Listen Up Awards for 2003
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 2002 and 2001 Listen Up Awards are also available online.
Fiction
The John Cheever Audio Collection by John Cheever, read
by the author, Meryl Streep, Peter Gallagher, George Plimpton et al. (Harper
Audio)
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris, read by
Barbara Rosenblat (Audio Bookshelf) , unabridged CD
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, read by
Maggi-Meg Reed and Christopher Burns (HighBridge) ,
unabridged CD
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki, read by Anna Fields (Blackstone)
Jeeves and the Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse, read by
Jonathan Cecil (Audio Editions) , unabridged CD
Nonfiction
Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg, read by Tony Goldwyn (Putnam
Berkley) , unabridged CD
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced
Look at the Right by Al Franken, read by the author (HighBridge) , unabridged
CD
Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly
Ivins, read by the author (Random House Audio) , unabridged CD
Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's
World Series of Poker by James McManus, read by the author (Audio
Renaissance) , unabridged CD
Sex and the Married Girl: From Clicking to Climaxing--The
Complete Truth About Modern Marriage by Mandi Norwood, read by
the author (New Millennium)
Mystery
The Last Detective by Robert Crais, read by James Daniels (Brilliance)
Narration (Female)
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the
Holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin, read by Barbara
Rosenblat (JCC Audiobooks)
Nina: Adolescence by Amy Hassinger, read by Mia Barton (Listen
& Live)
Narration (Male)
Tishomingo Blues: A Novel by Elmore Leonard, read by
Frank Muller (Harper Audio)
The Wandering Hill: A Novel by Larry McMurtry, read by
Alfred Molina (Simon & Schuster Audio)
Author Reading
The Funny Thing Is... by Ellen Degeneres (Simon &
Schuster Audio) ,
unabridged CD
Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks (Random
House Audio)
David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall by David Sedaris (Time Warner AudioBooks) ,
unabridged CD
Biography/Memoir
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton, read by the
author (Simon & Schuster Audio) ,
unabridged CD
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, read by Oliver
Wyman (HighBridge) , abridged CD
Religion/Spirituality
Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your
Family, Your Community and the World by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by
Michael York (Simon & Schuster Audio) , abridged CD
Reference/Documentary
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip by Dayton
Duncan and Ken Burns, read by the authors with Tom Hanks, Philip
Bosco, Kevin Conway, et al. (Random House Audio) , unabridged
CD