Best Ever Contemporary Romance Books
Vote for the all-time best contemporary romance novel.
**** a contemporary romance being a full length novel set in modern times that is almost entirely focused on the romance.
(i.e. it's NOT a romantic suspense, historical romance or a paranormal romance, etc!)
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**** a contemporary romance being a full length novel set in modern times that is almost entirely focused on the romance.
(i.e. it's NOT a romantic suspense, historical romance or a paranormal romance, etc!)
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My novel "My Landlady the Lobotomist" would fit into that category. Plus it plays with the conventions of the great works of German romantic literature! I'd vote for my own novel on this one. My Landlady the Lobotomist. Curtis's would be the only other one on the list that even looks literary. And I don't think romance precludes literary merit.
Don't read/like romance novels; voted strictly on the basis of what my patrons seem to like -- likewise on where they appeared on your list!
I'm sure your book would be better suited to a superlative in another category. Romance these days (in American lit) usually connotes chicklit. How about most inventive reformation of romance in defiance of the banality of romance in American fiction?
I haven't read a romance novel in years. Having said that, my favorite romance/history book of all time was and still is "Gone With The Wind". IMO,it is a must read of anyone who likes romance novels, and it takes place during a very interesting time period of American history - the Civil War.
My novel, Dante's Lady, would fit in this category! It's recently been nominated on the P&E polls in the romance genre.
There are some books I think that aren't on the list and should be but it's a pretty good range I'd say.
I'm sort of out of the loop on romance books. Maybe I should try to read one of those, so I'll have something to say. Sorry. Ask me about biographies or historical fiction. Sci-fi as well.
I really don't read romance books, but if a major one is made into a, "made for TV movie," I will probably watch it....like Jackie Collins or Danielle Steele.
Lolita is a strange inclusion for this list--a serious anti-romance novel, a novel of "abnormal" sensual obsession and intrigue, once considered so shocking that it was banned. This is why I chose it.
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I just don't have enough interest in romance novels to even comment, with knowledge, about them.......but thx for asking me.
I didn't read contemporary until I stumbled on Susan Elizabeth Phillip's books. She's currently my idol. There's just a lot of "Bestselling Authors" who can't write. By some god-forsaken reason, their editors let them publish it and the American public actually buys this. How embarrassing!
My series of contemporary romances is called The Reyes Family Romances, dealing with the romances of the various members of a large Hispanic family. "Never Too Old For The Game Of Love", "Recipe For Love", and "Love By Design" are available now. My personal favorite, "Analysis of Love" will be published in February. I write about strong female characters who are not looking for love, but who can't resist a good-looking man who makes their toes curl. Sparks fly, and good sex leads to real romance. That's what I look for in contemporary romance.
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