Listen Up Awards for 2011
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. Winners in all categories of the 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, and 2001 Listen Up Awards are available online.
| Audio Book of the Year | Read by the Author |
| Fiction | Full Cast Production |
| Nonfiction | Audio Book Reader of the Year |
| Classics |
Audio Book of the Year
Apollo's Angels by Jennifer Holmes, read by Kirsten Potter (Tantor Media), unabridged CD
Bossypants by Tina Fey, read by the author (Hachette Audio), unabridged CD
Just Kids by Patti Smith, read by the author (HarperAudio), unabridged CD
The Leftovers by Tom Perotta, read by Dennis Boutsikaris (Macmillan Audio), unabridged CD
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, read by David Pittu (Macmillan Audio), unabridged CD
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, read by Jim Dale (Random House Audio), unabridged CD
Fiction
11/22/63 by Stephen King, read by Craig Wasson (Simon & Schuster Audio), unabridged CD
Borkmann's Point by Håkan Nesser, read by Simon Vance (HighBridge Audio), unabridged CD
Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan, read by Ilyana Kadushin and Matthew Brown (Macmillan Audio)
I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson, read by Sian Thomas (Random House Audio), unabridged CD
Mayday by Nelson DeMille and Thomas Block, read by Scott Brick (Hachette Audio)
Plugged by Eoin Colfer, read by John Keating (AudioGO), unabridged CD
The Snowman by Jo Nesbø, read by Robin Sachs (Random House Audio), unabridged CD
This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman, read by Hilary Huber (Blackstone Audio), unabridged CD
Untouchable by Scott O'Connor, read by Bronson Pinchot (Blackstone Audio), unabridged CD
Nonfiction
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall--From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness by Frank Brady, read by Ray Potter (Blackstone Audio), unabridged CD
Haiti After the Earthquake by Paul Farmer, read by various narrators (HighBridge Audio), unabridged CD
In My Time by Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney, read by Dick Cheney and Edward Herrmann (Simon & Schuster Audio), unabridged CD
The Killer Within: In the Company of Monsters by Philip Carlo, read by Kent Bateman (Blackstone Audio), unabridged CD
The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi, read by Simon Vance (Tantor Media), unabridged CD
Life Itself: A Memoir by Roger Ebert, read by Edward Herrmann (Hachette Audio), unabridged CD
The Man Who Couldn't Eat by Jon Reiner, read by Dan John Miller (Dreamscape Media), unabridged CD
Moneyball by Michael Lewis, read by Scott Brick (Random House Audio), unabridged CD
Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy: Advice from Rock's Ultimate Survivor by Ozzy Osbourne, read by Frank Skinner (Hachette Audio), unabridged CD
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, read by Scott Brick (Penguin Audio), unabridged CD
Classics
The Complete Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, vol. 1 and vol. 2 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, read by David Timson (Naxos AudioBooks), unabridged CDs
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, read by Richard Ferrone (AudioGO), unabridged CD
Ring for Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse, read by Nigel Lambert (AudioGO), unabridged CD
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, read by Roy McMillan (Naxos AudioBooks)
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck, read by Gary Sinise (Penguin Audio), unabridged CD
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, read by Josephine Bailey and Simon Prebble (Tantor Media), unabridged CD
Read by the Author
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua (Penguin Audio), unabridged CD
Ben Behind His Voices by Randye Kaye (Spoken Word)
Drama: An Actor's Education by John Lithgow (HarperAudio), unabridged CD
God no!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales by Penn Jillette (Brilliance Audio), unabridged CD
Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch, foreword read by Carol Burnett (Hyperion/Voice), unabridged CD
Full Cast Production
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (L.A. Theatre Works), unabridged CD
The Graduate by Charles Webb, Buck Henry, Terry Johnson, and Calder Willingham (L.A. Theatre Works), unabridged CD
The Neil Simon Collection by Neil Simon, read by a full cast (L.A. Theatre Works), unabridged CD
The Noël Coward Collection by Noël Coward (L.A. Theatre Works), unabridged CD
Sherlock Holmes Essentials, Vol. II by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (AudioGO), unabridged CD
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (L.A. Theatre Works), unabridged CD
Audio Book Reader of the Year
Jim Dale for The Night Circus (Random House Audio), unabridged CD
Katherine Kellgren for 40 Love (Macmillan Audio)
Kristen Porter for Appollo's Angels (Tantor Media), unabridged CD
Patti Smith for Just Kids (HarperAudio), unabridged CD
Scott Brick for Moneyball (Random House Audio), unabridged CD, Mayday (Hachette Audio), unabridged CD and Washington: A Life (Penguin Audio), unabridged CD
Tina Fey for Bossypants (Hachette Audio), unabridged CD