Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording
| Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | quality spoken word albums |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |
| First award | 1959 |
| Currently held by | Jimmy Carter, Last Sundays In Plains: A Centennial Celebration (2025) |
| Website | grammy.com |
The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:
- In 1959 the award was known as Best Performance, Documentary or Spoken Word
- From 1960 to 1961 it was awarded as Best Performance – Documentary or Spoken Word (other than comedy)
- From 1962 to 1963 it was awarded as Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording (other than comedy)
- From 1964 to 1965 it was awarded as Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording (other than comedy)
- In 1966 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Drama Recording
- From 1967 to 1968 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording
- From 1969 to 1979 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word Recording
- From 1980 to 1983 it returned to the title of Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording
- From 1984 to 1991 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording
- From 1992 to 1997 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album
- From 1998 to 2022 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word Album. In 2020, spoken-word children's albums were moved here from the Best Children's Album category.[1]
- From 2023 it has been awarded as Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording.[2] Poetry reading now has its own Grammy category, Best Spoken Word Poetry Album.
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for a recording released in the previous year.
Recipients
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1950s
| Year[I] | Performing Artist | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 [3] |
Stan Freberg | The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows |
| Melvyn Douglas, Vincent Price, Carl Sandburg, & Ed Begley | Great American Speeches | |
| Stan Freberg | Green Christmas | |
| Elaine May & Mike Nichols | Improvisations to Music |
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
| Year[I] | Performing Artist | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 [44] |
LeVar Burton | The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Nanci Griffith | The Chieftains: The Authorized Biography (by John Glatt) | |
| Merle Haggard | Merle Haggard's My House of Memories | |
| Frank McCourt | 'Tis | |
| Mandy Patinkin & Betty Buckley with Walter Cronkite | The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain | |
| 2001 [45] |
Sidney Poitier | The Measure of a Man |
| Matt Dillon | On the Road | |
| Steve Martin | Shopgirl | |
| Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara | Married to Laughter: A Love Story | |
| Various artists including Kathleen Turner, Patrick Stewart & Al Pacino | The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets | |
| 2002 [46] |
Quincy Jones | Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones |
| Jimmy Carter | An Hour Before Daylight | |
| Garrison Keillor | Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 | |
| Carl Reiner | Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain | |
| Various artists including Rob Lowe, Noah Wyle, Joan Allen & Tom Brokaw and narrator Harry Smith | War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars | |
| 2003 [47] |
Maya Angelou | A Song Flung Up to Heaven |
| Tim Robbins | The Great Gatsby | |
| Robert Evans | The Kid Stays in the Picture | |
| Michael J. Fox | Lucky Man | |
| Christopher Reeve | Nothing Is Impossible | |
| 2004 [48] |
Al Franken | Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them |
| Don Cheadle | Fear Itself | |
| Hillary Clinton | Living History | |
| Nikki Giovanni | The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection | |
| Bill Maher | When You Ride Alone You Ride with bin Laden | |
| 2005 [49] |
Bill Clinton | My Life |
| Tyne Daly, John Lithgow, Joanne Rogers, Lily Tomlin & André Watts | The World According to Mr. Rogers | |
| David Holt & Zeb Holt | Live & Kickin' at the National Storytelling Festival | |
| Steve Martin | The Pleasure of My Company | |
| David Sedaris | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | |
| 2006 [50] |
Barack Obama | Dreams from My Father |
| George Carlin | When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? | |
| Al Franken | The Al Franken Show Party Album | |
| Garrison Keillor | The Adventures of Guy Noir | |
| Sean Penn | Chronicles: Volume One | |
| 2007 [51] |
Jimmy Carter | Our Endangered Values |
| Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee | Ossie and Ruby | |
| Al Franken | The Truth (with Jokes) | |
| Bill Maher | New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer | |
| Bob Newhart | I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This! | |
| 2008 [52] |
Barack Obama | The Audacity of Hope |
| Alan Alda | Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself | |
| Maya Angelou | Celebrations | |
| Bill Clinton | Giving | |
| Jimmy Carter | Sunday Mornings in Plains | |
| 2009 [53] |
Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon & Blair Underwood | An Inconvenient Truth |
| Steve Martin | Born Standing Up | |
| Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report cast | I Am America (and So Can You!) | |
| Sidney Poitier | Life Beyond Measure | |
| David Sedaris | When You Are Engulfed in Flames |
2010s
| Year[I] | Performing Artist | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 [54] |
Michael J. Fox | Always Looking Up |
| Yuri Rasovsky & Josh Stanton | Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon | |
| Richard Dreyfuss & David Strathairn | The Lincoln–Douglas Debates | |
| Jonathan Winters | A Very Special Time | |
| Jimmy Carter | We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land | |
| Carrie Fisher | Wishful Drinking | |
| 2011 [55] |
Jon Stewart & The Daily Show Staff | Earth (The Audiobook) |
| Woody Allen | The Woody Allen Collection: Mere Anarchy, Side Effects, Without Feathers, Getting Even | |
| Carol Burnett | This Time Together | |
| Craig Ferguson | American on Purpose | |
| Michael J. Fox | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future | |
| Sarah Silverman | The Bedwetter | |
| 2012 [56] |
Betty White | If You Ask Me (and of Course You Won't) |
| Tina Fey | Bossypants | |
| Nathan Burbank, Bryan Cumming, Dennis Scott & David Toledo | Fab Fan Memories: The Beatles Bond | |
| Dan Donohue & the Oregon Shakespeare Festival cast | Hamlet | |
| Val Kilmer & the Hollywood Theater of the Ear Cast | The Mark of Zorro | |
| 2013 [57] |
Janis Ian | Society's Child |
| Scott Creswell & Dan Zitt, producers | American Grown | |
| Bill Clinton | Back to Work | |
| Rachel Maddow | Drift | |
| Ellen DeGeneres | Seriously... I'm Kidding | |
| 2014 [58] |
Stephen Colbert | America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't |
| Carol Burnett | Carrie and Me | |
| Billy Crystal | Still Foolin' Em | |
| David Sedaris | Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls | |
| Pete Seeger | The Storm King | |
| 2015 [59] |
Joan Rivers | Diary of a Mad Diva |
| James Franco | Actors Anonymous | |
| Jimmy Carter | A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power | |
| John Waters | Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America | |
| Elizabeth Warren | A Fighting Chance | |
| Gloria Gaynor | We Will Survive: True Stories of Encouragement, Inspiration and the Power of Song | |
| 2016 [60] |
Jimmy Carter | A Full Life: Reflections at 90 |
| Patti Smith | Blood on Snow | |
| Dick Cavett | Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments and Assorted Hijinks | |
| Janis Ian & Jean Smart | Patience and Sarah | |
| Amy Poehler | Yes Please | |
| 2017 [61] |
Carol Burnett | In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox |
| Elvis Costello | Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink | |
| Amy Schumer | The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo | |
| Patti Smith | M Train | |
| Various Artists | Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk | |
| 2018 [62] | ||
| Carrie Fisher | The Princess Diarist | |
| Bruce Springsteen | Born to Run | |
| Shelly Peiken | Confessions of a Serial Songwriter | |
| Bernie Sanders & Mark Ruffalo | Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In | |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | |
| 2019 [63] |
Jimmy Carter | Faith: A Journey for All |
| Courtney B. Vance | Accessory to War | |
| David Sedaris | Calypso | |
| Questlove | Creative Quest | |
| Tiffany Haddish | The Last Black Unicorn |
2020s
| Year[I] | Performing Artist | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 [64] |
Michelle Obama | Becoming |
| Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Scott Sherratt & Dan Zitt (producers) | The Beastie Boys Book | |
| Eric Alexandrakis | Catatonia: 20 Years as a Two-Time Cancer Survivor | |
| John Waters | Mr. Know-It-All | |
| Sekou Andrews & the String Theory | Sekou Andrews & the String Theory | |
| 2021 [65] |
Rachel Maddow | Blowout |
| Flea | Acid for the Children: A Memoir | |
| Ken Jennings | Alex Trebek — The Answer Is... | |
| Ronan Farrow | Catch and Kill | |
| Meryl Streep (& Full Cast) | Charlotte's Web | |
| 2022 [66] |
Don Cheadle | Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation from John Lewis |
| LeVar Burton | Aftermath | |
| J. Ivy | Catching Dreams: Live at Fort Knox Chicago | |
| Dave Chappelle & Amir Sulaiman | 8:46 | |
| Barack Obama | A Promised Land | |
| 2023 [67] |
Viola Davis | Finding Me |
| Mel Brooks | All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business | |
| Jamie Foxx | Act Like You Got Some Sense | |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda | Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World | |
| Questlove | Music Is History | |
| 2024 [68] |
Michelle Obama | The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times |
| Meryl Streep | Big Tree | |
| William Shatner | Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder | |
| Rick Rubin | The Creative Act: A Way of Being | |
| Bernie Sanders | It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism | |
| 2025 | Jimmy Carter | Last Sunday in Plains: A Centennial Celebration |
| George Clinton | ...And Your Ass Will Follow | |
| Guy Oldfield | All You Need Is Love: The Beatles In Their Own Words | |
| Dolly Parton | Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones | |
| Barbra Streisand | My Name Is Barbra |
Multiple wins & nominations
The following individuals received two or more awards:
| Wins | Person |
|---|---|
| 4 | Jimmy Carter |
| 3 | Maya Angelou |
| 2 | Barack Obama |
| Michelle Obama | |
| Orson Welles |
The following individuals received three or more nominations:
| Nominations | Person |
|---|---|
| 10 | Jimmy Carter |
| 8 | John Gielgud |
| 7 | Orson Welles |
| 5 | Maya Angelou |
| 4 | Walter Cronkite |
| 3 | Carol Burnett |
| Barack Obama | |
| James Earl Jones | |
| James Mason |
See also
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