2010 All About Romance Reader Choice Awards

Best 2009 Romance Novels
Best Romance Honorable Mentions - tie	The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie, Jennifer Ashley  Not Quite a Husband, Sherry Thomas (set in Hindu Kush and Swat Valley, travel back to her sister.) ? Bound by Your Touch, Meredith Duran
Best Contemporary Romance	Smooth Talking Stranger, Lisa Kleypas
Best Historical Romance Set in the U.K.Honorable Mention	The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie, Jennifer Ashley ? Bound by Your Touch, Meredith Duran
Best Historical Romance Not Set in the U.K.	Not Quite a Husband, Sherry Thomas
Funniest Romance	What Happens in London, Julia Quinn (spying on her neighbor thru her windows)
Biggest Tearjerker	Not Quite a Husband, Sherry Thomas
Best Love Scenes (in a Mainstream Romance) - tieHonorable Mentions - tie	The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie, Jennifer Ashley Smooth Talking Stranger, Lisa Kleypas Bound by Your Touch, Meredith Duran Branded by Fire, Nalini Singh
Best Series RomanceHonorable Mention	Marrying the Captain, Carla Kelly The Surgeon's Lady, Carla Kelly
Best 2009 Characters
Best Romance Hero	Jack Travis in Smooth Talking Stranger, Lisa Kleypas
Best Romance Heroine Honorable Mentions - tie	Lydia Boyce in Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Duran  Beth Ackerley in The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley  Bryony Asquith in Not Quite a Husband by Sherry Thomas Zoe Lexham in Don't Tempt Me by Loretta Chase
Most Tortured Hero	Lord Ian Mackenzie in The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie, Jennifer Ashley
Best Romance Couple Honorable Mention	James Durham, Viscount Sanbourne and Lydia Boyce in Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Duran Eve Dallas and Roarke in Kindred in Death and Promises in Death by J.D. Robb
Worst of 2009
Worst Romance	Not enough votes received for any one title