Michelle Obama, Rick Rubin, and Senator Bernie Sanders are GRAMMY® Award nominees

“Listeners will feel a familiarity in Obama’s voice and cadence; it’s like hearing from a trusted friend.”—Booklist starred review

Mrs. Obama won a GRAMMY^® in 2020 for her narration of Becoming, and her book about the White House Kitchen Garden, American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America, was a Best Spoken Word Album nominee in 2013.

“It’s a highly personal audiobook, one in which the ideas and worldview expressed can’t be separated from the author, so it’s fitting that his performance was captured close-microphone and sounds intimate.”—AudioFile

This is Rubin’s 19^th GRAMMY^® nomination; he has nine previous wins. In 2016, Rubin was honored with the Recording Academy^®‘s President’s Merit Award during the Producers & Engineers Wing’s annual GRAMMY^® Week event in recognition of his creative and sonic excellence and ongoing support for the art and craft of recorded music.

“His gentle delivery of these progressive ideas allows listeners to think about a society in which the needs of ordinary citizens can be prioritized over corporate profits. Tightly organized and articulate throughout, this audiobook is also a plea for more citizen activism. The Senator’s fervor can still be heard, but intelligent writing and his calm performance allow his ideas to have more prominence than his passion.”—AudioFile

This is Senator Sanders’ second GRAMMY^® nomination; his book Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In was a Best Spoken Word Album nominee in 2018.