2013 All About Romance Reader Award (Awarded by All About Romance)

Awards List

Best Category Romance

The Other Side of Us
(Winner)
Sarah Mayberry

Best Contemporary Romance

Love Irresistibly
(Winner)
Julie James

Best Erotica/Romantica

Uncommon Passion
(Winner)
Anne Calhoun

Best Historical Romance Not Set in the U.K.

The Lotus Palace
(Winner)
Jeannie Lin

Best Historical Romance Set in the U.K.

The Luckiest Lady in London
(Winner)
Sherry Thomas

Best Love Scenes (in a Mainstream Romance)

The Luckiest Lady in London
(Winner)
Sherry Thomas

Best New Adult

Foreplay
(Winner)
Sophie Jordan

Best Novel with Strong Romantic Elements

The Rosie Project
(Winner)
Graeme Simsion

Best Paranormal Romance

Heart of Obsidian
(Winner)
Nalini Singh

Best Romance

The Luckiest Lady in London
(Winner)
Sherry Thomas

Best Romance Couple

Love Irresistibly
(Winner - Tie)
Julie James

The Luckiest Lady in London
(Winner - Tie)
Sherry Thomas

Best Romance Hero

The Countess Conspiracy
(Winner)
Courtney Milan

Best Romance Heroine

The Countess Conspiracy
(Winner)
Courtney Milan

Best Romance Short Story

First Strike
(Winner)
Pamela Clare

Best Romantic Suspense

Striking Distance
(Winner)
Pamela Clare

Best Young Adult

Eleanor & Park
(Winner)
Rainbow Rowell

Biggest Tearjerker

Snow-Kissed
(Winner)
Laura Florand

Funniest Romance

Tangled
(Winner)
Emma Chase

Most Kickass Heroine

Magic Rises
(Winner)
Ilona Andrews

Most Tortured Hero

Heart of Obsidian
(Winner)
Nalini Singh

Best Historical Romance Set in the U.K.

The Countess Conspiracy
(Honorable Mention)
Courtney Milan

Best Love Scenes (in a Mainstream Romance)

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover
(Honorable Mention)
Sarah MacLean

Best Romance Couple

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover
(Honorable Mention)
Sarah MacLean

Archangel's Legion
(Honorable Mention)
Nalini Singh

Striking Distance
(Honorable Mention)
Pamela Clare

Best Romance Heroine

Love Irresistibly
(Honorable Mention)
Julie James

Biggest Tearjerker

The Countess Conspiracy
(Honorable Mention)
Courtney Milan

Most Kickass Heroine

Calculated in Death
(Honorable Mention)
J.D. Robb

Top 100 Romances

Lord of Scoundrels
(#1)
Loretta Chase

Pride and Prejudice
(#3)
Jane Austen
  • / Historical Romance
  • Buy

Persuasion
(#35)
Jane Austen
  • / Historical Romance
  • Buy

Jane Eyre
(#24)
Charlotte Bronte

Devil's Cub
(#38)
Georgette Heyer
  • / Traditional Regency
  • Buy

The Grand Sophy
(#98)
Georgette Heyer
  • / Traditional Regency
  • Buy

Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle
(#100)
Georgette Heyer
  • / Traditional Regency
  • Buy

Venetia
(#45)
Georgette Heyer
  • / Traditional Regency
  • Buy

Frederica
(#70)
Georgette Heyer
  • / Traditional Regency
  • Buy

Whitney, My Love
(#99)
Judith McNaught

Honor's Splendour
(#73)
Julie Garwood

Something Wonderful
(#81)
Judith McNaught

Morning Glory
(#25)
LaVyrle Spencer

A Kingdom of Dreams
(#43)
Judith McNaught

Mackenzie's Mountain
(#50)
Linda Howard

The Bride
(#29)
Julie Garwood

A Knight in Shining Armor
(#37)
Jude Deveraux

Almost Heaven
(#94)
Judith McNaught

Outlander // Cross Stitch
(#5)
Diana Gabaldon

Paradise
(#28)
Judith McNaught

The Secret Pearl
(#82)
Mary Balogh

The Shadow and the Star
(#86)
Laura Kinsale

The Secret
(#47)
Julie Garwood

Ravished
(#58)
Amanda Quick

Flowers from the Storm
(#6)
Laura Kinsale

Perfect
(#71)
Judith McNaught

Then Came You
(#62)
Lisa Kleypas

For My Lady's Heart
(#89)
Laura Kinsale

Dreaming of You
(#8)
Lisa Kleypas

It Had to Be You
(#19)
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Heaven, Texas
(#49)
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Dream Man
(#48)
Linda Howard

Naked in Death
(#27)
J.D. Robb

To Have & To Hold
(#90)
Patricia Gaffney

After the Night
(#69)
Linda Howard

Kiss An Angel
(#40)
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Nobody's Baby But Mine
(#18)
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

As You Desire
(#51)
Connie Brockway

Dream a Little Dream
(#79)
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Devil's Bride
(#32)
Stephanie Laurens

The Last Hellion
(#57)
Loretta Chase

The Rake
(#54)
Mary Jo Putney

My Dearest Enemy
(#74)
Connie Brockway

Rising Tides
(#93)
Nora Roberts

Ransom
(#75)
Julie Garwood

The Duke and I
(#16)
Julia Quinn

Welcome to Temptation
(#20)
Jennifer Crusie

Mr. Perfect
(#41)
Linda Howard

More Than a Mistress
(#53)
Mary Balogh

The Viscount Who Loved Me
(#9)
Julia Quinn

This Heart of Mine
(#52)
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Suddenly You
(#80)
Lisa Kleypas

An Offer from a Gentleman
(#83)
Julia Quinn

Open Season
(#72)
Linda Howard

Lady Sophia's Lover
(#96)
Lisa Kleypas

Romancing Mister Bridgerton
(#10)
Julia Quinn

A Summer to Remember
(#36)
Mary Balogh

See Jane Score
(#63)
Rachel Gibson

Cry No More
(#67)
Linda Howard

Bet Me
(#15)
Jennifer Crusie

Slightly Dangerous
(#7)
Mary Balogh

When He Was Wicked
(#42)
Julia Quinn

Secrets of a Summer Night
(#85)
Lisa Kleypas

Mr. Impossible
(#12)
Loretta Chase

Match Me If You Can
(#21)
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

It Happened One Autumn
(#30)
Lisa Kleypas

Devil in Winter
(#2)
Lisa Kleypas

Lord Perfect
(#26)
Loretta Chase

A Hunger Like No Other
(#95)
Kresley Cole

Simply Love
(#92)
Mary Balogh

Lover Awakened
(#34)
J.R. Ward

Slave to Sensation
(#55)
Nalini Singh

The Raven Prince
(#22)
Elizabeth Hoyt

Natural Born Charmer
(#97)
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

And Then He Kissed Her
(#66)
Laura Lee Guhrke

Sugar Daddy
(#84)
Lisa Kleypas

Mine Till Midnight
(#91)
Lisa Kleypas

The Spymaster's Lady
(#11)
Joanna Bourne / Joanna Watkins Bourne

The Duke of Shadows
(#65)
Meredith Duran

Private Arrangements
(#33)
Sherry Thomas

Blue-Eyed Devil
(#31)
Lisa Kleypas

Smooth Talking Stranger
(#46)
Lisa Kleypas

The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie
(#4)
Jennifer Ashley

Not Quite a Husband
(#14)
Sherry Thomas

To Beguile A Beast
(#78)
Elizabeth Hoyt

Bound by Your Touch
(#68)
Meredith Duran

What Happens in London
(#44)
Julia Quinn

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
(#61)
Sarah MacLean

His at Night
(#88)
Sherry Thomas

The Forbidden Rose
(#59)
Joanna Bourne / Joanna Watkins Bourne

Love in the Afternoon
(#56)
Lisa Kleypas

The Iron Duke
(#77)
Meljean Brook

Unveiled
(#76)
Courtney Milan

When Beauty Tamed the Beast
(#60)
Eloisa James

What I Did for a Duke
(#13)
Julie Anne Long

The Black Hawk
(#17)
Joanna Bourne / Joanna Watkins Bourne

A Lady Awakened
(#64)
Cecilia Grant

The Governess Affair: A Novella
(#87)
Courtney Milan

A Week to Be Wicked
(#23)
Tessa Dare

Ravishing the Heiress
(#39)
Sherry Thomas

Award Categories

Best Alt Reality/Paranormal

Best Alternate Reality

Best Amer Hist/Frontier

Best American Historical

Best Buried Treasure

Best Cabin/Road Romance

Best Category Romance

Best Chick Lit/Women's Fiction

Best Contemporary Romance

Best Couple

Best Debut Author

Best Erotic Romance

Best Erotica

Best Erotica/Romantica

Best European Historical

Best Fantasy Romance

Best Funny

Best Hero

Best Heroine

Best Historical Romance Not Set in the U.K.

Best Historical Romance Set in the U.K.

Best LGBT Romance

Best Love Scenes (in a Mainstream Romance)

Best Medieval

Best Medieval/Renaissance

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