The Audie Award for Romance is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for an audiobook romance released in a given year. It has been awarded since 2005.
Winners and finalists 2000s YearAudiobookAuthor(s)Narrator(s)PublisherResultRef.2005 Kiss Me While I Sleep (2004) and Dick Hill Brilliance AudioWinner Invitation to Provence (2001) Chivers North AmericaFinalist (2003) Recorded BooksFinalist Sam's Letters to Jennifer (2004) and Jane Alexander Time Warner AudioBooksFinalist (2004) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist (2004) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2006 Origin in Death (2005) Brilliance AudioWinner Chill Factor (2005) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist (2005) HarperAudioFinalist Rosie Dunne (2004) , Moira Quirk, Ros Landor, and Russell Copley Time Warner AudioBooksFinalist (2003) Listen & Live AudioFinalist2007 If You Could See Me Now (2005) and Rupert Degas Hyperion AudioWinner Born in Death (2006) Brilliance AudioFinalist Darkfever (2007) Brilliance AudioFinalist Dear John (2007) Hachette AudioFinalist (2005) Listen & Live AudioFinalist2008 Natural Born Charmer (2007) HarperAudioWinner Beyond the Highland Mist (1999) BBC Audiobooks AmericaFinalist Consequences (2007) Tantor AudioFinalist Everlasting (2007) HarperAudioFinalist On Tall Pine Lake (2007) Tantor AudioFinalistSugar Daddy (2007) Brilliance AudioFinalist2009 (2002) Brilliance AudioWinner Fire Me Up (2005) Recorded BooksFinalist Forbidden (1997) Blackstone AudioFinalist Mismatch (1989) BBC Audiobooks AmericaFinalist Tribute (2008) Brilliance AudioFinalist
2010s YearAudiobookAuthor(s)Narrator(s)PublisherResultRef.2010 (2009) HarperAudioWinnerDark Slayer (2009) and Jane BrownBrilliance AudioFinalist (2008) Listen & Live AudioFinalist (2009) Brilliance AudioFinalist What I Did for Love (2009) HarperAudioFinalist2011 Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë (2009) Recorded BooksWinner Fantasy in Death (2010) Brilliance AudioFinalist (2010) HarperAudioFinalist (2010) HarperAudioFinalist By King's Command (2000) Full cast Siren AudioFinalist2012 New York to Dallas (2012) Brilliance AudioWinner (2011) AudibleFinalist Notorious (2011) AudibleFinalist Summer Rental (2011) Macmillan AudioFinalist When Beauty Tamed the Beast (2011) HarperAudioFinalist (2008) AudibleFinalist2013 (2012) Brilliance AudioWinner Don't Cry for Me (2012) AudibleFinalist (2009) Tantor AudioFinalist Never Seduce a Scot (2012) Tantor AudioFinalist Scandalous Desires (2011) Hachette AudioFinalist2014 (2013) and Ron McLarty Hachette AudioWinner (2009) AudibleFinalist For My Lady's Heart (2014) HedgehogFinalist Kissing Under the Mistletoe (2014) Oak PressFinalist (2013) Recorded BooksFinalist2015 (1994) and Steven Pasquale Hachette AudioWinner Burn for Me (2014) HarperAudioFinalist First Love (2014) Hachette AudioFinalistJust This Once (2012) ACZ/Rosalind IiamsFinalist Rumor Has It (2013) Tantor AudioFinalist2016 (2015) Tantor AudioWinnerThe Duke's Holiday (2014) Brilliance AudioFinalist Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover (1992) HarperAudioFinalist (2015) HarperAudioFinalist (2015) Tantor AudioFinalist2017 Dirty (1945) Macmillan AudioWinner Duke of Sin (2016) Hachette AudioFinalist First Star I See Tonight (2016) HarperAudioFinalistGlitterland (2013) Hedgehog ProductionsFinalist (2016) Brilliance AudioFinalist2018 (2017) HarperAudioWinner Any Day Now (2017) Recorded BooksFinalist Cake: A Love Story (2016) and Joe Arden J. BengtssonFinalist Come Sundown (2017) Brilliance AudioFinalist (2011) Brilliance AudioFinalist2019 His Viking Bride (2018) Olivia NoremWinner (2018) AvonFinalist Possession (2018) 518 Books, Inc.Finalist Shadow and Ice (2018) and Harlequin AudioFinalist (2018) and Audible OriginalsFinalist (2018) Penguin AudioFinalist
2020s YearAudiobookAuthor(s)Narrator(s)PublisherResultRef.2020 Devil's Daughter (2019) HarperAudioWinner (2019) DreamscapeFinalist (2019) and Erin Mallon Hachette AudioFinalist Gimme Some Sugar (2019) AudibleFinalist Red, White & Royal Blue (2019) Macmillan AudioFinalist2021 Dirty Letters (2021) and Penelope Ward and Jacob Morgan Brilliance AudioWinner Call Me Maybe (2020) and Neil Hellegers Audible OriginalsFinalist Chasing Cassandra (2020) HarperAudioFinalist Get a Life, Chloe Brown (2019) HarperAudioFinalist (2020) and Jon Root Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2022Reel: Hollywood Renaissance, Jakobi Diem, Nicole Small, and April ChristinaLyric AudiobooksWinner , Graham Halstead, and Cassandra CampbellSimon & Schuster AudioFinalistMine to Protect and Teddy Hamilton Blue Nose AudioFinalistPause Audible OriginalsFinalist and Neill ThorneJennifer HartmannFinalist2023Delilah Green Doesn't CarePenguin Random House AudioWinnerCrushing On You and James ChenLyric AudiobooksFinalistLove on the BrainPenguin Random House AudioFinalistSavvy Sheldon Feels Good As HellHarperAudioFinalistSeatmate, Zachary Webber, Josh Hurley, Carol Monda, Corey Allen, Allyson Johnson, Eric Yves Garcia, Tanya Eby, and Dina PearlmanAudible OriginalsFinalistYou Made A Fool of Death With Your Beauty (2022)Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2024 and Cindy KaySimon & Schuster AudioWinner10 Things That Never HappenedDreamscape MediaFinalistBig Witch Energy and Amanda RonconiAudible OriginalsFinalistButcher and Blackbird and Lucy RiversBlue Nose PublishingFinalistFrench HolidayW.W. CrownFinalist2025This Could Be Us and Jakobi DiemHachette AudioWinnerLights Out and Jacob MorganZando, LLCFinalistLove You a LatkeSAG-AFTRAFinalistMacmillan AudioFinalist and Miranda JayAudible OriginalsFinalist2026King of Envy and Nia SergeOne Night Stand Studios x Ana HuangWinnerGreat Big Beautiful Life (2025)Penguin Random House AudioFinalistLooking for Group, Sam Newton, Morag Sims, Rich Keeble, Matt Godfrey, and Chris DevonSourcebooksFinalistPlus Size PlayerMacmillan AudioFinalistSay You'll Remember Me and Matt LanterHachette AudioFinalist
References
External links
Audie Award winners Audie Awards official website