Fiction, Abridged
Honky Tonk Kat, by Karen Kijewski, Read by Harley Jane Kozak (Soundlines Entertainment)

    Finalists:
    Nathan's Run, by John Gilstrap, Read by John Glover (Harper Audio)
    Snow Wolf, by Glenn Meade, Read by Paul Michael (Audio Renaissance)

Fiction, Unabridged
The Green Mile, by Stephen King, Read by Frank Muller (Penguin Audiobooks)

    Finalists:
    The Odyssey, by Homer, Translated by Robert Fagles, Read by Ian McKellen (Penguin Audiobooks)
    The Runaway Jury, by John Grisham, Read by Frank Muller (Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio)

Mystery
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, by Agatha Christie, Read by David Suchet (Audio Partners Publishing)

    Finalists:
    Cadillac Jukebox, by James Lee Burke, Read by Will Patton (Simon & Schuster Audio)
    "M" is for Malice, by Sue Grafton, Read by Judy Kaye (Random House Audio Publishing)

Non-fiction, Abridged
Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt, Read by the author (Simon & Schuster Audio)

    Finalists:
    Memory Slips, by Linda Katherine Cutting, Read by the author (Harper Audio)
    Undaunted Courage, by Stephen E. Ambrose, Read by Cotter Smith (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Non-fiction, Unabridged
Genesis, Read by Bill Moyers (Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio)

    Finalists:
    Full House, by Stephen Jay Gould, Read by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (Dove Audio)
    It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet, by James Herriot, Read by Christopher Timothy (Chivers North America)

Personal Development (Self-Help)
101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions, by Ron Fry, Read by the author (HighBridge Audio)

    Finalists:
    How Good Do We Have to Be?, by Harold S. Kushner, Read by the author (Random House Audio Publishing)
    Make the Connection, by Bob Green & Oprah Winfrey, Read by the authors (Random House Audio Publishing)

Business
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu, Adapted and Introduced by Stephan Rudnicki, Read by Ron Silver & B.D. Wong (Dove Audio)

    Finalists:
    Marshall Loeb's Lifetime Financial Strategies, by Marshall Loeb, Read by the author (Time Warner AudioBooks)
    The Perfect Business, by Michael LeBuf, Read by the author (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Educational/How-to/Instructional
Word by Word, by Anne Lamott, Read by the author (Writer's AudioShop)

    Finalists:
    Reader's Digest Word Power, Volume One, Read by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (Dove Audio)
    The Wonder of Boys, by Michael Gurian, Read by the author (The Audio Partners Publishing)

Inspirational/Spiritual
The Christmas Tree, by Julie Salamon, read by David Birney (Random House Audio Publishing)

    Finalists:
    Conversations with God, by Neale Donald Walsch, Read by the author, Ed Asner & Ellen Burstyn (Audio Literature)
    Grow Old Along With Me The Best Is Yet To Be, Edited by Sandra Haldeman Martz, Read by Ed Asner, Ellen Burstyn, C.C.H. Pounder & Alfre Woodard (Audio Literature)

Humor
Calvin Trillin, Piece by Piece, by Calvin Trillin, Read by the author (HighBridge Audio)

    Finalists:
    The Definitive Biography of PDQ Bach, by Professor Peter Schickele, Adapted and read by the author (HighBridge Audio)
    The Rants, by Dennis Miller, Read by the author (Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio)

Original Work
Zeus: A Thunderbolt From the Sky, by Julie Fenster, Read by Stan Winiarski (B & B Audio)

    Finalists:
    Mark Twain: Letters from the Earth, Adapted and Read by McAvoy Layne (Audio Partners Publishing)
    Your Present: A Half-Hour of Peace, by Susie Mantell, read by the author (Relax...Intuit)

Solo Narration
The Odyssey, by Homer, Read by Ian McKellen (Penguin Audiobooks)

    Finalists:
    Manhattan Nocturne, by Colin Harrison, Read by John Rubinstein (Dove Audio)
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles, by Agatha Christie, Read by David Suchet, (Audio Partners Publishing)

Multi-Voiced Narration
Grow Old Along With Me The Best Is Yet To Be, Edited by Sandra Haldeman Martz, Read by Ed Asner, Ellen Burstyn, C.C.H. Pounder & Alfre Woodard (Audio Literature)

    Finalists:
    The Prince's Choice, by Shakespeare, Read by various performers (HighBridge Audio)
    Return of the Jedi, Read by Anthony Daniels, John Lithgow, Ed Asner, and a full cast (HighBridge Audio)

Production
Return of the Jedi, Read by Anthony Daniels, John Lithgow, Ed Asner, and a full cast (HighBridge Audio)

    Finalists:
    The Odyssey, by Homer, Read by Ian McKellen (Penguin Audiobooks)
    A Valentine, by various authors, Read by various performers (Dove Audio)
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Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium
The Nixon-Kennedy Debates, Read by Sander Vanocur (The Publishing Mills)

    Finalists:
    Nixon, by Harriet Levinson Greenberg, Read by J.T. Walsh (Soundlines Entertainment)
    Texas Bound, by Matt Clark, Mary K. Flatten, Arturo Islas & Tom Doyal, Read by Brent Spiner, Julie White, Octavio Solis, Randy Moore, Kathy Bates (Southern Methodist University Press)