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 of this list, I am sticking with romances or works that have a strong romantic element. In no particular order, here are my best reads…
2023 was a smashing reading year for me. I read a book or so a week–a slower pace than of old but one that gave me more time for thought. Of those reads, these ten books, all published last year, were my faves. Not all are romances although all but one have love stories in…
2022 was not my best year for romance reading. I read only three DIKs published in 2022 and, when I look at my Goodreads list, there isn’t a single five star read from books out last year–almost all the books I adored are from earlier years. That said, the year did offer books I enjoyed…
According to Goodreads, I read eighty-two books (for the first time – my rereads would have put that number closer to 165) in 2021. I read across genres and glommed series. I DNF’d anything that didn’t grab me after the first fifty pages. I gravitated (overall) to books that were aspirational and viewed humankind with…
Twenty years ago, these are the books AAR readers picked as the best of the year…. (a column from March 1, 2001)
After three rounds and thousands of votes, the winner (by a landslide) is: Queen Move by Kennedy Ryan We are not surprised. The book got a glowing review here and our readers have raved about on the site. Congratulations, Ms. Ryan! Tomorrow we will share the list of the other nine books that round out…
Over 1100 votes later, AAR readers have picked eleven books to compete for the Best Book of 2020. (I’d hoped for ten, but two garnered the same number of votes.) It’s a great list. All but one of the nominated romances received a DIK at AAR and the one that didn’t got a B+. This…
Here, in no particular order, are the books I enjoyed the most this year. The Searcher by Tana French I’ve been stanning Tana French since reading her first book, In the Woods, although her last, The Witch Elm, wasn’t to my taste. I was worried that I might not love The Searcher either given that…
Like many an AAR reader, I was a child repeatedly decried as “lost in a book.” I am a swift reader and, while growing up, read a book every two days. In 2019, I read 87 books (for the first time) and reread countless others. And, fortuitously, I lost myself in many.
It was bound to happen. After ten years of primarily reading romance, in 2019, I found myself gravitating away from HEAs. According to Goodreads, thus far this year I’ve only read 50 romances and many of those were books published in earlier times. I’ve read 25 non-romances, all of them fiction. Of these 25, I…
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