ShelfEvidentVivian Award (Best Romance Novel) — Complete Winners List
35 years of winners · Romance Writers of America (RWA) · Since 1982 · ← Back to award page
| 2023 | Emily Henry | Berkley | |
| 2022 | — | — | |
| 2021 | Laura Trentham | St. Martin's Paperbacks | |
| 2019 | Kennedy Ryan | Kennedy Ryan | |
| 2009 | Rachel Gibson | — | |
| 2008 | Kristan Higgins | — | |
| 2007 | Caridad Ferrer | — | |
| 2006 | Susan Wiggs | — | |
| 2005 | Jennifer Crusie | — | |
| 2004 | Nora Roberts | — | |
| 2003 | Barbara Samuel | — | |
| 2002 | Rachel Gibson | — | |
| 2001 | Susan Elizabeth Phillips | — | |
| 2000 | Suzanne Brockmann | — | |
| 1999 | Susan Elizabeth Phillips | — | |
| 1998 | Susan Elizabeth Phillips | — | |
| 1997 | Barbara Freethy | — | |
| 1996 | Nora Roberts | — | |
| 1995 | Kathleen Gilles Seidel | — | |
| 1994 | Nora Roberts | — | |
| 1993 | Kathleen Eagle | — | |
| 1992 | Eileen Dreyer | — | |
| 1991 | Cheryl Reavis | — | |
| 1990 | Diane Chamberlain | — |
