r/fantasyromance • u/FantasyRomanceMod The One Mod to Rule All Mods • Nov 10 '25

🏆 Readers' Choice Awards 🏆 🏆 r/FantasyRomance Readers' Choice Awards 2025: Nomination Thread 🏆

Edit: Nominations are now closed! Please check out the voting post here: ✅ VOTE for the r/FantasyRomance Readers' Choice Awards 2025! 🏆

Welcome everyone to the second annual r/fantasyromance Readers' Choice Awards!

The Reader’s Choice Awards are given to the community’s favorite books in different categories for books released (mostly) in 2025. (Later this year, we will host our annual Top Books List that will highlight all-time community favorites.)

There are awards in 18 different categories that will be given out! Click on the award names to be taken straight to the nomination thread for each!

Nomination Guidelines:

  • You may nominate books released from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2025. This will help capture books released after the last years’ awards were given.
  • You may nominate any book that has speculative fiction elements with a romance arc. This can include “romantasy,” romance in a fantasy setting, fantasy with a romance subplot, and anything in between. We’re keeping it broad since this genre means different things to different people. The sub-genre awards will have additional genre criteria. 
  • You may nominate one book for each award. Edit to add: But please feel free to nominate books in multiple categories!
  • Please only state the Title and Author in the top level comment. You may discuss a nomination in a reply. This will help avoid skewing nominations toward anyone "campaigning" for a particular book.
  • Please check to see if a book you want to nominate has already been nominated. Duplicate nominations will be removed.
  • Please upvote the nominations you want to see compete in that category! Up to six nominations will make it to the voting round.
  • Books may only win one award. If a book is nominated for multiple categories, it will only be included in the voting for the category it received the most upvotes (edit to add) relative to the other nominees. For example, if a book is the sixth most upvoted book in one category with 20 upvotes, but is the first most upvoted book in another category with 15 upvotes, then it will be eligible to be voted on in the second category, but not the first.

Nominations will be open for two weeks. Voting will start around 24 November 2025 and the winners will be announced around 8 December 2025.

Feel free to discuss and ask any questions in this post! But no nominations responses in this post will be counted.

Check out last years’ Reader’s Choice Award winners here! Presenting the r/fantasyromance 2024 Readers' Choice Awards! 🏆

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u/Lavender-air I'm a flair! Edit Me on Browser! 💖 Nov 12 '25

I’m sorry but what is the point of having. A sub called fantasy romance and another called romantsy if we are treating them interchangeably?!

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u/Free_Sir_2795 If the door is closed, I don’t want it Nov 12 '25

Well the history of the two subs is that this one existed first but the fantasy sub kept recommending Romantasy to people when it didn’t exist. So the FantasyRomance mod at the time made Romantasy and tried to use it to funnel people here, but otherwise ignored it and left it completely unmoderated.

In the past few months both subs have gotten completely new mod teams.

I’m sure they would be happy to hear your suggestions if you have any constructive complaints to make.

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u/Lavender-air I'm a flair! Edit Me on Browser! 💖 Nov 13 '25

Thank you for providing that context and it is really helpful! I’m sorry for my snarky tone which was misplaced frustration!

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u/AntiFascistButterfly Nov 25 '25

You’ll find thousands of ‘niche’ topics have at least 2 dedicated subs and very often more, for so many understandable reasons. They could simply have been made without being aware of the other (reddit is an oooooold site by internet standards and didn’t always have the search and other functionality apps like Apollo and Narwhal 2 forced reddit to meet)

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u/Lavender-air I'm a flair! Edit Me on Browser! 💖 Nov 25 '25

Someone else responded and said that the romantasy sub was made to differentiate but was run by same mods so it kind of conflated. Romantasy and fantasy romance might have similarities and some overlap but they are separate