RoNA - Romantic Novel of the Year (Awarded by Romantic Novelists Association)

Awards List

2018

This Love
(Winner)
Dani Atkins

2017

Love Song
(Winner)
Sophia Bennett

2016

Letters to the Lost
(Winner)
Iona Grey

2015

Storm and Stone // Struck
(Winner)
Joss Stirling

2014

A Night on the Orient Express
(Winner)
Veronica Henry

2013

Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams
(Winner)
Jenny Colgan

2012

Please Don't Stop the Music
(Winner)
Jane Lovering

2011

The Last Letter from Your Lover
(Winner)
JoJo Moyes

2010

Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts
(Winner)
Lucy Dillon

2009

East of the Sun
(Winner)
Julia Gregson

2008

Pillow Talk
(Winner)
Freya North

2007

Iris and Ruby
(Winner)
Rosie Thomas

2006

Gardens of Delight
(Winner)
Erica James

2005

A Good Voyage // The Madness of Love
(Winner)
Katharine Davies

2004

Foreign Fruit // Windfallen
(Winner)
JoJo Moyes

2003

Playing James
(Winner)
Sarah Mason

2002

The Other Boleyn Girl
(Winner)
Philippa Gregory

2001

Someone Like You
(Winner)
Cathy Kelly

2000

Dancing In the Dark
(Winner)
Maureen Lee

1999

Learning To Swim
(Winner)
Clare Chambers

1998

Kiss and Kin
(Winner)
Angela Lambert

1997

The Hours of the Night
(Winner)
Sue Gee

1996

Coming Home
(Winner)
Rosamunde Pilcher

1995

Change of Heart
(Winner)
Charlotte Bingham

1994

Consider the Lily
(Winner)
Elizabeth Buchan

1993

Emily
(Winner)
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

1992

Sandstorm
(Winner)
June Knox-Mawer

1991

Phantom
(Winner)
Susan Kay

1990

Passing Glory
(Winner)
Reay Tannahill

1989

The Peacock's Feather
(Winner)
Sarah Woodhouse

1988

The Juniper Bush
(Winner)
Audrey Howard

1987

A Better World Than This
(Winner)
Marie Joseph

1986

A Song Twice over
(Winner)
Brenda Jagger

1985

Sunrise
(Winner)
Rosie Thomas

1984

A Highly Respectable Marriage
(Winner)
Sheila Walsh (1)

1983

Magic Flutes // The Reluctant Heiress
(Winner)
Eva Ibbotson

1982

Zemindar
(Winner)
Valerie Fitzgerald

1981

The Red Staircase
(Winner)
Gwendoline Butler

1980

Parson Harding's Daughter
(Winner)
Joanna Trollope

1979

Countess
(Winner)
Josephine Edgar

1978

Merlin's Keep
(Winner)
Madeleine Brent

1977

Every Man a King
(Winner)
Anne Worboys

1976

The Look of Innocence
(Winner)
Anna Gilbert

1975

Vote for a Silk Gown
(Winner)
Jay Allerton

1974

The Burning Lamp
(Winner)
Frances Murray

1973

The House of Kuragin
(Winner)
Constance Heaven

1972

The Pride of Innocence
(Winner)
Maynah Lewis

1971

Flower of Silence
(Winner)
Joanne Marshall

1970

Thea
(Winner)
Margaret Maddocks

Broken Tapestry
(Winner)
Rona Randall

Cat on a Broomstick
(Winner)
Joanne Marshall

1969

Comfort and Keep
(Winner)
Doris E. Smith
  • / Contemporary Romance

1968

The Future Is Forever
(Winner)
Maynah Lewis
  • / Contemporary Romance

1967

The Truth Game
(Winner)
Anne Betteridge
  • / Contemporary Romance

1965

The Silver Answer
(Winner)
Margaret Maddocks

1964

Journey From Yesterday
(Winner)
Suzanne Ebel
  • / Contemporary Romance

1963

House Divided
(Winner)
Dorothy M. Cray

1962

Larksbrook
(Winner)
Margaret Maddocks
  • / Contemporary Romance

1961

Witches' Sabbath
(Winner)
Paula Allardyce
  • / Historical Romance

1960

More Than Friendship
(Winner)
Mary Howard (1)
  • / Contemporary Romance

Award Categories

Award Of Special Merit

Best Modern Award

Christmas / Festive Holiday Romantic Novel

Contemporary

Debut Romantic Novel

Epic Romance

Historical Romance

Paranormal or Speculative Romance

Popular Romantic Fiction

Romantic Comedy

Romantic Novel of the Year

Romantic Saga

Romantic Thriller

Shorter Romantic Novel

Young Adult

Award Years

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

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