The best audio drama audiobooks, by award record: every Audie Audio Drama winner

Looking for a audio drama audiobook that's actually worth a credit? This is the complete record of the Audie Award's Audio Drama category — 26 winners from 1999 to 2025, the audiobook industry's own pick for the best audio drama production of each year. The most recent winner is George Orwell's 1984 by George Orwell, adapted by Joe White, narrated by Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Erivo, full cast.

Last verified 2026-06-10 · Source: Wikipedia + APA

Year	Narrator	Audiobook	Author
2025	Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Erivo, full cast	George Orwell's 1984	George Orwell, adapted by Joe White
2024	Felicia Day, Neil Gaiman, full cast	Third Eye	Felicia Day
2023	Sophina Brown, Eugene Byrd, Demetrius Grosse, Sharon Lawrence, X Mayo, Uyoata Udi, Karen Malina White	Pipeline	Dominique Morisseau
2022	Nicholas Briggs, Richard Earl, Lucy Briggs-Owen, India Fisher, James Joyce, Anjella MacKintosh, Glen McCready, Mark Elstob	Sherlock Holmes: The Seamstress of Peckham Rye	Jonathan Barnes
2021	Paul McGann, Nicola Walker, Hattie Morahan, Rebecca Root, Tom Price, Tom Baker	Doctor Who: Stranded (Series 1)	Matt Fitton, David K. Barnes, Lisa McMullin, John Dorney
2020	Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Susan Brown, Denise Gough, full cast	Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes	Tony Kushner
2019	Richard Armitage, Lucy Briggs-Owen	The Martian Invasion of Earth	H. G. Wells, adapted by Nicholas Briggs
2018	Joseph Timms, Owen Teale, Geoffrey Palmer, full cast	Brother Francis: The Barefoot Saint of Assisi	Paul McCusker
2017	Robin Miles, Edwin Strout, Dean Johnson, Jacquie Maddix, full cast	In the Embers	Brian Price, Jerry Stearns
2016	Bill Bailey, Richard E. Grant, Colin Salmon, Tim McInnerny, Bernard Cribbins, Celia Imrie, Martin Shaw	The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories	Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Bev Doyle, Richard Kurti
2015	Geoffrey Arend, Wilson Bethel, Seamus Dever, Sarah Drew, Henri Lubatti, James Marsters, Christopher Neame, Moira Quirk, Darren Richardson	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by David Pichette, R. Hamilton Wright
2014	Joe Holgate, Henry Goodman, Lee Boardman, Geoffrey Palmer, Roy Hudd, Finty Williams, full cast	Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens, adapted by Paul McCusker
2013	Ellen Kushner, Dion Graham, Katherine Kellgren, Robert Fass, Nick Sullivan, Simon Jones, Sam Guncler, Anne Bobby	Swordspoint	Ellen Kushner
2012	full cast	The Arthur Miller Collection	Arthur Miller
2011	Amy Irving, Edward Herrmann, Kristoffer Tabori, full cast	Saint Joan	George Bernard Shaw
2010	Michael York, Richard Dreyfuss, Gary Sinise, full cast	The Word of Promise	Carl Amari
2009	Tim McInnerny, Amanda Redman, full cast	The Odyssey	Homer, dramatized by Simon Armitage
2008	Phil Proctor, Simon Templeman, Moira Quirk, Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres, Robertson Dean, W. Morgan Sheppard	Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls	Yuri Rasovsky
2007	full cast	The Life of Jesus: Dramatic Eyewitness Accounts from the Luke Reports	Paul McCusker
2006	Martin Jarvis, Kristoffer Tabori, full cast	The Sherlock Holmes Theatre	Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by William Gillette, Yuri Rasovsky
2005	Spencer Murphy, full cast	Buddha Boy	Kathe Koja
2004	full cast	The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare	William Shakespeare
2003	Swoosie Kurtz, Bill Irwin	The Guys	Anne Nelson
2001	Barbara Bain, Emily Bergl, Harriet Harris	Agnes of God	John Pielmeier
2000	Garrison Keillor	A Prairie Home Companion: 25th Anniversary	Garrison Keillor
1999	Julie Harris, Amy Irving, Harris Yulin	The Road to Mecca	Athol Fugard

Most-awarded audio drama narrators

Andrew Garfield (2 wins) · Lucy Briggs-Owen (2 wins) · Geoffrey Palmer (2 wins) · Tim McInnerny (2 wins) · Moira Quirk (2 wins) · Amy Irving (2 wins) · Kristoffer Tabori (2 wins) · Martin Jarvis (2 wins).

Most-awarded audio drama authors

Paul McCusker (2 wins).

See also: Audiobook of the Year · Best Narrator winners · Grammy audiobook winners.