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	JUDGES’ AWARD Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America, by Thomas Friedman Narrated by Oliver Wyman (Macmillan Audio) Friedman’s revolutionary manifesto proposes that our gravest modern crises can become the fuel for a national renaissance. With the global population growing, energy resources dwindling, the environment threatened, and the American economy in decline, we are on a course that can only lead toward disaster if changes aren’t made. The scale and speed at which we will have to convert our oil dependence into new energy technologies is unprecedented. But, Friedman argues, the U.S. market is still the most effective system for the kind of transformational innovation we need. If America were to lead a “greening” race (in the model of the space race) by encouraging large-scale investment in new energy technology, we could build the foundation not only for a better world and a revived economy, but for a stronger nation unified by common purpose. Nominated Titles Descent into Chaos, by Ahmed Rashid, narrated by Arthur Morey   (Brilliance Audio) Mike's Election Guide, by Michael Moore, narrated by Michael Moore   (Hachette Audio) The War Within, by Bob Woodward, narrated by Boyd Gaines   (Simon & Schuster Audio) The Way of the World, by Ron Suskind, narrated by Alan Sklar   (HarperAudio)
	FICTION Duma Key, by Stephen King Narrated by John Slattery (Simon & Schuster Audio) In the wake of a terrible accident, Edgar has lost everything: his arm, his marriage, his successful business. Even his memory has lost its coherence. Full of rage and suicidal thoughts, his psychologists suggests he leave his life behind and take up an old hobby. On the remote, hauntingly beautiful coastal outpost of Duma Key, Edgar begins to draw and paint, recreating himself and his world from scratch. But the forces he unleashes through his art have a power that he cannot control. Stephen King is at the top of his game in this eerie psychological thriller about the dark side of creativity. Nominated Titles Change of Heart, by Jodi Picoult, narrated by Danielle Ferland, Jim Frangione, Jenny Ikeda, Stafford Clarke-Price and Nicole Poole   (Recorded Books) Prisoner of Birth, by Jeffrey Archer, narrated by Roger Allam   (Macmillan Audio) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows, narrated by A full cast   (Books on Tape) The Lace Reader, by Brunonia Barry, narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan   (HarperAudio)
	LITERARY FICTION Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis Narrated by Anthony Heald (Blackstone Audio, Inc.) Elmer Gantry is a greedy, shallow, and philandering Baptist minister who discovers that he has a gift for evangelist preaching. As the silver-tongued preacher rises to ever greater power within the church, eventually heading a large Methodist congregation, he continues to live a life of hypocrisy and self-indulgence. Although often exposed as a fraud, Gantry is never fully discredited. A landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry is also a penetrating study of religious hypocrisy and the culture of evangelism is it existed in America in the 1920s. Nominated Titles Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, narrated by Anthony Heald   (Blackstone Audio, Inc.) Enchantress of Florence, by Salman Rushdie, narrated by Firdous Bamji   (Recorded Books) Lush Life, by Richard Price, narrated by Bobby Cannavale   (Macmillan Audio) The White Tiger: A Novel, by Aravind Adiga, narrated by John Lee   (Tantor Media)
	MYSTERY Voice of the Violin, by Andrea Camilleri Narrated by Grover Gardner (Blackstone Audio, Inc.) Inspector Montalbano’s gruesome discovery of the body of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim’s friend, Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a reclusive violinist who holds the key to the murder. Nominated Titles A Killing Frost, by R.D. Wingfield, narrated by Stephen Thorne   (Ulverscroft Group Ltd) Cross, by Ken Bruen, narrated by Gerry O'Brien   (Ulverscroft Group Ltd) Swan Peak, by James Lee Burke, narrated by Will Patton   (Simon & Schuster Audio) The Silver Swan, by Benjamin Black, narrated by Timothy Dalton   (Macmillan Audio)
	THRILLER/SUSPENSE Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris (Hachette Audio) In Stalinist Russia, crime officially doesn’t exist. The State provides workers with all their needs, ostensibly eliminating the motive for criminal behavior. Discontent is counted as disloyalty, and treated as such. Leo Demidov, a loyal officer of the State Security Force, has never questioned this. But when a series of children begin dying in eerily identical, brutal ways, he cannot ignore that a serial killer is on the loose. This treasonous suggestion exiles him from his home. Now, his world turned upside down, Leo has no choice but to find the killer himself before he, too, is swept under the rug. Nominated Titles Blue Heaven, by C.J. Box, narrated by John Bedford Lloyd   (Macmillan Audio) Executive Privilege, by Phillip Margolin, narrated by Jonathan Davis   (HarperAudio) Sweetheart, by Chelsea Cain, narrated by Carolyn McCormick   (Macmillan Audio) The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman, narrated by Neil Gaiman   (HarperAudio)
	ROMANCE The Dark Highlander, by Karen Marie Moning Narrated by Phil Gigante (Brilliance Audio) Daegus MacKeltar, a sixteenth-century Scottish Highlander schooled in Druid magic, has become trapped in modern Manhattan, possessed by thirteen evil spirits who drive him in insatiable sexual pursuit. In his search for an ancient text that may hold the key to his release, he meets antiquities student Chloe Zanders, who is irresistibly drawn to his magnetism. But to win his heart from the demons that claim it, she must travel back in time to medieval Scotland, where an ancient prophecy may determine both their fates…. Nominated Titles Fire Me Up, by Katie MacAlister, narrated by Barbara Rosenblat   (Recorded Books) Forbidden, by Suzanne Brockmann, narrated by Traci Svensgaard   (Blackstone Audio, Inc.) Mismatch, by Tami Hoag, narrated by Jen Taylor   (BBC Audiobooks America) Tribute, by Nora Roberts, narrated by Jennifer Van Dyck   (Brilliance Audio)
	SCIENCE FICTION Calculating God, by Robert J. Sawyer Narrated by Jonathan Davis (Audible, Inc.) Tom Jericho, a paleontologist recently diagnosed with cancer, certainly never expected to meet an alien in his lifetime, much less one who wants to compare science notes. The spiderlike Hollus is studying mass extinctions, such as the one that wiped out Earth’s dinosaurs, on various life-supporting planets. His data reveals that such cosmic events have occurred simultaneously on every planet with life forms. But most surprising of all to Tom is the conclusion Hollus has drawn from the research: that it proves the existence of God, and that the study of science is therefore the study of God’s methods and motives. This provocative premise sets up a fast-paced, touching and thought-provoking adventure that will challenge your beliefs about life’s origins and ends. Nominated Titles Childhood's End, by Arthur C. clarke, narrated by Eric Michael Summerer   (Audible, Inc.) Ghost Radio, by Leopoldo Gout, narrated by Pedro Pascal   (HarperAudio) Skybreaker, by Kenneth Oppel, narrated by David Kelly   (Full Cast Audio) Sunrise Alley, by Catherine Asaro, narrated by Hillary Huber   (Blackstone Audio, Inc.)
	INSPIRATIONAL/FAITH-BASED FICTION Prague Counterpoint, by Bodie and Brock Thoene Narrated by Sean Barrett (FamilyAudioLibrary.com) She had escaped the Nazi terror, but a million other endangered lives compel her to return. As Hitler’s forces sweep through Vienna and prepare to move on to Czechoslovakia, Elisa Lindheim once again risks her life to help other Jews escape. While Europe slides irrevocably toward the brink of war, Elisa is torn between the Underground’s lofty political goals and the safety of two little boys. And throughout it all, her heart yearns for John. Will she ever see him again? Nominated Titles Adam, by Ted Dekker, narrated by Tim Gregory   (Oasis Audio) John, by Niall Williams, narrated by Nicholas Bell   (Bolinda Audio) The Shack, by William P. Young, narrated by Roger Mueller   (Oasis Audio) The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner, by Andrea Smith, narrated by Lizan Mitchell   (Recorded Books)
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