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.
| 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 |
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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 |
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