Favorite romantic fiction novels?
Posted on May 18th, 2010 by admin
I read mostly science fiction/fantasy books,but am looking to branch out to other types. I am very interested in reading some romantic novels but have no idea which are good. So if you like romantic novels tell me your favorite or which books you think I should read…thanks! 
dear john will make u cry laugh and scream at the same time! it will touch ur heart omg who is it but seriosly u will never forget this book i have personaly read it twice! it is my fave book of all time!
May 18th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Anything meg cabot or sarah dessen and twilight by Stephanie meyer
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May 18th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
dear john will make u cry laugh and scream at the same time! it will touch ur heart omg who is it but seriosly u will never forget this book i have personaly read it twice! it is my fave book of all time!
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google .com search the book to see who it is by it has kind of a beach feel for its cover!
May 18th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Twilight-New Moon-Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer include romance, horror, drama, action, and everything else, pretty much.
Enjoy!
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May 18th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Anything by Danielle Steele
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May 18th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Well Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is an obvious one. But something tells me you’ve already read it. If I’m wrong and you haven’t, then you’d love this.
If you want historical fiction and are interested in art, you should try I Am Rembrandt’s Daughter by Lynn Cullen. It looks very good (heh I haven’t read it yet BUT it’s on my list which is seriously 20-25 books long, and getting longer) so you should definitely check it out. More historical fiction-romance. You should try books by Donna Jo Napoli. I HAVE read her books, haha. The Great God Pan is a good one.
A horror novel (even though I’m not really into horror, I did like this one) is The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding. If you want to try other books by him, I’d highly recommend Storm Thief and Poison. Storm Thief is sci-fi and Poison is fantasy. (While we’re on fantasy, you should also try Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes)
I don’t really have more, because I also read mostly fantasy. But if you want to try a classic, maybe Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen would be good for you.
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May 18th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Among my favorite romance and romantic suspense authors are Julie Garwood, Linda Howard, Mary Jo Putney, Nora Roberts, Jude Deveraux, Amanda Quick (i.e, Jayne Ann Krentz), and Catherine Coulter.
My favorite would be Mary Jo Putney’s Fallen Angels series: Thunder and Roses, Petals in the Storm, Dancing on the Wind, Angel Rogue, Shattered Rainbows, River of Fire, One Perfect Rose. These are set in the Regency period.
Julie Garwood’s romances are usually set in either the Medieval or Regency period; her romantic suspense in modern day. Some really great ones are The Wedding, Saving Grace, Prince Charming, and Heartbreaker.
My favorite among Linda Howard’s books would be her romantic suspense set in modern day. Some excellent ones among them include All the Queen’s Men, Dream Man, Kill and Tell, Mr. Perfect, Now You See Her and others.
Jayne Ann Krentz writes books that are romantic suspense and set in the present; she writes under the name Amanda Quick when writing either Medieval or Regency stories. You may enjoy Hidden Talents, Midnight Jewels, Trust Me, Lost and Found (Krentz) as well as Wicked Widow, With This Ring, Rendezvous, Slightly Shady, Affair, Don’t Look Back (Quick).
Nora Roberts writes both romantic suspense and romance. I’m more partial to the suspense, but both are good. Some that I’ve really enjoyed are Hidden Riches, Montana Sky, Carolina Moon, Homeport and others. I did really like her trilogy: Born in Fire, Born in Ice and Born in Shame.
Jude Deveraux has written many books I’ve really enjoyed like A Knight in Shining Armor, The Velvet Promise, Highland Velvet, Velvet Song, Velvet Angel, Sweet Liar, Remembrance and others.
There are so many of Catherine Coulter’s books that I’ve loved I don’t know where to start. Her FBI mystery series starting with The Cove is excellent. Her Sherbrooke Bride series is really excellent. That one is set in the Regency period, whereas her romantic suspense can be set in either.
There are some others I’ve really enjoyed: Christina Skye’s Draycott Abbey series starting with Hour of the Rose (present day romantic suspense); Loretta Chase’s series set in the 1800s that includes The Lion’s Daughter, Lord of Scoundrels, Captives of the Night and The Last Hellion; Patricia Veryan’s Tales of the Jeweled Men series (romantic suspense set in Georgian England): Time’s Fool, Had We Never Loved, Ask Me No Questions, A Shadow’s Bliss, Never Doubt I Love, The Mandarin of Mayfair; Georgette Heyer’s Regency romances like The Nonesuch, Frederica, Regency Buck; some of Johanna Lindsey’s novels like Man of My Dreams and Love Me Forever (and more); Jo Beverley’s Malloren series starting with My Lady Notorious and many, many others.
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May 18th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Any thing by these authors:
Nora Roberts
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Julie Garwood
Karen Marie Moning
Robert Jordan
Elizabeth Haydon
J. R. Ward
Lara Adrian
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I have read most of their books. They really are very good authors.
May 18th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
French Lieutenant’s Daughter
End of the Affair by Graham Greene (a great love story)
Possession
Cold Mountain
English Creek trilogy by Ivan Doig
The Great Fire
A Town like Alice (by Nevil Shute)
Love in the Time of Cholera
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May 19th, 2010 at 12:12 am
I think that most romantic fiction sucks. The authors churn them out by the barrel. (or whatever)
So there is hardly any editing done by the authors, it is not real writing.
But if you want to go into it it sure is profitable…
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May 19th, 2010 at 12:48 am
I’m not a big fan of romantic fiction but I quite like the novels of Meg Cabot, which have quite a lot of humour in them. My favourite is ‘the boy next door’ (published as ‘the guy next door’ in the UK) which is written entirely in emails and is very funny, as well as having good characters. I also liked ‘every boy has one’ by the same author, which is written in emails and text messages.
I quite enjoy the supernatural romances of Mary janice Davidson, her ‘Undead’ series about a reluctant female vampire is quite amusing, the first one ‘undead and Unwed’ is particularly good.
I don’t know if you could call them romances exactly but I am a big fan of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels (‘One for the Money’ is the first), which feature an incompetent bounty hunter who is torn betweeen two equally gorgeous men, police detective Joe Morelli and the enigmatic bounty hunter Ranger. The Morelli/Ranger conflict gets underway in the fifth book in the series ‘High Five’ and is yet to be resolved.
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May 19th, 2010 at 1:24 am
regency romance- Julia Quinn- Briderton series
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