Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
Grammy Awards · 125 nominations across 56 ceremonies · 57 wins
68th Grammys · 2026
- Winner Meditations: Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama · Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama
- Nominee Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connors Story · Kathy Garver
- Nominee You Know It's True: The Real Story of Milli Vanilli · Fab Morvan
- Nominee Into the Uncut Grass · Trevor Noah
- Nominee Lovely One: A Memoir · Ketanji Brown Jackson
67th Grammys · 2025
66th Grammys · 2024
65th Grammys · 2023
- Winner Finding Me · Viola Davis
- Nominee Act Like You Got Some Sense · Jamie Foxx
- Nominee All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business · Mel Brooks
- Nominee Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World · Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Nominee Music Is History · Questlove
58th Grammys · 2016
- Winner A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety · Jimmy Carter
- Nominee Blood on Snow (Jo Nesbø) · Patti Smith
- Nominee Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks · Dick Cavett
- Nominee Yes Please · Amy Poehler
- Nominee Patience and Sarah (Isabel Miller) · Janis Ian, Jean Smart
53rd Grammys · 2011
- Winner Earth · Jon Stewart, Samantha Bee, Wyatt Cenac, Jason Jones, John Oliver, Sigourney Weaver
- Nominee American on Purpose · Craig Ferguson
- Nominee A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future... · Michael J. Fox
- Nominee Mere Anarchy · Side Effects, Without Feathers, Woody Allen
- Nominee The Bedwetter · Sarah Silverman
- Nominee This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection · Carol Burnett
52nd Grammys · 2010
- Winner Always Looking Up · Michael J. Fox
- Nominee Jonathan Winters - A Very Special Time · Jonathan Winters
- Nominee We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land · Jimmy Carter
- Nominee The Maltese Falcon · Michael Madsen, Sandra Oh, Edward Herrmann
- Nominee Wishful Drinking · Carrie Fisher
- Nominee The Lincoln-Douglas Debates · Richard Dreyfuss, David Strathairn
51st Grammys · 2009
50th Grammys · 2008
- Winner The Audacity of Hope : Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream · Barack Obama
- Nominee Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself · Alan Alda
- Nominee Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World · Bill Clinton
- Nominee Celebrations · Maya Angelou
- Nominee Sunday Mornings in Plains: Bringing Peace to a Changing World · Jimmy Carter
49th Grammys · 2007
- Winner Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis · Jimmy Carter
- Winner With Ossie And Ruby: In This Life Together · Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
- Nominee New Rules — Polite Musings From A Timid Observer · Bill Maher
- Nominee I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This! · Bob Newhart
- Nominee The Truth (with jokes) · Al Franken
48th Grammys · 2006
- Winner Dreams from My Father · Barack Obama
47th Grammys · 2005
- Winner My Life · Bill Clinton
46th Grammys · 2004
45th Grammys · 2003
- Winner A Song Flung Up to Heaven · Maya Angelou
44th Grammys · 2002
43rd Grammys · 2001
- Winner The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography · Sidney Poitier
- Nominee The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets
- Nominee On the Road – Unabridged · Matt Dillon
- Nominee Married to Laughter – A Love Story featuring Anne Meara · Jerry Stiller
- Nominee Shopgirl · Steve Martin
42nd Grammys · 2000
40th Grammys · 1998
- Winner Charles Kuralt's Spring · Charles Kuralt
39th Grammys · 1997
- Winner It Takes a Village · Hillary Rodham Clinton
38th Grammys · 1996
- Winner Phenomenal Woman · Maya Angelou
37th Grammys · 1995
36th Grammys · 1994
- Winner On the Pulse of Morning · Maya Angelou
35th Grammys · 1993
34th Grammys · 1992
- Winner The Civil War · Ken Burns
33rd Grammys · 1991
- Winner Gracie - A Love Story · George Burns
32nd Grammys · 1990
- Winner It's Always Something · Gilda Radner
31st Grammys · 1989
30th Grammys · 1988
- Winner Lake Wobegon Days · Garrison Keillor
29th Grammys · 1987
28th Grammys · 1986
- Winner Ma Rainey's Black Bottom · Mike Berniker
27th Grammys · 1985
- Winner The Words of Gandhi · Ben Kingsley
26th Grammys · 1984
25th Grammys · 1983
24th Grammys · 1982
- Winner Donovan's Brain · Orson Welles
23rd Grammys · 1981
22nd Grammys · 1980
21st Grammys · 1979
- Winner Citizen Kane · Orson Welles
20th Grammys · 1978
- Winner The Belle of Amherst
19th Grammys · 1977
18th Grammys · 1976
- Winner Give 'Em Hell Harry · James Whitmore
17th Grammys · 1975
- Winner Good Evening · Peter Cook, Dudley Moore
16th Grammys · 1974
15th Grammys · 1973
- Winner Lenny · Bruce Botnick
14th Grammys · 1972
- Winner Desiderata · Les Crane
12th Grammys · 1970
11th Grammys · 1969
- Winner Lonesome Cities · Rod McKuen
10th Grammys · 1968
- Winner Gallant Men · Everett M. Dirksen
9th Grammys · 1967
8th Grammys · 1966
7th Grammys · 1965
- Winner BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy · That Was The Week That Was
- Nominee The Kennedy Wit · John F. Kennedy, David Brinkley
- Nominee Shakespeare: Hamlet · Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake, Eileen Herlie
- Nominee Shakespeare: Othello · Laurence Olivier
- Nominee Dylan · Sydney Michaels, Kate Reid, Alec Guinness
- Nominee Dialogue Highlights From Beckett · Peter O'Toole
6th Grammys · 1964
- Winner Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? · Edward Albee, Melinda Dillon, George Grizzard, Uta Hagen, Arthur Hill
- Nominee We Shall Overcome (The March On Washington... August 28, 1963) · Martin Luther King Jr.
- Nominee John F. Kennedy - The Presidential Years (With David Tieg As Narrator) · John F. Kennedy
- Nominee Strange Interlude · Betty Field, Jane Fonda, Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Geraldine Page, Richard Thomas, Franchot Tone
- Nominee The Badmen
5th Grammys · 1963
- Winner The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton · Charles Laughton
- Nominee First Performance Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts
- Nominee Enoch Arden (Music By R. Strauss/Poem By Alfred Tennyson) · Glenn Gould, Claude Rains
- Nominee Mama Sang A Song · Stan Kenton
- Nominee Six Million Accuse
- Nominee Carl Sandburg Reading His Poetry · Carl Sandburg
- Nominee This Is My Beloved · Laurence Harvey
- Nominee Sir Michael Redgrave Reads Chekov Stories · Michael Redgrave
4th Grammys · 1962
- Winner Humor in Music · Leonard Bernstein
- Nominee More Of Hal Holbrook In Mark Twain Tonight! · Hal Holbrook
- Nominee The Coming Of Christ · Alexander Scourby, Robert Russell Bennett
- Nominee Wisdom: Conversations With The Elder Wise Men Of Our Day Vol. 1
- Nominee The World Of Dorothy Parker · Dorothy Parker
3rd Grammys · 1961
- Winner FDR Speaks
- Nominee Part Two Of Shakespeare's "Ages Of Man", "One Man In This Time" · John Gielgud, John Gielgud
- Nominee J.B. · Archibald MacLeish
- Nominee Voices Of The Twentieth Century · Henry Fonda
2nd Grammys · 1960
- Winner A Lincoln Portrait · Carl Sandburg
- Nominee Mark Twain Tonight! · Hal Holbrook
- Nominee Basil Rathbone Reads Sherlock Holmes · Basil Rathbone
- Nominee New York Taxi Driver · Tony Schwartz
- Nominee Ages Of Man · John Gielgud