The 100 Most Popular Romances of the Past Three Years on Goodreads
Love stories never go out of style. If several centuries of fiction publishing have told us anything, it’s this. Perhaps we’re all romantics at heart.
At any rate, we’ve collected below the 100 most popular romance novels on Goodreads published in the past three years (that's 2022-2024 for the eagle-eyed). These are the books that show up most often on Goodreads members’ collective shelves, and we’ve further filtered the list to include books with a 4-star rating or higher, so you know these books are both well-read and well-loved. The books are sequenced in order of overall popularity among Goodreads regulars.
As you will quickly see, the romantasy subgenre has truly taken flight in recent years, thanks in no small part to a little dragon book you may have heard of.
We can also see the recent influence of BookTok and the rise of the mega-author—writers whose entire body of work has gone supernova, thanks to the sheer velocity of peer-to-peer recommendations in the digital age. It’s also interesting to note that many of the authors on this list started as self-published writers before striking deals with traditional publishers.
In addition to contemporary romance and romantasy, you’ll find many subgenre variations, often in combination: dark romance, sports romance, rom-coms, paranormal romance, Westerns, and so forth.
Click on the book cover images for more information about each title, and add any good leads to your Want to Read shelf.
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The one queer romance book I am not interested in is there. Like come on there are so many good queer books, but most are just pretty obscure. A bunch of these are books I want to read, but thats only like 1/3 of the actual list of romance books I want to read, the other 2/3 is queer. They should make a list with obsure queer romances instead of copy pasting every list or reusing every obscenely popular book that that has come out in the past few years
But they just published an article on Jan31 titled
"177 New Fiction and Nonfiction Reads for Black History Month".
also no queer books???
also no queer books???"
There is one Delilah green doesnt care. But yeah there should have been more (not that its possible with such a list)
I would like to hear it nontheless, might not be up my alley. I do like dark reads but maybe the setting just isnt for me (but that happens)
^This
YES! What is important is the quality of a book, not the color, sexuality, religion, height, mass, feet fungus or whatever :)
so true tbh
Like, why not include only the first book in those series when applied? There would be more room for different stories that way and people wouldn't be lost when clicking on a book to see "BOOK 5557122 ON THE TOKTIK HIT SERIES" on the book's blurb.
YUUUUUP. Nothing suspicious here...
Law wrote: "I don't see many authors of colour. However, I see one Black book, which is better than nothing."
They should really do a separate post for black history month to highlight the top 20 romances with black main characters or written by black authors.
Do you mean The Dixon Rule or one of the other books?
"These are the books that show up most often on Goodreads members’ collective shelves." - a quote from the literal article that you are all complaining under.
The lack of diversity isn't because of any malicious intent, it's just not applicable based on the data they used to compile this list.
Give Me More is one
word cause why is no one else noticing this lol
god of fury?
Edit: I know it's based on ratings and stuff though
Delilah Green Doesn't Care
^^^^^. Ironic that were on Goodreads and most people aren't reading the article.
Books do not and SHOULD NEVER be categorized based on race, color or gender. If you like the book, read it, otherwise, don't take away our right to enjoy it.
And I also recommend reading the article, or at least the title of it: "The 100 Most Popular Romances of the Past Three Years on Goodreads"
EXACTLY!!!
real wtf ^^
but it's just a suggestion.
as if that's a bad thing lmao