Favorite Romance Books

Here is a running list of all my favorite books. I have tried to categorize them as per genre or time period, but some of them may have been mixed up. If there are multiple books by the same author, I've also clubbed them together under the same entry. 

Fair Warning: This is a highly biased / opinionated list. And pardon any spelling errors too. But maybe you'll find some new recs here too! 

MEDIEVAL / HISTORICAL / REGENCY / VICTORIAN / GEORGIAN

1. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion
2. George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
3. R.L. Stevenson - The Black Arrow
4. Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre, Shirley
5. Laura Kinsale - For My Lady's Heart, Flowers from the Storm, Midsummer Moon, The Dream Hunter, The Shadow and the Star, Seize the Fire   
6. Georgette Heyer - Frederica, Masqueraders, Devil's Cub, Cotillion, Convenient Marriage, Friday's Child, Talisman Ring, Arabella, The Nonesuch, The Reluctant Widow
7. Lisa Kleypas - Dreaming of You, Worth Any Price, Again the Magic, Devil in Winter
8. Elizabeth Hoyt - Duke of Midnight, Leopard Prince, Raven Prince
9. Knave's Wager by Loretta Chase
10. Barbara Metzger - Cupboad Kisses, Primrose Path, A Debt to Delia, Miss Lockharte's Letters
11. Meredith Duran - A Lady's Code of Misconduct, At your Pleasure, Duke of Shadows
12. Gentleman Jim by Mimi Matthews
13. Lady Elizabeth's Comet by Sheila Simonson
14. Julia Quinn - On the way to the Wedding, The Viscount who loved me, When he was wicked
15. Julie Anne Long - What I did for a duke, Perils of Pleasure
16. Joanna Bourne - Black Hawk, Spymaster's Lady
17. Sherry Thomas - Luckiest Lady in London
18. Mary Jo Putney - Thunder & Roses
19. Carla Kelly - Reforming Lord Ragsdale
20. Mary Balogh - Slightly Dangerous, Uncommon Vows
21. Untamed - Anna Cowan
22. Edith Layton - Duke's Wager
23. Patricia Veryan - Practice to Deceive
24. Courtney Milan - Governess Affair, Once upon a Marquess
25. F. Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
26. Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
27. The Secret Garden by Judith Riley
28. The Outsider by Penelope Williamson
29. To Love a Dark Lord by Anne Stuart
30. Stella Riley - The Parfit Knight

URBAN FANTASY

1. October Daye Series by Seanan McGuire
2. Alpha & Omega Series by Patricia Briggs
3. Hidden Legacy Series by Ilona Andrews
4. Maria Vale - Legend of all Wolves series
5. A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong
6. Night Shift by Lilith Saintcrow
7. Raised by Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

PARANORMAL

1. Immortals After Dark Series by Kresley Cole (esp. MacRieve, A Hunger Like No Other)
2. Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh (esp. Angel's Blood)
3. Psy Changeling Series by Nalini Singh (esp. Slave to Sensation, Kiss of Snow)
4. Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning
5. Guardian Series by Meljean Brook
6. The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook
7. Elder Races Series by Thea Harrison (esp. Dragon Bound)
8. Blackdagger Brotherhood Series by J.R. Ward (esp. Dark Lover, Lover Eternal, Lover Revealed, Lover Unbound)
9. Gathering of Dragons series by Milla Vane
10. Bitten series by Kelley Armstrong

FANTASY

1. The Queen and the Cure by Amy Harmon
2. Warprize series by Elizabeth Vaughn
3. Land of the Bautiful Dead by R.L. Smith
4. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
5. The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
6. Tsumiko and the Fox by Forthright
7. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
8. Golden Dynasty - Kristen Ashley
9. The Reluctant Concubine by Dana Marton
10. Pathfinder's Way by T.A. White
11. Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
12. Sevenwaters series by Juliet Marillier
13. Court of Thorns & Roses series by Sarah J. Maas
14. Goblin Moon by Teresa Edgerton
15. Sharon Shinn - Mystic Rider
16. Ember by Bettie Sharpe
17. A Promise of Fire by Amanda Bouchet

CONTEMPORARY / MODERN

1. Act Like It by Lucy Parker
2. The Opposite of You by Rachel Higginson
3. Kristen Ashley - Sweet Dreams, Motorcycle Man, Rock Chick
4. Lisa Kleypas - Smooth Talking Stranger
5. Never Sweeter by Charlotte Stein
6. Susan Elizabeth Philips - Heaven Texas, Nobody's Darling But Yours, Ain't She Sweet, Hotshot, It Had to be You
7. Easy by Tammara Webber
8. Katy Evans - Rogue
9. Rock Hard by Nalini Singh
10. Lori Foster - Gabe
11. Lucy Smoke - Pretty Little Savage
12. Becca Steele - The Four series
13. J.T. Geissinger - Midnight Valentine
14. The Witness by Nora Roberts
15. Lavyrle Spencer - Morning Glory
16. Pamela Morsi - Garters
17. Sally Thorne - Hating Game
18. Kate McManus - One of Us is Lying
19. Mariana Zapata - Kulti
20. Linda Howard - Mackenzie's Mountain

SCI-FI / SPACE OPERA

1. The Last Hour of Gann by R.L. Smith
2. Cottonwood by R.L. Smith
3. The Host by Stephanie Meyer
4. Evangeline Anderson - Claimed
5. Jaid Black - TrekMiQuan
6. In Death series by J.D. Robb
7. Archangel series by Sharon Shinn
8. Radiance by Grace Draven
9. Zoey Draven - Horde Kings of Dakkar series

Last Update: October 15, 2021