2000 Annual Reader Poll
(For 1999 Releases)
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Best Romance Novels
- Favorite Romance of the Year :– The Lady’s Tutor by Robin Schone
- Honorable Mentions :– Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips , The Proposition by Judith Ivory
- Favorite Funny :– Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Most-Hanky Read :– Wicked by Jill Barnett
- Most Luscious Love Story :– The Lady’s Tutor by Robin Schone
- Favorite Cabin or Road Romance :– Ransom by Julie Garwood
- Honorable Mentions :– Body Guard by Suzanne Brockmann , Secrets of the Night by Jo Beverley
- Favorite Medieval Romance :– Ransom by Julie Garwood
- Favorite Regency Romance :– Fair Game by Diane Farr
- Favorite European Historical Romance :– How to Marry a Marquis by Julia Quinn
- Favorite American or Western Historical Romance :– A Rogue in Texas by Lorraine Heath
- Honorable Mention :– Breathless by Laura Lee Guhrke
- Favorite Contemporary Romance :– Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Honorable Mention :– Heartthrob by Suzanne Brockmann
- Favorite Romantic Suspense :– Loyalty In Death by J.D. Robb
- Honorable Mention :– All the Queen’s Men by Linda Howard
- Favorite “Other” Romance :– Loyalty In Death by J.D. Robb
- Honorable Mention :– Dark Prince by Christine Feehan
Best Characters
- Most Tortured Hero :– Sebastian from Karen Ranney’s My Beloved
- Honorable Mentions :– Jaques from Christine Feehan’s Dark Desire , Jericho from Suzanne Brockmann’s Heartthrob, Ramiel from Robin Schone’s My Lady’s Tutor
- Feistiest Heroine :– Emma from Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Lady Be Good
- Favorite Hero :– Roarke from J.D. Robb’s Loyalty In Death
- Favorite Heroine :– Eve from J.D. Robb’s Loyalty In Death
- Favorite Couple :– Eve and Rourke from J.D. Robb’s Loyalty In Death
- Favorite Villain :– Louis Ronsard from Linda Howard’s All the Queen’s Men
- Honorable Mentions :– Lord Carr from Connie Brockway’s McClairen’s Isle: The Passionate One , Edward from Robin Schone’s My Lady’s Tutor
- Most Annoying Lead Character :– Meriel from Mary Jo Putney’s The Wild Child
- Favorite New Author :– Liz Carlyle
- Honorable Mentions :– Diane Farr , Christine Feehan, Jacquie D’Alessandro
- Favorite New Discovery :– Julia Quinn
- Honorable Mentions :– Stephanie Laurens , Robin Schone
- Author Most Glommed (collected during 1999) :– Nora Roberts
- Honorable Mention :– Mary Balogh
Worst of the Year
- Author You Gave Up On :– Catherine Coulter
- Author Others Love that You Don’t :– Nora Roberts
- (Dis)-Honorable Mentions :– Danielle Steel, Diana Gabaldon
- Most Disappointing Read :– Someday My Prince by Christina Dodd
- Worst Read :– Mad Jack by Catherine Coulter
- Purple-est Prose :– The Lady’s Tutor by Robin Schone