# What is the best romantasy book of all time?

> Dragon riders, faerie courts and enemies-to-lovers slow burns collide in a genre that has taken over bookshelves and BookTok alike. Tried-and-true classics face off against the newest obsessions, so which spell has you hooked?

*By YPB Team · Published October 1, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-romantasy-book-of-all-time*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Fourth Wing** — score 1000/1000
   Rebecca Yarros's 2023 phenomenon about a frail cadet surviving a deadly dragon-rider war college.
2. **A Court of Thorns and Roses** — score 999/1000
   Sarah J. Maas's 2015 Beauty-and-the-Beast retelling that launched the modern romantasy boom with faerie courts and a slow-burn romance.
3. **Quicksilver** — score 694/1000
   Callie Hart's 2024 spicy romantasy following a woman who must navigate a deadly world with a dangerous warrior.
4. **Throne of Glass** — score 513/1000
   Sarah J. Maas's 2012 series opener following assassin Celaena Sardothien as she competes to become the king's champion.
5. **The Cruel Prince** — score 513/1000
   Holly Black's 2018 faerie court intrigue starring a mortal girl in a ruthless fae kingdom and the prince she hates.
6. **Daughter of the Moon Goddess** — score 513/1000
   Sue Lynn Tan's 2022 Chinese mythology-inspired debut about Xingyin and her forbidden love for the Celestial prince.
7. **House of Earth and Blood** — score 434/1000
   Sarah J. Maas's 2020 urban fantasy romance that opens the Crescent City series.
8. **Uprooted** — score 434/1000
   Naomi Novik's 2015 Nebula-winning fairy-tale romance between a young woman and a dragon wizard.
9. **Iron Flame** — score 434/1000
   Rebecca Yarros's 2023 sequel to Fourth Wing, raising the stakes at Basgiath War College.
10. **Kingdom of the Wicked** — score 342/1000
   Kerri Maniscalco's 2020 dark romantasy in which a witch investigates her twin's murder and bargains with a prince of Hell.
11. **Powerless** — score 342/1000
   Lauren Roberts's 2023 BookTok hit about an ordinary girl who fights in a deadly trial against powered elites.
12. **The Bridge Kingdom** — score 342/1000
   Danielle L. Jensen's 2018 enemies-to-lovers story of a princess sent as a spy into the kingdom of her enemy.
13. **From Blood and Ash** — score 233/1000
   Jennifer L. Armentrout's 2020 tale of a Maiden forbidden from being touched who falls for her sworn protector.
14. **The Serpent and the Wings of Night** — score 233/1000
   Carissa Broadbent's 2022 story of a human girl raised by the Nightborn vampire king who enters a deadly tournament.
15. **Divine Rivals** — score 233/1000
   Rebecca Ross's 2023 epistolary romance between rival journalists writing to each other across a war between gods.
16. **Kushiel's Dart** — score 233/1000
   Jacqueline Carey's 2001 epic fantasy of courtesan-spy Phedre and an alternate Renaissance Europe, a foundational romantasy.

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