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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 – Maria Rose’s List

ByCaz Owens 01/13/202001/19/2020

Every year when it comes time to make a ‘best of the year’ list, I find that there are two criteria that help me decide what should make up my top ten: 1) Do I still remember the plot and the characters? I read an average of 200-300 books a year and something I read…

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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 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…

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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…

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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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The Best of 2019 – Evelyn’s List

ByCaz Owens 12/16/201912/14/2019

Full disclosure – 2019 was a fairly light reading year for me. My TBR pile is still overflowing! When making this list, I didn’t refer to anything but my memory – which books were the most memorable. After all, that is probably the best criteria for making a “best of” list.

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The Best of 2019 – Em’s List

ByCaz Owens 12/11/201912/10/2019

I’m not going to call my reading year a disappointment. It wasn’t. I liked a lot of books. Unfortunately, many anticipated big releases were disappointing, and I returned to old favorites when I was underwhelmed by my TBR. Some of those titles were just as good as I remembered; quite a few weren’t. Anyway, after…

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