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 the first to acknowledge, an impossible task. Over the years, the methodology has changed but, every time, the final list is decided by readers, not…
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 by Eloisa James A Lady’s Code of Misconduct by Meredith Duran A Rogue of One’s Own by Evie Dunmore A Seditious Affair by KJ Charles…
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 bad polling policy) to give people a list of hundreds of books to choose from. We’ve narrowed down readers’ picks with this poll. (Last chance–it…
We are gearing up–I promise!–for the 2026 AAR Top 100 poll. We last did one in 2018. What romances, published since then, do you think belong on the new list? We’re talking books that would be one of your top 100 romances of all time. For me, that list would include: The Everlasting by Alix…
OK! We had 92 books that were mentioned at least twice in our recent reader nominated poll. We will keep the 37 books that received three or more mentions. That leaves 54 books that got two mentions. We need to pick 20 of these (13 to make 50 PLUS the 7 books that were chosen…
For the past two weeks, we’ve been asking you for your choices for the top romances from the last AAR Top 100 Romances poll we ran in 2018. We plan to add your top 50 picks into our upcoming poll. Here are the ones that have made the cut! And don’t worry–if your favorites didn’t…
I’ve been thinking, with some reluctance, given the challenges we faced in doing our last AAR Top 100 poll, about how we might do a new one. I’ve thought about starting with the last poll and then adding in all the books from our Best of lists since 2018. I’ve thought about letting readers make…
Welcome to the results of the 2018 AAR Top 100 Romances Poll. This is a reader generated poll we do every five years or so. This year, we had over 5000 votes and so many marvelous books nominated. We’ve decided not to rank these books, but rather just put them in alphabetical order. We did…
We had well over 3,000 votes in the first two rounds of this poll – wow! We knew you all were passionate about romance, but wow! We’ve now taken the top 150 books from both rounds and presented them here.
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