Winners
Audiobook: Fiction
2024 FINALISTS - AUDIOBOOK: FICTION
See below for the list of 2024 finalists in the AUDIOBOOK: FICTION category, for books with a copyright date of 2023.
Belly of the Beast: Sorce Book 1
2024 Finalist
Author/Narrator: Charles Armstrong
Publisher: Sorce
ASIN: B0CJN2KN6X
In Sera Skohlidon’s guarded, imaginative core, fauns have rejected the Royal Coven, their magick, and the questionable trades made for it. One day, her quest for answers unearths a dark family secret. With the help of a shapeshifting deadringer, she embarks on a journey that will change her world forever.
Cobra Pose: Yoga Mat Mysteries
2024 Finalist
Author/Narrator: Susan Rogers and John Roosen, narrated by Rupert Degas
Publisher: G-EMS Pty Ltd and PS LLC
ISBN: 9780645413618
A relentlessly entertaining installment of Yoga Mat Mysteries. Using cutting-edge spy tech and a repertoire of specialist skills, the captivating lead characters are quite an addictive pair. With their razor-sharp wit, they front this mystery series. The fast-paced story weaves international intrigue at the center of this wholly original thriller.
Ellis River
2024 Finalist
Author/Narrator: Nicki Ehrlich, narrated by Madeleine Norton
Publisher: Bay Feather Books
ISBN: 9798368993393
The Civil War scattered her family. Disguised, and with her spirited horse, a young woman navigates war-torn country to collect what’s left of her life. Though war refuses to fade, an unlikely group of rescuers teach her family is more than blood, and love has no limits.
2023 WINNERS - AUDIOBOOK: FICTION
See below for the list of 2023 winners in the AUDIOBOOK: FICTION category, for books with a copyright date of 2022.
ReInception
2023 Gold Winner
Author/Narrator: Sarena Straus, narrated by Arielle DeLisle
Publisher: Winding Road Stories
ASIN: B0BLRC3RFX
In a near-future NYC, the government is attempting to rid society of crime by rewiring brains to control bad habits and impulses using a corporation’s popular technology. But when a college student and a government-labeled terrorist discover the truth, they risk their lives to preserve their free will and the future.
Angel of Ambition
2023 Silver Winner
Author/Narrators: Glenn Kaplan, narrated by Stephanie Willing and John Pirhalla
Publisher: Woodhall Press
ISBN: 9798212183963 (ASIN B0B322RL7L)
Angela Hanson is a girl from the projects who’s willing to do whatever it takes to join the billionaires. Her affair with legendary adman Jack Price, her mentor-turned-lover, helps her rocket to the top of advertising. And when he dumps her, she decides to make him a pawn in her game instead.
Fossil Woman: A Novel
2023 Silver Winner
Author/Narrator: Sharon Lyon, narrated by Hattie Caillier Tschida
Publisher: Sharon Lyon Author LLC
ASIN: B0BG6CMKSS
How can Henrietta, a paleontologist, and Ifa, a woman born thousands of millennia ago, forge a connection? The answer will be found deep beneath the sediment, in fossils that tell a wondrous story of endurance, of resilience…of women.
2022 WINNERS - AUDIOBOOK: FICTION
See below for the list of 2022 winners in the AUDIOBOOK: FICTION category, for books with a copyright date of 2021.
The Girl in the Corn
2022 Gold Winner
Author/Narrator: Jason Offutt, narrated by Josh Bloomberg
Publisher: CamCat Books
ISBN: 9780744304589
Thomas teams up with the girl in the corn to save her world⎯and his⎯only to realize that he may not be able to distinguish good from evil before evil swallows them whole.
The First Robot President
2022 Silver Winner
Author/Narrator: Robert Carlyle Taylor, narrated by Brenda Ernst
Publisher: Reflection Bay Press
ISBN: 97817346462-3-8
Audiobook of Robert Carlyle Taylor's Award-Winning Debut Novel. The First Robot President combines science fiction with political satire, making fun of Democrats and Republicans equally. The novel centers around Thomas Jenkins, a lobbyist, and his robot wife whose political ambitions land her on the Green Party's 2520 Presidential ticket.
Taro: Legend of Japan
2022 Silver Winner
Author/Narrator: Blue Spruell, narrated by Steve Marvel
Publisher: Out of the Blue Productions
ASIN: B09BY4596R
To save an empire from the ruthless warlord who killed his parents, a young samurai must summon the courage to face his past and seize his destiny. An historical fantasy adventure of warlords, swords & mythical beasts from old Japan – an engaging tale for adults young and old!
2021 WINNERS - AUDIOBOOK: FICTION
See below for the list of 2021 winners in the AUDIOBOOK: FICTION category, for books with a copyright date of 2020. Click here to watch the Gold and Silver winner speeches.
Megge of Bury Down: The Bury Down Chronicles, Book One
2021 Gold Winner
Authors: Rebecca Kightlinger, narrated by Jan Cramer
Publisher: Rowan Moon
ASIN: B07K7X6V2H
In medieval Cornwall, young Megge has come of age to be apprenticed to the healer of Bury Down. But first, she must summon the courage to accept and vow to protect The Book of Seasons, which holds life-sustaining power harnessed centuries earlier by Murga, the first seer of Bury Down.
A Child Lost: A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel
2021 Silver Winner
Authors: Michelle Cox, narrated by Jayne Entwistle
Publisher: Michelle Cox Writes
ISBN: 978-\1662201127
In this fifth book of the series, Henrietta and Clive find themselves involved in two cases: A spiritualist woman operating in an abandoned schoolhouse on the edge of town, and the search for the mother of an immigrant child mistakenly admitted to a notorious Chicago insane asylum after experiencing epileptic fits.
Dead Air: A Novel of Suspense
2021 Silver Winner
Authors: Michael Bradley, narrated by Rachel Fulginiti
Publisher: CamCat Books
ISBN: 9780744300079
As anonymous letters threaten to destroy Kaitlyn Ashe's reinvented life as the top-rated radio DJ in Philadelphia, her life spirals toward a reunion in the one place she’d hoped to never visit again: The Shallows. “ . . . an exciting mystery.” —Foreword Reviews
2020 WINNERS - AUDIOBOOK: FICTION
See below for the list of 2020 winners in the AUDIOBOOK: FICTION category, for books with a copyright date of 2019.
The Dare: Friends, Family, and Other Eerie Mysteries
2020 Gold Winner
Author: Cynthea Liu
Publisher: Pivotal Publishing
ISBN: 9780999033258
Paris Pan moves to a small town where she has a shot at making friends. But that friendship comes at a price. She must take the Dare.
Guesthouse for Ganesha: A Novel
2020 Silver Winner
Author: Judith Teitelman
Publisher: She Writes Press
ASIN: B07R18C26C
Left at the altar, spurned—what does that do to a young woman’s heart? And why would a Hindu God care?
A Vial Upon the Sun
2020 Silver Winner
Authors: James Codlin and Craig Codlin
Publisher: James Codlin and Craig Codlin
ISBN: 9781090886958
Thom Rivera narrates a political thriller in which the Spanish Inquisition rises from the ashes to terrorize the modern world.
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