2023 Audie Awards® GALA
WELCOME!
7:00 pm: RED CARPET Photo Opportunity
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm: Enjoy cocktails and hors d'oeuvres as the sun sets over the Hudson River
9:00: The Show Begins (live streaming here)
Opening Song: Erin Bennett and Vikas Adam
Welcome from our Host
MICHELLE BUTEAU
NON-FICTION FINALISTS
DAVOS MAN
QUEER DUCKS (AND OTHER ANIMALS)
★ THE RANSOMWARE HUNTING TEAM
THE SEX LIVES OF AFRICAN WOMEN
THE SOUL OF THE INDIAN: AN INTERPRETATION
HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY FINALISTS
AN AFRO-INDIGENOUS HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
HIS NAME IS GEORGE FLOYD
THE LAST SLAVE SHIP
★ SUMMER OF '85
UNDELIVERED
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR FINALISTS
THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF AN ORDINARY MAN
HELLO, MOLLY!
LEFT ON TENTH
SAFE, WANTED, AND LOVED
★ UNPROTECTED: A MEMOIR
BUSINESS/PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FINALISTS
BUILDING A SECOND BRAIN
THE FIRST FIVE: A LOVE LETTER TO TEACHERS
PREP, PUSH, PIVOT: ESSENTIAL CAREER STRATEGIES FOR UNDERREPRESENTED WOMEN
SUSTAIN YOUR GAME
★ TOUGH
HUMOR FINALISTS
★ HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
LET'S CATCH UP SOON
THE OFFICE BFFS
WHO DO I THINK I AM?
THE WILDER WIDOWS
FAITH-BASED FICTION OR NON-FICTION FINALISTS
★ DARK ANGEL
MARRIAGE BE HARD
PART OF MY WORLD
THE PROPHET’S WIFE
YOU SHOULD SIT DOWN FOR THIS
YOUNG LISTENERS FINALISTS
★ A DOOR MADE FOR ME
OUR TABLE
PATCHWORK
WHEN GRANDFATHER FLEW
WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO
YOUNG ADULT FINALISTS
★ DEMON IN THE WOOD
THE DROWNED WOODS
LOVE RADIO
LOVELESS
THE SUMMER OF BITTER AND SWEET
MIDDLE GRADE FINALISTS
CORALINE
THE DOOR OF NO RETURN
THE LAST MAPMAKER
THE OGRESS AND THE ORPHANS
★ STUNTBOY, IN THE MEANTIME
ESPAÑOL - SPANISH LANGUAGE FINALISTS
★ ¡PRIMERA CAÍDA! EL ENMASCARADO DE TERCIOPELO
CAKE UNA HISTORIA DE AMOR
GASTROSOFÍA
VELORIO
YO TE SALVARÈ
SHORT STORIES/COLLECTIONS FINALISTS
GENERATION WONDER
★ GETAWAY
GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE: A CHARITY ANTHOLOGY
MARRIAGE: FROM THE FEMININE PERSPECTIVE
REBENT SINNER
FICTION FINALISTS
ACROSS A HUNDRED MOUNTAINS
THE BRIGHT SIDE RUNNING CLUB
A HOUSE FULL OF WINDSOR
LESS IS LOST
★ MAD HONEY
TRACY FLICK CAN’T WIN
LITERARY FICTION & CLASSICS FINALISTS
FLAUBERT’S PARROT
HORSE
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
★ WAR AND PEACE
YERBA BUENA
ROMANCE FINALISTS
CRUSHING ON YOU
★ DELILAH GREEN DOESN’T CARE
LOVE ON THE BRAIN
SAVVY SHELDON FEELS GOOD AS HELL
SEATMATE
YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY
EROTICA FINALISTS
THE DARK KING
THE DEMON’S PET
NIGHTS OF SILK AND SAPPHIRE
★ ON THE HUSTLE
PERSONAL
TEMPER ME
FANTASY FINALISTS
THE ART OF PROPHECY
COLD AS HELL
GOOD OMENS
LEGENDS & LATTES
★ THE MONSTERS WE DEFY
APA President Ana Maria Allessi
Sponsor thank you
In Memoriam
Special Achievement Recognition
SCIENCE FICTION FINALISTS
HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK
★ INTERGALACTIC EXTERMINATORS, INC
NO KINDNESS TOO SOON
NOOR
YMIR
MYSTERY FINALISTS
THE BANGALORE DETECTIVES CLUB
★ THE HERON
THE MAID
THE MURDER OF MR. WICKAM
SUSPECT
THRILLER/SUSPENSE FINALISTS
THE BOYS FROM BILOXI
★ GREENWICH PARK
THE ISLAND
THE PARIS APARTMENT
SNOWSTORM IN AUGUST
WHERE SECRETS LIVE
AUDIO DRAMA FINALISTS
1984
CLEAN SWEEP
CORALINE
GOOD OMENS
★ PIPELINE
ORIGINAL WORK FINALISTS
THE BABYSITTER LIVES
DAFFODILS
★ MRS. WICKHAM
THE RIVER OF SILVER
STAR TREK: PICARD: NO MAN’S LAND
MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE FINALISTS
THE 1619 PROJECT
ACTS OF VIOLET
THE BUTCHER AND THE WREN
THE MANY DAUGHTERS OF AFONG MOY
RICHARD MARSH: THE BEETLE
★ SPARRING PARTNERS
NARRATION BY THE AUTHOR(S) FINALISTS
APPARENTLY THERE WERE COMPLAINTS
★ FINDING ME
HELLO, MOLLY!
TEN STEPS TO NANETTE
WAYPOINTS
BEST MALE NARRATOR FINALISTS
EDOARDO BALLERINI for The Silent Sisters
SCOTT BRICK for Narrator
JD JACKSON for The Violin Conspiracy
★ SETH NUMRICH for Fairy Tale
JOHN PIRHALLA for Sleepwalk
BEST FEMALE NARRATOR FINALISTS
JONIECE ABBOTT-PRATT for Nightcrawling
JANUARY LAVOY for Thistlefoot Published by Penguin Random House Audio
STEPHANIE NÉMETH-PARKER for NSFW
THANDIWE NEWTON for War and Peace
★ ROSAMUND PIKE for The Eye of the World
AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR FINALISTS
THE 1619 PROJECT
★ FINDING ME
MIRACLE AND WONDER: CONVERSATIONS WITH PAUL SIMON
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES
WAKE: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF WOMEN-LED SLAVE REVOLTS