Best Spoken Word Or Non-musical Album
2026 • 68th Annual Grammy Awards
Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2024 and Aug 30, 2025
2026 Winner is Dalai Lama with "Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama"
Nominees 2026
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Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connors Story
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Into The Uncut Grass
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Lovely One: A Memoir
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You Know It’s True: The Real Story Of Milli Vanilli
Winners
| Year | Winner | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Dalai Lama | Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama |
| 2025 | Jimmy Carter | Last Sundays In Plains: A Centennial Celebration |
| 2024 | Michelle Obama | The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times |
| 2023 | Viola Davis | Finding Me |
| 2022 | Don Cheadle | Carry On: Reflections For A New Generation From John Lewis |
| 2021 | Rachel Maddow | Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, And The Richest, Most Destructive Industry On Earth |
| 2020 | Michelle Obama | Becoming |
| 2019 | Jimmy Carter | Faith - A Journey For All |
| 2018 | Carrie Fisher | The Princess Diarist |
| 2017 | Carol Burnett | In Such Good Company: Eleven Years Of Laughter, Mayhem, And Fun In The Sandbox |
| 2016 | Jimmy Carter | A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety |
| 2015 | Joan Rivers | Diary Of A Mad Diva |
| 2014 | Stephen Colbert | America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't |
| 2013 | Janis Ian | Society's Child: My Autobiography |
| 2012 | Betty White | If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won't) |
| 2011 | Jon Stewart | The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook) |
| 2010 | Michael J. Fox | Always Looking Up |
| 2009 | Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon, Blair Underwood | An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore) |
| 2008 | Barack Obama | The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream |
| 2007 | Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee | With Ossie And Ruby: In This Life Together |
| 2007 | Jimmy Carter | Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis |
| 2006 | Barack Obama | Dreams From My Father (Senator Barack Obama) |
| 2005 | Bill Clinton | My Life |
| 2004 | Al Franken | Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look At The Right (Al Franken) |
| 2003 | Maya Angelou | A Song Flung Up To Heaven |
| 2002 | Quincy Jones | Q - The Autobiography Of Quincy Jones |
| 2001 | Sidney Poitier | The Measure Of A Man |
| 2000 | LeVar Burton | The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 1999 | Christopher Reeve | Still Me |
| 1998 | Charles Kuralt | Charles Kuralt's Spring |
| 1997 | Hillary Rodham Clinton | It Takes A Village |
| 1996 | Maya Angelou | Phenomenal Woman |
| 1995 | Henry Rollins | Get In The Van - On The Road With Black Flag |
| 1994 | Maya Angelou | On The Pulse Of Morning |
| 1993 | Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Robert O'Keefe | What You Can Do To Avoid AIDS |
| 1992 | Ken Burns | The Civil War |
| 1991 | George Burns | Gracie - A Love Story |
| 1990 | Gilda Radner | It's Always Something |
| 1989 | Jesse L. Jackson | Speech By Rev. Jesse Jackson |
| 1988 | Garrison Keillor | Lake Wobegon Days |
| 1987 | Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Sam Phillips, Rick Nelson, Chips Moman | Interviews From The Class Of '55 Recording Sessions |
| 1986 | (Original Broadway Cast) | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom |
| 1985 | Ben Kingsley | The Words Of Gandhi |
| 1984 | William Warfield | Copland: A Lincoln Portrait |
| 1983 | (Various Artists) | Raiders Of The Lost Ark - The Movie On Record |
| 1982 | Orson Welles | Donovan's Brain |
| 1981 | Pat Carroll | Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein |
| 1980 | John Gielgud | Ages Of Man - Readings From Shakespeare |
| 1979 | Orson Welles | Citizen Kane |
| 1978 | Julie Harris | The Belle Of Amherst |
| 1977 | Helen Hayes, Orson Welles, Henry Fonda, James Earl Jones | Great American Documents |
| 1976 | James Whitmore | Give 'Em Hell Harry |
| 1975 | Dudley Moore, Peter Cook | Good Evening |
| 1974 | Richard Harris | Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
| 1973 | (Original Cast) | Lenny |
| 1972 | Les Crane | Desiderata |
| 1971 | Martin Luther King Jr. | Why I Oppose The War In Vietnam |
| 1970 | Art Linkletter, Diane Linkletter | We Love You Call Collect |
| 1969 | Rod McKuen | Lonesome Cities |
| 1968 | Everett M. Dirksen | Gallant Men |
| 1967 | Edward R. Murrow | Edward R. Murrow - A Reporter Remembers Vol. I The War Years |
| 1966 | (John F. Kennedy) | John F. Kennedy - As We Remember Him |
| 1965 | That Was The Week That Was (Cast) | BBC Tribute To John F. Kennedy |
| 1964 | (Uta Hagen, Arthur Hill, George Grizzard & Melinda Dillon) | Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? |
| 1963 | Charles Laughton | The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton |
| 1962 | Leonard Bernstein | Humor In Music |
| 1961 | (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) | FDR Speaks |
| 1960 | Carl Sandburg | A Lincoln Portrait |
| 1959 | Stan Freberg | The Best Of The Stan Freberg Shows |