Dolly Parton’s Behind the Seams and Barbra Streisand’s My Name Is Barbra, both read by the authors and published by Penguin Random House Audio, have earned 2025 Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording GRAMMY® Award nominations. Penguin Random House Audio titles have previously earned 19 GRAMMYs, including the 2024 Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording winner Michelle Obama’s The Light We Carry, and 54 additional GRAMMY nominations.
Behind the Seams by Dolly Parton
In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time, the whole story behind her lifelong passion for fashion. This includes how she developed her distinctly Dolly style, which has defied convention and endeared her to fans worldwide.
The audiobook is an immersive listening experience featuring over 30 of Dolly’s beloved songs, archival interviews, and performance clips. It includes personal stories from Dolly herself with additional narration by Rebecca Seaver and Holly George-Warren, as well as contributions from many of Dolly’s lifelong fashion collaborators: Allister Ann, Ann Roth, Art Streiber, Aurelia, Bobbe Joy, Cheryl Riddle, Debra McGuire, Fran Strine, Iisha Lemming, Jason Pirro, Jim Herrington, Randee St Nicholas, Riley Hanratty, Robert Behar, Stacia Lang, Stacie Huckeba, Steve Summers, Timothy White, and Vance Nichols.
My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
Ten years in the making, My Name Is Barbra encapsulates EGOT winner Barbra Streisand’s six-decade career as a singer, actor, and director and her personal life. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl on stage and winning the Oscar for that performance on film. Like Barbra herself, the audiobook is frank, funny, opinionated, and charming—the 48-hour recording includes many spontaneous reflections and anecdotes exclusive to the audiobook and incorporates over 40 pieces of her music.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
