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The Audies® Finalists 2007 On June 1, publishers, producers, and narrators gathered in categories—Thriller/Suspense, Children’s Titles for Ages 12+, Rockefeller Center’s famous Rainbow Room for the Audies® and Spanish Language—and this year’s special Judges’ black-tie gala honoring the year’s best audiobooks. Jim Dale Award for Politics. One title was also named Audiobook of was master of ceremonies as the Audio Publishers Association the Year for its overall impact on the audiobook industry (see (APA) presented winners in 32 categories, including three new right). Below is the complete list of 2007 Audies Finalists.

For a complete list of the 2007 winners of the Audies® with sound clips, visit www.theaudies.com.

FICTION, ABRIDGED Dead Center, David Rosenfelt, read by Grover INSPIRATIONAL/SPIRITUAL Gardner (Listen & Live Audio) The Book of the Dead, Lincoln Child, Inspired By . . . : New Douglas Preston, read by René Auberjonois Definitely Dead, Charlaine Harris, read by Testament , performed by Cuba Gooding, Jr., (Hachette Audio) Johanna Parker (Recorded Books) Samuel L. Jackson, and a Full Cast (Zondervan) Motor Mouth, Janet Evanovich, read by Echo Park, Michael Connelly, read by Len Mama Made the Difference, T.D. Jakes, read C.J. Critt (Harper Audio) Cariou (Hachette Audio) by Richard Allen (Penguin Audio) Paint It Black, Janet Fitch, read by Jennifer A Field of Darkness , Cornelia Read, read by The Message // Remix Complete, Eugene H. Leigh (Hachette Audio) Hilary Huber (Blackstone Audiobooks) Peterson, read by Multiple Readers (Oasis Audio) Restless, William Boyd, read by The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis, read by (Audio Renaissance) THRILLER/SUSPENSE Ralph Cosham (Blackstone Audiobooks) We Speak Your Names, Pearl Cleage, Zaron The Sad Truth About Happiness, Ann Giardini, The Dead Yard, Adrian McKinty, read by Burnett Jr., read by Pearl Cleage (Blackstone read by Suleka Mathew (Goose Lane Gerard Doyle (Blackstone Audiobooks) Editions/BTC Audiobooks) Audiobooks) The Foreign Correspondent, Alan Furst, read by Alfred Molina (Simon & Schuster Audio) CLASSICS FICTION, UNABRIDGED Night of the Jaguar, Michael Gruber, read by The Prestige, Christopher Priest, read by Jonathan Davis (BBC Audiobooks America) The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham, read by Kate Reading (Blackstone Audiobooks) Simon Vance (Blackstone Audiobooks) Surrender, Sonya Hartnett, read by Humphrey Restless , William Boyd, read by Rosamund Pike Bower (Bolinda Audio) The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, read by William Hurt (Simon & Schuster Audio) (Audio Renaissance) The Wall, Jeff Long, read by Grover Gardner Rise and Shine, Anna Quindlen, read by (Tantor Media) To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, read by Carol Monda (Recorded Books) (Harper Audio/Caedmon) Telegraph Days, Larry McMurtry, read by ROMANCE The Warden , Anthony Trollope, read by Annie Potts (Simon & Schuster Audio) Simon Vance (Blackstone Audiobooks) Born in Death, J.D. Robb, read by Susan The Years, Virginia Woolf, read by Finty The Two-Minute Rule , Robert Crais, read by Ericksen (Brilliance Audio) Christopher Graybill (Brilliance Audio) Williams (BBC Audiobooks America) Darkfever, Karen Marie Moning, read by Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen, read by Joyce Bean (Brilliance Audio) David LeDoux, John Randolph Jones NONFICTION, ABRIDGED (HighBridge Audio) Dear John, Nicholas Sparks, read by Holter Graham (Hachette Audio) The Beatles, Robert Spitz, read by Alfred Molina (Simon & Schuster Audio) If You Could See Me Now, Cecelia Ahern, read LITERARY FICTION by , Rupert Degas (Hyperion Audio) The Great Deluge, Douglas Brinkley, read by Kyf Brewer (Harper Audio) Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart, read by The Tavern on Maple Street, Sharon Owens, Arte Johnson (Phoenix Audio) read by Caroline Winterson The Judgment of Paris, Ross King, read by After This, Alice McDermott, read by Martha (Listen & Live Audio) Tristan Layton (Audio Renaissance) Plimpton (Audio Renaissance) Manhunt, James L. Swanson, read by Richard Thomas (Harper Audio) All the King’s Men , Robert Penn Warren, read by Michael Emerson (Recorded Books) Setting the Table, Danny Meyer, read by Callahan’s Legacy, Spider Robinson, read by Danny Meyer (Harper Audio) Suite Française, Irene Nemirovsky, read by Spider Robinson (Blackstone Audiobooks) Daniel Oreskes, Barbara Rosenblat (HighBridge Audio) The Incredible Shrinking Man, Richard Matheson, read by Yuri Rasovsky NONFICTION, UNABRIDGED The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield, (Blackstone Audiobooks) Babylon by Bus, Ray LeMoine, Jeff Neumann, read by Ruthie Henshall, read by Jeremy Davidson (Penguin Audio) (Simon & Schuster Audio) The Stolen Child, Keith Donohue, read by Andy Paris, Jeff Woodman (Recorded Books) The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright, read by Alan Sklar (Tantor Media) MYSTERY Street Magic , Tamora Pierce, read by Bruce Coville and a Full Cast (Full Cast Audio) Narrow Dog to Carcassonne , Terry Darlington, The Crimes of Jordan Wise, Bill Pronzini, read Voyagers, Ben Bova, read by Stefan Rudnicki read by Steve Hodson (ISIS Audio Books) by Richard Ferrone (BBC Audiobooks America) (Blackstone Audiobooks) Striking Back, Aaron J. Klein, read by Stefan Dark Tort, Diane Mott Davidson, read by Rudnicki (Blackstone Audiobooks) Elizabeth Marvel (Harper Audio) Team of Rivals , Doris Kearns Goodwin, read by Suzanne Toren (Recorded Books) 12 I AudioFile/www.audiofilemagazine.com Audiobook of the Year BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR The Audiobook of the Year Award recognizes one audiobook for its overall Diana, Sarah Bradford, read by Katie Kellgren impact on the audio publishing field. The judges’ comments below consider (Penguin Audio) marketing and sales as well as narration, packaging, production quality, and Dispatches From the Edge, Anderson Cooper, read by Anderson Cooper (Harper Audio) the unique contribution each title makes to the world of audiobooks. Elizabeth, J. Randy Taraborrelli, read by Lynne Maclean (Hachette Audio) INSPIRED BY . . . THE BIBLE EXPERIENCE: NEW TESTAMENT, The Great Escape, Kati Marton, read by Anna Fields (Tantor Media) performed by , Cuba Gooding, Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, and a Full Cast (Zondervan) Sound and Fury, Dave Kindred, read by Dick Hill (Blackstone Audiobooks) “The Bible Experience is a tribute to innovative market- Teacher Man, Frank McCourt, read by ing. Packed with an impressive cast of over 200 Frank McCourt (Simon & Schuster Audio) prominent —including , Samuel L. Jackson, Blair Underwood, Denzel PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT/ Washington, and Angela Bassett—Zondervan didn’t MOTIVATIONAL stop at letting the talent attract listeners. They conducted Beyond Basketball, Mike Krzyzewski with Jamie a church-driven awareness program, utilized MySpace K. Spatola, read by Mike Krzyzewski with Jamie as a promotional vehicle, and received a wealth of K. Spatola (Hachette Audio) positive press for this superb production.” For the Love of a Dog, Patricia McConnell, read by Ellen Archer (Tantor Media) THIS I BELIEVE, Jay Allison, Dan Gediman [Eds.], read by Bill Goodbye to Shy, Leil Lowndes, read by Leil Gates, Martha Graham, et al. (Audio Renaissance) Lowndes (Listen & Live Audio) Letters to a Young Artist, Anna Deavere Smith, “Audio Renaissance’s This I Believe captures the on- read by Anna Deavere Smith (Blackstone Audio) going history of the American people. Adapted On Fearless, Arianna Huffington, from the NPR special series, men and women express read by Arianna Huffington (Hachette Audio) in their own voices the core beliefs by which they live. Essays from the original Edward R. Murrow BUSINESS INFORMATION/ radio series from the 1950s—including those spoken EDUCATION by , Helen Keller, and Eleanor Roosevelt—intermingle with the thoughts of contempo- The Long Tail, Chris Anderson, read by Christopher Nissley (Hyperion Audio) raries, both famous and ordinary, to provide an Mavericks at Work, William C. Taylor, insightful look at the spirit that continues to drive us.” Polly LaBarre, read by Barrett Whitener (Harper Audio) TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Harper Lee, read by Sissy Spacek Myths, Lies & Downright Stupidity, John Stossel, (Harper Audio/Caedmon) read by John Stossel (Hyperion Audio) “To Kill a Mockingbird was one of the most-requested Silos, Politics and Turf Wars, Patrick Lencioni, read by Eric Conger (Audio Renaissance) yet unavailable audiobooks—until this past year. Author Harper Lee personally approved the fine per- Small Is the New Big, Godin, read by Seth Godin (HighBridge Audio) formance of Sissy Spacek, who deftly gives voice to this Pulitzer Prize-winning story of racial tension in a small southern town. Now in its fifth printing, and CHILDREN’S TITLES FOR AGES UP TO 8 featuring the novel’s original 1960 artwork, the audio- book’s strong sales are a testament to customer Jack Russell: Dog Detective (Book #1), Dog Den Mystery, Darrel Odgers, Sally Odgers, demand and Caedmon’s great media outreach, including ample coverage read by Alan King (Bolinda Audio) in People, , and Variety.” Knuffle Bunny, Mo Willems, read by Mo, Cheryl & Trixie Willems (Weston Woods) WORLD WAR Z, Max Brooks, performed by Alan Alda, Mark Murmel Murmel Munsch!, Robert Munsch, read Hamill, Carl Reiner, and a Full Cast (Random House Audio) by Robert Munsch (The Children’s Group) “An oral history of the fictitious zombie wars has been Piccolo and Annabelle, Vol. 1: The Very Messy Inspection, Stephen Axelsen, read by Stanley preserved by Max Brooks in World War Z. The audio McGeagh (Bolinda Audio) features a full cast that includes Hollywood luminaries Poetry Speaks to Children, Elise Paschen [Ed.], Alan Alda, John Turturro, and Rob Reiner; each of the read by Rita Dove, Ogden Nash, et al. novel’s characters offers up first hand experiences of (Sourcebooks) those apocalyptic years. Random House kicked off pro- motion of the program at Comic Con, offered Web samples of the variety of narrators, and targeted thou- Continued on next page sands of Zombie fans with emails and Web-based promotions.”

June/July 2007 I 13 The Audies® Finalists 2007 (continued) CHILDREN’S TITLES SHORT STORIES/COLLECTIONS NARRATION BY THE AUTHOR FOR AGES 8-11 OR AUTHORS Fragile Things, , read by Neil Behind the Curtain, Peter Abrahams, read by Gaiman (Harper Audio) Marian McPartland’s Jazz World: All in Good Colleen Delaney (Harper Audio) Time, Marian McPartland, read by Marian McPartland (Blackstone Audiobooks) Jumping the Scratch, Sara Weeks, read by A Grown-up’s Halloween, Yuri Rasovsky, read Stephen Spinella (Harper Audio) The Mighty and the Almighty, Madeleine by Yuri Rasovsky (Blackstone Audiobooks) Albright, read by Madeleine Albright (Harper Listening for Lions, Gloria Whelan, read by Paris Stories, Mavis Gallant, read by Lorna Audio) Bianca Amato (Recorded Books) Raver, Yuri Rasovsky (Blackstone Audiobooks) Speedbumps, Teri Garr, read by Teri Garr A Series of Unfortunate Events #13: The End, This I Believe, Jay Allison, Dan Gediman [Eds.], (Penguin Audio) Lemony Snicket, read by Tim Curry read by Bill Gates, Martha Graham, et al. (Harper Audio) Teacher Man, Frank McCourt, read by (Audio Renaissance) Frank McCourt (Simon & Schuster Audio) Two Weeks With the Queen, Morris Gleitzman, The Turning, Tim Winton, read by Humphrey read by Morris Gleitzman (Bolinda Audio) The Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle, read by Bower, Caroline Lee (Bolinda Audio) T.C. Boyle (Blackstone Audiobooks) CHILDREN’S TITLES FOR AGES 12+ ORIGINAL WORK MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE Fundamental Cases: The 20th Century Airborn, Kenneth Oppel, read by David Kelly Airborn, Kenneth Oppel, read by David Kelly Courtroom Battles That Changed Our Nation, and a Full Cast (Full Cast Audio) and a Full Cast (Full Cast Audio) Alan Dershowitz, read by Alan Dershowitz Ark Angel, Anthony Horowitz, read by Simon (Recorded Books) Operation Homecoming, , read Prebble (Recorded Books) by Joe Barrett, David Birney, et al. (Blackstone The Hero of Cape Lonely Light, Geoffrey T. Audiobooks) The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale, performed by Williams, read by Dennis F. Regan Cynthia Bishop and a Full Cast (Full Cast Audio) (Geoffrey T. Williams) Suite Française, Irene Nemirovsky, read by Daniel Oreskes, Barbara Rosenblat (HighBridge Looking for Alaska, John Green, read by Jeff Sherlock’s Legacy, Ed. Lange, Will Severin, Audio) Woodman (Brilliance Audio) read by a Full Cast (Family Classics/NYS Theatre Institute) The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield, read by Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, David Lubar, Ruthie Henshall, Lynn Redgrave performed by Ryan MacConnell and a Full Cast Soundwalk: Williamsburg Men/Women, read (Simon & Schuster Audio) (Full Cast Audio) by Joseph Piekarski, Pearl Gluck (OverSampling/Soundwalk) World War Z, Max Brooks, read by Max Brooks and a Full Cast (Random House Audio) INSPIRATIONAL/ Stories From the Storm, Carter Hooper, FAITH-BASED FICTION Celia Collins, et al., read by Carter Hooper, Celia Collins, et al. (Audible, Inc.) AUDIO DRAMA The Angels of Morgan Hill, Donna VanLiere, read by Donna VanLiere (Audio Renaissance) Airborn, Kenneth Oppel, performed by SOLO NARRATION—FEMALE David Kelly and a Full Cast (Full Cast Audio) Divine, Karen Kingsbury, read by Sharon Williams (Brilliance Audio) Darkfever, Karen Marie Moning, read by Joyce King Kong, Joe DeVito and Brad Strickland, Bean (Brilliance Audio) performed by David Baker and a Full Cast Grace at Low Tide, Beth Webb Hart, read by (Full Cast Audio) Kate Forbes (Recorded Books) Fortunate Son, Walter Mosley, read by (Hachette Audio) The Life of , Paul McCusker, performed by Knitting, Anne Bartlett, read by Beverley Dunn a Full Cast (Tyndale Audio/Focus on the Family) (Bolinda Audio) Leave a Candle Burning, Lori Wick, read by Barbara Rosenblat (Oasis Audio) Nightmares on Congress Street V, Fitz-James The Preacher’s Daughter, Beverly Lewis, O’Brien, Edgar Allan Poe, et al., performed by read by Stina Nielsen (Recorded Books) Telegraph Days, Larry McMurtry, read by Annie a Full Cast (Tantor Media) Potts (Simon & Schuster Audio) The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, read by HUMOR performed by Jamie Glover and a Full Cast Sissy Spacek (Harper Audio/Caedmon) (BBC Audiobooks America) The Areas of My Expertise, John Hodgman, Tomb of the Golden Bird, Elizabeth Peters, read read by John Hodgman (Penguin Audio) Twelve Angry Men, , performed by Barbara Rosenblat (Harper Audio) by a Full Cast (L.A. Theatre Works) , Max Barry, read by William Dufris (Tantor Media) SOLO NARRATION—MALE F.U.B.A.R., Sam Seder, Stephen Sherrill, read by AUDIOBOOK ADAPTED FROM Sam Seder (Harper Audio) The Dead Yard, Adrian McKinty, read by ANOTHER MEDIUM Gerard Doyle (Blackstone Audiobooks) Life’s Little Annoyances, Ian Urbina, read by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Stanley Tucci (Audio Renaissance) The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, Quintessential Phase, Douglas Adams, read read by Donald Sutherland by Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern and a Solomon vs. Lord, Paul Levine, read by (Simon & Schuster Audio) Full Cast (BBC Audiobooks America) Christopher Lane (Blackstone Audiobooks) Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Dave Barry, Letter From America: Volumes 1-3, Spoiled Rotten America, Larry Miller, read by Ridley Pearson, read by Jim Dale Alistair Cooke, read by Alistair Cooke Larry Miller (Harper Audio) (Brilliance Audio) (BBC Audiobooks America) Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts, read by Selected Shorts: Vol. 19: Timeless Classics, Humphrey Bower (Blackstone Audiobooks) James Thurber, Edith Wharton, et al., read by Isaiah Sheffer, Maria Tucci, et al. War and Peace, Vol. 1, Leo Tolstoy, read by (Symphony Space) Neville Jason (Naxos AudioBooks)

14 I AudioFile/www.audiofilemagazine.com This I Believe, Jay Allison, Dan Gediman [Eds.], read by Bill Gates, Martha Graham, et al. (Audio Renaissance) Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose, read by a Full Cast (L.A. Theatre Works)

PACKAGE DESIGN The Golden Compass, Tenth Anniversary Edition, Phillip Pullman, read by a Full Cast (Listening Library) Inspired By . . . The Bible Experience: New Testament, performed by Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, and a Full Cast (Zondervan) The James Herriot Collection, James Herriot, read by Christopher Timothy (Audio Renaissance) The Audio Collection, Jamie Lee Curtis, read by Jamie Lee Curtis (Harper Audio) Zodiac, Robert Graysmith, read by Stefan Rudnicki (Blackstone Audiobooks)

ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, Julian Rubinstein, read by Julian Rubinstein et al. (Hachette Audio) Father Gilbert Mysteries: The Silver Cord, Dave Arnold, Paul McCusker, performed by a Full Cast (Focus on the Family/Tyndale Audio) The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale, performed by Cynthia Bishop and a Full Cast (Full Cast Audio) Inspired By . . . The Bible Experience: New Testament, performed by Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, and a Full Cast (Zondervan) Marked Man, William Lashner, read by Richard Rohan (Harper Audio) Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts, read by Humphrey Bower (Blackstone Audiobooks) Continued on page 68

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SPANISH LANGUAGE Angeles y Demonios, Dan Brown, read by Raul Amundaray (FonoLibro Inc.) Caballo de Troya 7: Nahum, J.J. Benitez, read by a Full Cast (FonoLibro Inc.) La Cena Secreta, Javier Sierra, read by Francisco Rivela (Recorded Books) Las Cinco Personas Que Encontraras en el Cielo, Mitch Albom, read by Francisco Rivela (Hyperion Audio) El Rey de los Pleitos, John Grisham, read by Karl Hoffman (FonoLibro Inc.)

JUDGES’ AWARD: POLITICS Faith and Politics, Senator John Danforth, read by Senator John Danforth (Listen & Live Audio) Hubris, Michael Isikoff, David Corn, read by Stefan Rudnicki (Blackstone Audiobooks) In Time of War, Pierce O’Donnell, read by Raymond Todd (Blackstone Audiobooks) The One Percent Doctrine, Ron Suskind, read by Ed Herrmann (Simon & Schuster Audio) Wake Up Call, Kristin Breitweiser, read by Kristin Breitweiser (Hachette Audio)

Resources

Features Pages 12-15: The Audies® Finalists 2007 For an interactive list of The Audies finalists and win- ners, visit www.theaudies.com. Contact the Audio Publishers Association at www.audiopub.org.

Regulars Page 26: NARRATOR SPOTLIGHT Contact the narrators we highlight as follows: Neville Jason, [email protected]; titles— War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Candide and Zadig by Voltaire, all Naxos AudioBooks; Maggi-Meg Reed, Linda Weaver and Chas Cowing, Access Talent, 212-684-7795; titles—The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, HighBridge Audio, The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson, The Ice Dragon by George R. R. Martin, both Audio Renaissance, Hide by Lisa Gardner, Random House Audio/Books on Tape; Jennifer Ikeda, Harden-Curtis, 212-977- 8502; titles—When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park, After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away by Joyce Carol Oates, both Recorded Books.

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