Grammy Awards for Spoken Word

The nominations for the 51st annual Grammy Awards have been announced!

The five nominees in the Spoken Word category are:

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore; read by Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Born Standing Up written and read by Steve Martin (Simon & Schuster Audio)

I Am America (And So Can You!) written and read by Stephen Colbert (Hachette Audio)

Life Beyond Measure written and read by Sidney Poitier (HarperAudio)

When You Are Engulfed In Flames written and read by David Sedaris (Hachette Audio)