Booklist Selects 2012's Top 10 Romances

Booklist, the book review magazine published by The American Library Association, has selected its top 10 romance fiction titles for 2012.

The New York Times calls the magazine “an acquisitions bible for public and school librarians nationwide.” Its network of editors and  reviewers reviews thousands of books each year, mostly before publication.

In explaining her selections, Booklist’s Donna Seaman writes, “Wit and fortitude distinguish the smart women protagonists in the best romances of the last 12 months as authors ingeniously spin new gold out of classic themes…”

Here are 2012’s Top 10 romances as selected by Booklist:
 
 
Bedding Lord Ned by Sally MacKenzie
 
 

Blue Moon Bay by Lisa Wingate

 
 
Can’t Buy Me Love by Molly O’Keefe

 

Forever and a Day by Delilah Marvelle

The Great Escape by Susan Elizabeth Phillips


 

A Lady Never Lies by Juliana Gray

The Lord of Illusion by Kathryne Kennedy

The Night Is Mine by M. L. Buchman

Rainshadow Road by Lisa Kleypas

The Ugly Duchess by Eloisa James