AAR's Top 100
Oct. 19th, 2007 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jmc_bksCheck out the interim list! Most of them are not among my favorites. In fact, there are only 21 on that list (out of 100) that I am tentatively including on mine. I've managed to compile a list of 71 books that are keepers, but I'm having a hard time ranking them.
The interim results seem very heavy on Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard and Nora Roberts. I'm a little surprised, given NR's backlist, that it isn't more skewed toward her...but maybe the sheer number results in scattered voting?
On my (incomplete) ballot, Nora Roberts has 10 entries (including 2 JD Robb books), Carla Kelly has 6, Suzanne Brockmann has 4, Mary Jo Putney and Jennifer Crusie have 3 each. Otherwise, no other author has more than two entries, and most have only one.
The interim results seem very heavy on Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard and Nora Roberts. I'm a little surprised, given NR's backlist, that it isn't more skewed toward her...but maybe the sheer number results in scattered voting?
On my (incomplete) ballot, Nora Roberts has 10 entries (including 2 JD Robb books), Carla Kelly has 6, Suzanne Brockmann has 4, Mary Jo Putney and Jennifer Crusie have 3 each. Otherwise, no other author has more than two entries, and most have only one.
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Date: 2007-10-19 08:39 pm (UTC)Are you going to post your list when you're done? Because I love reading them. :) I plan to put mine together this weekend, but I'm not sure how far I'll get. I bet it'll take longer than I realize.
-Jennie
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Date: 2007-10-19 09:16 pm (UTC)I need to sit down in my "reading room" and look at the books on the shelves. 'Cause I'm sure I'm forgetting some old favorites.
I'm also wrestling with non-romance books that contain romantic threads. I love Magic Study, but does it belong on the list, given its ending and focus on something other than the romance? Same for a variety of other books, including