The award is given by AudioFile Magazine to “truly exceptional titles that excel in narrative voice and style, characterizations, suitability to audio, and enhancement of the text”.
In no particular order (it will come, it will… with more information) here’s a selection of a few of the 70+ titles I have narrated that were considered worthy of an ‘Earphone Award’…
- A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay
- Moscow Sting by Alex Dryden
- The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
- Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Runner by Peter May
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Kushiel’s Scion by Jacqueline Carey
- Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
- The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
- The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
- Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- Under Enemy Colors by S. Thomas Russell
- The Lodger Shakespeare by Charles Nicholl
- The Art Thief by Noah Charney
- The Terror by Dan Simmons
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- The Quest by Wilbur Smith
- China Road by Rob Gifford
- The Prestige by Christopher Priest
- The Book of Samson by David Maine
- The Warden by Anthony Trollope
- A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
- Theft by Peter Carey
- The Death of Ivan Illych & Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy
- The Devil of Nanking by Mo Hayder
- The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
- Dead Ground by Gerald Seymour
- The Food of the Gods by H. G. Wells
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
- Dracula by Bram Stoker