The nominees for the 2024 Grammy Awards were announced Friday morning, with five titles in the running in the best audio book, narration, and storytelling recording category.
Michelle Obama was nominated for her audiobook version of her book The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times. Obama won the award in 2020 for the narration of her memoir, Becoming.
Meryl Streep earned a nomination for her recording of Brian Selznick’s children’s fantasy novel Big Tree. Streep and several other authors were nominated in 2021 for their narration of E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web.
Also nominated were three authors narrating their own books: William Shatner for Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder (co-written with Joshua Brandon); Rick Rubin for The Creative Act: A Way of Being; and Sen. Bernie Sanders for It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism.
Five nominees were also announced in the best spoken word poetry album category: Queen Sheba for A-You’re Not Wrong B-They’re Not Either: The Fukc-It Pill Revisited; Prentice Powell and Shawn William for For Your Consideration ’24 -The Album; Kevin Powell for Grocery Shopping With My Mother; J. Ivy for The Light Inside; and Aja Monet for When The Poems Do What They Do.
The Grammys will be awarded at a televised ceremony on CBS on Feb. 4, 2024.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
