GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees for Best Spoken Word Or Non-musical Album
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63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2020)
winner
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, And The Richest, Most Destructive Industry On Earth
nominees
Catch And Kill
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
Meryl Streep (& Full cast)
Acid For The Children: A Memoir
Alex Trebek - The Answer Is...
62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2019)
nominees
Beastie Boys Book
(Various Artists)
I.V. Catatonia: 20 Years As A Two-Time Cancer Survivor
Mr. Know-It-All
Sekou Andrews & The String Theory
Sekou Andrews (& The String Theory)
61st Annual GRAMMY Awards (2018)
nominees
Calypso
Creative Quest
The Last Black Unicorn
Accessory To War (Neil deGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang)
60th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2017)
nominees
Astrophysics For People In A Hurry
Born To Run
Confessions Of A Serial Songwriter
Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (Bernie Sanders)
59th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2016)
nominees
The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo
M Train
Under The Big Black Sun: A Personal History Of L.A. Punk (John Doe With Tom DeSavia)
(Various Artists)
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
58th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2015)
nominees
Blood On Snow (Jo Nesbø)
Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, And Assorted Hijinks
Patience And Sarah (Isabel Miller)
Yes Please
Amy Poehler (& Various Artists)
57th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2014)
nominees
A Call To Action
Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
A Fighting Chance
We Will Survive: True Stories Of Encouragement, Inspiration, And The Power Of Song
Actors Anonymous
56th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2013)
nominees
Carrie And Me
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
Still Foolin' 'Em
The Storm King
55th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2012)
nominees
American Grown (Michelle Obama)
(Various Artists)
Back To Work: Why We Need Smart Government For A Strong Economy
Drift: The Unmooring Of American Military Power
Seriously... I'm Kidding
54th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2011)
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nominees
Bossypants
Fab Fan Memories - The Beatles Bond
(Various Artists)
Hamlet (Oregon Shakespeare Festival)
Dan Donohue & Various Artists
The Mark Of Zorro
Val Kilmer & Cast
53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2010)
winner
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook)
Jon Stewart (With Samantha Bee, Wyatt Cenac, Jason Jones, John Oliver & Sigourney Weaver)
nominees
American On Purpose
The Bedwetter
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To The Future...
This Time Together: Laughter And Reflection
The Woody Allen Collection: Mere Anarchy, Side Effects, Without Feathers, Getting Even
52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2009)
nominees
Jonathan Winters - A Very Special Time
Jonathan Winters (Music By Verne Langdon & Skip Edwards)
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Maltese Falcon
Various Artists Including Michael Madsen, Sandra Oh, Edward Herrmann & Others
We Can Have Peace In The Holy Land
Wishful Drinking
51st Annual GRAMMY Awards (2008)
nominees
Born Standing Up
I Am America (And So Can You!)
Stephen Colbert & Various Artists
Life Beyond Measure
When You Are Engulfed In Flames
50th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2007)
nominees
Celebrations
Giving: How Each Of Us Can Change The World
Sunday Mornings In Plains: Bringing Peace To A Changing World
Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself
49th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2006)
nominees
New Rules - Polite Musings From A Timid Observer
The Truth (With Jokes)
I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!
48th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2005)
nominees
The Adventures Of Guy Noir
The Al Franken Show Party Album
Chronicles - Volume One (Bob Dylan)
When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops? (George Carlin)
47th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2004)
nominees
The Pleasure Of My Company
The World According To Mr. Rogers (Fred Rogers)
Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim
Live & Kickin' At The National Storytelling Festival
David Holt & Zeb Holt
46th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2003)
winner
Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look At The Right (Al Franken)
nominees
Fear Itself (Walter Mosley)
Living History (Hillary Rodham Clinton)
The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection (Nikki Giovanni)
When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden (Bill Maher)
45th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2002)
nominees
Lucky Man (Michael J. Fox)
Nothing Is Impossible (Christopher Reeve)
The Great Gatsby
The Kid Stays In The Picture (Robert Evans)
44th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2001)
nominees
An Hour Before Daylight (Jimmy Carter)
Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 (Garrison Keillor)
Letters From The Earth - Uncensored Writings By Mark Twain
War Letters - Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars (Edited by Andrew Carroll)
(Various Artists Including Rob Lowe, Noah Wyle, Joan Allen, Tom Brokaw & Harry Smith, Narrator)
43rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2000)
nominees
On The Road - Unabridged (Jack Kerouac) (Album)
Shopgirl (Steve Martin) (Album)
The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets (Album)
Various Artists (Including Kathleen Turner, Patrick Stewart, Al Pacino & Others)
Married To Laughter - A Love Story Featuring Anne Meara (Jerry Stiller) (Album)
42nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1999)
nominees
'Tis (Album)
Merle Haggard's My House Of Memories - For The Record (Album)
The Chieftains - The Authorized Biography (Album)
The Diaries Of Adam And Eve: Translated By Mark Twain (Album)
Betty Buckley And Mandy Patinkin With Walter Cronkite
41st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1998)
nominees
Beloved (Album)
Spiders In The Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends (Album)
The Virtues Of Aging (Album)
Wobegon Boy (Album)
40th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1997)
nominees
A Reporter's Life (Album)
Contact (Album)
Even The Stars Look Lonesome (Album)
Living Faith (Album)
39th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1996)
nominees
Charles Kuralt's America (Album)
Grow Old Along With Me The Best Is Yet To Be (Album)
Harry S Truman: A Journey To Independence (Album)
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Album)
38th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1995)
nominees
Guy Noir: Radio Private Eye (Album)
I Am Spock (Album)
Long Walk To Freedom (Album)
37th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1994)
nominees
Baseball (Album)
Hamlet (Album)
Schindler's List (Album)
The Bible (Album)
36th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1993)
nominees
Mr. And Mrs. Bridge (Album)
Bound For Glory (Album)
Howard's End (Album)
Miles: The Autobiography (Album)
35th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1992)
nominees
A Christmas Carol (Album)
Devout Catalyst (Album)
Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe (Album)
Stories (Album)
This Is Orson Welles (Album)
34th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1991)
nominees
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Album)
A Life On The Road (Album)
Me: Stories Of My Life (Album)
33rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1990)
nominees
A Prairie Home Companion: The 4th Annual Farewell (Album)
Diane..."The Twin Peaks Tapes Of Agent Cooper" (Album)
Jimmy Stewart And His Poems (Album)
Profiles In Courage (Album)
32nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1989)
nominees
John Gielgud Reads Alice In Wonderland (Album)
The War Of The Worlds 50th Anniversary Production (Album)
Jason Robards, Steve Allen, Douglas Edwards And Cast
All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten (Album)
I Want To Grow Hair, I Want To Grow Up, I Want To Go To Boise (Album)
31st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1988)
nominees
A Christmas Carol (Album)
A Prairie Home Companion: The 2nd Annual Farewell Performance (Album)
The Screwtape Letters
Winters' Tales (Album)
30th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1987)
nominees
Lauren Bacall By Myself
Lincoln Portrait (Track)
Katharine Hepburn
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Whales Alive (Album)
29th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1986)
winner
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Interviews From The Class Of '55 Recording Sessions
nominees
Gulliver (Album)
Hardheaded Boys (Album)
Bill Cosby Featuring Double Force
Interview With The Vampire
The Stories Of Ray Bradbury (Album)
28th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1985)
winner
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
(Original Broadway Cast)
nominees
Catch 22
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
Zukerman Bound (Album)
27th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1984)
nominees
Heart Play (Unfinished Dialogue) (Album)
John Lennon And Yoko Ono
Our Time Has Come (Album)
The Real Thing (Original Cast Recording)
The Story Of Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (Dialogue And Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack With Narration) (Album)
(Various Artists)
26th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1983)
nominees
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Home Computers (Album)
Jane Fonda's Work Out Record For Pregnancy, Birth And Recovery (Album)
Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats (Album)
The Robots Of Dawn (Album)
25th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1982)
winner
Raiders Of The Lost Ark - The Movie On Record
(Various Artists)
nominees
2010: Odyssey Two (Album)
Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickelby (Album)
Foundation's Edge (Album)
No Man's Land (Album)
24th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1981)
nominees
'Twas The Night Before Christmas (Track)
Justice Holmes' Decisions (Album)
E. G. Marshall And Louis Nizer
The McCartney Interview (Album)
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (Album)
23rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1980)
nominees
A Curb In The Sky (Album)
Adventures Of Luke Skywalker (Album)
The Empire Strikes Back (Original Cast W/Narration)
I Sing Because I'm Happy Volsumes 1 And 2 (Album)
Obediently Yours; Orson Welles (Album)
22nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1979)
nominees
Apocalypse Now (Album)
Orson Welles/Helen Hayes At Their Best (Album)
Stare With Your Ears (Album)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Album)
An American Prayer (Album)
21st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1978)
nominees
John Steinbeck: The Grapes Of Wrath (Excerpts) (Album)
Roots
Original Sound Track For TV
The Nixon Interviews With David Frost
Richard Nixon; Interviewed by David Frost
Wuthering Heights (Album)
20th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1977)
nominees
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Silmarillion Of Beren And Luthien (Album)
The Truman Tapes (Album)
Alex Haley Tells The Story Of His Search For Roots (Album)
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf (Album)
Original Cast
19th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1976)
nominees
Asimov: Foundation - The Psychohistorians (Album)
Dickens: A Tale Of Two Cities (Album)
Fahrenheit 451 (Album)
Hemingway: The Old Man And The Sea (Album)
18th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1975)
nominees
Talk About America (Album)
The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman (Album)
The Prophet (Album)
To Kill A Mockingbird (Album)
Immortal Sherlock Holmes Mercury Theater On The Air (Album)
17th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1974)
nominees
An Ear To The Sounds Of Our History (Album)
Autumn (Track)
Senator Sam At Home (Album)
Watergate Volume Three: I Hope The President Is Forgiven (Album)
John W. Dean III
16th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1973)
nominees
Slaughterhouse Five (Album)
Songs And Conversations (Album)
Witches, Ghosts And Goblins (Album)
America, Why I Love Her (Album)
15th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1972)
winner
Lenny
(Original Cast)
nominees
Cannonball Adderley Presents Soul Zodiac
Rich Holmes
The Word
Yevtushenko (Album)
14th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1971)
nominees
Hamlet (Album)
I Can Hear It Now - The Sixties (Album)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (Album)
Will Rogers' U.S.A. (Album)
13th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1970)
nominees
Everett Dirksen's America (Album)
Grover Henson Feels Forgotten
In The Beginning
Poems And Ballads From 100-Plus American Poets (Album)
Amanda Ambrose, Bob Dryden, Paul Hecht, Paul Malloy, Pete Seeger
The Soft Sea (Album)
12th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1969)
nominees
Home To The Sea (Album)
Man On The Moon (Album)
Robert F. Kennedy: A Memorial (Album)
The Great White Hope (Album)
James Earl Jones And Original Broadway Cast
11th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1968)
nominees
I Have A Dream (Album)
Kennedy-Nixon: The Great Debates, 1960 (Album)
John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon
Murder In The Cathedral (Album)
Paul Scofield And Cast
The Canterbury Pilgrims (Album)
10th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1967)
nominees
An Open Letter To My Teenage Son (Album)
Mark Twain Tonight, Vol. 3 (Album)
Poems Of James Dickey (Album)
The Balcony (Album)
Patrick Magee And Cyril Cusak
The Earth (Album)
A Man For All Seasons (Album)
9th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1966)
nominees
Day For Decision
Death Of A Salesman (Album)
History Repeats Itself (Album)
The Stevenson Wit (Album)
8th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1965)
winner
John F. Kennedy - As We Remember Him
(John F. Kennedy)
nominees
Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing (Album)
The Brontes (Album)
The Voice Of The Uncommon Man (Album)
Adlai Stevenson
A Personal Choice (Album)
A Time To Keep: 1964
7th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1964)
winner
BBC Tribute To John F. Kennedy
That Was The Week That Was (Cast)
nominees
Dialogue Highlights From Beckett
Dylan (Album)
Kate Reid, Alec Guinness And Original Cast
Shakespeare: Hamlet (Album)
Richard Burton And Original Broadway Cast
Shakespeare: Othello (Album)
The Kennedy Wit
John F. Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, David Brinkley
6th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1963)
winner
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
(Uta Hagen, Arthur Hill, George Grizzard & Melinda Dillon)
nominees
The Badmen (Album)
Pete Seeger And Others
We Shall Overcome (The March On Washington...August 28, 1963)
Martin Luther King Jr. And Various Artists
Brecht On Brecht (Album)
Original Show Cast
John F. Kennedy - The Presidential Years (With David Teig As Narrator) (Album)
(John F. Kennedy)
Strange Interlude (Album)
Betty Field, Jane Fonda, Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Geoff Horne, William Prince, Geraldine Page, Richard Thomas, Franchot Tone
5th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1962)
nominees
Carl Sandburg Reading His Poetry (Album)
Enoch Arden (Music By R. Strauss/Poem By Alfred Tennyson) (Album)
First Performance: Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts (Album)
Mama Sang A Song
Sir Michael Redgrave Reads Chekov Stories (Album)
Six Million Accuse (Album)
This Is My Beloved (Album)
4th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1961)
nominees
More Of Hal Holbrook In Mark Twain Tonight! (Album)
The Coming Of Christ (Album)
The World Of Dorothy Parker (Album)
Wisdom, Vol. 1
(Various Artists)
3rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1960)
winner
FDR Speaks
(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
nominees
J.B.
Part Two Of Shakespeare's "Ages Of Man", "One Man In This Time" (Album)
Voices Of The Twentieth Century (Album)
2nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1959)
nominees
New York Taxi Driver (Album)
Ages Of Man (Album)
Basil Rathbone Reads Sherlock Holmes (Album)
Mark Twain Tonight (Album)
1st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1958)
nominees
2 Interviews Of Our Times (Album)
Great American Speeches (Album)
Green Christmas (Album)
Improvisations To Music
