Every year we pick 10 books that we think rise above the rest. These are the 70 we've picked since 2019.

Updated to include our Best of 2025 picks.

Sixty-nine (that’s right, 69, by pure unplanned luck!) recommendations for you — everything from bonkers to bloody to blazing hot…naughty bits that we believe deliver the whole banana (and sometimes no banana at all, if you know what we mean). If you're looking for something specific (or trying to avoid it), you can find this list with subcategories on our site.

Not novellas, not short novels, but actual short stories under 15,000 words (or about 50 pages). This is such a difficult goal for a writer to hit, as romance lends itself to longer formats, but short fiction is a really great way to keep reading when things feel chaotic.

(Please note that some of these titles are collections that many not be made up entirely of romances.)

Romances so good that we're jealous of people who haven't read them yet, because we know what they're in for.

Category romances are powerful. It takes skill to write one well, and we have so much love for the authors who are committed to this perfect morel of the format.

It's that time of year, when we highlight some of our favorite new voices in romance! This week, we're talking about eight new writers who are making us excited about what's to come in historical, contemporary, cozy fantasy and more. Here's to reading them all for years to come!