The best short stories or collection audiobooks, by award record: every Audie Short Stories or Collection winner

Looking for a short stories or collection audiobook that's actually worth a credit? This is the complete record of the Audie Award's Short Stories or Collection category — 26 winners from 2000 to 2026, the audiobook industry's own pick for the best short stories or collection production of each year. The most recent winner is Food for Thought by Alton Brown, narrated by Alton Brown.

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

Year	Narrator	Audiobook	Author
2026	Alton Brown	Food for Thought	Alton Brown
2025	Will Patton, Stephen King	You Like It Darker: Stories	Stephen King
2024	Sophia Bush	Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver	Mary Oliver
2023	Candice Moll, Shayna Small, Samara Naeymi, Jennifer Jill Araya, Carly Robins, Fajer Al-Kaisi	Getaway	Sally Hepworth, Zakiya Dalila Harris, Catherine Steadman, Luanne Rice, Jess Lourey, Rumaan Alam
2022	Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Dion Graham, Imani Parks, Jordan Cobb, Shayna Small, A.J. Beckles, Bahni Turpin	Blackout	Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon
2021	Richard Armitage	The Chekhov Collection of Short Stories	Anton Chekhov
2020	Zachary Quinto, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Neil Gaiman, Ashleigh Cummings, Joe Hill, Laysla De Oliveira, Nate Corddry, Connor Jessup, Stephen Lang, George Guidall	Full Throttle	Joe Hill
2019	Adenrele Ojo	Heads of the Colored People	Nafissa Thompson-Spires
2018	Lauren Fortgang	The Language of Thorns	Leigh Bardugo
2017	Austin Bunn, Luke Daniels, Tanya Eby, Talph Lister, Amy McFadden, Mikael Naramore, Nick Podehl	The Brink	Austin Bunn
2015	Jane Carr	The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher	Hilary Mantel
2014	Graeme Malcolm	Sherlock Holmes in America	Jon L. Lellenberg, Martin H. Greenberg, Daniel Stashower
2013	Khristine Hvam, James Langton, Robert Petkoff, Suzanne Toren, Dion Graham	Astray	Emma Donoghue
2012	Boyd Gaines, Rita Wolf, Condola Rashad, BD Wong	Selected Shorts: New American Stories	Aleksandar Hemon, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sherman Alexie
2011	Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Peter Francis James, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton	Stories: All-New Tales	Neil Gaiman
2010	full cast	Black Magazine Audio Magazine (Vol. 1)	Hugh B. Cave, Paul Cain, Frederick Nebel, Reuben J. Shay, Dashiell Hammett, William Cole
2009	Rip Torn, Michael Vonnegut	Armageddon in Retrospect	Kurt Vonnegut
2008	David Ledoux	20th Century Ghosts	Joe Hill
2007	Bill Gates, Martha Graham, full cast	This I Believe	Jay Allison, Dan Gediman
2006	Kymberly Dakin	Runaway	Alice Munro
2005	David Sedaris	Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim	David Sedaris
2004	Garrison Keillor	Home on the Prairie: Stories from Lake Wobegon	Garrison Keillor
2003	Carole Boyd, Liza Ross, Teresa Gallagher	Classic Women's Short Stories	Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf
2002	Christopher Graybill, Colleen Delany, Grover Gardner, Barrett Whitener, Delores King Williams	Blood: Stories of Life and Death from the Civil War	Ulysses S. Grant et al.
2001	full cast	Ten by Maugham	W. Somerset Maugham
2000	Patrick Macnee, Juliet Mills, Judy Geeson, Christopher Cazenove, Stephanie Beacham, Reed Diamond, William Windom	Malice Domestic: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories	Anne Perry et al.

Most-awarded short stories or collection narrators

Shayna Small (2 wins) · Dion Graham (2 wins).

Most-awarded short stories or collection authors

Joe Hill (2 wins).

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