my favorite romances of all time 🩷📖 romance reading audit from the past decade

I was reading that in 2017. That was my reading and it was so, so good.

We have a Catherine Cowles, The Fragile Sanctuary and All the Missing Pieces which are so good.

I read Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, which again, very emotional and angsty, very emotional.

Oh, and Birthday Girl was released. Magic. Loved it. Angsty, dark.

Paper Princess, Broken Prince, they were messy angsty.

the Bromance Book Club confuses me because I didn't know I loved that.

Bully by Penelope Douglas is a bully romance that's also super angsty. So, I loved angsty romances in 2016.

I really liked Business Casual

I really liked Curvy Girl Summer.

a lot of my favorites this year so far have been Dagger Mouth, which is dystopian.

Oh, and The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Elizabeth O'Rourke, mhm, so good.

I forgot about Forbidden by Clarissa Wrenson, but I also really, really liked that one.

Forget Me Not by Julie Soto was so good as well, cuz that was second chance dual timeline.

I read one of my favorite books of all time, Forget Me Not by K.A. Tucker, very angsty, cheating, marriage in trouble romance.

We have a Catherine Cowles, The Fragile Sanctuary and All the Missing Pieces which are so good.

and for Blood and Ash, I was obsessed.

I do love Good Girl's Bad Boys and BK Borison.

the gravity of us was also the year that would became a favorite book of all time. I love that book so much. Very, very, very emotional, very angsty, made me cry.

Happy Place was angsty. I loved Happy Place.

But also, Honeytrap. This is when I was dipping my toes into some polyamorous relationships and I was like, we might have a thing going here, which we do.

I also was shocked that In the Weeds was not on any of these lists. I looked and I was like, "What year did that come out?" And I read it, and it's not on my top favorites, but that's my favorite BK Borison book.

Ink and Lies by Gianna Darling, another favorite of mine of all time.

I haven't read anything like King by T.M. Frazier.

Lights Out by M. Never Allen, I'm shocked is on here. I didn't remember loving that.

Making Faces actually doesn't have a new cover, but that's definitely very damaged couples, very damaged, and so good as well, very angsty.

I forgot About My Life in Shambles by Karina Halle, that is so, so good.

On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves is literally a student-teacher romance, but they were they had a plane crash on an island and were surviving together. So, I loved it.

Paper Princess, Broken Prince, they were messy angsty.

we had Parallel, too, which was such a good kind of like, again, kind of soulmate-y, forbidden romance

So we had Pestilence by Laura Thalassa, never continued the series, but I was obsessed.

That's when I was loving Poison Roses.

Praying for Rain by B.B. Easton was so underrated. It was a trilogy that was so good, and it was post-apocalyptic. They were surviving the apocalypse together, and I was obsessed.

I loved Punk 57 was one of my favorite books of all time when I read it.

Saint by Sierra Simone still stands as one of my favorite books of all time that I don't talk about enough, but that's MM second chance, very, very emotional, made me cry, obsessed.

when I look at this list, the ones that stand out to me are Sea of Ruin, still blown away by that book

I also really loved Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi.

And then Skye O'Malley was just an icon, a legend. I love Skye O'Malley.

we have Olivia Dade, which I don't even know I liked Spoiler Alert that much. Would not have ever guessed that was a top of the year with that book.

Do you remember how obsessed I was with Still Beating and Waking Olivia?

The Bride Test was Helen Hoang. Loved that as well.

I was obsessed with The Choice. I read the words and I loved it, but The Choice was angsty, messy love triangle.

Helen Hoang, who I think is also going to write again, but if you remember The Kiss Quotient, that blew up that year. I loved it.

The Surviving Trace was kind of like time-travelly, soulmates kind of romance. If you guys remember Callie Reed, loved that.

And I did love The Madness of Lady Mackenzie

I was obsessed with Still Beating and Waking Olivia.

I did really like Wild Eyes.

Wulfsong has a new cover. Talk about angsty. So, so good.

I read the words and I loved it