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r/RomanceBooks · 2023

Most-mentioned books in r/RomanceBooks during 2023

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/RomanceBooks within the published source unit for 2023. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

133
Books ranked
7,419
Tracked mentions in 2023
Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions
Cover of A Court of Thorns and Roses #1

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.

1,670 in 2023
Cover of The Hating Game #2

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.

574 in 2023
Cover of Fourth Wing #3

Fourth Wing

Rebecca Yarros

A war college trains dragon riders by letting classmates kill the weak ones off, and the heroine's body was built for neither a dragon nor a sword.

567 in 2023
Cover of The Love Hypothesis #4

The Love Hypothesis

Ali Hazelwood

A cynical biology PhD fake-dates a famously prickly professor to fend off a colleague, and the fake part stops being the point somewhere around the second grant meeting.

484 in 2023
Cover of Book Lovers #5

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.

434 in 2023
Cover of Pride and Prejudice #6

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.

411 in 2023
Cover of Throne of Glass #7

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.

310 in 2023
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.

299 in 2023
Cover of Outlander #9

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.

294 in 2023
Cover of Beach Read #10

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.

281 in 2023
Cover of The Hunger Games #11

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.

217 in 2023
Cover of Jane Eyre #12

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.

182 in 2023
Cover of Legends & Lattes #13

Legends & Lattes

Travis Baldree

An orc mercenary quits the road for good and opens a coffee shop in a city that has never seen one.

117 in 2023
Cover of Spinning Silver #14

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.

117 in 2023
Cover of Uprooted #15

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.

106 in 2023
Cover of Six of Crows #16

Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo

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

104 in 2023
Cover of The Lord of the Rings #17

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.

77 in 2023
Cover of The Bear and the Nightingale #18

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.

65 in 2023
Cover of The House in the Cerulean Sea #19

The House in the Cerulean Sea

TJ Klune

A caseworker is sent to inspect an orphanage of six dangerous magical children, one of them the literal Antichrist, and has to decide whether to file the report that shuts it down.

62 in 2023
Cover of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo #20

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

A reclusive Old Hollywood icon finally agrees to tell her real story, husband by husband, but insists on giving it only to an unknown magazine writer.

58 in 2023
Cover of A Game of Thrones #21

A Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin

Ned Stark's family gets pulled into a succession war for the Iron Throne while an unkillable winter creeps south.

52 in 2023
Cover of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine #22

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.

38 in 2023
Cover of Beloved #23

Beloved

Toni Morrison

A formerly enslaved woman confronts the ghost of the daughter she killed to keep her out of slavery.

37 in 2023
Cover of Circe #24

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.

37 in 2023
Cover of The Night Circus #25

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Two magicians raised from childhood for a duel to the death disguise the fight as a circus that only opens after dark.

37 in 2023