2001 Annual Reader Poll
(For 2000 Releases)
Post to the Potpourri Message Board
Best Romance Novels
- Favorite Romance of the Year :– Winter Garden by Adele Ashworth
- Honorable Mention :– Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
- Favorite Funny :– The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
- Honorable Mentions :–Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie , Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard
- Most-Hanky Read :– The Unsung Hero by Suzanne Brockmann
- Honorable Mentions :– Winter Garden by Adele Ashworth , Where Dreams Begin by Lisa Kleypas
- Most Luscious Love Story :– A Secret Love by Stephanie Laurens
- Honorable Mention :– Winter Garden by Adele Ashworth
- Favorite Cabin or Road Romance :– Winter Garden by Adele Ashworth
- Honorable Mentions : – A Game of Chance by Linda Howard , First Lady by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Favorite Medieval Romance :– By Arrangement by Madeline Hunter
- Favorite Regency Romance :– A tie between :- A Grand Design by Emma Jensen , Falling for Chloe by Diane Farr
- Favorite European Historical Romance :– Winter Garden by Adele Ashworth
- Honorable Mentions :– Where Dreams Begin by Lisa Kleypas , A Secret Love by Stephanie Laurens , The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
- Favorite American or Western Historical Romance :– I Do, I Do, I Do by Maggie Osborne
- Honorable Mention :– Never Love a Cowboy by Lorraine Heath
- Favorite Contemporary Romance :– Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
- Honorable Mentions :- The Unsung Hero by Suzanne Brockmann , Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard
- Favorite Series/Category Romance :– Get Lucky by Suzanne Brockmann
- Favorite Romantic Suspense : – Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard
- Favorite “Other” Romance : – The Star King by Susan Grant
- Honorable Mentions :– Dark Magic by Christine Feehan , Dark Challenge by Christine Feehan
Best Characters
- Most Tortured Hero :– Michel Des Anges from Robin Schone’s The Lover
- Honorable Mentions :– Thomas Blackwood from Adele Ashworth’s Winter Garden , Gregori from Christine Feehan’s Dark Magic
- Feistiest Heroine :– Jaine from Linda Howards’ Mr. Perfect
- Favorite Hero :– Roarke from J.D. Robb’s Judgment In Death and Witness In Death
- Favorite Heroine :– Eve from J.D. Robb’s Judgment In Death and Witness In Death
- Honorable Mentions :–Kate Sheffield from Julia Quinn’s The Viscount Who Loved Me , Syd Jameson from Suzanne Brockmann’s Get Lucky
- Favorite Couple :– Eve and Rourke from J.D. Robb’s Judgment In Death and Witness In Death
- Favorite Villain :– Colin from Linda Howard’s Mr. Perfect
- Honorable Mention :– Lord Carr from Connie Brockway’s McClairen’s Isle: The Ravishing One
- Most Annoying Lead Character :– Zanita from Dara Joy’s High Intensity
- Favorite New Author :– Madeline Hunter
- Favorite Buried Treasure/New Discovery :– Suzanne Brockmann
- Honorable Mentions :– Adele Ashworth , Gaelen Foley , Kathryn Shay
- Author Most Glommed (collected during 2000) :– Suzanne Brockmann
Worst of the Year
- Author You Gave Up On :– Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick
- (Dis-)Honorable Mention :- Catherine Coulter
- Author Others Love that You Don’t :– Nora Roberts
- (Dis)-Honorable Mention :- Danielle Steel
- Most Disappointing Read :– High Intensity by Dara Joy
- Worst Read :– High Intensity by Dara Joy
- Purple-est Prose :– The Lover by Robin Schone