The Best Romance Books of 2018

​2018. That was a year, huh? Whether you felt good or bad about what was happening in the world at large, we know there was some amazing stuff happening in Romancelandia!
 
There are a lot of “Best of” lists out there, and Romance is no exception. We reviewed eight Best Romance of 2018 lists, 72 books in total, so you can make sure you’ve checked the most lauded books of 2018 off your list!
 
Here’s what we looked at:

• Entertainment Weekly’s The 10 Best Romance Novels of 2018
• The Washington Post’s The 5 Best Romance Novels of 2018
• Smart Bitches Trashy Books Best of 2018: Our Personal Faves
• Goodreads Reader’s Choice Best Romance
• Amazon’s Best Romance Books of 2018
• Publishers Weekly’s Best Books 2018, Romance
• Kirkus’s Best Romance Novels 2018
• Library Journal’s Best Books 2018, Romance

 
And here are the books! 

Made Multiple Lists

A Princess in Theory
by Alyssa Cole

The Kiss Quotient
​by Helen Hoang

The Ones Who Got Away
by Roni Loren

The Last Wolf
​by Maria Vale

Consumed
​by JR Ward

Wicked and the Wallflower
by Sarah MacLean

The Wedding Date
by Jasmine Guillory

The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory

Desperate Girls
by Laura Griffin

Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating
by Christina Lauren

More Authors with Multiple Mentions

A Notorious Vow
A Scandalous Deal
​by Joanna Schupe

Rend
Riven
by Roan Parrish

Scoring Off the Field
​Scoring the Player’s Baby
by Naima Simone

Honorable Mentions

Other Best of 2018 books by authors who made multiple lists.

A Duke By Default by Alyssa Cole

A Wolf Apart
​by Maria Vale

The One You Can’t Forget
​by Roni Loren

The Thief
​by JR Ward

​We know, we know, that’s still a lot of books for your TBR pile (ours too!). How many of these have you read already? What is the one book from 2018 that you REALLY meant to get to but haven’t yet?