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r/RomanceBooks · 2019

Most-mentioned books in r/RomanceBooks during 2019

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/RomanceBooks within the published source unit for 2019. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2019
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Cover of The Hating Game #1

The Hating Game

Sally Thorne

Two rival executives who despise each other are stuck sharing an office, until the hating starts feeling like something else entirely.

104 in 2019
Cover of Outlander #2

Outlander

Diana Gabaldon

A WWII combat nurse touches a stone circle in Scotland and wakes up in 1743, married to a Highland warrior twenty years before she's born.

36 in 2019
Cover of A Court of Thorns and Roses #3

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas

Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, gets dragged into the faerie lands as payment, and spends five books choosing a court.

22 in 2019
Cover of Pride and Prejudice #4

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

A prideful landowner insults a woman at a dance, then spends the rest of the book making it up to her.

18 in 2019
Cover of Jane Eyre #5

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

A plain, broke governess tells off the man she loves in one paragraph, and Reddit has been rereading that paragraph at every age since.

13 in 2019
Cover of Six of Crows #6

Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo

Kaz Brekker recruits five other criminal teenagers for a heist inside a supposedly impenetrable ice fortress.

9 in 2019
Cover of Uprooted #7

Uprooted

Naomi Novik

A village girl is taken by an ancient wizard as tribute every ten years, until the year his choice turns out to be a mistake he can't undo.

8 in 2019
Cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone #8

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

J. K. Rowling

An eleven-year-old orphan gets a letter, a train platform that shouldn't exist, and a scar that makes him famous for something he can't remember.

7 in 2019
Cover of Throne of Glass #9

Throne of Glass

Sarah J. Maas

A teenage assassin is pulled out of a slave-labor camp and entered in a kingdom's brutal death-match tournament to win her freedom.

7 in 2019
Cover of Circe #10

Circe

Madeline Miller

Exiled to an empty island for turning a rival into a monster, a minor goddess spends immortality perfecting the one power the gods never bothered to master.

6 in 2019
Cover of Spinning Silver #11

Spinning Silver

Naomi Novik

A moneylender's daughter out-bargains a winter king to save her family, in a Rumpelstiltskin retelling with a Jewish heroine at its center.

6 in 2019
Cover of The Bear and the Nightingale #12

The Bear and the Nightingale

Katherine Arden

A girl in medieval Russia keeps the household spirits fed with scraps of bread while a priest convinces her village those same spirits are demons.

5 in 2019
Cover of A Man Called Ove #13

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

A widower who plans his own death every morning keeps getting interrupted by a pregnant neighbor who needs help backing a trailer into a driveway.

4 in 2019
Cover of Rebecca #14

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

A nameless second wife moves into her new husband's Cornish estate and finds she can't compete with the first one, who's been dead for a year.

4 in 2019
Cover of The Song of Achilles #15

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Patroclus, exiled and overlooked, grows up shadowing Achilles and follows him to Troy already knowing how the war ends for them.

4 in 2019
Cover of The Lord of the Rings #16

The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien

A gardener and three friends carry a cursed ring across a continent at war, because the only way to destroy it is to walk it into the volcano that forged it.

3 in 2019
Cover of The Priory of the Orange Tree #17

The Priory of the Orange Tree

Samantha Shannon

A queen who cannot risk a female heir, a dragon rider guarding a strait, and an outlawed mage protecting her in secret all move toward the same sleeping fire-breather.

3 in 2019
Cover of Assassin's Apprentice #18

Assassin's Apprentice

Robin Hobb

A royal bastard trains as the king's poisoner and assassin, and readers fifteen books later still call the ending emotionally devastating.

2 in 2019
Cover of Beach Read #19

Beach Read

Emily Henry

Two blocked novelists end up in neighboring lake houses, not beach houses, and spend the summer daring each other to write outside their own genre.

2 in 2019
Cover of Book Lovers #20

Book Lovers

Emily Henry

A New York literary agent's sister-bonding trip to a small town keeps running her into the same brooding local book editor.

2 in 2019
Cover of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine #21

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

A friendless payroll clerk who eats the same ready-meal every night gets invited to office happy hour once, and it slowly wrecks her sealed-off routine.

2 in 2019
Cover of Gardens of the Moon #22

Gardens of the Moon

Steven Erikson

A continent-spanning empire's mage-soldiers besiege a city that might already be doomed by gods playing a board game with human pieces.

2 in 2019
Cover of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell #23

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke

England forgets it ever had real magic, until one book-obsessed magician brings the practical kind back from decades of theory-only study.

2 in 2019
Cover of Storm Front (The Dresden Files) #24

Storm Front (The Dresden Files)

Jim Butcher

Chicago's only professional wizard takes a case involving black magic and a mob boss, with a police captain who wants it solved fast or him gone.

2 in 2019
Cover of The Hunger Games #25

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

A teenage girl volunteers to fight to the death on live television in place of her younger sister, then spends three books resisting everyone who wants to make her a symbol.

2 in 2019