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Classics
Classic Romance Novels
These are the romance novels that defined the genre, from Jane Austen's courtship comedies to Edith Wharton's Gilded Age New York. Start here if you want the titles everyone recognizes.
The orphan governess who refuses to be anyone's second choice. Brontë's Victorian classic pairs a slow burning love story with a house full of secrets.
The shortest and most direct of the Brontë novels. A governess narrates the small humiliations of the job and the steady affection that rescues her from it.
Austen sends a reader of gothic novels to a real abbey and lets her imagination run ahead of her. A romance and a send up of the genre in one short book.
A southern minister's daughter moves to a northern mill town and clashes with its owner. Industrial conflict and a famously slow burning romance in the same book.
A young Englishwoman meets the wrong sort of man in Florence and spends the rest of the novel deciding whether to admit it. Light, funny and quietly radical.
Old New York society decides who may love whom, and enforces it without ever raising its voice. Wharton dissects the cost of doing the respectable thing.
Four sisters growing up during the American Civil War, and the loves that pull them apart and back together. Still the warmest coming of age story in the genre.
Two sisters, two very different men, and a study of attraction that refuses easy answers. Lawrence's most ambitious book about what people want from each other.
Love that ends badly, written well enough to hurt. Tolstoy and Flaubert lead a group of romance books where passion collides with society, duty or bad timing.
Goethe's ballad of a dead bride returning to claim her betrothed, with other poems of love and the supernatural. A short read that set the tone for gothic verse.
Complete love stories you can finish in one sitting. Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant and Kate Chopin deliver the emotion of a romance novel without the 400 pages.
Twenty five New York stories, including the Christmas one about the watch and the hair. O. Henry lands a whole romance in six pages and still surprises you at the end.
A woman walks away from the life she was assigned, plus a set of Chopin's sharpest short pieces on desire and marriage. Ahead of its time and still bracing.
