Interview with Christine Lakin: Best Romance Audiobooks 2025

Narrator and actor Christine Lakin joins AudioFile’s Michele Cobb to discuss one of this year’s Best Romance Audiobooks, SAY YOU'LL REMEMBER ME by Abby Jimenez, read by Christine Lakin and Matt Lanter. Christine goes behind the scenes with Michele to reveal how she established the tone of certain characters and the unique challenges of being a romance narrator when they’re often recording alone in a booth. Together they dive into new trends in current romance audiobooks and discuss how natural it felt for Christine to perform Abby Jimenez’s words.

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Published by Hachette Audio.

AudioFile’s 2025 Best Romance Audiobooks are:

• GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL LIFE by Emily Henry, read by Julia Whelan

• MISDIRECTED by Lucy Parker, read by Nicola Coughlan, Gwilym Lee

• PIONEER SUMMER by  Elena Malisova and Kateryna Sylvanova, [Translated from Russian by Anne O. Fisher] Read by Edoardo Ballerini 

• PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen, [Adapt.] Lulu Raczka, read by Marisa Abela, Harris Dickinson, Glenn Close, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bill Nighy, Sophie Wilde, Will Poulter, Jessie Buckley, Toheeb Jimoh, Patricia Allison, Bertie Carvel, Leah Harvey, David Gyasi, Rosalind Eleazar

• SAY YOU'LL REMEMBER ME by Abby Jimenez, read by Christine Lakin, Matt Lanter

• THE WOLF KING by Lauren Palphreyman, read by Zara Hampton-Brown and Shane East

Explore the full list of 2025 Best Audiobooks on our website

Support for our podcast comes from Dreamscape, an award-winning audiobook publisher with a catalog that includes authors L.J. Shen, Freida McFadden, and Katee Robert. Discover your next great listen at dreamscapepublishing.com. 

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