Fiction, Abridged
God's Little Acre, by Erskine Caldwell, read by Burt Reynolds (Dove Audio)

    Finalists:
    The Book of Ruth, by Jane Hamilton, read by Mare Winningham (Simon & Schuster Audio)
    Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara, read by George Hearn (Highbridge Company)

Fiction, Unabridged
The Breaker, by Kit Denton, read by Terence Donovan (Bolinda Audio Books)

    Finalists:
    American Pastoral, by Philip Roth, read by Ron Silver (Dove Audio)
    Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, read by Jeremy Irons (Random House AudioBooks)

Mystery (Fiction)
Vintage Crime Stories, by Ruth Rendell, Frances Hegarty, E.W. Homung, Graham Greene, Margery Allingham, and Charles Dickens, read by Patrick Malahide (Tangled Web Audio)

    Finalists:
    Cimarron Rose, by James Lee Burke, read by Will Patton (Simon & Schuster Audio)
    Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett, read by William Dufris (Isis Publishing)

Non-Fiction, Abridged
Women in the Material World, by Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel, read by CCH Pounder, Greg Daniel, Amy Hill, Stephen O'Hara, Maggie Palomo, and Esther Scott (Audio Literature)

    Finalists:
    Bound Feet and Western Dress, by Pang-Mei Natasha Chang, read by the author (Audio Literature)
    Wait Till Next Year, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, read by the author (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Non-fiction, Unabridged
James Herriot's Animal Stories, by James Herriot, read by Christopher Timothy (Audio Renaissance Tapes)

    Finalists:
    The Lord God Made Them All, by James Herriot, read by Christopher Timothy (Chivers North America)
    Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom, read by the author (Brilliance Audio)

Personal Development (Self-Help)
The Rest of Us, by Jacquelyn Mitchard, read by the author (Penguin Audiobooks)

    Finalists:
    The Gift of Fear, by Gavin De Becker, read by the author (Audio Literature)
    The Girlfriend's Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood, by Vicki Iovine, read by the author (DH Audio / Durkin Hayes)

Business
Pour Your Heart Into It, by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang, read by Eric Conger (Highbridge Company)

    Finalists:
    Ben & Jerry's Double Dip, by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, read by the authors (Simon & Schuster Audio)
    Forbes Great Minds of Business, by Andrew Grove, Fred Smith, Peter Lynch, Pleasant Rowland, and Paul Volcker, read by the authors (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Educational/How-to/Instructional
Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs, by Lang Elliot with Donald and Lillian Stokes, read by the authors (Time Warner AudioBooks)

    Finalists:
    Divine Singing, by Chaitanya Kabir, read by the author (Sounds True)
    Kaplan Word Power, (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Inspirational/Spiritual
Just As I Am, by Billy Graham, read by Cliff Barrows (Harper Audio)

    Finalists:
    Girlfriends: Invisible Bonds, Enduring Tales, by Carmen Renee Berry and Tamara Traeder, read by Cindy Williams, Katy Hickman, and Amy Hill (Audio Literature)
    The Greatest Story Ever Told, by Fulton Oursler, read by Edward Herrmann (Highbridge Company)

Humor
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams, read by the author (Dove Audio)

    Finalists:
    Babyhood, by Paul Reiser, read by the author (Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio)
    Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing, by Patrick F. McManus, read by Terry Beaver (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Poetry
The Spirit Level, by Seamus Heaney, read by the author (Penguin Audiobooks)

    Finalists:
    Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, Ursula K. Le Guin in performance with Todd Barton (Shambhala Publications)
    The Poetry of Walt Whitman, by Walt Whitman, read by Joan Allen, Roscoe Lee Browne, Jill Eikenberry, Bill Pullman, Roger Rees, Burt Reynolds, D.B. Sweeney, Blair Underwood, William Windom, and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (Dove Audio)

Original Work
Diana: A Tribute, produced by the BBC (Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio)

    Finalists:
    Ambush at Fort Bragg, by Tom Wolfe, read by Edward Norton (Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio)
    How the West Was Read, Vol. 2, conceived and edited by Robert J. Randisi, read by Lee Marshall and Kitty Brooks (DH Audio / Durkin Hayes)

Solo Narration -- Male
American Pastoral, by Philip Roth, read by Ron Silver (Dove Audio)

    Finalists:
    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, by Walter Mosley, read by Paul Winfield (Dove Audio)
    The Classic Pooh Treasury - Volume 3, by A.A. Milne, read by Peter Dennis (K-tel International, Inc.)

Solo Narration - Female
Land Girls, by Angela Huth, read by Carole Boyd (Isis Publishing)

    Finalists:
    Sin, by Josephine Hart, read by Diana Rigg (Dove Audio)
    To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf, read by Eileen Atkins (Penguin Audiobooks)

Solo Narration by the Author
Sula, by Toni Morrison, read by the author (Random House AudioBooks)

    Finalists:
    My Brother, by Jamaica Kincaid, read by the author (Penguin Audiobooks)
    Wobegon Boy, by Garrison Keillor, read by the author (Highbridge Company)

Multi-Voiced Narration
Lewis & Clark, by Dayton Duncan, read by Ken Burns, Adam Arkin, Donovan Sylvest, David Magee, and Jason Culp (Random House AudioBooks)

    Finalists:
    Abuse of Power, by Stanley I. Kutler, read by David Ackroyd, David Dukes, and William Windom (Dove Audio)
    The War of the Worlds, adapted by Howard Koch from the novel by H.G. Wells, read by Leonard Nimoy, Jerry Hardin, Gates McFadden, Dwight Schultz, Armin Shimerman, Brent Spiner, and Wil Wheaton (Listening Library, Inc.)

Multi-Voiced Presentation
Women in the Material World, by Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel, read by CCH Pounder, Greg Daniel, Amy Hill, Stephen O'Hara, Maggie Palomo, and Esther Scott (Audio Literature)

    Finalists:
    Star Wars: Dark Forces: Soldier of the Empire, by William C. Dietz, read by Randall Berger, Chris Block, Virginia Burke, Jim Cada, David Chase, Mo Collins, Patrick Coyle,
Bob Davis, Chris Forth, Gary Groomes, Allen Hamilton, Ken Hiller, Peter Moore, and Tim Russell (Highbridge Company)
    Voices of the Civil War: Gettysburg, by Eric Conger, Birgit Darby, Larry Robinson, William Joseph Brookes, Dick Rodstein, Richard Register, Tom Hayne, Johyn Edmond Morgan, Jonathan Hadley, Jeff Woodman, Bill Bryan, and Igor Goldin (Time Warner AudioBooks)

Production
The Poetry of the Romantics, by John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Blake, read by Joan Allen, Christopher Cazenove, Julie Christie, Stephen Fry, Jill Eikenberry, Glenda Jackson, Jude Law, Bill Pullman, Roger Rees, Burt Reynolds, Michael Tucker, Blair Underwood, and Orson Welles (Dove Audio)

    Finalists:
    The Angel of Darkness, by Caleb Carr, read by Boyd Gaines (Simon & Schuster Audio)
    Star Wars: Dark Forces: Soldier of the Empire, by William C. Dietz, read by Randall Berger, Chris Block, Virginia Burke, Jim Cada, David Chase, Mo Collins, Patrick Coyle, Bob Davis, Chris Forth, Gary Groomes, Allen Hamilton, Ken Hiller, Peter Moore, and Tim Russell (Highbridge Company)

Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium
Sleeping Beauty, by Ross Macdonald, read by Haskell Anderson, Ed Asner, Bill Atherton, Graham Beckel, Veronica Cartwright, Dennis Christopher, Jeff Corey, J.D. Cullum, Bruce Davidson, Jacqueline Des Lauriers, Christine Ebersole, Pierre Epstein, Penny Fuller, Robin Gammell, Charles Hallahan, Matt Holzman, Stacy Keach, Shirley Knight, Richard Libertini, Audra Lindley, Nan Martin, Richard Masur, Marian Mercer, Claudette Nevins, Warren Olney, Christina Pickles, Mary Kay Place, John Randolph, Pamela Reed, Andy Robinson, Jennifer Salt, Joyce Van Patten, Harris Yulin, Linda Zechowy, and Anthony Zerbe (The Audio Partners)

    Finalists:
    Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theater, by Garrison Keillor, read by Tim Russell, Tom Keith, Sue Scott, Allison Janney, Karen Braga, Victoria Clark, Chris Forth, Alice Playten, Walter Bobbie, and Erica Rhodes (Highbridge Company)
    Taking Charge, by Michael B. Beschloss, read by the author (Simon & Schuster Audio)