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Mysteries and Modernity – the Curse of Technology in the modern mystery novel
I’m not nitpicky when it comes to books. So long as I am entertained, I can forgive minor foibles. However, I recently finished a suspense novel (published January 2026) in which a twenty-six-year-old woman in present-day…
Parsing the Polls
I have been going over the data from all of AAR’s Top 100 Romance polls. My goal is to get a sense of what romances readers have most loved overy the years. Here is some initial…
What is this Passionflix?
My husband took off on a week-long ski trip, leaving me and the dogs the entire couch and total control of the remote. Scrolling through the endless list of movie and series options with no idea…
The AAR Top 100 Romances Poll (2026)
The votes are in and the romance novels AAR readers have chosen as the Top 100 Romances are set. This is a reader generated list. The list is in alphabetical order. If we reviewed the book–and…
The Top Ten Romances in our Top 100 Romance Poll
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…
What are the Top 100 Romance Novels of All Time?
Since 1998, AAR has done seven Top 100 Romances polls. (You can see the first six here and the last one, done in 2018, here.) It is, we would be the first to acknowledge, an impossible…
the AAR Top 100 Romances Polls (1998 to 2026)
The AAR Top 100 List 2026 (unranked) 10 Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Chase A Dangerous Kind of Lady by Mia Vincy A Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James A Lady’s Code…
