Beyond Heaving Bosoms by Sarah WendellA Natural History of the Romance Novel by Pamela RegisDangerous Books for Girls by Maya RodaleDangerous Men and Adventurous Women by Jayne Ann KrentzReading the Romance by Janice A. Radway
Nonfiction About Romance Fiction
69 books — 35 voters
The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónOutlander by Diana GabaldonMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Historical Fiction With a Dash of Magic
426 books — 710 voters

The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonThe Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert RankinDead Bitch Army by Andre DuzaBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
There Ought to be a Band
2,436 books — 1,105 voters
Uprooted by Naomi NovikMaster of Crows by Grace DravenA Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. MaasAir Awakens by Elise KovaThe Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg
Female Apprentice Romance
61 books — 72 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Stranger by Albert Camus
World's Greatest Novellas
714 books — 1,443 voters

The Séance by John HarwoodAffinity by Sarah WatersThings Half in Shadow by Alan FinnThe House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine HoweThe Diviners by Libba Bray
Victorian Spiritualism Fiction
132 books — 79 voters
Whitney, My Love by Judith McNaughtPrisoner of My Desire by Johanna LindseyThe Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen E. WoodiwissThe Flame and the Flower by Kathleen E. WoodiwissOnce and Always by Judith McNaught
Best Bodice Ripper Romances
305 books — 631 voters