Winners of the 2026 Audie Awards, sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association, were announced at a gala in New York City. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, narrated by Jefferson White (Scholastic Audio) was named Audiobook of the Year. In addition, the inaugural APA Hall of Fame inductees were honored: narrators George Guidall, Hillary Huber, January LaVoy, Robin Miles, and Simon Vance. To see the Audie winners in the 26 categories, click here.
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The Association of American Publishers has announced the Excellence winners of its annual PROSE Awards--recognizing "outstanding scholarly publications"--as well as the R.R. Hawkins Award, the overall prize.
The winner of the Hawkins Award--and winner of the Excellence in the Humanities Award--is Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades by David Eltis (Cambridge University Press).
The other three Excellence winners are:
Biological & Life Sciences: Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery by Mallary Tenore Tarpley (Simon and Schuster)
Social Sciences: The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution by Keith Richotte, Jr. (Stanford University Press)
Physical Sciences & Mathematics: Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism: From Quantum Foundations to Classical Reality by Wojciech Hubert Zurek (Cambridge University Press)