Best of 2019 Archives : All About Romance

Our Favorites: The Best Romance Novels of 2019

ByCaz Owens 01/27/202001/26/2020

We call this annual column The Best Romance Novels of a given year and it is, but with a caveat. Each reviewer picks a single book she thought was the best – defined as excelling all others. Thus this is a list of individual choices rather than a voted on list by the staff.

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The Best of 2019–Dabney’s List

ByDabney Grinnan 01/22/202001/22/2020

Like many an AAR reader, I was a child repeatedly decried as “lost in a book.” I am a swift reader and, while growing up, read a book every two days. In 2019, I read 87 books (for the first time) and reread countless others. And, fortuitously, I lost myself in many.

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The Best of 2019 – Lynn’s List

ByLynn Spencer 01/20/202001/19/2020

2019 was a strange reading year for me. On the one hand, I did read a lot of books I enjoyed. However, they tended to be of the backlist variety. Something about packing two new babies and two job changes into four years took something out of me.

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The Best of 2019 – Caz’s List

ByCaz Owens 01/08/202001/04/2020

Like many of my fellow reviewers, I’ve had a decent – if not outstanding – reading year. A quick look through my reviews shows a good number of B and B+ grades and a handful of DIKs, although my favourite genre – Historical Romance – made a pretty poor showing (again), with many of my…

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the ask@AAR: What was THE BEST in 2019?

ByDabney Grinnan 01/03/202001/03/2020

AAR no longer has the manpower to run our annual reader poll but we still want to know what you think! So, give us your 2019 choices for: Best romance novel Best hero Best heroine Best secondary romance Hottest read Best debut romance novel These are from books published in 2019. OK? Go!

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The Best of 2019 – Maggie’s List

ByCaz Owens 01/01/202001/02/2020

2019 was my year of the B romance novel. Book after book it was a case of “I love everything about this story except. . . .” or “This novel was almost a DIK but. . . .” Fortunately, there were just enough exceptions to that list that I could come up with ten truly…

Best of 2019 | Best of List | Charlotte AAR | Romance reading

The Best of 2019 – Charlotte’s List

ByCaz Owens 12/30/201912/28/2019

When it comes to romance, my criteria for greatness – or “best-ness” – is whether the story lingers with me. There are scenes or quotes that are so romantic and/or sexy that I can’t shake them and they’ll make me shiver happily when I recall them standing on a street corner waiting for a light…

Best of 2019 | Best of List | Caroline AAR | Romance reading

The Best of 2019 – Caroline’s List

ByCaz Owens 12/28/201901/21/2020

I hate making these lists, because I always feel like I can’t possibly judge the “Best of 2019” without reading at least, oh, another hundred or two hundred books. So I’m going to call this “The best books I managed to read by AAR’s internal deadline in 2019” and let you know that many well-loved…

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The Best of 2019 – Alex’s List

ByCaz Owens 12/24/201912/22/2019

It’s always difficult to put together a ‘Best of’ list, and as usual I’m sure I forgot a few. But after much thought, here are the books which stood out for me this year.

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The Best of 2019 – Shannon’s List

ByCaz Owens 12/22/201912/23/2019

2019 was full of great reads for me, and choosing my favorites was no easy feat. Even so, here are some of the best books I’ve read this year in no particular order.

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