Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Love/Valentine’s Freebie, which means we all put our own spin on the topic of LOVE.
Focusing on my favorite love stories from the books I’ve read recently has become my go-to topic for the “love freebie” TTT topic — I’ve been keeping it going since 2020! Here are my ten thirteen favorite love stories that I read in the past year:
- Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto (review)
- Anne of Avenue A by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding (review)
- Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (review)
- The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell (review)
- Pugs & Kisses by Farrah Rochon (review)
- Writing Mr. Wrong by Kelley Armstrong (review)
- A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna (review)
- Ready or Not by Cara Bastone (review)
- Totally and Completely Fine by Elissa Sussman (review)
- Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (review)
- It’s A Love Story by Annabel Monaghan (review)
- One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune (review)
- The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood (review)
I am clearly incapable of stopping at ten! Last year, I ended up with twelve, and this year, it’s thirteen! There are just so many to choose from — I probably could have included a few more.
What were the best love stories you read during the past year?
If you wrote a TTT post this week, please share your link and let me know your topic!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Bookshelf Fantasies 
Reid’s work has been mentioned on a few different blogs this week!
I’ve loved all of her books!
I haven’t read any here, but great choice of theme!
I went with red covers: https://wordsandpeace.com/2026/02/10/top-ten-red-covers-for-valentine/
Great choice of topic! There are quite a few titles on here I hope to read soon… First up being A Witch’s Guide To Magical Innkeeping and Atmosphere.
Great Big Beautiful Life was such a good read!
Making a yearly list is a great way of remembering which love stories you enjoyed. Happy Valentine’s Day!
I did the same thing this week, but I think I stuck to ten books. LOL!
Here’s my TTT: https://readbakecreate.com/favorite-romances-read-in-2025/
Great list. I haven’t read any of these but it’s great seeing them all together. And well done going over 10! I also could have gone over this week which was a surprise becuase I don’t feel like I read a lot of romance. One that stands out that wasn’t on my list was Everlasting by Alix E Harrow. Perhaps not in the same style as most cosy romantasy but a really good love story.
Lynn 😀
Such a great list! I loved The Austen Affair and One Golden Summer. And I just checked out The Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping which I’m very excited to read. 😀
What a fun list! I remember your reviews for many of these, and seeing Writing Mr. Wrong reminds me I’d love to read it😁
Atmosphere is my favorite of the 3 I’ve read as well 🙂
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2026/02/10/top-ten-tuesday-love-is-on-the-tbr/