BESTSELLING AUDIOBOOKS & AUDIE WINNERS 2014-2019
The audiobooks listed in this section appeared on the bestseller lists of PUBLISHERS WEEKLY for the years 2014-2019 or were chosen as winners of the Audie Awards by the Audio Publisher’s Association (APA). The Audie Awards were started by the APA in 1996 and the initial presentation was made at the American Bookseller’s Association (ABA) convention. This section is arranged alphabetically by subjects that are assigned by the editorial staff of the R.R. Bowker Company and are consistent with those used in Books Out Loud. Within the subject categories, titles are listed alphabetically. The entries are abbreviated and include these elements: Title, primary author or reader/performer, and publisher name. “Audie Winners” are identified as such. New entries since the last edition begin with an asterisk (*). Complete bibliographic information can be found in the Title Index and ordering information in the Producers’ Index.
Biography Being George Washington. Glenn Beck. Simon Al Franken, Giant of the Senate. Al Franken. & Schuster Audio Twelve *Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Alexander Hamilton. Ron Chernow. Penguin Childhood. Trevor Noah. Audible Studios, Audio Audie Winner 2018
All-American Murder. James Patterson & Alex *Born to Run. Bruce Springsteen. Simon & Abramovich. Little, Brown Schuster Audio, Audie Winner 2018
American Sniper. Chris Kyle. HarperAudio Born with Teeth. Kate Mulgrew. Hachette Audio, Audie Winner 2016 *Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans. Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger. Bossypants. Tina Fey. Hachette Audio, Audie Penguin Audio Winner 2012
The Awakening of HK Derryberry. Jim The Boy Born Dead. David Ring. Bradford & Andy Hardin. Thomas Nelson, Christianaudio, Audie Winner 2016 Audie Winner 2017 The Bully Pulpit. Doris Kearns Goodwin. *Before She Was Harriet. Lesa Cline- Simon & Schuster Audio, Audie Winner Ransome. Live Oak Media, Audie Winner 2015 2019 xxiii BESTSELLING AUDIOBOOKS 2014-2019 BOOKS OUT LOUD™
*Darkest Hour. Anthony McCarten. The Innocent Man. John Grisham. Random HarperAudio, Audie Winner 2019 House Audio
Dreamers and Deceivers. Glenn Beck. Simon & Inside SEAL Team Six. Don Mann. Hachette Schuster Audio Audio
*Educated. Tara Westover. Penguin Random Killing Kennedy. Bill O’Reilly. Macmillan House Audio, Audie Winner 2019 Audio
Empire of the Summer Moon. S. C. Gwynne. Killing Lincoln. Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard. Simon & Schuster Audio Macmillan Audio
Fire Road: The Napalm Girl’s Journey Killing Patton. Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard. Through the Horrors of War to Faith, Macmillan Audio Forgiveness, and Peace. Kim Phuc Phan Thi. HighBridge Audio, Audie Winner 2018 Killing Reagan. Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard. Macmillan Audio 41: A Portrait of My Father. George W. Bush. Random House Audio *Leonardo de Vinci. Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster Audio Furious Cool. David Henry & Joe Henry. Tantor Media, Audie Winner 2015 A Life in Parts. Bryan Cranston. Simon & Schuster Audio, Audie Winner 2017 Furiously Happy. Jenny Lawson. Macmillan Audio, Audie Winner 2016 The Magnolia Story. Chip Gaines & Joanna Gaines. Thomas Nelson on Brilliance Audio Ghettoside. Jill Leovy. Random House Audio/Books on Tape, Audie Winner 2016 A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts. Andrew Chaikin & Tom Ghost Boy. Simon Bubb. Thomas Nelson, Audie Hanks. Audiobooks.com Publishing, Audie Winner 2016 Winner 2016
Gifted Hands. Ben Carson. Brilliance Audio Mandela: An Audio History. Nelson Mandela. Highbridge, Audie Winner 2015 The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo. Amy Schumer. Simon & Schuster Audio No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of The Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden. The Greatest: My Own Story. Muhammad Ali & Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer. Penguin Richard Durham. Graymalkin Media, Audie Audio Winner 2017 Not My Father’s Son. Alan Cumming. Happy, Happy, Happy. Phil Robertson. Simon HarperAudio, Audie Winner 2015 & Schuster Audio Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love. Hillbilly Elegy. J. D. Vance. HarperAudio, Larry Levin. Hachette Audio Audie Winner 2017 Proof of Heaven. Eben Alexander. Simon & *In Pieces. Sally Field. Grand Central Schuster Audio
In the Garden of Beasts. Erik Larson. Random *The Restless Wave. John McCain & Mark House Audio Salter. Simon & Schuster Audio xxiv BOOKS OUT LOUD ™ BESTSELLING AUDIOBOOKS 2014-2019
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend. Susan Yes Please. Amy Poehler. HarperAudio, Audie Orlean. Simon & Schuster Audio Winner 2015
Seabiscuit: An American Legend. Laura Hillenbrand. Random House Audio Business, Economics, Personal Finance
The Seamstress. Sara Tuvel Bernstein, et al. Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Tantor Media, Audie Winner 2013 Government for a Strong Economy. Bill Clinton. Random House Audio Seriously… I’m Kidding. Ellen DeGeneres. Hachette Audio The Barefoot Executive: The Ultimate Guide to Being Your Own Boss and Achieving Settle for More. Megyn Kelly. HarperAudio Financial Freedom. Carrie Wilkerson. Oasis Audio, Audie Winner 2012 Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse, and the World at Large. Boomerang. Michael Lewis. Simon & Schuster William Shatner. Penguin Audio, Audie Audio Winner 2012 Flash Boys. Michael Lewis. Simon & Schuster Si-Cology 1. Si Robertson. Simon & Schuster Audio Audio *How to Be Heard. Julian Treasure. Blackstone Society’s Child. Janis Ian. Tantor Media, Audie Publishing, Audie Winner 2019 Winner 2013 Humans Need Not Apply. Jerry Kaplan. Tantor Steve Jobs. Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster Media, Audie Winner 2017 Audio The Intelligent Entrepreneur. Bill Murphy, Jr. Still Foolin’ ‘Em. Billy Crystal. Macmillan Audible, Inc., Audie Winner 2011
Theft by Finding. David Sedaris. Little, Brown Leadership Secrets of the Salvation Army. Robert Watson. eChristian, Audie Winner This Life I Live. Rory Feek. Thomas Nelson 2014
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. Jon Lean In. Sheryl Sandberg. Random House Meacham. Random House Audio Audio
28 Days: Moments in Black History That Money: Master the Game. Tony Robbins. Changed the World. Charles R. Smith, Jr. Simon & Schuster Audio Live Oak Media, Audie Winner 2017 A More Beautiful Question. Warren Berger. UnPHILtered. Phil Robertson. Simon & Audible, Inc., Audie Winner 2015 Schuster Audio Spy the Lie. Philip Houston, et al. Macmillan What Happened. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Audio, Audie Winner 2013 Simon & Schuster Audio Unshakeable. Tony Robbins. Simon & Schuster What I Know for Sure. Oprah Winfrey. Audio Macmillan Audio, Audie Winner 2015 What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. The Wright Brothers. David McCullough. Marshall Goldsmith. Random House Audio Simon & Schuster Audio
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Drama (General) 41: A Portrait of My Father. George W. Bush. Random House Audio A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry. L.A. Theatre Works, Audie Winner 2012 Ghettoside. Jill Leovy. Random House Audio/Books on Tape, Audie Winner 2016
Foreign Language Instruction (General) The Hidden History of America at War. Kenneth C. Davis. Random House Audio Living Language Spanish. Living Language. Living Language *A Higher Loyalty. James Comey. Macmillan Audio
Health & Fitness Killers of the Flower Moon. David Grann. Random House Audio *Food. Mark Hyman. Little, Brown Killing England. Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard. Holt History (United States) Killing Kennedy. Bill O’Reilly. Macmillan Alexander Hamilton. Ron Chernow. Penguin Audio Audio Killing Lincoln. Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard. *Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Macmillan Audio Orleans. Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger. Penguin Audio Killing Patton. Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard. Macmillan Audio Being George Washington. Glenn Beck. Simon & Schuster Audio Killing Reagan. Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard. Macmillan Audio Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies: The Civil War. David Fisher. Macmillan Audio Legends & Lies. Bill O’Reilly & David Fisher. Macmillan Audio Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies: The Patriots. David Fisher. Macmillan Audio Mayflower. Nathaniel Philbrick. Penguin Audio
The Bully Pulpit. Doris Kearns Goodwin. The Men Who United the States. Simon Simon & Schuster Audio, Audie Winner Winchester. HarperAudio 2015 *The Oregon Trail. Rinker Buck. Simon & Dreamers and Deceivers. Glenn Beck. Simon & Schuster Audio Schuster Audio Seabiscuit: An American Legend. Laura Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Hillenbrand. Random House Audio Power. Rachel Maddow. Random House Audio Team of Rivals. Doris Kearns Goodwin. Simon & Schuster Audio Duty. Robert M. Gates. Random House Audio Things That Matter. Charles Krauthammer. Empire of the Summer Moon. S. C. Gwynne. Random House Audio Simon & Schuster Audio
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. Jon *Calypso. David Sedaris. Little, Brown Meacham. Random House Audio Furious Cool. David Henry & Joe Henry. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates. Tantor Media, Audie Winner 2015 Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger. Penguin Audio Furiously Happy. Jenny Lawson. Macmillan Audio, Audie Winner 2016
History (World) The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo. Amy Schumer. Simon & Schuster Audio Dead Wake. Erik Larson. Random House Audio *The Greatest Love Story Ever Told. Nick *Franklin and Winston. Jon Meacham. Offerman & Megan Mullally. Penguin Random House Audio Random House Audio, Audie Winner 2019
Ghost Soldiers. Hampton Sides. Random House *Heads of the Colored People. Nafissa Audio Thompson-Spires. HighBridge Audio, Audie Winner 2019 In Harm’s Way. Doug Stanton. Audible Studios, Audie Winner 2017 I’m Judging You. Luvvie Ajayi. Macmillan Audio, Audie Winner 2017 In the Garden of Beasts. Erik Larson. Random House Audio Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls. David Sedaris. Hachette Audio Killing the Rising Sun. Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard. Macmillan Audio Seriously… I’m Kidding. Ellen DeGeneres. Hachette Audio Lone Survivor. Marcus Luttrell. Hachette Audio Si-Cology 1. Si Robertson. Simon & Schuster Audio A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts. Andrew Chaikin & Tom Theft by Finding. David Sedaris. Little, Brown Hanks. Audiobooks.com Publishing, Audie Winner 2016 *Whiskey in a Teacup. Reese Witherspoon. Simon & Schuster Audio Mandela: An Audio History. Nelson Mandela. Highbridge, Audie Winner 2015 Yes Please. Amy Poehler. HarperAudio, Audie Winner 2015 No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden. Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer. Penguin Literature & Fiction (Action & Adventure) Audio The Assassin. Clive Cussler & Justin Scott. Penguin Audio Humor The Bear and the Dragon. Tom Clancy. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate. Al Franken. Random House Audio Twelve Black List. Brad Thor. Simon & Schuster Audio America Again. Stephen Colbert. Hachette Audio *Black Wind. Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler. Penguin Audio
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Blowback. Brad Thor. Simon & Schuster Audio The Quest. Nelson DeMille. Hachette Audio
The Bootlegger. Clive Cussler & Justin Scott. Red Rabbit. Tom Clancy. Random House Audio Penguin Audio *The Rising Sea. Clive Cussler & Graham Cut and Thurst. Stuart Woods. Penguin Audio Brown. Penguin Audio
Devil’s Gate. Clive Cussler & Graham Brown. Robert Ludlum’s the Ares Decision. Kyle Penguin Audio Mills. Hachette Audio
Dragon Teeth. Michael Crichton. HarperAudio Robert Ludlum’s the Bourne Ascendancy. Eric Van Lustbader. Grand Central The Emperor’s Revenage. Clive Cussler & Boyd Morrison. Penguin Audio Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Imperative. Eric Van Lustbader. Hachette Audio The English Spy. Daniel Silva. HarperAudio, Audie Winner 2016 Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Legacy. Eric Van Lustbader. Macmillan Audio The Eye of Heaven. Clive Cussler & Russell Blake. Penguin Audio Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Objective. Eric Lustbader. Hachette Audio Ghost Ship. Clive Cussler & Graham Brown. Penguin Audio Robert Ludlum’s the Utopia Experiment. Kyle Mills. Hachette Audio *The Gray Ghost. Clive Cussler & Robin Burcell. Penguin Audio *The Seventh Plague. James Rollins. Harper Audio Havana Storm. Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler. Penguin Audio The Spymasters. W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV. Brilliance Audio Hawk. James Rollins & Grant Blackwood. HarperAudio The Storm. Clive Cussler & Graham Brown. Penguin Audio Life of Pi. Yann Martel. Highbridge Audio The Teeth of the Tiger. Tom Clancy. Random The Mayan Secrets. Clive Cussler & Thomas House Audio Perry. Penguin Audio Tom Clancy Presents Acts of Valor. Dick Mirage. Clive Cussler & Jack Du Brul. Penguin Couch & George Galdorisi. Brilliance Audio Audio
The Pharaoh’s Secret. Clive Cussler & Graham Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Out of the Ashes. Dick Brown. Penguin Audio Couch & George Galdorisi. Macmillan Audio
Piranha. Clive Cussler & Boyd Morrison. The Tombs. Clive Cussler & Thomas Perry. Penguin Audio Penguin Audio
Pirate. Clive Cussler & Robin Burcell. Penguin *Turbulence. Stuart Woods. Penguin Audio Audio *Typhoon Fury. Clive Cussler & Boyd Poseidon’s Arrow. Clive Cussler. Penguin Morrison. Penguin Audio Audio xxviii BOOKS OUT LOUD ™ BESTSELLING AUDIOBOOKS 2014-2019
*Unbound. Stuart Woods. Penguin Audio *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Hexagonal Phase. Eoin Colfer & Douglas Zero Hour. Clive Cussler & Graham Brown. Adams. Penguin Random House UK Audio, Penguin Audio Audie Winner 2019
Humans, Bow Down. James Patterson & Emily Literature & Fiction (Fantasy & Science Raymond. Little, Brown Fiction) Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton. Brilliance Alien: Out of the Shadows. Tim Lebbon & Dirk Publishing, Audie Winner 2016 Maggs. Audible Studios, Audie Winner 2017 The Martian. Andy Weir. Podium Publishing, Audie Winner 2015 Anita. Keith Roberts. Neil Gaiman Presents/Audible, Inc., Audie Winner 2013 A Memory of Light. Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson. Macmillan Audio Battlefield Earth. L. Ron Hubbard. Galaxy Audio Nice Dragons Finish Last. Rachel Aaron. Audible Studios, Audie Winner 2016 Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000. L. Ron Hubbard. Galaxy Audio, Audie Winner *Norse Mythology. Neil Gaiman. HarperAudio, 2017 Audie Winner 2018
Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance. Lois McMaster *The Martian Invasion of Earth. H. G. Wells. Bujold. Blackstone Audio Inc., Audie Big Finish Productions, Audie Winner 2019 Winner 2014 The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Neil *Children of Blood and Bone. Tomi Adeyemi. Gaiman. Harper Audio Macmillan Audio, Audie Winner 2019 The Passage. Justin Cronin. Random House Clockwork Angels: The Watchmaker’s Audio Edition. Kevin J. Anderson. Brilliance Audio, Audie Winner 2014 Provenance. Anne Leckie. Hachette Audio, Audie Winner 2018 *Curse on the Land. Faith Hunter. Audible Studios, Audie Winner 2018 Ready Player One. Ernest Cline. Random House Audio The Dispatcher. John Scalzi. Audible Studios, Audie Winner 2017 Reviver. Seth Patrick. Macmillan Audio, Audie Winner 2014 11/22/63. Stephen King. Simon & Schuster Audio *Spin. Harvey Edelman & Neil Fishman. HarperAudio, Audie Winner 2019 The Gunslinger. Stephen King. Simon & Schuster Audio Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Alan Dean Foster. Penguin Random House Audio / The Hike. Drew Magary. Brilliance Audio, Books On Tape, Audie Winner 2017 Audie Winner 2017 A Storm of Swords. George R. R. Martin. Random House Audio
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The Time Keeper. Mitch Albom. Hyperion The First Phone Call from Heaven. Mitch Albom. HarperAudio Welcome to Night Vale. Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. HarperAudio Fly Away. Kristin Hannah. Macmillan Audio
The Wind Through the Keyhole. Stephen The Geek Feminist Revolution. Kameron King. Simon & Schuster Audio Hurley. Recorded Books, Audie Winner 2017 Wisp of a Thing. Alex Bledsoe. Blackstone Audio Inc., Audie Winner 2014 Go Set a Watchman. Harper Lee. Harper Audio
Words of Radiance. Brandon Sanderson. The Goldfinch. Donna Tartt. Hachette Audio, Macmillan Audio, Audie Winner 2015 Audie Winner 2014
*The Great Alone. Kristin Hannah. Macmillan Literature & Fiction (General) Audio
All Summer Long. Dorothea Benton Frank. *The Man on the Mountaintop. Susan Trott. HarperAudio Audible Studios, Audie Winner 2019
And the Mountains Echoed. Khaled Hosseini. Micro. Michael Crichton. Harper Audio Penguin Audio Million Dollar Baby. Lisa Jackson. Brilliance Atonement. Ian McEwan. Recorded Books Audio
Be Frank with Me. Julia Claiborne Johnson. Minding Frankie. Maeve Binchy. Random HarperAudio, Audie Winner 2017 House Audio
Britt-Marie Was Here. Fredrik Backman. The New York Stories. John O’Hara. Penguin Simon & Schuster Audio Random House Audio, Audie Winner 2015
The Bronzed Hawk. Iris Johansen. Brilliance No Safe Secret. Fern Michaels. Brilliance Audio Audio
Calico Joe. John Grisham. Random House Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens. Tyndale House, Audio Audie Winner 2014
Carpet Diem: Or… How to Save the World The One and Only. Emily Giffin. Random by Accident. Justin Lee Anderson. Tantor House Audio Audio, Audie Winner 2018 Pete Seeger: The Storm King. Pete Seeger. The Casual Vacancy. J. K. Rowling. Hachette Hachette Audio, Audie Winner 2014 Audio Small Great Things. Jodi Picoult. Penguin The Christmas Wedding. James Patterson & Random House Audio / Books On Tape, Richard DiLallo. Hachette Audio Audie Winner 2017
*Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Gail Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good. Jan Honeyman. Penguin Audio, Audie Winner Karon. Penguin Audio 2018
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