Audie Award Nominees 2011

And, for those of you who 'read' your books with your ears, here's the list of Audie Award Nominees from the Audio Publishers Association. These awards recognize the best in audiobooks. The winners will be announced at the Audies Gala on May 24, 2011in New York City.

Awards are given out in many categories. These are the nominees for excellence in narration, direction, engineering, mix and abridgment (when applicable) of an unabridged or abridged mystery or thriller/suspense audiobook. Narrator(s) and publisher in parentheses. Thanks to Omnimystery News for this information. For the complete list of nominees, go HERE.

Mystery
Dog Tags by David Rosenfelt (Grover Gardner, Listen & Live Audio)
Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen (Katherine Kellgren, Audible.com)
Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré (Robin Sachs, Penguin)
The Dead Room by Chris Mooney (Regina Reagan, Isis Publishing)
The Reversal by Michael Connelly (Peter Giles, Hachette Audio)
This Body of Death by Elizabeth George (John Lee, HarperCollins)

Thriller/Suspense
Dead Aim by Thomas Perry (Michael Kramer, Tantor Media)
Interface by Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George (Oliver Wyman, Audible.com)
The Book of Spies by Gayle Lynds (Kate Reading, Blackstone Audio)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (Reg Keeland, Random House Audio)
Vengeance by A. J. Scudiere (Kristoffer Tabori, Stephanie Zimbalist, and Don Leslie, Griffyn Ink)