(Part 3) Best romance books according to redditors
We found 3,743 Reddit comments discussing the best romance books. We ranked the 940 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
If that’s true, then what does her first romance book The Wrong Brother say about her?
book i am most proud of is THIS AMERICAN BUTT HOSTED BY IRA ASS because handsome ira tweeted at me about it this was a good way he is so handsome and so cool https://www.amazon.com/This-American-Butt-Hosted-Ira-ebook/dp/B01DAFKOA2/
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#1: Bearillionaire: He's a billionaire, and a bear, and he'd never let anything happen to his mate... (A BBW shapshifter romance ... of course) | 47 comments
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You people do realize how many books I actually have, right? Good lord. ok. Let's do this.
Tranquility Series (Blaze, Grief, Fury, Schemes + whatever I get around to writing this year) = Sword and Sorcery, self-pub/indie, AMA author, <3000 GR, wild ginger, military (for Grief and Fury)
Note: Tranquility series Interlude is a short story collection, so I guess it can go in that square, too, but it's one you have to read the first two books to understand WTF is going on in it.
Spirit Caller series Bundle 1-3 = romantic fantasy, self-pub, AMA author, <3000 GR, 2015 bingo
Spirit Caller 4 = self-pub, AMA author, <3000 GR
Spirit Caller 5 = romantic fantasy, self-pub, AMA author, <3000 GR, pub 2016
The Demons We See = self-pub, AMA author, self-pub, AMA author, <3000 GR, epic not Robin Hobb, 2016 pub
*I don't think the book is romantic fantasy, but /u/lrich1024 says she thinks it is. So if you read romance, you won't think it's a romance. If you don't read romance, you'll think it's a romance. :D
Not fantasy square and/or short story square:
Her cover images are just as ridiculous. They all follow the same formula of heavily air brushed muscley stud in the foreground with a random ass smaller image behind the title.
The mullet and teddy bear are my favorite.
I devoured all four books in Elle Kennedy’s Off-Campus series in the past 4 days. The first is currently free on Amazon! It’s a series about 4 different couples that all center around a hockey team at a fictional Northeast US college. Every book gets steamy and has several scenes throughout.
TIL there is an entire subgenre of trashy romance novels about guys who can turn into bears and like to fuck fat chicks.
Long Rant... You've been warned.
Let me preface this statement: I'm a woman, I'm a minority, and I'm a feminist, which means I want equal rights for everyone. Based on my experience in a large city with a high minority population working in an occupation typically run by white males, it's still clear that equality needs to be addressed - not every white person is trying to oppress people and not every minority is a saint and shocking some perpetuate racism and sexism. You typically have little gauge for how an employer will behave based on age or race, however I've noticed women have a higher tendency to be more aggravating to work with because of insecurity. Women and men who are insecure bosses have nearly the same behavioral patterns, but one occurs more frequently than the other because of historical and current social norms. I unfortunately was gifted with a stereotypical "redditor" personality and spent a lot of time feeling alienated and twisted all over the place.
The fact that feminist writers/bloggers were receiving so many fucked up messages after the PyCon shows that there are still significant issues that need to be addressed. But going after the video game industry strawman in this way is a hugely hypocritical. In her analyses of characters, she doesn't touch on the fact that it's female romance authors which provide the pivotal negative female stereotypes while male writers have been in equal force in creating feminist characters. The entire damning existence of the biggest publishing genre of romance that constantly reinforces the anti-feminist sentiment on a magnitude so much greater than the video game industry.
Both the romance book industry and video gaming industry are profiting along the lines of gender separation, and both have their own wishfulfillment fantasies. Just glance at Kindle's bestseller list, and the most damning evidence of how feminism hasn't met its goals is staring you in the face with tripe stories about how the secretary wants to hop into bed with her millionaire/billionaire boss who may or may come from a culture where women are second class citizens or one of those "old-fashioned types." Women are buying these types of stories in large amounts. Where does someone like Sarkeesian and others like her get off throwing one industry under the bus and blatantly ignoring the other, which I think denotes that they're not as objective as they claim to be. Video gaming isn't as large of a media platform as movies, books and television.
I read her Buffy vs. Bella article, (which I mostly enjoyed and agreed with) and I noticed that she doesn't put out there that it was when a male wrote Buffy, it changed how so many young women viewed themselves in power. Even men have an easier time identifying with Buffy because it opened the idea of a female heroine who wasn't weak and was capable of handling herself. Bella was written by a female author and launched into its pop culture status not by a mixed gender group but a majority female group. It demonstrates that there is a problem of authorship and other layers of how most women are conflicted about how their sexual fantasies are fulfilled. If women get to find comfort in that arena through romance novels and stories, why are we going after men for the same thing? How do you justify going after men buying a video game where the girl needs to be rescued when you have books like The Billionaire's Obsession in the Top 10 of the Kindle Bestsellers List? (Note: I'm not criticizing this book or its author or the romance genre as I read and enjoy romance novels and media; my point is that there's a hypocrisy of where to judge the use of gender tropes.) How can the feminist cause be taken seriously when it's showing these sorts of conflicting market data? It's an embarrassment that Twilight, which looks like it was written by a 9th grader who just failed summer school English wrote it, has so much more market value to young women than other novels where the female character is empowered. I don't think video games (which is still a new industry) had very much of a factor in that, even when accounting for the levels of patriarchy.
TL;DR: Redressing the video game industry before going after the romance industry is a effort in futility. Why are women allowed to profit from the gender archetypes but men are not? We talk about empowerment, but all this time we don't use what clout we do have to empower ourselves, we pervasively wait for men to act as agents of change we want to see in ourselves. Sarkeesian is technically doing what she's accusing the video game industry of doing - she's waiting for men to be agents of action and change in feminism. It shifts back to the fact that men change the dialog because when women are left to do so, they fall back into traditional gender norms for storytelling.
EDIT: I loved KiteTales video reply to Anita.
> What surprised me is the amount of females reading manga that the Alt-left would describe based on cover art as "sexist, appealing to the male fantasy".
Meanwhile in the west, books like this.
I'm doing this thing where I'm reading multiple books at the same time. They're all re-reads, because a lot of my recent books have been Meh. So I'm re-reading x4:
The Penal Colony by Richard Herley. Prisoners sent to an island colony and have to survive on their own wits. They actually made a film based on the book starring Ray Liotta. It's a really good book, but a bit dated sometimes.
A Long Way Home to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers I love this book so much. It's a ScI fi book that is actually about interacting with each other. It's just soooo good. It has an alien love story, which sounds weird, but it plays out so realistically that you won't even care. Great characters and exciting storyline.
Fortune's Rock by Anita Shreve. Ugh, this book? I love it so much. Her writing is up and down but this book is so complex and amazing.
And of course, I have to recommend the best series ever. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Until-End-World-Book-ebook/dp/B00DX73ZPY
There's definitely an allure and a market for it. Read Lauren Blakely's series that starts with "Big Rock" to see how someone does it well. I don't think she's the only one who does it, either. (Here's one other that I know of off the top of my head... disclaimer: she's a friend, but her book's gotten fantastic reviews.)
It isn't about marketing to a male audience, either. Female readers love getting into the guy's heads, and even polls of readers of genres who focus on female POV suggest as much - they want more of the content to be from the hero's POV and would be all over books that are exclusively written that way.
Yes! You can read the whole series for free as well! Playing with Power - Book 1
I know it's a shameless plug, but I'm so excited and proud of it. I've always hated those billionaire books where the weak woman is saved by some rich guy. I love the idea of people falling into a fantasy where the protagonist is strong, flawed, but trying.
Lauren is a clever programmer in New York City. She has an asshole boss, a great but less-than-understanding boyfriend, and dreams of creating something better for herself. Whatever happens in her life, she's making it happen.
> Prologue
> It’s difficult to pinpoint the best moments in life until after they’re gone. The fondest memories aren’t always announced. They don’t come with balloons and feasts and circled dates on the calendar. Instead, they’re a collection of everyday things we only miss when they’re gone or have irrevocably changed. Unaware how special each minute can be, people rush through their lives confident that the best is yet to come. Lauren was no exception. Not knowing it then, as their car sped down the highway, she was leaving the last vestiges of her adolescence behind. Years later, Lauren would look back to that trip with Nick and feel a bittersweet twinge of regret. She’d think, If only I’d known then how quickly things would change, I would’ve held on tighter, remembered more.
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> The roar of the open windows reduced the music to a loud, wordless melody. Lauren leaned against the head rest, her dark hair whipping in the wind, and closed her eyes. It was a day that felt somewhere between spring and summer, a clear blue sky with a warm sun. The traffic on the highway was light, a pleasant surprise as they drove into the city on a Sunday afternoon. Nick grabbed her hand and kissed her fingers, pulling his eyes from the road for a second to grin at her.
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> “You can’t fall asleep now, we’re almost at your favorite spot,” he said, his blue eyes sparkling.
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> “You can’t blame me. You barely let me sleep this entire weekend.”
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> “It’s not my fault I can’t keep my hands off of you! Stop being so sexy.”
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> Lauren reached her arms above her head and stretched. Two hours in their cramped rental car and she just wanted to be done. “It was really nice to get away just for a couple days. I never noticed how quiet the country is until we moved—or how dark.”
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> “You know, we could have that all the time,” he said coyly, tiptoeing around a topic he knew was volatile.
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> She sighed. “We spent all weekend talking about this. I’d really rather not rehash it. We made a decision together, remember?”
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> “I know, I was just thinking aloud, didn’t mean anything by it.” He slipped his sunglasses down and scowled. Lauren rolled her eyes and stared out the front, hating that he made her feel like a mother putting her foot down. Her bad mood didn’t last long because just over the next hill was something she’d been waiting to see for hours.
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> The New York City skyline slipped into view. Even if it meant going out of the way to get there, Lauren always made sure to enter the city from the same direction for just a glimpse. The whole of Manhattan stretched along the horizon. From the Freedom Tower on the right to the cluster of soaring, iconic buildings in midtown, to the void where she knew Central Park rested. The awesome sight made her feel significant and insignificant all at once. To be one of millions living in one of the greatest cities on Earth, struggling to make it, to succeed—the skyline embodied all that and more.
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> “There it is,” Nick said casually, as if she liked it for the same reasons everyone else did. Lauren knew he’d never understand. To her, that urban landscape was like an affirmation. It was where all her hopes and dreams would come true.
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> The road dipped and curved, the brief view now obscured. She didn’t know it but that would be the last time she’d look on that skyline with the hopeful optimism of youth. The next time her eyes fell on that outline, her life would be one big adult mess.
> the name of the jinn book either for some reason.....
حوجن HWJN
https://www.amazon.com/HWJN-English-2nd-Ibraheem-Abbas-ebook/dp/B00CKZQ3ZO
Welcome.
The best free romance books I know of are https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MQ0PJ9E/ and https://www.amazon.com/Deal-Off-Campus-Book-1-ebook/dp/B00TG1CZFC/
This is only a link for book 3, below are the links for books 1 & 2.
Book 1 http://www.amazon.com/Playing-Power-Adult-Office-Romance-ebook/dp/B00LNRQGXY/
Book 2 http://www.amazon.com/Playing-Power-Adult-Office-Romance-ebook/dp/B00M0DABM2/
Is it up yet? :D
EDIT: I found it. It's doing quite well, congrats! 6 5-star reviews on its second day, and maintaining a great sales ranking! - http://www.amazon.com/Letters-to-Nowhere-ebook/dp/B00EAC91YA
The Abandoned
Dead Suite
Drop Dead Beauty
Coming Home
A Shade of Blood
I love talking about books!!! Thanks for the contest!!!
I just finished watching The Best Man Holiday which was way sadder than I thought it'd be.
Yay cocktails!
Among pure-indie authors, I've enjoyed Krista D. Ball and Tim Marquitz. Oh, and SPFBO winner Michael McClung, although his "The Thief Who..." series was picked up by Ragnarok, so I suppose he's no longer indie.
Among the growing crowd of authors that publish both ways, some of my favorite self-pubbed books are Rachel Aaron's Nice Dragons Finish Last, Brad Beaulieu's Flames of Shadam Khoreh, and Judith Tarr's Forgotten Suns. Plenty more great stuff out there, too.
Well, I'm reading The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King for the Shut Up and Read reading club. Simply put it's a story about a girl who gets lost in the woods. It's a great piece of suspense work.
> Synopsis from Amazon page: As darkness begins to fall and Trisha struggles for survival and a way out, she realises that she is not alone. There’s something else in the woods – watching. Waiting…
I recently also got my hands on HP Lovecraft The Complete Collection which is basically a 764-page long reminder of the limitations of my vocabulary. Underneath all the flowery language, though, and the archaic story structures, there's a lot of interesting and inspiring ideas.
It's filled with descriptions like this:
> Of the name and abode of this man but little is written, for they were of the waking world only; yet it is said that both were obscure. It is enough to know that he dwelt in a city of high walls where sterile twilight reigned, and that he toiled all day among shadow and turmoil, coming home at evening to a room whose one window opened not on the fields and groves but on a dim court where other windows stared in dull despair.
Damn son.
To make you feel a little better, though, what little dialogue the stories have (always know to be Lovecraft's weak spot) goes like this:
> "Have you no brain whereby you may recognize the will which has through six long centuries fulfilled the dreadful curse upon your house? Have I not told you of the great elixir of eternal life? Know you not how the secret of Alchemy was solved? I tell you, it is I! I! I! that have lived for six hundred years to maintain my revenge, FOR I AM CHARLES LE SORCIER!"
Okay, Charles... sheesh...
And finally, to balance off the melodrama, I'm reading Easy Bake Coven by Liz Schulte, a story about a "casual" witch to whom some shit happens. It's quite the light read.
I try to read a bunch of different genres. My most interesting ideas come from a mixture of things I've read/seen in one genre clicking together and transforming to fit into the modern comedy fantasy state my head constantly lives in.
I don't know if romance novels are your jam. If not, maybe you could give these a chance anyway?
Coffee Boy is short and sweet, about an out trans guy interning on political campaign. The author, Austin Chant (who is a trans man), also has a trans retelling of Peter Pan called Peter Darling which I haven't read yet but plan to since I liked Coffee Boy so much.
If you can get past the super cheesy cover, The Burnt Toast B&B is a lot of fun. It's about this trans guy who is a stuntman but gets hurt so he has to take time off to recuperate. He needs a place to stay and is on a budget, so he goes to stay at a crappy bed and breakfast that is on the verge of closing down. Talks a lot about toxic masculinity. (It's part of a series, but no knowledge of the other books is necessary.)
Another one I haven't read yet, but am planning to because I like the author: Finding Your Feet. Trans guy is a dancer who just came out a bad relationship and ends up partnering with a newbie for a dance competition he doesn't want to do.
It's live now! here's the link http://www.amazon.com/Letters-to-Nowhere-ebook/dp/B00EAC91YA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1375485776&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=letters+to+nowhere+julie+cross
reWritten (Artisans and Opportunists Book 1)
Skeleton Crew (The Kanti Cycle Book 1)
Legacy (The Resonance Tetralogy Book 1)
The Wayward Astronomer
Imperium Lupi
The legacy of Aris
In Honor's Shadow (Honor's Path Book 1)
Common and Precious
Reach for the Sky.
The Complete Red Vixen Adventures
Silver Foxes.
Otters in space.
Theta
Hunters Unlucky
Indigo Rain
Windfall (slice of life)
The Forges of Dawn (Iron Lyons Book 1)
Yes it is definitely a theme in dark romance. There was a writing group writing under Stella Noir, they have a story called Bone. It is serial killler and crazy good!
I don't know if there's leaping or shooting of arrows in this, but on my TBR list is this elven book: Soulbound by Bethany Adams https://www.amazon.com/Soulbound-Return-Elves-Book-1-ebook/dp/B01E9O855O
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OMG I know. When the Harry Potter books were coming out, I'd read whatever the new one was, and then turn around and re-read it imeediately because I didn't want it to end.
I wish there were series that just went on forever!
This is the first book, right?
Absolutely! It's part of a series but to be honest I read it without reading the rest of the series and it's pretty easy to just jump into.
It's called The Burnt Toast B&B and it is exactly as cheesy as it sounds, but as a trans guy it definitely hit home on a few things. The author got instant respect from me for making the cis guy gay and not bisexual. Not that bisexual men can't have legitimate attraction to trans men as men, but I've noticed a sort of creepy insistence from some authors that seem to imply you have to be bisexual to be attracted to a non-op trans person of either gender, which is something the trans community has obviously been trying to refute.
Edit: I do want to give a short trigger warning for anybody thinking to pick it up. The gay guy does fuck up at one point by using the trans guy's trans status against him in a fight, but to be honest I think it's handled extremely realistically even if the romance itself is set in a cheesy over-the-top setting (a Supernatural like show is being shot in a little town, and the trans guy works as a stunt double for one of the main actors). The gay guy knows he fucked up too, and he's not instantly forgiven for the mistake by the trans man at all. The trans guy's self worth is honestly really refreshing after dealing with your usual self-loathing trans narratives.
Any way of doing it like this? https://www.amazon.com/Big-Rock-Book-ebook/dp/B01A1E8WO0/
This book looks great! A different take on the zombie post-apocalyptic novel.
Thanks for the contest! :)
HWJN is translated. I doubt any of the others is, though.
Here is the mobile version of your link
I’m not sure where the h works but this book has a “never-met” billionaire proposal.
If you are looking for something you can find at a place like Barns and Noble, Urban Fantasy is likely what you will find most fuzzy. Lots of werewolf in the city type books.
[Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Kitty Norville Series) By Carrie Vaughn] (https://www.amazon.com/Kitty-Midnight-Hour-Norville/dp/0446616419/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1468453249&amp;sr=8-1) - Urban Fantasy. Liked a lot of the series. It is fun and doesn't take it self too seriously. Spunky Midnight DJ (thats a werewolf) starts taking calls about things that go bump in the night and it leads to fame and adventure.
Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock, Book 1): A Jane Yellowrock Novel - Another Urban Fantasy. Skin walker that prefers the form of a cat takes up the job of head of security for a vampire. Bit gritter then above, and can bit a bit hit or miss.
Both of the above should be available locally for almost everyone. I have a huge pile of books I could sort to find others. But on to actual furry things:
Turning Point (Sholan Alliance) Bit old, and slightly dated mass produced book from the 80s that was vary furry and it is an impressively long series. Young lady from a colony world meets a telepathic cat and bonds with him.
Off Leash (Freelance Familiars Book 1) One of the better feral books I have ever read. Main turns into a 4 pawed feline familiar and bucks the trends.
[WindFall] (https://www.amazon.com/Windfall-Tempe-OKun-ebook/dp/B01DKRP67Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1468454404&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=windfall+tempe) Young Husky meets up with old friend in a town a show was made about and discover a little bit of truth exists.
[Exiles Return] (https://www.amazon.com/Exiles-Return-Rebecca-Mickley-ebook/dp/B00K3XSF4W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1468454490&amp;sr=8-1) Bunny who retired to a uncolonized rim world is called back to represent Earth.
In Wilder Lands: The Fall of Eldvar Kind of an game/RPG style series. A homeless ringtale (of all things) ends up assisting a fox and eventually falling in love. Did I mention undead are slowly covering the world?
Mindtouch - This book is fairly intresting and one of the few books that I have ever read that features a almost romantic platonic relationship.
Bait and Switch - While I don't think this book is everyones cup of tea, it tackles identity issues in a interesting way.
Portals of Infinity (Series) - While I wouldn't call the series great books. Its fun furry action. Human stumbles in to a portal ends up becoming a champion of a fuzzy god, gets the girl and saves the day.
Some stuff that you can find for free:
[Ted R. Blasingame] (http://trblasingame.com/library.html) Writes a number of books worth checking out. Namely: Sunset of Furmankind and its available for free.
[Fel (James Galloway)] (http://www.weavespinner.net/worlds_of_fel.htm) Has tried vary had not write furry fiction but almost everything he writes has something fuzzy or a lot of fuzzy. Check out: Spirit Walker, Earth Bond and Kit. All 3 are free.
Not all of them are YA (some even flirt with erotica). Not all are romance/love stories and vampires are not in all of them, but they usually have something to do with paranormal things. Werewolves, fae, witches, zombies or fairy tales.
I joined about a year ago and I have bought about a half dozen things (usually collections for $1-3) but I have gotten over 300 books (a few shown above). They are usually independent authors and some are not well written but I love to read.
Have you read Nicky Charles Mating series? Bonus: I believe they are all free and they are paranormal romance.. Seriously I love them they are probably one of my favorite series! If you haven't read them yet you absolutely must immediately!
Edit: Shoot- I seriously always forget the phrase: /u/Morthy you shall be now dubbed Dr. Morthy-o. Let's play a pill version of Tetris.
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