete Bradbury, full cast
2025	The Boar's Nest	Rachel Bonds; Holly Gleason; Dub Cornett	Mandy Moore, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, full cast
2025	Two Can Play	Ali Hazelwood	Kelsey Navarro Foster
2024	Hellboy: A Plague of Wasps	Christopher Golden	Jasmine Hyde, Scott McCormick, full cast
2024	Nirvana the Amplifications	Michael Azerrad	Michael Azerrad
2024	The Debutante	Jon Ronson	Jon Ronson
2023	Daffodils	Louise Beech	Lesley Harcourt
2023	Star Trek: Picard: No Man's Land	Kirsten Beyer; Mike Johnson	Michelle Hurd, Jeri Ryan, Jack Cutmore-Scott, John Kassir, Fred Tatasciore, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Lisa Flanagan, Gibson Frazier, Lameece Issaq, Natalie Naudus, Xe Sands, Emily Woo Zeller
2023	The Babysitter Lives	Stephen Graham Jones	Isabella Star LaBlanc, Stephen Graham Jones
2023	The River of Silver	S. A. Chakraborty	Soneela Nankani
2022	Beatrix Greene	Rachel Hawkins; Ash Parsons; Vicky Alvear Shecter	Shiromi Arserio, Alister Austin
2022	No One Goes Alone	Erik Larson	Julian Rhind-Tutt, Erik Larson
2022	Sunset Springs	Kacen Callender	Qamar Yochanan
2022	The Man She Never Met	Annie Hulley	Annie Hulley
2021	Barack Obama: The 60 Minutes Interviews	Steve Kroft	Barack Obama, Steve Kroft
2021	Getting Started with Sourdough	Chad Robertson; Jennifer Latham	Chad Robertson, Jennifer Latham
2021	The Confederacy: Truth and Reconciliation	T Bone Burnett	T Bone Burnett
2021	The End of My Heart	Gayle Forman	Diane Kruger, Piper Goodeve, Gabriel Vaughan, Elizabeth Evans, Josh Hurley, Amanda Ronconi, Emily Bauer, Neil Hellegers, Jesse Einstein
2020	I Eat Men Like Air	Alice Berman	Elizabeth Evans
2020	Lustily Ever After	Stephanie Bentley; Miranda Ray	Stephanie Bentley, Carolyn Jania, Henry Kaiser
2020	Nevertheless, We Persisted	In This Together Media	Chorus of voices
2020	Our Harlem: Seven Days of Cooking, Music and Soul at the Red Rooster	Marcus Samuelsson	Marcus Samuelsson
2019	Fandango at the Wall	Kabir Sehgal	Kabir Sehgal
2019	Loki Ragnarok	Mark Binder	Mark Binder
2019	Magus Elgar	Kennedy Phillips	Ricardo Cabral, William Violenus, Christopher Moore, Sandra Espinoza, Randy Nazarian, David Autovino, Kellen Goff, Brian Stivale, Kalinda Gray, Mandanna Wright, Kennedy Phillips, Andrew Cornell
2019	Splat! A Quirky Cat Audio Book	Adele Park	Eric Comeau, Luke Randall, Jove Trip-Thompson, Kent Hayes, Sherri Aldred, Garry Morris, Allie Boman, Adele Park, Cindy Clemens
2019	The Old Cart Wrangler's Saga	Brian Price	David Ossman
2018	Mother Go	James Patrick Kelly	January LaVoy
2018	Nevertheless, We Persisted	Amy Oestreicher et al.	Amy Landon et al.
2018	Rebuttal	Jyotsna Hariharan	Phoebe Strole, Michael Crouch, Nina Mehta, Peter Ganim, Dan Bittner
2018	The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition	Margaret Atwood; Valerie Martin	Claire Danes, Margaret Atwood, full cast
2017	Alien: Out of the Shadows	Tim Lebbon; Dirk Maggs	Rutger Hauer, Corey Johnson, Matthew Lewis, Kathryn Drysdale, Laurel Lefkow, Andrea Deck, Mac McDonald
2017	Car Talk Science: MIT Wants Its Diplomas Back	Tom and Ray Magliozzi	Tom and Ray Magliozzi
2017	In the Embers	Brian Price; Jerry Stearns	Robin Miles, Edwin Strout, Dean Johnson, Jacque Maddix, full cast
2017	Pete Seeger: The Storm King (vol. 2)	Pete Seeger	Jeff Haynes
2017	The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent	Larry Correia	Adam Baldwin
2016	Carmilla	J. Sheridan Le Fanu	Rose Leslie, David Tennant
2016	Drunken Fireworks	Stephen King	Tim Sample
2016	Locke & Key	Joe Hill	Haley Joel Osment, Tatiana Maslany, full cast
2016	NPR American Chronicles: First Ladies	National Public Radio	Cokie Roberts
2016	StoryCorps: Outland	David Isay	Ari Shapiro, full cast
2015	Gadzooks! A Comically Quirky Audio Book	Adele Park	Garry Morris, Andra Harbold, Lesley Mendenhall, Abby Elvidge, Rhett Guter, Melissa Sandberg, Kent Hayes, Jack de Golia, Steve Campbell
2015	Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	A. J. Hartley; David Hewson	Richard Armitage
2015	The Child	Sebastian Fitzek	Rupert Penry-Jones, Jack Boulter, Emilia Fox, Stephen Marcus, Robert Glenister, Andy Serkis
2015	Transparent	Jeffrey Tambor	Jeffrey Tambor
2014	Ender's Game Alive	Orson Scott Card	Full cast
2014	Letters to a Birmingham Jail	Martin Luther King Jr.	Dion Graham
2014	METAtropolis: Green Space	Jay Lake et al.	Dion Graham, Robin Miles, Mark Boyett, Scott Brick, Allyson Johnson, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Davis
2014	Pete Seeger: The Storm King	Pete Seeger	Pete Seeger
2014	Rip-Off!	John Scalzi et al.	Wil Wheaton, Scott Brick, Christian Rummel, Jonathan Davis, Stefan Rudnicki, L. J. Ganser
2013	Coming Home to Us	Helen Engelhardt; Marjorie Van Halteren	Helen Engelhardt, Marjorie Van Halteren
2013	Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You!	Yuri Rasovsky	Sandra Oh, Simon Helberg, Kate Burton, full cast
2013	The Junkie Quatrain	Peter Clines	Christian Rummel, Thérèse Plummer
2013	Titanium Rain (Episode One)	Josh Finney	Lance Roger Axt, Elizabeth Knowelden, Carrington Macduffie, full cast
2012	Macbeth	David Hewson; A. J. Hartley	Alan Cumming, David Hewson, A. J. Hartley
2012	Prayers: A Personal Selection	Various	Michael York
2012	Solaris	Stanisław Lem (trans. Bill Johnston)	Alessandro Juliani
2012	The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (vol. 3)	Max Allan Collins	Stacy Keach, full cast
2012	The Witches of Lublin	Ellen Kushner; Elizabeth Schwartz; Yale Strom	Tovah Feldshuh, Barbara Rosenblat, full cast
2011	Fashionably Undead	Meg Cabot; the Twitterverse	Sarah Drew
2011	Hearts, Keys and Puppetry	Neil Gaiman; the Twitterverse	Katherine Kellgren
2011	The Alchemist and the Executioness	Paolo Bacigalupi; Tobias S. Buckell	Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren
2011	William's Leap for Freedom	Renee Pringle; Sue Zizza	Dion Graham, Mirron E. Willis, full cast
2010	A Way with Words IV	Michael D. C. Drout	Michael D. C. Drout
2010	In a Nutshell: Darwin	Peter Whitfield	Peter Whitfield
2010	The Copper Bracelet	Jeffery Deaver et al.	Alfred Molina
2010	The Longest Night	Helen Engelhardt	Helen Engelhardt
2009	Brainstorm: Using Science to Spark Maximum Creativity	Mariette DiChristina	William Dufris
2009	Many Things Invisible	Carrington MacDuffie	Carrington MacDuffie
2009	METAtropolis	John Scalzi; Elizabeth Bear; Jay Lake; Tobias Buckell; Karl Schroeder	Michael Hogan, Alessandro Juliani, Kandyse McClure, Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki
2009	New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer The	Falcon Picture Group	Stacy Keach
2009	Sugar Pop Thoughts	Shayna Lance	Shayna Lance
2008	Hollowville	Mary Jane Hansen	Bruce Dern, music composed by Will Severin
2008	Hurricane Katrina	Pamela F. Pipes	Pamela F. Pipes, others
2008	Sunday Mornings in Plains	Jimmy Carter	Jimmy Carter
2008	The Chopin Manuscript	Jeffery Deaver; David Hewson; James Grady; S. J. Rozan; Erica Spindler; John Ramsey Miller; David Corbett; John Gilstrap; Joseph Finder; Jim Fusilli; Peter Spiegelman; Ralph Pezzullo; Lisa Scottoline; P. J. Parrish; Lee Child	Alfred Molina
2007	Fundamental Cases	Alan Dershowitz	Alan Dershowitz
2007	Sherlock's Legacy	Ed Lange; Will Severin	Full cast
2007	Stories from the Storm	Carter Hooper; Celia Collins; et al.	Carter Hooper
2007	The Hero of Cape Lonely Light	Geoffrey T. Williams	Dennis F. Regan
2006	Billy Collins Live	Billy Collins	Billy Collins, Bill Murray
2006	Eyewitness: 1940–1940	Joanna Bourke	Tim Pigott-Smith
2006	Eyewitness: 1950–1959	Joanna Bourke	Tim Pigott-Smith
2006	Eyewitness: 1960–1969	Joanna Bourke	Tim Pigott-Smith
2005	Ground Zero Sonic Memorial Soundwalk	Kitchen Sisters	Paul Auster
2005	Heart of Troy	Ed Lange	Full cast
2005	Low Carb Yo-Yo	Barry Sears	Barry Sears
2005	What Was Civil About That War…?	Megan Hicks	Megan Hicks
2004	Garrison Keillor: A Life in Comedy	Garrison Keillor	Garrison Keillor
2004	Greatest Cartoon Voice Tricks Ever Smuggled Out of Hollywood	Pat Fraley	Pat Fraley
2004	The Killings Tale	W. A. Frankonis	full cast
2004	They Saw It Happen: Eyewitness Accounts from Ancient Greece	Matthew Lewin	Teresa Gallagher, Tom George, Steve Hodson, Kerry Shale
2003	Dreams from the Lost & Found	Ferde Grofé	Ferde Grofé, full cast
2003	Legacy	Doc Watson; David Holt	Doc Watson, David Holt
2003	Pill Hill Quartet	Jay O'Callahan	Jay O'Callahan
2003	Reagan in His Own Voice	Ronald Reagan	Ronald Reagan
2002	Flight of the Voyager	Ferde Grofé	Ferde Grofé
2002	Maressa & Merlone	Shaeri Richards	Shaeri Richards
2001	Story Telling of Ferde Grofé	Ferde Grofé	Ferde Grofé
2001	The Memory of Running	Ron McLarty	Ron McLarty
2000	Braces	Donald Davis	Donald Davis
2000	The History of Opera	Richard Fawkes	Robert Powell
1999	English As She Is Spoke	Donald Monat; June Dixon	Donald Monat, June Dixon
1998	Ambush at Fort Bragg	Tom Wolfe	Edward Norton
1998	How the West Was Read (vol. 2)	Robert J. Randisi	Lee Marshall, Kitty Brooks
1997	Letters from the Earth	Mark Twain	McAvoy Layne
1997	Your Present: A Half-Hour of Peace	Susie Mantell	Susie Mantell
1996	A Prairie Home Christmas	Garrison Keillor	Garrison Keillor
1996	Whale Nation	Heathcote Williams	Heathcote Williams

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