Listen Up Awards for 2005
Listen Up Awards are selected by the audio editors of Publishers
Weekly as a way to acknowledge excellence in a creative industry.
Categories include fiction, nonfiction, mystery, biography, humor, and
religion. The awards are announced in January.
The winners of the 2004 , 2003 , 2002 , and 2001 Listen Up Awards are also available online.
Fiction
The March by E.L. Doctorow, read by Joe Morton (Random House Audio) , unabridged CD
The Understudy by David Nichols, read by Tristan Layton (HighBridge Audio) , unabridged CD
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie, read by Aasif Mandvi (Recorded Books) , unabridged CD
Mr. Muo's Traveling Couch by Dai Sijie, read by B.D. Wong (Random House Audio) , unabridged CD
On Beauty by Zadie Smith, read by Peter Francis James (Penguin Audio) , unabridged CD
Q&A by Vikas Swarup, read by Kerry Shale (Audio Partners)
Rococo by Adriana Trigiani, read by Mario Cantone (Random House Audio) , abridged CD
Nonfiction
1776 by David McCullough, read by the author (Simon & Schuster Audio) , unabridged CD and Digital Player
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, read by Stephen J. Dubner (Harper Audio) , unabridged CD and eAudiobook
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke by Suze Orman, read by the author (Penguin Audio) , abridged CD
Dark Shadows Memories by Kathryn Leigh Scott, read by the author (Pomegranate Press) , abridged CD
The Great Hurricane: 1938 by Cherie Burns, read by Anna Fields (Blackstone Audio) , unabridged CD
Mystery/Thriller
Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, read by Nick Landrum (Recorded Books) , unabridged CD
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly, read by Adam Grupper (TimeWarner Audio) , unabridged CD
Panic by Jeff Abbott, read by L.J. Ganser (Penguin Audio) , unabridged CD
Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley, read by Michael Boatman (Time Warner) , unabridged CD
Rage by Jonathan Kellerman, read by John Rubinstein (Random House Audio) , unabridged CD
Sudden Death by David Rosenfeld, read by Grover Gardner (Listen & Live Audio) , abridged CD
Strange Affair by Peter Robinson, read by Simon Prebble (Harper Audio) , abridged CD
Fever by Sean Rowe, read by William Dufris (Tantor Media) , unabridged CD
Science Fiction/Fantasy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
The Tertiary Phase by Douglas Adams, read by Adams, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Susan Sheridan and a full cast (Audio Partners)
Mercury by Ben Bova, read by Stefan Rudnicki, Arte Johnson and Moira Quirk (Audio Renaissance) , unabridged CD
Thud! by Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs (Simon & Schuster Audio)
Biography/Memoir
My Life So Far by Jane Fonda, read by the author (Random House) , unabridged CD
Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers, read by the author (Simon & Schuster Audio) , abridged CD
Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood by Teri Garr, read by the author (Penguin Audio) , unabridged CD
Classics
Dubliners by James Joyce, read by Frank and Malachy McCourt, Fionnula Flanagan, Stephen Rea and a full cast (Caedmon Audio) , unabridged CD
The Big Four by Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser (Audio Partners) , unabridged CD
Humor
The Truth (With Jokes) by Al Franken, read by the author (Brilliance) , unabridged CD
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell, read by Vowell, Stephen King, Jon Stewart and others (Simon & Schuster Audio) , abridged CD