Grammy Award al miglior album parlato

Il premio è stato conferito a partire dal 1959.^[1]

Nel corso degli anni il nome del premio è variato. Qui sotto viene riportata la cronologia dei vari titoli del premio conferito.

• 1959: Best Performance, Documentary or Spoken Word
• 1960-1961: Best Performance – Documentary or Spoken Word (other than comedy)
• 1962-1963: Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording (other than comedy)
• 1964-1965: Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording (other than comedy)
• 1966: Best Spoken Word or Drama Recording
• 1967-1968: Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording
• 1969-1979: Best Spoken Word Recording
• 1980-1983: Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording
• 1984-1991: Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording
• 1992-1997: Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album
• 1998-2022: Best Spoken Word Album
• dal 2023: Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording.

Migliore interpretazione - documentario o parola parlata (1959-1961)

• 1959^[2]
  • Stan Freberg - The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows
  • Melvyn Douglas, Vincent Price, Carl Sandburg ed Ed Begley – Great American Speeches'
  • Stan Freberg – Green Christmas
  • Elaine May e Mike Nichols – Improvisations to Music
• 1960^[3]
  • Carl Sandburg - Lincoln Portrait
  • John Gielgud – Ages of Man
  • Hal Holbrook – Mark Twain Tonight
  • Basil Rathbone – Basil Rathbone Reads Sherlock Holmes
  • Tony Schwartz – New York Taxi Driver
• 1961^[4]
  • Robert Bialek - FDR Speaks
  • Henry Fonda – Voices of the Twentieth Century
  • John Gielgud – Ages of Man, Vol. 2 (One Man in His Time)
  • Archibald MacLeish – J.B.

Migliore registrazione parlata, documentario o dramma (1962-1991)

Anni 1960

• 1962^[5]
  • Leonard Bernstein - Humor in Music
  • Hal Holbrook – More of Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight!
  • Dorothy Parker – The World of Dorothy Parker
  • Carl Sandburg, Harlow Shapley, Jawaharlal Nehru e Jacques Lipchitz – Wisdom, Vol. 1
  • Alexander Scourby – The Coming of Christ
• 1963^[6]
  • Charles Laughton - The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton
  • Carl Sandburg – Carl Sandburg Reading His Poetry
  • Claude Rains e Glenn Gould – Enoch Arden
  • Laurence Harvey – This Is My Beloved
  • Stan Kenton – Mama Sang a Song
• 1964^[7]
  • Melinda Dillon, George Grizzard, Uta Hagen e Arthur Hill - Chi ha paura di Virginia Woolf?
  • Dane Clark, Anne Jackson, Lotte Lenya e Viveca Lindfors – Brecht on Brecht
  • Martin Luther King con Joan Baez, Marian Anderson, Odetta, Rabbi Joachim Prinz e Bob Dylan – We Shall Overcome (The March on Washington, August 28, 1963)
  • Goddard Lieberson, Pete Seeger ed altri – The Badmen
  • Norman Weiser e David Teig – John F. Kennedy – The Presidential Years
• 1965^[8]
  • Cast di That Was The Week That Was - BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy
  • Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, John Gielgud, Alfred Drake, George Voskovec, Eileen Herlie, William Redfield e George Ross – Amleto
  • Richard Burton e Peter O'Toole – Dialogue Highlights from Becket
  • Alec Guinness e Kate Reid – Dylan
  • John F. Kennedy, David Brinkley ed Adlai Stevenson – The Kennedy Wit
• 1966^[9]
  • Goddard Lieberson (produttore) - John F. Kennedy: As We Remember Him
  • Alec Guinness – A Personal Choice
  • Chet Huntley e David Brinkley – A Time to Keep: '64
  • Royal National Theatre – Molto rumore per nulla
  • Adlai Stevenson – The Voice of the Uncommon Man
  • Margaret Webster – The Brontes
• 1967^[10]
  • Edward R. Murrow - Edward R. Murrow: A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I – The War Years
  • Lee J. Cobb e Mildred Dunnock – Death of a Salesman
  • Johnny Sea – Day for Decision
  • Buddy Starcher – History Repeats Itself
• 1968^[11]
  • Everett Dirksen - Gallant Men
  • James Dickey – Poems of James Dickey
  • Hal Holbrook – Mark Twain Tonight, Vol. 3
  • Patrick Magee e Cyril Cusack – Il balcone
  • Rod McKuen – The Earth
  • Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller e Robert Shaw – Un uomo per tutte le stagioni
  • Victor Lundberg – An Open Letter to My Teenage Son
• 1969^[12]
  • Rod McKuen - Lonesome Cities
  • Martin Luther King – I Have a Dream
  • Paul Scofield – Assassinio nella cattedrale
  • Martin Starkie – The Canterbury Pilgrims

Anni 1970

• 1970^[13]
  • Art Linkletter e Diane Linkletter - We Love You, Call Collect
  • Walter Cronkite – Man on the Moon
  • James Earl Jones – La grande speranza bianca
• 1971^[14]
  • Martin Luther King - Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam
  • Ambrose, Dryden, Hecht, Molloy, Carawan, La Farge e Seeger – Poems and Ballads from 100-Plus American Poets
  • Astronauti di Apollo 8, 11 e 12, John F. Kennedy e Richard Nixon – In the Beginning
  • Bill Cosby – Grover Henson Feels Forgotten
  • Everett Dirksen – Everett Dirksen's America
• 1972^[15]
  • Les Crane - Desiderata
  • Richard Chamberlain – Amleto (una presentazione di Hallmark Hall of Fame)
  • Walter Cronkite – I Can Hear It Now/The Sixties
  • Stacy Keach, Robert Ryan e Geraldine Fitzgerald – Lungo viaggio verso la notte
  • James Whitmore – Will Rogers' USA
• 1973^[16]
  • Cast originale di Broadway - Lenny
  • Angela Davis – Angela Davis Speaks
  • Rod McKuen – The Word
  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko – Yevtushenko
• 1974^[17]
  • Richard Harris - Il gabbiano Jonathan Livingston
  • Billie Holiday – Songs and Conversations
  • Vincent Price – Witches, Ghosts and Goblins
  • Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – Mattatoio n. 5
  • John Wayne – America, Why I Love Her
• 1975^[18]
  • Peter Cook e Dudley Moore - Good Evening
  • Sam Ervin – Senator Sam at Home
  • Rod McKuen – Autumn
  • Eric Sevareid – An Ear to the Sounds of Our History
• 1976^[19]
  • James Whitmore - Give 'em Hell, Harry!
  • Alistair Cooke – Talk About America
  • Richard Harris – Il profeta
  • Claudia McNeil – The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
  • Maureen Stapleton – Il buio oltre la siepe
  • Orson Welles – Immortal Sherlock Holmes (The Mercury Theatre on the Air|Mercury Theatre on the Air)
• 1977^[20]
  • Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones e Orson Welles - Great American Documents
  • Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
  • Charlton Heston – Il vecchio e il mare
  • James Mason – Racconto di due città
  • William Shatner – Foundation: The Psychohistorians
• 1978^[21]
  • Julie Harris - The Belle of Amherst
  • Alex Haley – Alex Haley Tells the Story of His Search for Roots
  • Cast originale e Ntozake Shange – For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
  • Christopher Tolkien – Il Silmarillion
  • Harry Truman e Ben Gradus – The Truman Tapes
• 1979^[22]
  • Orson Welles - Citizen Kane (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  • Henry Fonda – Furore
  • Judith Anderson, Claire Bloom, James Mason, George Rose e Gordon Gould – Cime tempestose
  • Richard Nixon e David Frost – Interviste a Nixon
  • AA.VV. – Radici (Original Television Soundtrack)

Anni 1980

• 1980^[23]
  • John Gielgud - Ages of Man - Readings From Shakespeare
  • Henry Fonda – The Ox-Bow Incident
  • Jim Morrison – An American Prayer
  • Ken Nordine – Stare with Your Ears
  • AA.VV. – Apocalypse Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  • Orson Welles e Helen Hayes – Orson Welles & Helen Hayes at Their Best
• 1981^[24]
  • Pat Carroll - Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein
  • Mahalia Jackson – I Sing Because I'm Happy, Vols. 1 and 2
  • Cast originale – Adventures of Luke Skywalker: The Empire Strikes Back
  • Orson Welles – Obediently Yours
  • Peter Ustinov – James Thurber: A Curb In The Sky And Other Stories
• 1982^[25]
  • Orson Welles - Il cervello di Donovan
  • E.G. Marshall – Justice Holmes' Decisions
  • James Mason – Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
  • Paul McCartney e Vic Garbarini – The McCartney Interview
  • Ed McMahon – 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (da Christmas with Friends ft. Ed McMahon, Doc Severinsen e Tommy Newsom)
• 1983^[26]
  • Tom Voegeli (produttore) - I predatori dell'arca perduta: The Movie on Record
  • Roger Rees – Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby
  • Isaac Asimov – L'orlo della Fondazione
  • John Gielgud e Ralph Richardson – Terra di nessuno
  • Arthur C. Clarke – 2010: Odissea due
• 1984^[27]
  • William Warfield - A Lincoln Portrait
  • Steve Allen e Jayne Meadows – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Home Computers
  • Jane Fonda e Femmy De Lyser – Jane Fonda's Workout Record for Pregnancy, Birth and Recovery
  • John Gielgud ed Irene Worth – Il libro dei gatti tuttofare
• 1985^[28]
  • Ben Kingsley - The Words of Gandhi
  • Jeremy Irons e Glenn Close – The Real Thing (Broadway Cast)
  • Jesse Jackson – Our Time Has Come
  • John Lennon e Yoko Ono – Heart Play (Unfinished Dialogue)
• 1986^[29]
  • Mike Berniker (produttore) ed il cast di Broadway - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  • Alan Arkin – Comma 22
  • Dick Cavett – Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn
  • John le Carré – La spia che venne dal freddo
  • Philip Roth – Zuckerman Bound
• 1987^[30]
  • Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chips Moman, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins e Sam Phillips - Interviews From the Class of '55 Recording Sessions
  • F. Murray Abraham – Intervista col vampiro
  • Ray Bradbury – The Stories of Ray Bradbury
  • Bill Cosby – Hardheaded Boys
  • John Gielgud – Gulliver (composto da Patrick Williams)
• 1988^[31]
  • Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegon Days
  • Lauren Bacall – Lauren Bacall by Myself
  • Katharine Hepburn – "Lincoln Portrait" (da Aaron Copland: Lincoln Portrait and Other Works di Erich Kunzel e della Cincinnati Pops Orchestra)
  • Leonard Nimoy – Whales Alive
  • Leonard Nimoy e George Takei – Rotta verso la Terra
• 1989^[32]
  • Jesse Jackson - Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson, July 27 (da One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism)
  • John Cleese – Le lettere di Berlicche
  • John Gielgud – Canto di Natale
  • Garrison Keillor e vari artisti – A Prairie Home Companion|A Prairie Home Companion: The 2nd Annual Farewell Performance
  • Jonathan Winters – Winters' Tale

Anni 1990

• 1990^[33]
  • Gilda Radner - It's Always Something
  • Erma Bombeck – I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise
  • Robert Fulghum – All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
  • John Gielgud – Sir John Gielgud Reads Alice in Wonderland
  • Jason Robards, Steve Allen, Douglas Edwards ed il Cast – The War of the Worlds 50th Anniversary Production
• 1991^[34]
  • George Burns - Gracie: A Love Story
  • Garrison Keillor – A Prairie Home Companion: The 4th Annual Farewell Performance
  • John F. Kennedy Jr. – Ritratti del coraggio
  • Kyle MacLachlan – "Diane..." The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper
  • Jimmy Stewart – Jimmy Stewart and His Poems

Miglior album parlato (1992-2022)

• 1992^[35]
  • Ken Burns - The Civil War
  • Douglas Adams – Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti
  • Katharine Hepburn – Me: Stories of My Life
  • Charles Kuralt – A Life on the Road
• 1993^[36]
  • Magic Johnson e Robert O'Keefe - What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS
  • Fannie Flagg – Pomodori verdi fritti al caffè di Whistle Stop
  • Garrison Keillor – Stories
  • Ken Nordine – Devout Catalyst
  • Patrick Stewart – Canto di Natale
  • Orson Welles e Peter Bogdanovich – This Is Orson Welles
• 1994^[37]
  • Maya Angelou - On the Pulse of Morning
  • LeVar Burton – Miles: The Autobiography
  • Arlo Guthrie – Questa terra è la mia terra
  • Paul Newman e Joanne Woodward – Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
  • Emma Thompson – Casa Howard
• 1995^[38]
  • Henry Rollins - Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag
  • Kenneth Branagh e la Renaissance Theatre Company – Amleto
  • Ken Burns – Baseball
  • Ben Kingsley – La lista di Schindler
  • Gregory Peck – Bibbia (Nuovo Testamento)
• 1996
  • Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman
  • Danny Glover – Lungo cammino verso la libertà
  • Garrison Keillor – Guy Noir: Radio Private Eye
  • Leonard Nimoy – I Am Spock
• 1997^[39]
  • Hillary Clinton - It Takes a Village
  • Ed Asner, Ellen Burstyn, C. C. H. Pounder ed Alfre Woodard – Grow Old Along with Me, the Best Is Yet to Be
  • Lauren Bacall, Martin Landau, Jack Lemmon e Gregory Peck – Harry S Truman: A Journey to Independence
  • Garrison Keillor – Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn
  • Charles Kuralt – Charles Kuralt's America
• 1998^[40]
  • Charles Kuralt - Charles Kuralt's Spring
  • Maya Angelou – Even the Stars Look Lonesome
  • Jimmy Carter – Living Faith
  • Walter Cronkite – A Reporter's Life
  • Jodie Foster – Contact
• 1999^[41]
  • Christopher Reeve - Still Me
  • Jimmy Carter – The Virtues of Aging
  • David Holt e Bill Mooney – Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends
  • Garrison Keillor – Wobegon Boy
  • Toni Morrison – Amatissima

Anni 2000

• 2000
  • LeVar Burton - The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Nanci Griffith – The Chieftains: The Unauthorized Biography
  • Merle Haggard – Merle Haggard's My House of Memories
  • Frank McCourt – Che paese, l'America
  • Mandy Patinkin e Betty Buckley con Walter Cronkite – The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain
• 2001
  • Sidney Poitier - The Measure of a Man
  • Matt Dillon – Sulla strada
  • Steve Martin – Shopgirl
  • Jerry Stiller ed Anne Meara – Married to Laughter: A Love Story
  • Vari artisti tra cui Kathleen Turner, Patrick Stewart ed Al Pacino – The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets
• 2002
  • Quincy Jones - Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
  • Jimmy Carter – An Hour Before Sunlight
  • Garrison Keillor – Lake Wobegon Summer 1956
  • Carl Reiner – Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain
  • Vari artisti tra cui Rob Lowe, Noah Wyle, Joan Allen, Tom Brokaw e il narratore Harry Smith – War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars
• 2003
  • Maya Angelou - A Song Flung Up to Heaven
  • Tim Robbins – Il grande Gatsby
  • Robert Evans – The Kid Stays in the Picture
  • Michael J. Fox – Lucky Man
  • Christopher Reeve – Nothing Is Impossible
• 2004
  • Al Franken - Balle! E tutti i ballisti che ce le stanno raccontando
  • Don Cheadle – Fear Itself
  • Hillary Clinton – Living History
  • Nikki Giovanni – The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection
  • Bill Maher – When You Ride Alone You Ride with bin Laden
• 2005
  • Bill Clinton - My Life
  • Tyne Daly, John Lithgow, Joanne Rogers, Lily Tomlin ed Andre Watts – The World According to Mr. Rogers
  • David Holt e Zeb Holt – Live & Kickin' at the National Storytelling Festival
  • Steve Martin – The Pleasure of My Company
  • David Sedaris – Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
• 2006
  • Barack Obama - I sogni di mio padre
  • George Carlin – When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
  • Al Franken – The Al Franken Show Party Album
  • Garrison Keillor – The Adventures of Guy Noir
  • Sean Penn – Chronicles - Volume 1
• 2007
  • Jimmy Carter - Our Endangered Values (ex aequo)
  • Ossie Davis e Ruby Dee - Ossie and Ruby (ex aequo)
  • Al Franken – The Truth (with Jokes)
  • Bill Maher – New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
  • Bob Newhart – I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!
• 2008
  • Barack Obama - The Audacity of Hope
  • Maya Angelou – Celebrations
  • Bill Clinton – Giving
  • Jimmy Carter – Sunday Mornings in Plains
  • Alan Alda – Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
• 2009
  • Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon e Blair Underwood - An Inconvenient Truth
  • Steve Martin – Born Standing Up
  • Stephen Colbert e il cast di The Colbert Report – I Am America (and So Can You!)
  • Sidney Poitier – Life Beyond Measure
  • David Sedaris – When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Anni 2010

• 2010^[42]
  • Michael J. Fox - Always Looking Up
  • Yuri Rasovsky e Josh Stanton – Il falcone maltese
  • Richard Dreyfuss e David Strathairn – The Lincoln–Douglas Debates
  • Jonathan Winters – A Very Special Time
  • Jimmy Carter – We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land
  • Carrie Fisher – Wishful Drinking
• 2011^[43]
  • Jon Stewart e lo staff di The Daily Show - Earth (The Audiobook)
  • Craig Ferguson – American on Purpose
  • Sarah Silverman – The Bedwetter
  • Michael J. Fox – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future
  • Carol Burnett – This Time Together
  • Woody Allen – The Woody Allen Collection
• 2012^[44]
  • Betty White - If You Ask Me (and of Course You Won't)
  • Tina Fey – Bossypants
  • Nathan Burbank, Bryan Cumming, Dennis Scott e David Toledo – Fab Fan Memories: The Beatles Bond
  • Dan Donohue e il cast dell'Oregon Shakespeare Festival – Amleto
  • Val Kilmer e il cast di Hollywood Theater of the Ear – The Mark of Zorro
• 2013^[45]
  • Janis Ian - Society's Child
  • Scott Creswell e Dan Zitt – American Grown
  • Bill Clinton – Back to Work
  • Rachel Maddow – Drift
  • Ellen DeGeneres – Seriously... I'm Kidding
• 2014^[46]
  • Stephen Colbert - America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't
  • Carol Burnett – Carrie and Me
  • David Sedaris – Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
  • Billy Crystal – Still Foolin' Em
  • Pete Seeger – The Storm King
• 2015^[47]
  • Joan Rivers - Diary of a Mad Diva
  • James Franco – Actors Anonymous
  • Jimmy Carter – A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
  • John Waters – Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
  • Elizabeth Warren – A Fighting Chance
  • Gloria Gaynor – We Will Survive: True Stories of Encouragement, Inspiration and the Power of Song
• 2016^[48]
  • Jimmy Carter - A Full Life: Reflections at 90
  • Patti Smith – Sangue e neve
  • Dick Cavett – Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments and Assorted Hijinks
  • Janis Ian e Jean Smart – Patience and Sarah
  • Amy Poehler – Yes Please
• 2017^[49]
  • Carol Burnett - In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox
  • Amy Schumer – The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
  • Patti Smith – M Train
  • Elvis Costello – Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
  • AA.VV. – Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
• 2018^[50]
  • Carrie Fisher - The Princess Diarist
  • Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
  • Shelly Peiken – Confessions of a Serial Songwriter
  • Bernie Sanders e Mark Ruffalo – Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson – Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
• 2019^[51]
  • Jimmy Carter - Faith: A Journey for All
  • Courtney B. Vance – Accessory to War
  • David Sedaris – Calypso
  • Questlove – Creative Quest
  • Tiffany Haddish – The Last Black Unicorn

Anni 2020

• 2020^[52]
  • Michelle Obama - Becoming
  • Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Scott Sherratt & Dan Zitt (produttori) – The Beastie Boys Book
  • Eric Alexandrakis – Catatonia: 20 Years as a Two-Time Cancer Survivor
  • John Waters – Mr. Know-It-All
  • Sekou Andrews & the String Theory – Sekou Andrews & the String Theory
• 2021
  • Rachel Maddow - Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
  • Flea – Acid for the Children: A Memoir
  • Ken Jennings – Alex Trebek — The Answer Is...
  • Ronan Farrow – Catch and Kill
  • Meryl Streep e l'intero cast – La tela di Carlotta
• 2022
  • Don Cheadle - Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation from John Lewis
  • LeVar Burton – Aftermath
  • J. Ivy – Catching Dreams: Live at Fort Knox Chicago
  • Dave Chappelle ed Amir Sulaiman – 8:46
  • Barack Obama – A Promised Land

Miglior registrazione di un audiolibro, narrazione e storytelling

Anni 2020

• 2023^[53][54]
  • Viola Davis - Finding Me
  • Jamie Foxx – Act Like You Got Some Sense
  • Mel Brooks – All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda – Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
  • Questlove – Music Is History
• 2024^[55][56]
  • The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times – Michelle Obama
  • Big Tree – Meryl Streep
  • Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder – William Shatner
  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being – Rick Rubin
  • It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism – Bernie Sanders

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