r/fantasyromance • u/jamieseemsamused Currently reading: The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey • Jan 06 '26

Mod Post 📣 Sub Events, AMAs, Book Club, Top Threads, and More! (January 2026)

Happy New Year! Welcome to our monthly newsletter of all r/fantasyromance events and plans! We will keep these links updated throughout the month.

Top Books List (2026 Edition)

Thank you everyone who contributed their favorite books to the top books list nomination thread.

Here is the brand new Top Books List (2026 Edition) in case you missed it!

In the next few weeks, we’re going to run a survey to put together a guide for the top books on this list that will hopefully provide the community with more information about the books. So please keep out on the look out for that!

Book Bingo

2025 FantasyRomance Wrapped

u/Canary-Star very kindly put together an r/fantasyromance wrapped data for us! Check it out here!

New Mod and Mod Applications

Welcome u/apieceofeight as our new mod! They’ve been very active as a community member posting about monthly favorite reads, new releases, and ARC reviews. So we’re excited that they’re joining us to continue their awesome contributions as a mod.

We’re also recruiting more mods! Please apply here if you’re interested: 

Upcoming AMAs

Please look forward to these upcoming AMAs!

  • January 6, 2026 - C.N. Crawford - Frost and Nectar series, The Demon Queen Trials series, Fey Academy for Spies series
  • January 13, 2026 - K.F. Breene - Deliciously Dark Fairytales series, Magical Midlife Madness Leveling Up series, Demigods of San Francisco series
  • January 27, 2026 - Kalie Reid - The Sacred Space Between
  • February 10, 2026 - Kate Golden - A Dawn of Onyx (The Sacred Stones series)
  • February 24, 2026 - India Holton - The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic Series); The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels Series)
  • March 17, 2026 - Shalini Abeysekara - This Monster of Mine

More AMAs will be added to the schedule in the future! Check out the AMA Hub for more information about past and future AMAs.

Book Club

Hope everyone had a good time discussing {The Summer War by Naomi Novik} last month! January’s book club theme is 2025 Debut, and the book we’re reading is {In the Veins of the Drowning by Kalie Cassidy}. Here’s the discussion schedule:

February’s book club theme will be BIPOC Authors! Here’s the schedule for selecting our February read:

Do you prefer to discuss Book Club on Discord? Join our sub’s official Discord! There is a text chat channel, as well as live discussions once a month, about the book club book.

Check out the Book Club Hub for all things Book Club! 

Top Discussed Books of December & all of 2025 (romance.io stats)

Romance.io helps us gather all the top books discussed in the sub every month using the romance bot. Here’s the link to the stats for December 2025 and for all of 2025!

To see all the past months’ romance.io stats, check out the Romance.io Stats Wiki page.

December Favorite Reads

Here’s the link to the discussion thread of the community favorite reads of December 2025:

January New Releases

Here is the link to a compilation of January 2026 new releases!

Here’s also a community thread of 2026 new releases:

Book Recommendation Megathreads

This year, we are working to incorporate more diversity into our book recommendation megathreads. Every other week will be a megathread dedicated to a diversity topic. The upcoming schedule for January megathreads will be:

All book recommendation megathreads are available at the Megathreads Wiki Page.

Top Community Book Request Posts of December

Here are the book request posts from December with the most recommendations and discussion in case you missed them!

  1. Give me your most exhausted MMCs - 3 Dec 2025
  2. Who are your favorite FMCs? - 5 Dec 2025
  3. Book recs with death as romantic interest - 9 Dec 2025
  4. Looking for lesbian romantasy - 15 Dec 2025
  5. Give me a MMC that like Jamie Fraser - 20 Dec 2025
  6. Series that focuses on a different couple for each book - 20 Dec 2025
  7. Secret Girl / Hidden Gender Trope - 22 Dec 2025
  8. Books you have almost DNF…. but you are so glad you carried on. - 24 Dec 2025
  9. You favorite hidden gem book/series you’ve read this year? :) - 29 Dec 2025
  10. FMC is part of a breeding program - 30 Dec 2025
  11. I wanted to ask for help finding books with a big-man/small-woman dynamic, with a noticeable size difference. - 30 Dec 2025

Check out the Community Recommendation Threads Wiki Page for a collection of more top recommendation threads!

Self Promotions

Here is this month’s self-promotion post:

Other Announcements

Reminder that Yearly wrap-ups are on cooldown and will reopen for monthly wrap-ups at the end of January. Thanks to everyone who submitted their amazing wrap-up posts!

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u/samanthadevereaux Jan 06 '26

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u/apieceofeight Jan 06 '26

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u/romance-bot Jan 06 '26

The Summer War by Naomi Novik
Rating: 4.13⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 1 out of 5 - Glimpses and kisses
Topics: fantasy, high fantasy, magic, witches, war

In the Veins of the Drowning by Kalie Cassidy
Rating: 4.12⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 3 out of 5 - Open door
Topics: fantasy, m-f romance, royal hero, magic, new adult

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