I decided that it would actually be easier to start over with a new list now that we've selected the 1001 books!

I'm breaking it into 2 lists since they are pretty unwieldy! List 1 will be author last names A through K; list 2 will be author last name L through Z.

Update:

The first list is done (authors A-K) and it can be found here!

The second list is created (authors L-Z) and it can be found here!

Thanks!

UPDATE 2

We did it!!!

Here's the list:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qYl32e0L3R3X_82XldWaCOt2naBFtvoJsaQY8zzUU3E/edit#gid=0

Thanks to the final submissions by Jennifer, Ani and Lora, we're up to 1001 exactly!  How cool is that??

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UPDATE 1

Including all submissions up to right now, we have room for another 27 books.

Romance and horror preferred.

(Note: the spreadsheet "technically" goes as far as line 977, but the first 3 lines are notes and headers, so they don't count.  The first book is listed in line 4.)

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Guys, we totally rock -- once I'll have added today's most recent submissions, we'll be in spitting distance of our 1001 goal!

So I'm going to ask for a moratorium on submissions, with two exceptions:

1) We need more romance novels (and also a bit more horror); the list is currently lopsided in favor of other genres.  Calling all readers of these genres -- romance and horror -- to top up their submissions!

2) Hol and A Voracious Reader have indicated their interest in submitting suggestions; if possible, I'd want to leave some space for them.

Thank you all!

I decided against going with "Romance Addendum to the Addendum to the Addendum of My List of Essentials" as a title, because I thought that would have been a bit too on the nose. ;)

From my previous three lists, I included 8 romances. I'm now listing 10 more to heed the call for more romances on the Crowdsourced list.

MR & TA, depending on what others list, there's no need to include all of these if it looks like there's going to be too many.

These are not the classics of the genre, just personal favorites of mine.

Winterblaze by Kristen Callihan

The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan

The Proposal by Mary Balogh

The Arrangement by Mary Balogh

Slightly Shady by Amanda Quick (1st in a trilogy featuring the same main couple)

Tis the Season to Be Sinful by Adrienne Basso

Stars of Fortune by Nora Roberts

Til Death Do Us Part by Amanda Quick

Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz

Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts

Linda Hilton has pointed out, and I agree, that the crowdsourced list is light on romance. I am prevailing on our romance readers - Linda, Whiskey & OB - to give us a few more romances for the list.

Off the top of my own head, I would definitely suggest:

Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 

Pride of Lions by Marsha Canham

Can you guys help us out? Maybe another 20?

;)

I've come up with 10 more books I'd like to add to the list to help us get to 1001 books.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Kill Creek by Scott Thomas.

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (I know this is a play, but it still counts, yes?)

  The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Cotillion by Georgette Heyer (This book features probably my most favorite romantic hero ever. Top five at the very least.)

The Mischief of the Mistletoe (The 7th book in the Pink Carnation series. It features a hero not unlike Freddy in Cotillion, plus his name is Turnip Fitzhugh.)

Perdition by Ann Aguirre

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander