Audie Award for Autobiography or Memoir
# Audie Award for Autobiography or Memoir

The Audie Award for Autobiography or Memoir is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for an audiobook autobiography or memoir released in a given year. It has been awarded since 2015 when it was broken apart, along with the Audie Award for History or Biography, from the Audie Award for Biography or Memoir (awarded since 2003).

## Winners and finalists

### 2010s

| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 2015 20th | Not My Father's Son (2014) | Alan Cumming | Alan Cumming | HarperAudio |
| 2015 20th | Daring: My Passages (2015) | Gail Sheehy | Bernadette Dunne | HarperAudio |
| 2015 20th | Living on Air (2011) | Joe Cipriano and Ann Cipriano | Joe Cipriano | Joe Cipriano Promos |
| 2015 20th | My Life in Middlemarch (2014) | Rebecca Mead | Kate Reading | Blackstone Audio |
| 2015 20th | Yes Please (2014) | Amy Poehler | Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Mike Schur, Eileen and William Poehler, Patrick Stewart, and Kathleen Turner | HarperAudio |
| 2016 21st | Ghost Boy (2011) | Martin Pistorius | Simon Bubb | Thomas Nelson/HarperAudio |
| 2016 21st | Born with Teeth (2015) | Kate Mulgrew | Kate Mulgrew | Hachette Audio |
| 2016 21st | The Courage to Act | Ben S. Bernanke | Grover Gardner | Brilliance Audio |
| 2016 21st | I Must Say (2014) | Martin Short | Martin Short | HarperAudio |
| 2016 21st | Keep Moving, and Other Tips and Truths About Aging (2015) | Dick Van Dyke | Dick Van Dyke | Blackstone Audio |
| 2016 21st | Travels (1988) | Michael Crichton | Christopher Lane | Brilliance Audio |
| 2017 22nd | The Greatest: My Own Story (1975) | Muhammad Ali and Richard Durham | Dion Graham | Graymalkin Media |
| 2017 22nd | Around the Way Girl (2016) | Taraji P. Henson | Taraji P. Henson | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2017 22nd | Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded (2016) | Hannah Hart | Hannah Hart and Judy Young | HarperAudio |
| 2017 22nd | The Rainbow Comes and Goes (2017) | Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt | Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt | HarperAudio |
| 2017 22nd | When Breath Becomes Air (2016) | Paul Kalanithi | Sunil Malhotra and Cassandra Campbell | Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape |
| 2018 23rd | Born to Run (2016) | Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Springsteen | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2018 23rd | Al Franken, Giant of the Senate (2017) | Al Franken | Al Franken | Hachette Audio |
| 2018 23rd | Born a Crime (2016) | Trevor Noah | Trevor Noah | Audible |
| 2018 23rd | Nevertheless (2017) | Alec Baldwin | Alec Baldwin | HarperAudio |
| 2018 23rd | We're Going to Need More Wine (2017) | Gabrielle Union | Gabrielle Union | HarperAudio |
| 2018 23rd | What Happened (2017) | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2019 24th | Educated (2018) | Tara Westover | Julia Whelan | Penguin Random House Audio |
| 2019 24th | Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning (2018) | Leslie Odom, Jr. | Leslie Odom, Jr. | Audible |
| 2019 24th | In Pieces (2018) | Sally Field | Sally Field | Hachette Audio |
| 2019 24th | Letter to Louis (2018) | Alison White | Eve Webster | Bolinda Audio |
| 2019 24th | Small Fry (2018) | Lisa Brennan-Jobs | Eileen Stevens | Blackstone Audio |

### 2020s

| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 2020 25th | Becoming (2018) | Michelle Obama | Michelle Obama | Penguin Random House Audio |
| 2020 25th | From Scratch (2019) | Tembi Locke | Tembi Locke | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2020 25th | Me (2019) | Elton John | Taron Egerton and Elton John | Macmillan Audio |
| 2020 25th | MotherStruck! (2019) | Staceyann Chin | Staceyann Chin | Audible Originals |
| 2020 25th | Too Much Is Not Enough (2019) | Andrew Rannells | Andrew Rannells | Penguin Random House Audio |
| 2021 26th | The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) | Malcolm X and Alex Haley | Laurence Fishburne | Audible |
| 2021 26th | Becoming Duchess Goldblatt (2020) | Anonymous | Gabra Zackman (feat. J. Smith-Cameron and Lyle Lovett) | HMH Audio |
| 2021 26th | Mr. New Orleans: The Life of a Big Easy Underworld Legend (2009) | Frenchy Brouillette and Matthew Randazzo | Louis Herthum | Sound Off Productions |
| 2021 26th | Sigh, Gone (2020) | Phuc Tran | Phuc Tran | Macmillan Audio |
| 2021 26th | Uncanny Valley (2020) | Anna Wiener | Suehyla El-Attar | Macmillan Audio |
| 2022 27th | Somebody's Daughter | Ashley C. Ford | Ashley C. Ford | Macmillan Audio |
| 2022 27th | Act Like You Got Some Sense | Jamie Foxx, foreword by Corinne Foxx | Jamie Foxx, foreword by Corinne Foxx | Hachette Audio |
| 2022 27th | The Boys | Ron Howard and Clint Howard | Ron Howard, Clint Howard, and Bryce Dallas Howard | HarperAudio |
| 2022 27th | Fits and Starts: A Memoir of Living with Epilepsy | Franziska Thomas | Tracy Wiles and Franziska Thomas | Almost Tangible |
| 2022 27th | Listen Mama | M. S. P. Williams | JD Jackson | Souls Take Flight |
| 2023 28th | Unprotected: A Memoir | Billy Porter | Billy Porter | Recorded Books, a division of RBmedia |
| 2023 28th | The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man | Paul Newman, edited by David Rosenthall | Jeff Daniels, Melissa Newman, Clea Newman Soderlund, Ari Fliakos, January LaVoy, John Rubinstein, and Emily Wachtel | Penguin Random House Audio |
| 2023 28th | Hello, Molly | Molly Shannon | Molly Shannon | HarperAudio |
| 2023 28th | Left on Tenth | Delia Ephron | Delia Ephron | Hachette Audio |
| 2023 28th | Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope | Patrick Dylan | Raúl E. Esparza | Snow Anselmo Press with Girl Friday Productions |

## Biography/Memoir winners and finalists 2003–2014

### 2000s

| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 2003 8th | Lucky Man: A Memoir (2002) | Michael J. Fox | Michael J. Fox | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2003 8th | Getting to Know William Shakespeare (2001) | Joy Wake | Patrick Child | Echo Peak Productions |
| 2003 8th | Legacy (2002) | Doc Watson and David Holt | Doc Watson and David Holt | High Windy Audio |
| 2003 8th | Theodore Rex (2001) | Edmund Morris | Harry Chase | Random House Audio |
| 2003 8th | Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See (2002) | Erik Weihenmayer | Nick Sullivan | The Audio Partners Publishing Corp. |
| 2004 9th | The Nazi Officer's Wife (1999) | Edith Hahn Beer | Barbara Rosenblat | Jewish Contemporary Classics |
| 2004 9th | A Long Way from Home (2002) | Tom Brokaw | Tom Brokaw | Random House Audio |
| 2004 9th | Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) | Walter Isaacson | Boyd Gaines | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2004 9th | Hannibal: One Man Against Rome (1958) | Harold Lamb | Charlton Griffin | Audio Connoisseur |
| 2004 9th | My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile (2003) | Isabel Allende | Blair Brown | HarperAudio |
| 2005 10th | Chronicles: Volume One (2004) | Bob Dylan | Sean Penn | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2005 10th | Big Russ and Me: Father and Son (2004) | Tim Russert | Tim Russert | Hyperion AudioBooks |
| 2005 10th | Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (2003) | Firoozeh Dumas | Firoozeh Dumas | Audible |
| 2005 10th | Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure (2002) | Sarah McDonald | Kate Hosking | Bolinda Audio |
| 2005 10th | The House on Beartown Road (2003) | Elizabeth Cohen | Bernadette Dunne | Blackstone Audio |
| 2005 10th | Mornings on Horseback (1981) | David McCullough | Edward Herrmann | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2005 10th | The Twelve Caesars (AD 121) | Suetonius | Charlton Griffin | Audio Connoisseur |
| 2006 11th | Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (2005) | Ruth Reichl | Ruth Reichl | Random House Audio |
| 2006 11th | iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business (2005) | Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon | Alan Sklar, Jeffrey S. Young, and William L. Simon | Penton Overseas |
| 2006 11th | The Tender Bar (2005) | J. R. Moehringer | J. R. Moehringer | Time Warner AudioBooks |
| 2006 11th | We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love (2004) | Jim Wooten | Alan Sklar | Tantor Audio |
| 2006 11th | The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) | Joan Didion | Barbara Caruso | HighBridge Audio |
| 2007 12th | Teacher Man (2005) | Frank McCourt | Frank McCourt | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2007 12th | Diana: Finally, the Complete Story (2006) | Sarah Bradford | Katie Kellgren | Penguin Audio |
| 2007 12th | Dispatches from the Edge (2006) | Anderson Cooper | Anderson Cooper | HarperAudio |
| 2007 12th | Elizabeth (2006) | J. Randy Taraborrelli | Lynne Maclean | Hachette Audio |
| 2007 12th | Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship (2006) | David Kindred | Dick Hill | Blackstone Audio |
| 2007 12th | The Great Escape (2006) | Kati Marton | Anna Fields | Tantor Audio |
| 2008 13th | Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007) | Walter Isaacson | Edward Herrmann | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| 2008 13th | My Lobotomy (2007) | Howard Dully and Charles Fleming | Johnny Heller | Tantor Audio |
| 2008 13th | Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography (2007) | David Michaelis | Holter Graham | HarperAudio |
| 2008 13th | Shakespeare: The World As Stage (2007) | Bill Bryson | Bill Bryson | HarperAudio |
| 2008 13th | Tearing Down the Wall of Sound (2008) | Mick Brown | Ray Porter | Blackstone Audio |
| 2009 14th | The Last Lecture (2008) | Randy Pausch | Erik Singer | HyperionAudio |
| 2009 14th | Black Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster (2008) | John and Jean Silverwood and Malcolm McConnell | Carrington MacDuffie and Joe Barrett | Blackstone Audio |
| 2009 14th | The Legs Are the Last to Go (2008) | Diahann Carroll | Diahann Carroll | HarperAudio |
| 2009 14th | The Middle Place (2005) | Kelly Corrigan | Tavia Gilbert | Blackstone Audio |
| 2009 14th | Waiter Rant (2008) | Steve Dublanica | Dan John Miller | Brilliance Audio |

### 2010s

| Year of Release | Audiobook | Author | Narrator | Audiobook Publisher |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 2010 15th | Anne Frank Remembered (1987) | Miep Gies and Leslie Gold | Barbara Rosenblat | Oasis Audio |
| 2010 15th | The Golden Willow (2009) | Harry Bernstein | Mike Kellogg | Oasis Audio |
| 2010 15th | The Secret Holocaust Diaries (2009) | Nonna Bannisterand Denise George | Rebecca Gallagher | Oasis Audio |
| 2010 15th | True Compass (2009) | Edward Kennedy | John Bedford Lloyd | Hachette Audio |
| 2010 15th | Valkyrie (2009) | Philipp Freiherr von Boeselagerand Florence and Jérôme Fehrenbach | Michael Prichard | Tantor Audio |
| 2011 16th | Life (2010) | Keith Richards | Johnny Deppand Joe Hurley | Hachette Audio |
| 2011 16th | The Slave Across the Street (2010) | Theresa Flores | Renee Raudman | ChristianAudio |
| 2011 16th | Somewhere Inside (2010) | Lisa Ling and Laura Ling | Lisa Ling and Laura Ling | HarperAudio |
| 2011 16th | This Time Together (2010) | Carol Burnett | Carol Burnett | Random House Audio |
| 2011 16th | Abigail Adams: A Life (2009) | Woody Holton | Cassandra Campbell | Tantor Audio |
| 2012 17th | Bossypants (2011) | Tina Fey | Tina Fey | Hachette Audio |
| 2012 17th | The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love (2010) | Kristin Kimball | Tavia Gilbert | Tantor Audio |
| 2012 17th | Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life (2011) | Michael Moore | Michael Moore | Hachette Audio |
| 2012 17th | My Dog Tulip (1956) | J. R. Ackerley | Ralph Cosham | Blackstone Audio |
| 2012 17th | Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever (2011) | Luis Carlos Montalvan | Luis Carlos Montalvan | Audible |
| 2013 18th | The Seamstress (1999) | Sara Tuvel Bernstein, Louise Loots Thornton, and Marlene Bernstein Samuels | Wanda McCaddon | Tantor Audio |
| 2013 18th | Cronkite (2012) | Douglas Brinkley | George Guidall | HarperAudio |
| 2013 18th | Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey (2011) | Fiona Aitken, Lady Carnarvon | Wanda McCaddon | Tantor Audio |
| 2013 18th | My Cross to Bear (2012) | Gregg Allman and Alan Light | Will Patton | HarperAudio |
| 2013 18th | Two Rings: A Story of Love and War (2012) | Millie Werber and Eve Keller | Yelena Shmulenson and Eve Keller | HighBridge Audio |
| 2014 19th | The Elephant Whisperer (2009) | Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence | Simon Vance | Tantor Audio |
| 2014 19th | [sic]: A Memoir (2011) | Joshua Cody | Edoardo Ballerini | Audible |
| 2014 19th | My Beloved World (1992) | Sonia Sotomayor | Rita Moreno | Random House Audio/Books on Tape |
| 2014 19th | World on a String (2012) | John Pizzarelli | Joseph Cosgriff | Audible |
| 2014 19th | I Am Malala (2013) | Malala Yousafzai | Archie Panjabi | Hachette Audio |
