Audie Award - Solo Narration (Female)

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The Audie Awards are given out annually by the Audio Publisher's Association for the best in audiobooks. Note: The 1996 & 1997 awards were for Solo Narration with no distinction between male and female; they are listed on the Solo Narration (Male) page.

 

2008

Sandra Dallas. Read by Lorelei King. Tallgrass
During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes turn on the newcomers. Rennie has just turned thirteen and until this time, life has pretty much been predictable and fair. But the winds of change are coming, and with them, a shift in her perspective and a discovery of secrets that can destroy even the most sacred things. (Downloadable Audiobook)

2007

Larry McMurtry. Read by Annie Potts. Telegraph Days
Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good in the town of Rita Blanca in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle. (Unabridged CD)

2006

Diana Gabaldon. Read by Davinia Porter. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
In 1772, the rift between Britain and its American colonies has put a frightening word into the minds of all concerned: revolution. Violence has already reared its ugly head in rural North Carolina, as cabins have been burned to the ground. To preserve the colony for King George III, the governor pleads with Jamie to bring the people together and restore peace. (Unabridged CD)

2005

Alexander McCall-Smith. Read by Lisette Lecat. The Full Cupboard of Life
The latest novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series continues the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to "help people with problems in their lives." (Unabridged Cassette & CD)

2004

Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin. Read by Barbara Rosenblat. The Nazi Officer's Wife
Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith & her mother into a ghetto, issuing them papers branded with a "J." Soon, Edith was taken away to a labor camp, & though she convinced Nazi officials to spare her mother, when she returned home, her mother had been deported. Knowing she would become a hunted woman, Edith tore the yellow star from her clothing & went underground, scavenging for food & searching each night for a safe place to sleep. Edith fled to Munich where she met and married Werner Vetter, a member of the Nazi party. (Unabridged Cassette)
 

2003

Kate Simon. Read by Barbara Rosenblat. Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood

2002

Nuala O'Faolain. Read by Dearbhla Molloy. My Dream of You
After the death of her dearest friend, 49-year-old travel writer Kathleen de Burca decides she needs to return to the security of her Ireland home. It is through her research on a new book that she comes to terms with her loss and begins to year for passion -- not only for herself but also of the ill-fated lovers of her famine-era story. Soon her exploration into the past leads her to the road of salvation in the present. (Abridged Cassette)

2001

Zora Neale Hurston. Read by Ruby Dee. Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930's, journeys from being a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance. (Unabridged Cassette & CD)
 

2000

Helen Fielding. Read by Barbara Rosenblat. Bridget Jones Diary
 
 

1999

Charles Dickens. Read by Miriam Margolyes. Oliver Twist
 

1998

Angela Huth. Read by Carole Boyd. Land Girls