r/RomanceBooks · 2025

Most-mentioned books in r/RomanceBooks during 2025

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/RomanceBooks within the published source unit for 2025. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

112

Books ranked

4,315

Tracked mentions in 2025

Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions

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.

570 in 2025

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.

493 in 2025

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.

479 in 2025

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.

402 in 2025

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.

395 in 2025

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.

272 in 2025

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.

181 in 2025

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.

145 in 2025

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.

133 in 2025

#10

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.

123 in 2025

#11

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.

117 in 2025

#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.

92 in 2025

#13

Onyx Storm

Rebecca Yarros

Book three of the Empyrean series: Violet Sorrengail's war with the venin moves past the wards, and the dragons are done playing safe.

86 in 2025

#14

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.

53 in 2025

#15

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.

48 in 2025

#16

Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo

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

40 in 2025

#17

Beloved

Toni Morrison

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

32 in 2025

#18

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.

30 in 2025

#19

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.

28 in 2025

#20

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A young socialite travels to a remote Mexican mansion to check on her newly married cousin and finds the walls, and the family living inside them, aren't done growing.

27 in 2025

#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.

26 in 2025

#22

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.

26 in 2025

#23

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries)

Martha Wells

A security android with no interest in gender, romance, or heroics just wants to watch its shows, and ends up saving its clients from a conspiracy anyway.

25 in 2025

#24

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.

23 in 2025

#25

Mistborn: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson

A street thief who can swallow metal and burn it for power gets recruited into a heist crew whose actual target is the immortal emperor who's ruled for a thousand years.

21 in 2025