Upon request: My top 100 romances

Every three years or so, romance review site All About Romance extraordinaire asks its reviewers and readers to submit their top 100 romances. At the point of writing this, there are three days left to submit your choices for this year's poll, if you are so inclined. I've already sent in mine. When they last did their poll, in 2010, I also submitted a list, but thanks to the tragic harddrive crash of about two years ago, I've lost the document and no longer have any idea what was on it. So I had to make a new list (yeah, terrible that). Going through Goodreads for my top rated romance novels, I made a massive list, and then had to go about trying to rank the books up against each other. If I made the list today, several choices would probably be different. The top 20 or so are pretty fixed, though. On the request of a few people, I now make the list available here.

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. Venetia by Georgette Heyer
3. Unraveled by Courtney Milan
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
5. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
6. The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
7. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
8. Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale
9. Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
10. The Last Hellion by Loretta Chase
11. A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare
12. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
13. Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase
14. The Black Hawk by Joanna Bourne
15. What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long
16. A Kiss for Midwinter by Courtney Milan
17. Heart of Steel by Meljean Brook
18. Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer
19. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
20. Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
21. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
22. Frederica by Georgette Heyer
23. An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
24. Tempt Me at Twilight by Lisa Kleypas
25. What Happens in London by Julia Quinn
26. Your Scandalous Ways by Loretta Chase
27. A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah Maclean
28. The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
29. The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan
30. Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Duran
31. His at Night by Sherry Thomas
32. Sylvester by Georgette Heyer
33. Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
34. Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare
35. I Kissed An Earl by Julie Anne Long
36. The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
37. Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas (Currently number 2 in the AAR poll)
38. Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase
39. Written on Your Skin by Meredith Duran
40. Ten Things I Love About You by Julia Quinn
41. Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer
42. It Happened One Midnight by Julie Anne Long
43. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
44. Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer
45. Unveiled by Courtney Milan
46. Wicked Becomes You by Meredith Duran
47. One Good Earl Deserves A Lover by Sarah Maclean
48. The Chocolate Kiss by Laura Florand
49. Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas
50. The Scandalous, Dissolute, No-Good Mr. Wright by Tessa Dare
51. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah Maclean
52. Something About You by Julie James
53. Persuasion by Jane Austen
54. Dare You To by Katie McGarry
55. The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
56. Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas
57. A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare
58. Not Quite a Husband by Sherry Thomas
59. Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase (Currently number 1 on the AAR poll)
60. Love in the Afternoon by Lisa Kleypas
61. It's in His Kiss by Julia Quinn
62. Three Nights with a Scoundrel by Tessa Dare
63. Unclaimed by Courtney Milan
64. Riveted by Meljean Brook
65. The Perils of Pleasure by Julie Anne Long
66. Lord Perfect by Loretta Chase
67. The Duchess War by Courtney Milan
68. How to Marry a Marquis by Julia Quinn
69. Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas (Currently number 3 on the AAR poll)
70. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
71. The Chocolate Thief by Laura Florand
72. Love Irresistibly by Julie James
73. A Lady's Lesson in Scandal by Meredith Duran
74. To Love a Thief by Julie Anne Long
75. Naked in Death by J.D. Robb
76. Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh
77. Scandal in Spring by Lisa Kleypas
78. The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook
79. One Night in London by Caroline Linden
80. Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarah Maclean
81. Like No Other Lover by Julie Anne Long
82. Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
83. This Duchess of Mine by Eloisa James
84. And Then He Kissed Her by Laura Lee Guhrke
85. Blue-Eyed Devil by Lisa Kleypas
86. About Last Night by Ruthie Knox
87. Last Night's Scandal by Loretta Chase
88. Yours to Keep by Shannon Stacey
89. Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
90. Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
91. Wallbanger by Alice Clayton
92. Angel's Blood by Nalini Singh
93. Never Lie to a Lady by Liz Carlyle
94. The Forbidden Rose by Joanna Bourne
95. Emma by Jane Austen
96. Not Quite a Lady by Loretta Chase
97. The Lost Duke of Wyndham by Julia Quinn
98. The Ugly Duchess by Eloisa James
99. The Chocolate Touch by Laura Florand
100. Your Wicked Heart by Meredith Duran