Airmont continued to reprint them, simply updating the price on the cover the older printings have the lower prices. These were thin books, mostly old-fashioned reprints. Note: Airmont Books began publishing in the early 1960s, with romance novels that usually had the phrase "An Airmont Romance" on the front or back covers. You can check out my Facebook group Vintage Paperback Romance Novels for more discussion. It's possible that there are some errors and omissions in this list, so corrections and additions are welcomed. The list below is best viewed in desktop mode due to cover placement as referred to in the text. Much of the information below was derived from the website FictionDB as well as from other online sources like eBay and the books in my own collection. Books aimed at teenage readers are also not included, with the exception of First Love From Silhouette.
Lines that were devoted to a single author (such as Bantam's Barbara Cartland Library or Jove's Camfield Novel of Love series by Cartland) are not included below. The list below includes paperbacks that were numbered on the covers (such as Harlequin, Candlelight, etc.) as well as ones which did not have such numbers (like The Avon Romance, Gallen Romance, etc.). The lines/series are listed below in alphabetical order and include only paperback books (no hardcovers or magazines). Category romance lines that are absent from this list may have debuted after 1989 (such as Kismet, which debuted in July 1990). More recent category romance novels have their own strengths and merit, but older books can have a unique charm due to their nostalgic appeal, despite flaws that they may exhibit in other ways (such as objectionable attitudes about gender and race). I have limited this list to romance lines that debuted prior to 1990 in order to focus on my primary interest in vintage books. In some cases, readers can subscribe to a publisher's category romance line and receive the books in the mail each month from the publisher. (Today one may regularly find continuing series within a category line, but this was less common prior to the 1990s.) This branding of the books helps ensure that the reader knows what she is getting when she buys the book. The books are generally unrelated standalone novels by various authors, although often sharing a similar theme for example, Harlequin Historical is for the publisher's historical romance novels. Harlequin Presents) and often with numbers on the covers. Corrected entry for "The Avon Romance.")Ĭategory romance novels are a publisher's line of books that are released regularly, sometimes several per month, under an overall series title (e.g.
(The most recent update was on Maat 11:15am. The list will be continually updated as more information becomes available. The following is a list of category romance lines/series/imprints published in the U.S.