The Grammy Awards nominations were announced Friday morning, with five titles in contention for the best audiobook, narration, and storytelling recording prize.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was nominated for her narration of her memoir, Lovely One. A critic for Kirkus wrote of the book, which Random House published last September, “What Jackson offers…is a well-written, intriguing, and quintessentially American story about a fascinating woman who is truly the embodiment of what is possible in the United States because of its freedoms and in spite of its flaws—lovely indeed.”
Comedian Trevor Noah scored a nomination for the audiobook version of Into the Uncut Grass, his children’s book illustrated by Sabina Hahn. Noah has hosted the Grammy Awards ceremony for the past five years and has been nominated for two of the prizes previously in the best comedy album category.
The Dalai Lama earned a nod for his recording of Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, while Fab Morvan was nominated for his memoir You Know It’s True: The Real Story of Milli Vanilli. Actor Kathy Garver scored a nomination for her narration of Carol Connors and Steve Bergsman’s Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connors Story.
Previous winners in the audiobook category include Henry Rollins for Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag; Michael J. Fox for Always Looking Up; and Carrie Fisher for The Princess Diarist.
The winners of the Grammy Awards will be announced at a televised ceremony on February 1, 2026.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
