By LJ Staff

The Audio Publishers Association (APA) announced its annual Audie Awards at its conference. Taking this year's prizes are:

• Abridged fiction:
Jackdaws, Ken Follett; Barbara Rosenblat and Colin Stinton readers (Penguin Audiobooks)
• Unabridged fiction:
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides; Kristoffer Tabori reader (Audio Renaissance)
• Mystery:
Jolie Blon's Bounce, James Lee Burke; Will Patton reader (Simon & Schuster Audio)
• Science fiction:
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson; Scott Brick reader (Books on Tape)
• Inspirational/faith-based fiction:
Hidden Victory, Herbert Francis Smith, S.J.; Richard Ferrone reader (Recorded Books, LLC)
• Classic:
The Short Stories of W.S. Maugham, Vol. 2, William Somerset Maugham; Charlton Griffin reader (Audio Connoisseur)
• Abridged nonfiction:
A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar; Edward Herrmann reader (Simon & Schuster Audio)
• Unabridged nonfiction:
3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It, Sean Flynn; Richard Rohan reader (Listen & Live Audio)
• Biography/memoir:
Lucky Man, Michael J. Fox; read by the author (Simon & Schuster Audio)
• Personal development/motivational:
Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments, Kent M. Keith; read, the author (Putnam Berkley Audio)
• Business information/educational:
The Art of Profitability, Adrian Slywotzky; Scott Mosenson and Jack Ong readers, with an introduction by the author (Time Warner AudioBooks)
• Children's titles, ages 0-7:
The Blues of Flats Brown, Walter Dean Myers; Nina Laden illustrator; Charles Turner reader (Live Oak Media)
• Children's titles, ages 8 and up:
Troy, Adle Geras; Miriam Margolyes reader (Listening Library)
• Inspirational/spiritual:
Conversations With God for Teens, Neale Donald Walsch; Alanis Morissette, LeVar Burton, the author, and a full cast of readers (Listening Library)
• Humor:
Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight, Peter Ackerman; Jeffrey Donovan, Richard Kind, Clea Lewis, Alan Mandell, Mandy Siegfried, and Joey Slotnik readers (L.A. Theatre Works)
• Poetry:
Good Poems, selected and introduced, Garrison Keillor; Keillor and poets readers (HighBridge)
• Short stories/collections:
Classic Women's Short Stories, Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf; Carole Boyd, Liza Ross, and Teresa Gallagher readers (Naxos AudioBooks, Ltd.)
• Original work:
Getting to Know William Shakespeare, Joy Wake; Fred Child reader (Echo Peak Productions)
• Male solo narration:
Frank Muller, Tishomingo Blues, by Elmore Leonard (Recorded Books, LLC)
• Female solo narration:
Barbara Rosenblat, Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood, by Kate Simon (Jewish Contemporary Classics)
• Solo narration, author or authors:
Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow (Random House Audio)
• Multi-voiced performance:
Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe, Big Mouth & Ugly Girl, Joyce Carol Oates (HarperCollins)
• Audio drama:
The Guys, Anne Nelson; Swoosie Kurtz and Bill Irwin readers (Random House Audible)
• Licensed or distributed fiction or nonfiction:
Two Plays for Voices, Neil Gaiman; Brian Dennehy, Bebe Neuwirth, and a full cast of readers (HarperCollins)