Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording

The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959.

The award has had several minor name changes: Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for a recording released in the previous year.

[69] The following individuals received two or more awards: The following individuals received three or more nominations:

Stan Freberg was the first recipient of the award in 1959.
Carl Sandburg received the award in 1960.
Leonard Bernstein received the award in 1962.
Charles Laughton received the award in 1963.
Edward R. Murrow received the award in 1967.
Martin Luther King Jr. won the award posthumously in 1971 for Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam .
Richard Harris won the award in 1974.
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore won the award in 1975.
James Whitmore won the award in 1976.
Director Orson Welles received the award twice, in 1977 and 1979.
James Earl Jones received the award in 1977.
Sir John Gielgud received the award in 1980.
William Warfield received the award in 1984.
Actor Ben Kingsley won for The Words of Gandhi in 1985.
Garrison Keillor won the award in 1988.
1990 award winner, comedian Gilda Radner .
Comedian George Burns won the award in 1991.
Documentarian Ken Burns won in 1992.
Three-time winner, American poet Maya Angelou .
Hillary Clinton won the award in 1997.
LeVar Burton won the award in 2000.
Actor and director Sidney Poitier won the award for his autobiography The Measure of a Man in 2001.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton won in 2005.
Two-time winner, former U.S. President Barack Obama .
Four-time winner, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter .
Jon Stewart won the award in 2011.
2012 award winner, Betty White .
Comedian Stephen Colbert won in 2014.
Comedienne Joan Rivers won in 2015.
Comedienne Carol Burnett won in 2017.
Carrie Fisher won the award posthumously in 2018.
Former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama won in 2020 and 2024.
Viola Davis won the award in 2023 achieving the EGOT