The Top 50 from your picks from the 2018 AAR Top 100 List

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 make this list, we will also be taking reader recommendations–you’ll be invited to share your top choices not on this list (and others you love) beginning on Friday.


Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, Classic Fiction, 1983
Devil in Winter, Lisa Kleypas, Historical Romance, 2006
Lord of Scoundrels, Loretta Chase, Historical Romance, 1995
Slightly Dangerous, Mary Balogh, Historical Romance, 2005
Persuasion, Jane Austen, Classic Fiction, 2003
What I Did for a Duke, Julie Anne Long, Historical Romance, 2011
Flowers From the Storm, Laura Kinsale, Historical Romance, 2003
The Duke of Shadows, Meredith Duran, Historical Romance, 2008
Act Like It, Lucy Parker, Contemporary Romance, 2015
Mr. Impossible, Loretta Chase, Historical Romance, 2005
The Spymaster’s Lady, Joanna Bourne, Historical Romance, 2008
Lord Perfect, Loretta Chase, Historical Romance, 2006
The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie, Jennifer Ashley, Historical Romance, 2009
The Hating Game, Sally Thorne, Contemporary Romance, 2016
Marrying Winterborne, Lisa Kleypas, Historical Romance, 2016
A Week to Be Wicked, Tessa Dare, Historical Romance, 2012
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, Classic Fiction, 2004
Ravished, Amanda Quick, Historical Romance, 1992
Bet Me, Jennifer Crusie, Contemporary Romance, 2004
The Black Hawk, Joanna Bourne, Historical Romance, 2011
The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn, Historical Romance, 2000
Dreaming of You, Lisa Kleypas, Historical Romance, 1994
The Duchess Deal, Tessa Dare, Historical Romance, 2017
Outlander, Diana Gabaldon, Time Travel Romance, 1992
Duke of Sin, Elizabeth Hoyt, Historical Romance, 2016/06
More than a Mistress, Mary Balogh, Historical Romance, 2001
The Raven Prince, Elizabeth Hoyt, Historical Romance, 2006
When He Was Wicked, Julia Quinn, Historical Romance, 2004
The Bride, Julie Garwood, Medieval Romance, 1991
Love in the Afternoon, Lisa Kleypas, Historical Romance, 2010
Not Quite a Husband, Sherry Thomas, Historical Romance, 2009/06
Devil’s Cub, Georgette Heyer, Historical Romance, 2003
The Luckiest Lady in London, Sherry Thomas, Historical Romance, 2013
The Rake, Mary Jo Putney, Historical Romance, 1998
A Summer to Remember, Mary Balogh, Historical Romance, 2003
It Happened One Autumn, Lisa Kleypas, Historical Romance, 2005
The Governess Affair, Courtney Milan, Historical Romance, 2012
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, Sarah MacLean, Historical Romance, 2010
Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn, Historical Romance, 2002
Mine Till Midnight, Lisa Kleypas, Historical Romance, 2007
Private Arrangements, Sherry Thomas, Historical Romance, 2008
His at Night, Sherry Thomas, Historical Fiction, 2010
Welcome to Temptation, Jennifer Crusie, Romantic Suspense, 2004
Something About You, Julie James, Contemporary Romance, 2010
Frederica, Georgette Heyer, Historical Romance, 2000
Devil’s Bride, Stephanie Laurens, Historical Romance, 1998
Duke of Midnight, Elizabeth Hoyt, Historical Romance, 2013
It Had To Be You, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Contemporary Romance, 1994
Any Duchess Will Do, Tessa Dare, Historical Romance, 2013
Beard Science, Penny Reid, Contemporary Romance, 2016
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