Awards
HighBridge has won many awards including four Grammy Awards, fifteen Audie Awards, twenty-two Publishers Weekly Listen Up Awards, and more than thirty AudioFile Earphones Awards. Our Booker Prize-winning authors are Yann Martel, Penelope Lively, and Graham Swift. Authors Buzz Bissinger, Michael Chabon, Louis Menand, and Jhumpa Lahiri are all Pulitzer Prize winners. Ali Smith has won the Whitbread Novel of the Year and Joan Didion the National Book Award.GRAMMY AWARDS National Association of Recording Artists
WINNERS
| Year | Category | Title | Artist |
| 2003 | Spoken Word | Lies and the Lying Liars | Al Franken |
| 2002 | Spoken Word-Comedy | Napalm & Silly Putty | George Carlin |
| 2000 | Spoken Word-Comedy | Brain Droppings | George Carlin |
| 1987 | Spoken Word | Lake Wobegon Days | Garrison Keillor |
NOMINATIONS
| Year | Category | Title | Artist |
| 2006 | Spoken Word | The Adventures of Guy Noir | Garrison Keillor |
| 2003 | Spoken Word-Comedy | A Life in Comedy | Garrison Keillor |
| 2002 | Spoken Word-Comedy | Oh, the Things I Know! | Al Franken |
| 2001 | Spoken Word | Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 | Garrison Keillor |
| 2001 | Spoken Word-Comedy | I’m the One That I Want | Margaret Cho |
| 2000 | Spoken Word | APHC 25th Anniversary Collection | Garrison Keillor |
| 1999 | Spoken Word | Wobegon Boy | Garrison Keillor |
| 1997 | Spoken Word | Garrison Keillor’s Comedy Theater | Garrison Keillor |
| 1996 | Spoken Word | Adventures of Huck Finn | Adapted by Garrison Keillor |
| 1995 | Spoken Word | Guy Noir: Radio Private Eye | Garrison Keillor |
| 1993 | Spoken Word | Lake Wobegon U.S.A. | Garrison Keillor |
| 1992 | Spoken Word | Stories | Garrison Keillor |
| 1991 | Spoken Word | Local Man Moves to the City | Garrison Keillor |
AUDIE AWARDS Audio Publishers Association
| Year | Category | Title | Artist |
| 2011 | Humor | Old Jews Telling Jokes | Sam Hoffman with Eric Spiegelman |
| 2011 | Package Design | The Very Best of Bob and Ray | Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding |
| 2010 | Humor | Church People | Garrison Keillor |
| 2009 | Audiobook Adaptation | English Majors | Garrison Keillor |
| 2008 | Narration by Author | Pontoon | Garrison Keillor |
| 2006 | Fiction, Unabridged | A Slight Trick of the Mind | Mitch Cullin |
| 2006 | Multi-Voiced Performance | Raymond and Hannah | Stephen Marche |
| 2005 | Audiobook Adaptation from Another Medium | Lost & Found Sound and Beyond | Kitchen Sisters |
| 2004 | Abridged Fiction | Brick Lane | Monica Ali |
| 2004 | Short Stories | Home on the Prairie | Garrison Keillor |
| 2003 | Poetry | Good Poems | Garrison Keillor and Poets |
| 2002 | Humor | Napalm & Silly Putty | George Carlin |
| 2001 | Inspirational/Spiritual | It’s Not About the Bike | Lance Armstrong |
| 2001 | Audiobook Adaptation from Another Medium | Lost & Found Sound | Kitchen Sisters |
| 2000 | Nonfiction Abridged | The Endurance | Caroline Alexander |
| 2000 | Theatrical Performance | APHC 25th Anniversary Collection | Garrison Keillor |
| 1998 | Business | Pour Your Heart Into It | Howard Schultz |
| 1997 | Production | Return of the Jedi | |
| 1997 | Business | 101 Greatest Answers to Interview Questions |
Ron Fry |
| 1997 | Best Children’s Title | Babe: The Sheep Pig | Dick King-Smith |
| 1997 | Best Humor Audio | Calvin Trillin: Piece by Piece | Calvin Trillin |
| 1995 | Best Original Work | Enjoying Italian Opera | Dale Harris |
LISTEN UP AWARDS Publishers Weekly magazine
| Year | Category | Title | Artist |
| 2004 | Female Narrator | A Carnivore’s Inquiry | Sabina Murray, read by Wendy Hoopes |
| 2003 | Fiction | The Time Traveler’s Wife | Audrey Niffenegger |
| 2003 | Memoir | A Million Little Pieces | James Frey |
| 2003 | Nonfiction | Lies and the Lying Liars | Al Franken |
| 2002 | Mystery | The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde |
| 2001 | Humor | Definitely Above Average | Garrison Keillor |
| 2001 | Author Reading | Paris to the Moon | Adam Gopnik |
| 1998 | Best Short Stories | Life These Days | Garrison Keillor |
| 1998 | Best Use of Archival Material | The Glory of Their Times | Lawrence S. Ritter |
| 1998 | Best Literary Compilation | More Writers in the Garden | Edited by Jane Garmey |
| 1998 | Best Religion/Spirituality | Growing Up Lutheran | Janet Letnes Martin & Suzann Nelson |
| 1997 | Best Author Reading | Wobegon Boy | Garrison Keillor |
| 1997 | Best Science Fiction | Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman |
| 1997 | Best Humor Audio | Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs | Dave Barry |
| 1997 | Cover Art | Callas: Voices of Our Time | John Ardoin |
| 1997 | Best Religion/Spirituality | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Fulton Oursler |
| 1996 | Best Classic Fiction | The Adventures of Huck Finn | Adapted by Garrison Keillor |
| 1996 | Best Humor | Guy Noir: Radio Private Eye | Garrison Keillor |
| 1996 | Best Humor | The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach | Prof. Peter Schickel |
| 1996 | Best Fiction | Return of the Jedi | |
| 1996 | Best Fiction | Babe: The Sheep Pig | Dick King-Smith |
| 1996 | Best Cover Art | Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand |
| 1996 | Best Memoir | Pepys’ Diary | Samuel Pepys |
AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD AudioFile Magazine
| Title | Author/Narrator |
| The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion, read by Barbara Caruso |
| The Journey of Crazy Horse | Joseph Marshall III |
| Dear Zoe | Philip Beard, read by Cassandra Morris |
| The Lost Mother | Mary McGarry Morris, read by Judith Ivey |
| A Million Little Pieces | James Frey, read by Oliver Wyman |
| The Preservationist | David Maine, read by an ensemble cast |
| The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn | Janis Hallowell, read by Tyler Bunch, Kristin
Kilian, Beth MacDonald, Mia Pitasi |
| Lost and Found Sound | The Kitchen Sisters, Jay Allison, read by Francis Ford Coppola |
| Joe Jones | Anne Lamott, read by Barbara Rosenblat |
| Lionboy | Zizou Corder, read by Simon Jones |
| Tea at Five | Matthew Lombardo, read by Kate Mulgrew |
| Crescent | Diana Abu-Jaber, read by Nike Doukas, Marcelo Tubert |
| The Well of Lost Plots | Jasper Fforde, read by Elizabeth Sastre |
| Lies and the Lying Liars Liars Who Tell Them | Al Franken, read by the author |
| The Light of Day | Graham Swift, read by Graeme Malcolm |
| Hey Nostradamus! | Douglas Coupland, read by Jenna Lamia, David LeDoux, Jillian Crane, John Randolph Jones |
| A Life in Comedy | Garrison Keillor |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martell, read by Jeff Woodman with Alexander Marshall |
| The Curve of the World | Marcus Stevens, read by Sean Runnette |
| Falling Angels | Tracy Chevalier, read by Anne Twomey |
| Wobegon Boy | Garrison Keillor |
| Star Wars Dark Empire | Tom Veitch, performed by an ensemble cast |
| The Aeneid | Virgil, read by Christopher Ravenscroft |
| The Odyssey | Homer, read by Derek Jacobi |
| Tom Jones | Henry Fielding, read by John Sessions |
| William Blake: Poems | William Blake, read by Nicol Williamson |
| Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman, read by Gary Bakewell |
| The Writer in the Garden | Edited by Jane Garmey, performed by an ensemble cast |
| More Writers in the Garden | Edited by Jane Garmey, performed by an ensemble cast |
| Tales from the Tummy Trilogy | Calvin Trillin |
