[6][4] In 1989 her recording of Madame Bovary was described in the Los Angeles Times as "a performance against which all others must be measured".
[6] In 2004 Porter won the Audie Award for Faith-Based Fiction and Nonfiction for her narration of Treasure of Stonewycke by Michael Phillips and Judith Pella.
[9] In 2015 she won the Sova Award for Best Female Narrator for Written in My Own Heart's Blood, the eighth book in the series.
[1] In 2017 Porter was selected as one of the 20 inaugural members of the Narrator Hall of Fame by Audible.
[4][5] Audible said of Porter's selection that she "has developed a special relationship with the listener, making every audiobook she performs a transporting experience".