2009 Audies Have Been Announced

The Audies - the Oscars of the audiobook industry - are awarded annually by the Audio Publishers Association.  Many of this year's award-winning titles are available at the library:

AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman; read by Neil Gaiman 

FICTION: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows; read by Paul Boehmer, Susan Duerden, Rosalyn Landor, John Lee, Juliet Mills 

THRILLER/SUSPENSE: Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith; read by Dennis Boutsikaris 

NON-FICTION: Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman; read by Oliver Wyman 

AUDIOBOOK ADAPTATION: English Majors by Garrison Keillor; read by Garrison Keillor et al. 

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow; read by Erik Singer 

NARRATION BY THE AUTHOR: When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris; read by David Sedaris 

POLITICS: Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman; read by Oliver Wyman

For a full list of the winners and finalists, including reviews and clips, visit http://www.theaudies.com/.