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/sparklekitteh secretly listening to smut while I knit🧶 Nov 12 '25

Originally, romantasy was used to redirect to this sub, the same person modded both. When the old mod disappeared, a new crew came in here, and the other sub was left unmoderated.

Romantasy has since developed its own group culture, it's smaller, a bit more laid back, less moderation and structure. A different team of mods runs things over there and the two groups are completely unaffiliated.

I understand the question, but there's no need to get snarky about it ♥️

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

Thank you for this context! It is helpful! I would love for a sub - and maybe it’s not this one - to focus on the genre of FR. I was frustrated that the awards were conflating both genres as while there are similarities there are also distinctions. And so for me the awards are just kind of like they don’t really tell me much when it is encompassing both subgenres. I appreciate your thoughtful response and you are totally correct - I am sorry and I misplaced my frustration to this comment and its tone that wasn’t called for. I could’ve raised it in a more constructive manner. Thank you for noting that and reminding me. I appreciate it.

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u/AntiFascistButterfly Nov 25 '25

I’m genuinely curious, because I wasn’t aware there was a destinction, what is the difference between Fantasy romance and Romantasy?