Parade names Swordspoint one of 125 Best Romance Books of All Time
As Michael Glitz writes when introducing Parade’s “125 Best Romance Books of All Time, with Picks from Bestselling Authors and Indie Booksellers,” “We spoke to best-selling authors—everyone from Jojo Moyes to Nicholas Sparks to Julia Quinn to Taylor Jenkins Reid—and passionate people at indie bookstores all over the country to create this list.”
About Swordspoint:
Some novels are secrets you share with a select few you’re certain will “get” it. You want everyone in the world to read them, but somehow you know they’re too special for that. Those books are all the more precious for being so world-beatingly good and yet remaining a cult favorite. And you know you’ve made a friend for life when you discover they’ve read that favorite, secret book and love it just as much as you do. Ellen Kushner‘s novel is one of those books. Lara Elena Donnelly (author of Amberlough, also on this list) wants to share it with you. “Swordspoint is an elegant, eminently re-readable romance, operating on multiple levels of intrigue,” says Donnelly, author most recently of Base Notes ($15.95; Thomas & Mercer) . “Every time I return to it I feel like I learn something new about the characters and their relationships, and something new about the craft of writing. It’s the book I have picked apart most intensely with other writer friends, with the greatest satisfaction. It defies easy genre categorization, and should be read by anyone who craves swashbuckling, sex, and skullduggery.”
The list also features literary luminaries from Gabriel García Márquez, Daphne du Maurier, and Emily Brontë to Tessa Dare, Olivia Dade, and Taylor Jenkins Reid, See the entire list at Parade.