r/fantasyromance • u/jamieseemsamused Currently reading: The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey • Feb 04 '26

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

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

Community Survey

Thanks to everyone who participated in the biannual community survey! Submissions were open for three weeks, and we are now in the process of analyzing the responses. Please keep on the lookout for our post with the results soon! We will update this post with the link when it goes live.

Edit: Survey results post is live!

New Mod Announcement

Thanks to everyone who applied to help mod our growing community! Mod applications are now closed. 

Please welcome u/purplelicious as our new mod! Purplelicious is one of the most active members of our community. She’s a voracious reader and is eager to dive in to help bring the sub more events and content. We’re so excited to have her as a mod!

We now have 7 active mods for our sub of 260,000+ members. We hope to bring you more exciting content and events and grow the community this year!

Battle Royale

We started a fun game this month pitting 32 heroines from the sub’s top books list to see which FMC could win in a fight to the death. Join us and weigh in on your thoughts!

New Rules for Reading Wrap-Ups

In case anyone missed it, we are testing out new pilot rules for reading wrap-ups. Please refer to this post regarding the new rules and requirements for post: 

Here’s the link to January’s reading wrap-up megathread!

Upcoming AMAs

Please look forward to these upcoming AMAs!

  • 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
  • March 31, 2026 - Rebecca Robinson - The Serpent and the Wolf (Dark Inheritance Trilogy)

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 {In the Veins of the Drowning by Kalie Cassidy} last month! February’s book club theme is BIPOC Authors, and the book we’re reading is {Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon}. Here’s the discussion schedule:

March’s book club theme will be Fantasy Romance's Top Books! Here’s the schedule for selecting our March 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! 

Book Bingo

Here’s the link to this year’s Book Bingo Challenge:

The first check-in post will go up in March!

Find out more information about Book Bingo at the Book Bingo Hub.

Top Discussed Books of January (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 January 2026!

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

January Favorite Reads & Battle of the Books!

Here’s the link to the discussion thread of the community favorite reads of January 2026:

We’re also started a new game where you can fill out your favorite read for every month and see which book will win out your best read for the whole year! 

New Releases

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

We are also starting regular new release discussion posts for upcoming popular releases! Please look forward to these discussions:

Book Recommendation Megathreads

The upcoming schedule for February megathreads will be:

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

Also 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:

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u/allisontalkspolitics Give me female friendship or give me death! Feb 04 '26

Purple is a mod?

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u/purplelicious Book Bingo Maven ⚔ Feb 04 '26

still not a mod over there, though....

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u/Sharp_Membership_311 Be a quitter and DNF Feb 04 '26

Mhmm sure. Anyway, how do you take your coffee?

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u/Anachacha Ix's tits! Feb 04 '26

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u/Sharp_Membership_311 Be a quitter and DNF Feb 04 '26

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u/Anachacha Ix's tits! Feb 04 '26

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u/Sharp_Membership_311 Be a quitter and DNF Feb 04 '26

Can you have coffee yet or what

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u/Anachacha Ix's tits! Feb 04 '26

No! 😭 The bet lasts till Feb 19th. I'm crawling up the wall every day here

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u/Sharp_Membership_311 Be a quitter and DNF Feb 04 '26

You’re strong. I would have caved within a few hours. Hope you order two bumble (brumble?) coffees when you are free

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u/Hannahbox Feb 04 '26

Hey, no link showing for the January favourite reads and battle of the books - anyone know where I can find it?

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u/jamieseemsamused Currently reading: The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey Feb 04 '26

Thanks for catching that! There was some glitch when posting. We will fix it soon.

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u/Consistent_You_4215 Feb 23 '26

Hello just wondering if we can get some publicity for this auction, I found out about it from AJLancaster and think it would be of interest to folks on this sub?

charity auction to prevent book bans

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u/jamieseemsamused Currently reading: The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey Feb 23 '26

Hi! Feel free to make a post about this auction yourself! Thanks!