Romance
Desire on the page. Austen to Outlander.
100 essential works
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
1936 · United States
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Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
1991 · United States
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The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
2003 · United States
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
1920 · United States
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Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
1957 · Russia
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The Lover
Marguerite Duras
1984 · France
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The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough
1977 · Australia
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The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons
2000 · United States
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The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
1992 · Canada
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Louis de Bernières
1994 · United Kingdom
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Persuasion
Jane Austen
1817 · United Kingdom
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
1874 · United Kingdom
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Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel
1989 · Mexico
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Possession
A.S. Byatt
1990 · United Kingdom
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Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
1993 · United Kingdom
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The Well of Loneliness
Radclyffe Hall
1928 · United Kingdom
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Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
1997 · United States
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A Room with a View
E.M. Forster
1908 · United Kingdom
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Brokeback Mountain
Annie Proulx
1997 · United States
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Written on the Body
Jeanette Winterson
1992 · United Kingdom
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The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks
1996 · United States
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Flowers from the Storm
Laura Kinsale
1992 · United States
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Lord of Scoundrels
Loretta Chase
1995 · United States
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A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
1993 · India
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The Pursuit of Love
Nancy Mitford
1945 · United Kingdom
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One Day
David Nicholls
2009 · United Kingdom
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Me Before You
Jojo Moyes
2012 · United Kingdom
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The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2001 · Spain
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The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
1982 · Chile
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Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)
Stendhal
1830 · France
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North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
1855 · United Kingdom
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
1891 · United Kingdom
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The Blue Castle
L.M. Montgomery
1926 · Canada
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles
1969 · United Kingdom
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Love Story
Erich Segal
1970 · United States
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The Bridges of Madison County
Robert James Waller
1992 · United States
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Helen Fielding
1996 · United Kingdom
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Dreaming of You
Lisa Kleypas
1994 · United States
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Devil in Winter
Lisa Kleypas
2006 · United States
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Maurice
E.M. Forster
1914 · United Kingdom
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Rubyfruit Jungle
Rita Mae Brown
1973 · United States
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Fingersmith
Sarah Waters
2002 · United Kingdom
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The Charioteer
Mary Renault
1953 · United Kingdom
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Annie on My Mind
Nancy Garden
1982 · United States
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Nightwood
Djuna Barnes
1936 · United States
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Katherine
Anya Seton
1954 · United States
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The Grand Sophy
Georgette Heyer
1950 · United Kingdom
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Venetia
Georgette Heyer
1958 · United Kingdom
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The Flame and the Flower
Kathleen Woodiwiss
1972 · United States
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Whitney, My Love
Judith McNaught
1985 · United States
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To Have and to Hold
Patricia Gaffney
1995 · United States
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Slightly Dangerous
Mary Balogh
2004 · Canada
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Bet Me
Jennifer Crusie
2004 · United States
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A Knight in Shining Armor
Jude Deveraux
1989 · United States
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
1997 · United States / Japan setting
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The Makioka Sisters
Junichiro Tanizaki
1948 · Japan
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Brooklyn
Colm Tóibín
2009 · Ireland
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On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan
2007 · United Kingdom
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The Reader
Bernhard Schlink
1995 · Germany
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It Had to Be You
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
1994 · United States
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Born in Fire
Nora Roberts
1994 · United States
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The Princess Bride
William Goldman
1973 · United States
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Dark Lover
J.R. Ward
2005 · United States
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A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness
2011 · United States
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Sweet Savage Love
Rosemary Rogers
1974 · United States
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Forever Amber
Kathleen Winsor
1944 · United States
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The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory
2001 · United Kingdom
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The Birth of Venus
Sarah Dunant
2003 · United Kingdom
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Redeeming Love
Francine Rivers
1991 · United States
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Paradise
Judith McNaught
1991 · United States
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Shōgun
James Clavell
1975 · United Kingdom
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Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1934 · United States
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Chocolat
Joanne Harris
1999 · United Kingdom
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A Month in the Country
J.L. Carr
1980 · United Kingdom
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Voss
Patrick White
1957 · Australia
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Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
1988 · Japan
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Dangerous Liaisons (Les Liaisons dangereuses)
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
1782 · France
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The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
2000 · Canada
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A Summer to Remember
Mary Balogh
2002 · Canada
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The Duchess War
Courtney Milan
2012 · USA
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Desperate Duchesses
Eloisa James
2007 · USA
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The Duke and I
Julia Quinn
2000 · United States
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Talia Hibbert
2019 · United Kingdom
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A Week to Be Wicked
Tessa Dare
2012 · United States
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The Kiss Quotient
Helen Hoang
2018 · United States
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Indigo
Beverly Jenkins
1996 · United States
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The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
Jennifer Ashley
2009 · United States
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The Windflower
Sharon & Tom Curtis
1984 · United States
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Beach Read
Emily Henry
2020 · USA
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Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston
2019 · USA
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas
2015 · USA
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The Hating Game
Sally Thorne
2016 · Australia
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Bringing Down the Duke
Evie Dunmore
2019 · Germany/UK
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The Flatshare
Beth O'Leary
2019 · UK
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Well Met
Jen DeLuca
2019 · USA
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Boyfriend Material
Alexis Hall
2020 · UK
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Kulti
Mariana Zapata
2015 · USA
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Written in the Stars
Alexandria Bellefleur
2020 · USA
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Recipe for Persuasion
Sonali Dev
2020 · USA/India
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The Unhoneymooners
Christina Lauren
2019 · USA
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