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Master of Crows (Master of Crows, #1)
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In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)
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Seer of Sevenwaters (Sevenwaters, #5)
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Obsidian (Lux, #1)
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A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
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Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)
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The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3)
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Vow of Thieves (Dance of Thieves, #2)
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Lessons In Faking (Hall Beck University, #1)
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StarCrossed (Thief Errant, #1)
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The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac: The Official Magical Companion to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Books
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
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Sunday Morning (Sunday Morning, #1)
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First Test (Protector of the Small, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
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A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.5)
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Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)
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Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
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Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
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Cruel Beauty
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The Half King (The Half King, #1)
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Melissa Landers (Goodreads Author)
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The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
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Heart's Blood
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
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The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)
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Robert Reid (Goodreads Author)
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Blade of Fortriu (The Bridei Chronicles, #2)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
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Cold Magic (Spiritwalker, #1)
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Kate Elliott (Goodreads Author)
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
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Sue Lynn Tan (Goodreads Author)
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The Frog Princess (The Tales of the Frog Princess, #1)
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Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)
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In The Devil's Own Words
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Written in Red (The Others, #1)
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The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
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The Shadow Sect (Netherdei #1)
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Peter Hackshaw (Goodreads Author)
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Wild Magic (Immortals, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
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Steel Blood
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Gabriel F.W. Koch (Goodreads Author)
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Call of Magic
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Becca Blake (Goodreads Author)
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A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
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Лісітея. Витончені ігри (Ігри верховних правителів #1)
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Наталі Івер (Goodreads Author)
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Air Awakens (Air Awakens, #1)
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Elise Kova (Goodreads Author)
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Radiance (Wraith Kings, #1)
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Grace Draven (Goodreads Author)
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Fairy, Fairy, Quite Contrary (A Fairy Awesome Story, #4)
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Ellie Aiden (Goodreads Author)
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The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3)
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Megan Whalen Turner (Goodreads Author)
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Future Proof
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David Atkinson (Goodreads Author)
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The Sword of Kaigen
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M.L. Wang (Goodreads Author)
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Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)
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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
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A Posse of Princesses
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Sherwood Smith (Goodreads Author)
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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
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The Ophiuchi Hotline
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Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)
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Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author)
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The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
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S.A. Chakraborty (Goodreads Author)
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The Gone World
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The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)
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Mary E. Pearson (Goodreads Author)
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The Singing (The Books of Pellinor, #4)
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Alison Croggon (Goodreads Author)
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Bloodfever (Fever, #2)
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Karen Marie Moning (Goodreads Author)
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Path of the Berserker (Path of the Berserker, #1)
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Rick Scott (Goodreads Author)
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Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #3)
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Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author)
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Deep World Fire (Deep World Saga #1)
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Charlotte Malina Meridian (Goodreads Author)
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The Light Who Shines (Bluebell Kildare, #1)
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Lilo Abernathy (Goodreads Author)
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Suck U (Suck U, #1)
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Ellie Aiden (Goodreads Author)
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The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)
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Michael Scott (Goodreads Author)
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Unsouled (Cradle, #1)
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Will Wight (Goodreads Author)
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The Mage's Daughter (Nine Kingdoms, #2)
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The Fairy Godmother (Five Hundred Kingdoms, #1)
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Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)
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The Darkest Core (Netherdei #2)
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Peter Hackshaw (Goodreads Author)
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Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)
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Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Author)
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The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)
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R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)
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Resenting the Hero (Hero, #1)
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The Trouble with Kings
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Sherwood Smith (Goodreads Author)
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Tiger's Curse (The Tiger Saga, #1)
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Colleen Houck (Goodreads Author)
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Legendary (Caraval, #2)
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Stephanie Garber (Goodreads Author)
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Warping Minds & Other Misdemeanors (The Guild Codex: Warped, #1)
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Annette Marie (Goodreads Author)
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The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
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Olivie Blake (Goodreads Author)
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The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5)
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Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)
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The First Step (A Thousand Li, #1)
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Tao Wong (Goodreads Author)
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Tree of Aeons (Tree of Aeons, #1)
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Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
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Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel), Vol. 1
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Fallen (Fallen, #1)
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The Dragonriders of Pern: Books 1-3
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My Fair Godmother (My Fair Godmother, #1)
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The False Princess
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Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)
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The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
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Princess of the Midnight Ball (The Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy, #1)
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The Hike
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The Bookstore Sisters
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The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)
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Once Upon a Curse (The Tales of the Frog Princess, #3)
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Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
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Heart of Night and Fire (The Nightfire Quartet, #1)
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Magic's Pawn (The Last Herald-Mage, #1)
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Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (Cecelia and Kate, #1)
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Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
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Time Risk: A Time Travel Thriller of Pearl Harbor – Book 1 (Time Risk Series)
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Quantum Radio
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Darkfever (Fever, #1)
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Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1)
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The Book of Doors
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The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
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whoever voted on this list has pretty good taste, for me that is. this is all my favorite things to have in a book in one list.
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Garden Spells is one of my ultimate favorites. Can I add books to this list? If not, someone should definitely add it.
Lol. I do love the Gallagher Girls series but I am certain they contain no magic. At least not in any literal way.However, adventure and romance they've got plenty.
I do not believe the Hunger Games has any magic in it, at all.
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner and the next two books, Queen of Attolia and King of Attolia should be on this list. They are brilliant. Not so keen on the fourth one though, the Conspiracy of Kings.
The Hunger Games books are sci-fi, no matter how implausible the dystopia seems. And there's no magic.
Strongly recommend 'The Name of The Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss, and the one after called 'The Wise Mans Fear'.Once you read them, you realise how small and insignificant most of the other mainstream adventure books are. Its utterly mind blowing, extremely well written and cleverly thought about.
It will get your eyes and mind stuck into the story.
Anyone read them?
Roshio wrote: "I do not believe the Hunger Games has any magic in it, at all."Correctamundo
The Tiger series (Curse and Quest) has magic, romance, adventure, laughs and more. Seriously my favorite books right now!
You've gotta read The Ballad of Young Tam Lin. Innocent Lady Janet Dunbar becomes romantically entangled with the dashing Tam Lin. But is he human, or an Elf? And in either case, will he leave his lover, the Queen of Summerland, to be a father to Janet's unborn child - or will he end up being sent as a tithe to Hell? Great writing, and a totally engaging story.
Yet again I find a situation where a lovely book ends up on the wrong list. Case in point: 100, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Good as it is, it does not belong here.Magic? Check. Adventure? Check. Romance? None at all. If you want anything resembling a well-developed romance in C.S. Lewis's Narnia, you have to wait for The Horse and His Boy.
Lydia wrote: "Strongly recommend 'The Name of The Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss, and the one after called 'The Wise Mans Fear'.Once you read them, you realise how small and insignificant most of the other mainstrea..."
I did. Yes, they were very good. :)
the name of the wind be Pat Rothfuss needs to be on this list
I've been going through and adding some of my own votes -- because voting on Goodreads lists is fun, I've discovered, and because I have more right to complain about items on a list if I have voted myself. I've been looking for books on this list that have a good balance of the three items. Yet I'm finding quite a few, even high up in the list, that have magic and adventure but almost no romance.For instance, I question the inclusion of books from Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire saga. These books have quite a lot to recommend them; they are powerful, intriguing stories. But they are not romantic. No one picks up those books expecting to be swept away by a detailed, sympathetic depiction of romance. That's not their selling point.
And why, in the name of all that is holy, is The Hobbit (Item 440) on this list?? There -- are -- no -- females -- in -- this -- book! Nor is there any homosexual text or subtext. Is it a great book? Absolutely! But it contains not the slightest whiff of romance. Surely we can love our favorite books without pretending they're something they're not.
How does Divergent contain magic? Also, it seems like more of an action book than an adventure. Can someone please remove it?
How is nothing by Jacqueline Carey on this list. Those to me are the ultimate in Fantasy and Romance. Jacqueline Carey
I noticed titles on this list which made me go "Eh...?" The title of the Listopia is Magic, Adventure, Romance and the description says "Fantasy novels containing ALL of the above! The way I interpret this is: all three items have to be present in one book in order for the title to appear in this Listopia. Seems I really need to reread some of the books on my shelves, as I wasn't aware all three items were in them. That is of course if Josie, the creator of the list, meant to have all three items in one book, instead of one or two of the items?
I did indeed mean novels that contained all three themes, not just one or two. Unfortunately it's a little hard to police or edit a list containing 1355 titles!
Josie wrote: "I did indeed mean novels that contained all three themes, not just one or two. Unfortunately it's a little hard to police or edit a list containing 1355 titles!"Seems I my interpretation of your description was right then. Phew :-)
Booklovinglady wrote: "Josie wrote: "I did indeed mean novels that contained all three themes, not just one or two. Unfortunately it's a little hard to police or edit a list containing 1355 titles!"Seems I my interpret..."
Please feel free to note books you don't think belong, I'd be more than happy to double check and remove anything that doesn't belong :)
Sandra wrote: "Please feel free to note books you don't think belong, I'd be more than happy to double check and remove anything that doesn't belong :) ..."Judging from the Librarian change log, several people have deleted books already, but without mentioning which books thye've removed. I haven't removed any of the titles I've come across, as it is a long time ago since I've read the books.
Books still on this list which, as far as I can remember at least, have no romance in them, are the Tolkien books. Neither is there romance, in the proper sense of the word, in most, if not all, of the Harry Potter novels.
Regarding the Harry Potter novels, some case could be made for “Goblet of Fire” and the ones that follow it. But the first three contain no trace of romance.
I would definitely say that ALL of the Sarah J. Maas books should be at the top :) but all of these are great books!
The Final Empire and The Name of the Wind are great books, yes, but where is the romance? I don't remember ANY in The Name of the Wind and there really isn't any in the first Mistborn book either unless we are counting conversations with characters that we know end up together later on in a series... As much as I enjoyed these books I don't feel they belong here.
¡Hola! Me encantaría que mi novela de aventura romántica se encuentre en esta lista. ¿Alguien me podría ayudar a agregarla?Muchas gracias.
Mayoosh wrote: "checked" ¡Muchas gracias!
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