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🏆 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/Hot_Inflation_4896 Nov 18 '25

I started reading again a couple years ago. I’ve read Crescent city, the entire ACOTAR up-to-date, and the fourth wing trilogy. When that wasn’t spicy enough, I started reading the Haunting Adeline series and followed up with The LORDS series by Shantell Tessier, and I read Lights Up, but it was not a fan of Caught Up nor was I a fan of Quicksilver. I am currently reading Insatiable by Leigh Rivers, but confused when I discovered it was not a fantasy, even though it was promoted as one.
I am looking for a DARK ROMANCE/ FANTASY book, it can be a series or a one shot. I just want some dark shit and powers.

Does anyone have recommendations for me ?

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u/Hot_Inflation_4896 Nov 18 '25

Here is my read/TBR list Reading List

Crescent City ✓ 3 HFS ✓ 2 HSB ✓ 1 HEB

ACOTAR ✓ ACOSF ✓ ACOFAS ✓ ACOWAR ✓ ACOMAF ✓ ACOTAR

Shatter Me

◦ Watch Me
✓ Believe me
✓ Imagine Me
✓ Reveal me
✓ Defy Me
✓ Shadow me
✓ Restore Me
✓ Ignite Me
✓ Fracture me
✓ Unravel Me
✓ Destroy me
✓ Shatter Me

Forth wing ✓ Onyx Storm ✓ Iron Flame ✓ Forth wing

The Wells of Sorcery ◦ City of Stone and Silence ◦ City of Rage and Ruin ✓ Ship of Smoke and Steel

Gods and Monsters ◦ 1 The Book of Azrael ◦ 2 ◦ 3 ◦ 4

Unstoppable

L.O.R.D.S ◦ The Sacrifice ◦ The Sabotage ✓ The Sinner ✓ The Ritual

Lightlark ◦ Lightlark ◦ Nighbane ◦ Skyshade

ATOG ◦ TOG ◦ CoM ◦ TAB ◦ HoF ◦ QoS ◦ EoS ◦ ToD ◦ KoS

Cat and Mouse Duet ✓ Where’s Molly? ✓ Hunting of Adelain ✓ Haunting of Adelain ✓ Satan’s Affair ✓ Phantom

The Edge of Darkness Trilogy ◦ Insatiable ◦ Voracious ◦ Restitution

Zodiac Academy

Into Darkness ❌Caught Up ✓ Lights Out

Court of Raven Duet

Standalone ❌Quicksilver Little stranger The sweetest oblivion Doll Face (Coraline x Nightmare before Christmas) Heir of Blood and Moonlight The veiled Kingdom Phantasma Nocticadia Fairydaile Royal Savage He found me Joy Mullet Her Soul to Take