Grammy Awards are given by the Recording Academy's voting membership to honor excellence in the recording arts and sciences. They are awarded by and to artists and technical professionals for artistic or technical achievement.

2007

Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Album:  The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream, Barack Obama (Random House Audio)

Best Spoken Word Album For Children: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Jim Dale, (Listening Library)

2006

Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Album (tie): Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis, Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster Audio) and With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis (Time Warner Audio Books, now Hachette Audio)

Best Spoken Word Album for Children: Blah Blah Blah: Stories About Clams, Swamp Monsters, Pirates & Dogs, Bill Harley (Round River Records/Empyrean Records)

Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Album: Dreams From My Father, Senator Barack Obama (Random House Audio)

Best Spoken Word Album for Children: Thanks & Giving All Year Long: Marlo Thomas & Friends, Various Artists, Christopher Cerf & Marlo Thomas, producers [Warner Strategic Marketing] Atlantic / Kid Rhino

Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Album: My Life, Bill Clinton (Random House Audio)

Best Spoken Word Album for Children: The Train They Call The City of New Orleans, Tom Chapin (Live Oak Media)

Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Album: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look at the Right, Al Franken (HighBridge Audio)

Best Spoken Word Album for Children: Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Beintus: Wolf Tracks, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sophia Loren (Kent Nagano; Russian National Orch.) (Penta Tone Music)

Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Album: A Song Flung Up to Heaven, Maya Angelou (Random House Audio)

Best Spoken Comedy Album: Robin Williams -- Live 2002, Robin Williams (Columbia Records)

Best Spoken Word Album for Children: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, performed by Tom Chapin (Live Oak Media)

Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Album: Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones, Quincy Jones (S&S Audio)

Best Spoken Comedy Album: Napalm & Sillyputty, George Carlin (HighBridge Audio)

Best Spoken Word Album for Children: Mama Don't Allow, Thacher Hurd, performed by Tom Chapin (Live Oak Media)

Spoken Word or Nonmusical Album: The Measure of a Man, Sidney Poitier (HarperAudio)

Spoken Word Album for Children: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Jim Dale (Listening Library)

Spoken Comedy Album Braindroppings, George Carlin (HighBridge Audio)

Spoken Word or Nonmusical Album: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., LeVar Burton (with Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Spoken Word Album for Children: Listen to the Storyteller, Wynton Marsalis, Graham Greene, and Kate Winslet, artists, Steven Epstein and David Frost, producers

Spoken Word Album for Children: The Children's Shakespeare, Dan Musselman and Stefan Rudnicki, producers

Spoken Word or Nonmusical Album: Charles Kuralt's Spring, Charles Kuralt

Spoken Word Album for Children:Winnie-the-Pooh, Charles Kuralt, narrator, John McElroy, producer

Spoken Word or Nonmusical Album: It Takes A Village, Hillary Rodham Clinton

Spoken Word Album for Children: Stellaluna, Virginia Callaway, Steven Heller, and David Holt, producers