I’m a total classic literature lover, so I think of classic romances. @Katie mentioned Wuthering Heights, which is high on my list of romances as well. I also think of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility and Jane Eyre.
It’s been awhile since I’ve read a good romance. The last one I can remember (that’s not YA) that I loved was The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley. It’s a paranormal historical romance that had me in tears.
Romance is my jam! I love it! I read it all classics, mass market, indie… The only tropes within the romance genre I won’t read is sci-fi and horror… Other than that, it’s all fair game
Hopeless and Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover, A Different Blue and Making Faces by Amy Harmon, and it’s not exactly romance but the A Court of Thorn and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas which is actually young/new adult fantasy but is an amazing love story also.
Romantic stories: anything by Rainbow Rowell or Lauren Willig, particularly her Pink Carnation Series. Also the Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman.
Genre Romance: anything by Julia Quinn, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Elizabeth Hoyt, Kylie Scott, and Tessa Dare.
Sorry this is my genre of choice, so I can recommend SO MANY! Love them!
@Autumn Love stories, but not romance. To be classed as romance, there has to be a happily ever after or even a Happily for now. Trust me, that little fact annoys the crap out of this author. Lol. I love writing love stories, but not all mine end happily. Most do, but not all. My unhappy ending isn’t published yet.
@Kiera yeah but “love stories” isn’t really it’s own category yet in bookstores. You’d find Nicolas Sparks in the romance section. That’s too vague of a line to be classified as its own genre. Romance novels can be sorted by different categories without a doubt but they are all still technically romance.
I’ve never bought a “romance” novel but I know what you mean. “Romance” novels are totally cheesy and stereotypical and give any other romance novel and bad name.
@Autumn You are not reading the right romances if you think they are all corny and trashy. Sure, those ones exist, but romance has come a long, long way since Mills and Boon type books. I thought the same as you before I started reading indie romances.
Autumn Rose Dearborn Modern romance is like that. It’s cross-genre. It can be gritty, angsty, have magic etc. Literally the only rule in romance these days is the HEA/HFN.
Okay, here goes nothing… Wishes series by GJ Walker-Smith, Riptide by Kathryn Nolan, The Summer series & Heart of the City series by CJ Duggan, Charming the Outback by Leesa Bow, Sinners on Tour by Olivia Cunning, Skins by Laura Rossi, Hollywood Dirt by Alessandra Torre, The Matchmaker’s Playbook by Rachel Van Dyken, Driven by K. Bromberg, Love My Way by Kate Sterritt, The Resurrection of Dylan McAthie by Nancee Cain, Mass Casualty & Due Soldati by Derek Adam, A Lover’s Lament by KL Grayson and BT Urruela, The Fix Up by Kendall Ryan… okay, you get the picture. Lol.
There is this outstanding love story by Ray Bradbury – ‘The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair”. You will find it in ‘The Toynbee Convector’, one of his volumes of short stories. Very unique, and very romantic.
Thorn birds https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thorn-Birds-Colleen-McCullough-ebook/dp/B000FC146C
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Anything by Susan Mallory.
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Consuelo and sequel The Countess Rudolstadt by George Sand https://www.amazon.com/Consuelo-Romance-Venice-George-Sand/dp/1934648310 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Countess-Rudolstadt-Being-Sequel-Consuelo-ebook/dp/B00FD7P7OE
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Danielle Steele! ❤
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The edge of never by J.a. redmerski. ?
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Katherine Reay’s books
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The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin.
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Ego Maniac by Vi keeland
Sorry! I rarely read romance novels.
I’m with you, @Louise. 😉
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Dear John by Nicholas Sparks and Love Story by Erich Segal.
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You like Nicholas Sparks!?
I’m not really into romance. I’ve read only one of his book – Dear John, that too when I had nothing to read. ?
I’m not a big romance reader either but he has some good work.
The notebook by Nicholas Sparks ?
You’re such a romance nerd ??
@Chirag I’m actually a serial killer nerd ??♀️ so watch your snarky comments boy ?
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One of my all time favorites!
LMAO. I only read True Crime, but I know that Nicholas Sparks is awesome. He’s the only author in the Romance genre that I’ll read. 😉
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I read TC and NS is my go to read too, when I need a break!
Anything by Nicholas Sparks or else Sarah Jio. Also Kristin Hannah
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Devney Perry…all of her books.
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One old fav is The Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux, then Return To Summerhouse. There’s a new one coming soon, but forgot the name
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The Bridge, or Even Now, & Ever After all are by Karen Kingsbury
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I love sharing good/great books that I have read. Oceans Apart is another one of my favorite by Karen Kingsbury.
Kisses in the Rain – by Krista Lynne Jensen, Painting Kisses – by Melanie Jacobson – two of my favorites.
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Wuthering Heights.
Kudos for suggesting a classic book :-D.
I haven’t read it in a while. Think I’m going to have to try to squeeze it in this year
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Tipping the Velvet. That’s one of my all time favourite novels.
I tend to re-read P. C. Cast’s Goddess Summoning series when I want romance.
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@Katie So? Who’s stopping you from talking about them?
No one. It’s only this evening I’ve been thinking about it. When I think of something is like a discussion on, I will introduce it.
This is the last romance I read last year, really enjoyed the characters and the story line. I suggest it to all those lovers waiting for Valentines Out Bid by the Boss by Stephanie Browning. https://www.amazon.com/Outbid-Boss-Stephanie-Browning/dp/1503248402/ref=la_B00LSYGEWU_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1517508701&sr=1-1
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I’m a total classic literature lover, so I think of classic romances. @Katie mentioned Wuthering Heights, which is high on my list of romances as well. I also think of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility and Jane Eyre.
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Would have to go way back…don’t read romance anymore. Bridges of Madison County, Wuthering Heights,
Gone With the Wind?
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?Gone with the Wind. I loved that book more than I thought I would.
It’s been awhile since I’ve read a good romance. The last one I can remember (that’s not YA) that I loved was The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley. It’s a paranormal historical romance that had me in tears.
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Romance is my jam! I love it! I read it all classics, mass market, indie… The only tropes within the romance genre I won’t read is sci-fi and horror… Other than that, it’s all fair game
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Me Before You by @Jojo
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One wore blue, one wore Grey, and one rode west series by Heather Graham.
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November 9 by Colleen Hoover
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I love everything by Colleen Hoover. She is an automatic read for me
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. Anything by Lorraine Heath. ❤️
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I agree, love Lorraine Heath.
Hopeless and Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover, A Different Blue and Making Faces by Amy Harmon, and it’s not exactly romance but the A Court of Thorn and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas which is actually young/new adult fantasy but is an amazing love story also.
Hopeless and Making Faces are in my top 5 books of all time
@Tabitha yes mine too!
I have signed copies of both 🙂 I had to have them on my shelves
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I like Sierra Hill’s Sweetness series http://a.co/94qqJer
I read this too! Really enjoyed it.
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Lady Chatterly’s Lover
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I can’t tell you, it’s not the weekend. ??
Loving the new Eloisa James series Wilde in Love. Cathy Maxwell’s If Ever I Should Love You.
? The Thoughtless series ❤ Dear John ? Safe Haven
Georgette Heyer.
My favourite is, The Grand Sophie.
@Hazel Mine too! Followed by Frederica and The Unknown Ajax (so, yes, Iove Historical fiction, as a reader and writer). Oh, and Bath Tangle!
@Carmen yes, bath tangle was exactly that, can’t go wrong with her books, reread them many times.
Hah! Where do I start?!
One plus one by mojo moyses
I read one by mistake the other day, Purple Orchids.
Romantic stories: anything by Rainbow Rowell or Lauren Willig, particularly her Pink Carnation Series. Also the Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman.
Genre Romance: anything by Julia Quinn, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Elizabeth Hoyt, Kylie Scott, and Tessa Dare.
Sorry this is my genre of choice, so I can recommend SO MANY! Love them!
Pride and Prejudice
Anything by NIcholas Sparks, as I do not normally read romance books.
Anything by Jill Mansell, Milly Johnson or Katie Fforde. Recent favourite was the Cosy Canal Boat Dream by Christie Barlow.
Anything Marcia Lynn McClure especially the Crimson Frost
Where One Goes, BN Toler.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B073YFGYDM/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517408967&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=one+moment+elizabeth+savino&dpPl=1&dpID=51R6icNpSjL
Gone With the Wind.
Anything by Penny Vincenzi.
Pride and prejudice
For ya, Eleanor and Park
You will be happy to know I check out Eleanor and Park yesterday ?
@Regan Yay! I loved it so much! Can’t wait to hear what you think of it! Please let me know
@Autumn Will do ?
Up in the Treehouse by KK Allen and Under the Bleachers by her as well!
Silence of the Lambs
Um, ah, oh, sorry. Not quite a romance. How about…SAW? 😀
Nope
I suck at this genre thing. 🙁
Romance = Love
@Autumn BWAHAHAHA, I’ve heard that before! 😀
I’ve only read one and it is Me Before You 🙂
Judith McNaught’s Paradise
Any book written by Lori Foster
OMG, that takes me back. I remember reading Too Much Temptation in high school!
I love her books too!!
“The Road,” Cormac McCarthy
Is that a romance?
any Maisey Yates books
Harlequin books
any book by Nicholas Sparks
Before We Were Strangers by Renee Carlino, anything by Kristan Higgins
For everyone writing down Nicholas Sparks books, just a heads up… he’s not actually romance.
What is he actually?
@Autumn Love stories, but not romance. To be classed as romance, there has to be a happily ever after or even a Happily for now. Trust me, that little fact annoys the crap out of this author. Lol. I love writing love stories, but not all mine end happily. Most do, but not all. My unhappy ending isn’t published yet.
@Kiera yeah but “love stories” isn’t really it’s own category yet in bookstores. You’d find Nicolas Sparks in the romance section. That’s too vague of a line to be classified as its own genre. Romance novels can be sorted by different categories without a doubt but they are all still technically romance.
Haha. I thought so too. But try to tell that to romance readers.
I’ve never bought a “romance” novel but I know what you mean. “Romance” novels are totally cheesy and stereotypical and give any other romance novel and bad name.
@Autumn no.
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@Autumn You are not reading the right romances if you think they are all corny and trashy. Sure, those ones exist, but romance has come a long, long way since Mills and Boon type books. I thought the same as you before I started reading indie romances.
Well yeah I’m not a romance expert. I’m just talking about my experience walking into the romance section at Barnes and noble or books a million lol
@Autumn Yeah, bookshops need to get up with the times. Lol. They are lagging behind badly. ?
Yes, I get what you’re saying. I love to read love stories, but hate the old time bodice ripper romance books
Penny Guetter Venable I do, too. But i love modern romance. It’s fantastic and comes in any style you want to read, really.
I like romance, but the romance I read is usually intertwined in a fantasy novel, or some sort of classic that is hard to categorized as one genre.
Autumn Rose Dearborn Modern romance is like that. It’s cross-genre. It can be gritty, angsty, have magic etc. Literally the only rule in romance these days is the HEA/HFN.
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman ?
Im not a romance person but I love a Walk to Remember
What is a walk to remember classified as?
The Mountains Between Us by by writer charles martin
Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle
I love Karen Kingsbury books!! I know I will love these even tho i haven’t read them!!
Okay, here goes nothing… Wishes series by GJ Walker-Smith, Riptide by Kathryn Nolan, The Summer series & Heart of the City series by CJ Duggan, Charming the Outback by Leesa Bow, Sinners on Tour by Olivia Cunning, Skins by Laura Rossi, Hollywood Dirt by Alessandra Torre, The Matchmaker’s Playbook by Rachel Van Dyken, Driven by K. Bromberg, Love My Way by Kate Sterritt, The Resurrection of Dylan McAthie by Nancee Cain, Mass Casualty & Due Soldati by Derek Adam, A Lover’s Lament by KL Grayson and BT Urruela, The Fix Up by Kendall Ryan… okay, you get the picture. Lol.
I loved me before you, 50 shades, Sylvia days bared to you series, and twilight.
Immanuel’s Veins by Ted Dekker.
GWTW
Anything by Penny Reid but especially the Knitting in the City series!
Karen Marie moning wrote a highlander series that was great!
“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë.. My all time favorite novel!
The Good Hope series by Cindy Kirk, the Bell Harbor series by Tracy Brogan, Lost and Found Sisters by Jill Shalvis
I’m not big on romance, but I cried when I read The Notebook.
That Certain Something – Clare Ashton
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79977.Through_the_Shadowlands
There is this outstanding love story by Ray Bradbury – ‘The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair”. You will find it in ‘The Toynbee Convector’, one of his volumes of short stories. Very unique, and very romantic.