The Top Ten Romances in our Top 100 Romance Poll : All About Romance
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 will be releasing the Top 100 Romances list which will NOT be ranked. Today, we share the Top Ten Romances which are ranked.
The list is a love letter to historical romances. That genre has long been the favorite at AAR and the voting reflected this. Out of the Top 100 Romances picked in the overall poll, 70% are historical romances. They are what our readers love.
This year we have TWO Top Ten lists. One is the ten books that got the most votes. This is the way that, in previous years, we picked the Top Ten. The other is the ten books readers picked as the Top Ten romances–these are books that readers felt belonged at the top of the romance cannon. There is overlap between the two lists but they are different.
The ten books picked as the ten romances that are the pinnacle of the genre are, in order of votes received:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase
Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale
Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh
Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie by Jennifer Ashley
The ten books that got the most votes, in order of votes received, are:
Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas
Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas
Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh
What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long
Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase
Lord Perfect by Loretta Chase
Again, thanks to all who voted.
