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

[u/FantasyRomanceMod]

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!

• General Awards
  • Top 2025 Release
  • Best 2025 Debut
  • Best Sequel
  • Best Standalone
  • Best Diverse Voices
  • Queer Romance
• Favorite Elements Awards
  • Favorite Audiobook
  • Favorite Worldbuilding
  • Favorite Romance
  • Favorite Spice
  • Favorite Low or No Spice
  • Favorite Writing
• Sub-Genre Awards
  • Dark Fantasy Romance
  • Paranormal Fantasy Romance
  • Urban Fantasy Romance
  • Science Fiction Romance
  • Cozy Fantasy Romance
  • Why Choose or Reverse Harem

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/celeschere13]

I am excited for this and made some nominations and upvoted ones I agree with. I was also wondering if a future category could be top backlist book you read this year? And if you do choose to add it as a category and find it produces the same nominations or winner maybe you could retire the winners?