Parsing the Polls

March 25, 2026

I have been going over the data from all of AAR’s Top 100 Romance polls. My goal is to get a sense of what romances readers have most loved overy…

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The AAR Top 100 Romances Poll (2026)

March 20, 2026

The votes are in and the romance novels AAR readers have chosen as the Top 100 Romances are set. This is a reader generated list. The list is in alphabetical…

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The Top Ten Romances in our Top 100 Romance Poll

March 16, 2026

Thank you to all who voted in the AAR Top 100 Romances poll. This is a reader determined poll and we are thrilled so many participated. Later this week, we…

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What are the Top 100 Romance Novels of All Time?

February 26, 2026

Since 1998, AAR has done seven Top 100 Romances polls. (You can see the first six here and the last one, done in 2018, here.) It is, we would be…

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the AAR Top 100 Romances Polls (1998 to 2026)

February 20, 2026

The AAR Top 100 List 2026 (unranked) 10 Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Chase A Dangerous Kind of Lady by Mia Vincy A Duke of Her Own…

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A New Modesty Code for Romance

February 18, 2026

Something has changed at Amazon, and it is not good.* Over the past several weeks, many romance titles have begun returning the same message in Amazon’s SiteStripe interface: This product…

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Eternity: a movie review

February 16, 2026

In David Freyne’s winning film Eternity, the newly dead have endless themed paradises to choose from. If you can imagine it, it’s an option. There’s Beach World, Nudist World, Studio 54…

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Wanna meet some trolls?

February 13, 2026

    Anyone looking for tragedy needs to, literally, do nothing but read, watch, and, god help you, scroll. It’s harder to find joy. If you are lucky enough to be in…

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It’s been a great thirty years….

February 6, 2026

This is a hard column to write. So I’ll just say it: AAR is retiring. All About Romance launched in 1996. It was created by the incredible Laurie Gold, and…

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Reviewers’ Bests from 2019 to 2025

January 30, 2026

As we prepare for our 2026 AAR Top 100 Romances poll, I’ve been trying to narrow down the books that will be in the final poll–it’s just too overwhelming (and…

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What books should be included on our upcoming AAR Top 100 Romances poll? Vote and let us know!

January 23, 2026

Here are the books, published in the last ten years or so, AAR readers have suggested we consider for our upcoming Top 100 Romance Novels of all time list. I’ve…

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The Best of 2025 – Dabney’s List

January 16, 2026

Last year, I only read 23 books published in 2025. Of these, seven got five full stars from me and four more garnered four stars (on Goodreads.) For the purposes…

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