Grammy audiobook winners: every Best Audio Book / Spoken Word winner, 2010–2026
The Grammys honor audiobooks through Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording — known for decades as Best Spoken Word Album until its 2023 renaming. The most recent winner is Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness The Dalai Lama by The Dalai Lama (2026).
| Year | Winner | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Dalai Lama | Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness The Dalai Lama |
| 2025 | Jimmy Carter | Last Sunday in Plains: A Centennial Celebration |
| 2024 | Michelle Obama | The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times |
| 2023 | Viola Davis | Finding Me |
| 2022 | Don Cheadle | Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation from John Lewis |
| 2021 | Rachel Maddow | Blowout |
| 2020 | Michelle Obama | Becoming |
| 2019 | Jimmy Carter | Faith: A Journey for All |
| 2018 | Carrie Fisher | The Princess Diarist |
| 2017 | Carol Burnett | In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox |
| 2016 | Jimmy Carter | A Full Life: Reflections at 90 |
| 2015 | Joan Rivers | Diary of a Mad Diva |
| 2014 | Stephen Colbert | America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't |
| 2013 | Janis Ian | Society's Child |
| 2012 | Betty White | If You Ask Me (and of Course You Won't) |
| 2011 | Jon Stewart | Earth (The Audiobook) |
| 2010 | Michael J. Fox | Always Looking Up |
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Who has won the Grammy audiobook award most often?
Jimmy Carter (3 wins: 2016, 2019, 2025) · Michelle Obama (2 wins: 2020, 2024).
Audiobooks that won both a Grammy AND an Audie
Finding Me (Viola Davis) holds the double crown: the 2023 Grammy and an Audie Award — it won the Audie Audiobook of the Year in 2023. Cross-referencing this index's datasets, it is the only title to take the top audiobook prize from both the recording industry and the audiobook industry in the same year.
See also: Audie Audiobook of the Year winners · Best Narrator winners.