20 Years of AAR Top 100 Romances
Check out my guest blog post to see the new, consolidated Top 100 list
After publishing the Best of AAR Top 100 Romances list, Dabney at All About Romance invited me to do a guest blog post with a new, consolidated Top 100 list.
I used the same methodology as with the best-of list; however, this time I didn’t stop at the top 31—which appeared on 6 or 7 out of 7 lists—but continued the ranking to determine the top 100.
As if fated by Cupid himself, it turns out there were exactly 100 books that appeared on 3 or more of the past AAR lists!
The AAR Top 100 Romances list has been a go-to source for romance book recommendations for 20+ years. It’s one of the few best-of lists that’s based on reader input, thanks to the thousands of dedicated romance readers who have voted on the lists over the years. First launched in 1998, a total of 7 AAR Top 100 Romances lists have been published to date.
As someone who is newer to the romance community and eager to learn more about the genre’s history, I love that these snapshots exist—they give us a fascinating glimpse at which books, authors and subgenres AAR readers favored at different points in time.
Check out my guest blog post to see if your faves made the list!