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For the 16th year, the Audio Publishers Association honored the best audio books of the year with Audies. The 2011 Audies, the “Oscars of spoken word entertainment” were presented at a gala celebration in New York City May 24, 2011. Top honors went to Keith Richards’ Life and Walter Dean Myers’ Here in Harlem.

The audiobook industry is alive, well and growing with more than 500 titles being published each month. Audiobooks are performed by well-known actors (Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman for example who performed in the audio book Life) as well as professional voice artists.

Other winners available on compact discs, MP3 compact discs and/or digital download are:

Judges’ Award – Paranormal – Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Best Biography / Memoir - Life – by Keith Richards & James Fox

Best Inspirational/Faith-Based Non-Fiction – In a Heartbeat : Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving by Leigh Anne Tuohy & Sean Tuohy

Best Thriller / Suspense Audiobook – Millennium Trilogy : Book 3 : The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

Best Narration by the Author or Authors – Nanny McPhee Returns by Emma Thompson

Best Inspirational/Faith-Based Fiction : digital download only – Fireflies in December by Jennifer Erin Valent

Best Audiobook Adaptation – No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Best Humor – Old Jews Telling Jokes : 5,000 Years of Funny Bits and Not-So-Kosher Laughs by Sam Hoffman & Eric Spiegelman

Best Fiction : digital download only – Winter’s Bone – Daniel Woodrell

Best Personal Development – Put on Your Crown : Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom by Queen Latifah

Best Romance : digital download only – The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte – Syrie James

Best Audio Drama – Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue – Hollywood Theater of the Ear by George Bernard Shaw

Best History : digital download only – Empire of Liberty : a History of the Early Republic by Gordon S. Wood

Best Literary Fiction – Snakewoman of Little Egypt : A Novel by Robert Hellenga

Best Multi-Voiced Performance : digital download only – Jitters by Adele Park

Best Children’s Titles for Ages 8-12 – The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

Best Short Stories / Collections : digital download only – Stories : All-New Tales – Neil Gaiman

Best Non-Fiction – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Best Solo Narration : Female : digital download only – Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden

Best Original Work – The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer : Volume 2 : The Little Death by Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins

Best Mystery & Suspense – The Reversal : A Harry Bosch Mystery by Michael Connelly

Best Audiobook for Teens – The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon

Best Science Fiction / Fantasy – The Stainless Steel Rat : Stainless Steel Rat Series : Book 1 by Harry Harrison

Best Package Design – The Very Best of Bob and Ray : Legends of Comedy by Bob Elliott & Ray Goulding

Best Classic Audiobook – The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Best Solo Narration – Male – Zorgamazoo by Robert Paul Weston

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