2013 Audie Award Finalists Announced!

Yesterday, finalists were announced by the Audio Publishers Association today, and the winners will be awarded at the Audies Gala on May 30 in New York City.

Visit theaudies.com for the full list.  Here are some highlights from the list of finalists:

Fiction
A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes (read by Samuel L. Jackson)
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (read by Claire Daines)
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon (read by Edoardo Ballerini)
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (read by Edoardo Ballerini)
The Bartender’s Tale by Ivan Doig (read by David Aaron Baker)

Humor
America Again by Stephen Colbert (read by Stephen Colbert)
I Suck at Girls by Justin Halpern (read by Sean Schemmel)
The Cursing Mommy’s Book of Days by Ian Frazier (read by Cynthia Nixon)
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (read by Jenny Lawson)
Me the People by Kevin Bleyer (read by Kevin Bleyer)

Nonfiction
Sex and God at Yale by Nathan Harden (read by Scott Aiello)
Love Is the Cure by Elton John (read by Elton John)
Breasts by Florence Williams (read by Kate Reading)
Cemetery John by Robert Zorn (read by Sean Runnette)
The Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart (read by Lloyd James)

Biography/Memoir
The Seamstress by Sara Tuvel Bernstein, Louise Loots Thornton & Marlene Bernstein Samuels (read by Wanda McCaddon)
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon (read by Wanda McCaddon)
Cronkite by Douglas Brinkley (read by George Guidal)
My Cross to Bear by Gregg Allman (read by Will Patton)
Two Rings by Millie Werber & Eve Keller (read by Yelena Shmulenson & Eve Keller)