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!