Romance

According to the Romance Writers of America, "Two basic elements comprise every romance novel: a central love story and an emotionally-satisfying and optimistic ending." Both the conflict and the climax of the novel should be directly related to that core theme of developing a romantic relationship, although the novel can also contain subplots that do not specifically relate to the main characters' romantic love. Other definitions of a romance novel may be broader, including other plots and endings or more than two people, or narrower, restricting the types of romances or conflicts. ...more

In Your Dreams (When in Rome, #4)
The Mating Game
Dawn of the Firebird
The Bodyguard Affair
Persephone's Curse
Something Wicked (Idle Reputations, #1)
Love in Plane Sight
An Archive of Romance (A Study in Drowning)
There's Always Next Year
Seeing Other People
The Last Vampire
Bluebird Gold (Lost Legends, #1)
You Can Scream (Laurel Snow #5)
Sparks Fly
The E.M.M.A. Effect
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  • People We Meet on Vacation
    Woman Down
    Reminders of Him
    The Love Hypothesis
    Heart the Lover
    It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2)
    Great Big Beautiful Life
    Accidentally Yours
    Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
    Funny Story
    Lessons in Chemistry
    Happy Place
    Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)
    Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)
    Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
    The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherThe Help by Kathryn StockettLooking for Alaska by John GreenThe Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
    TO DIE FOR 2000 - 2015 STAND-ALONES
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    Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesBeautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireBared to You by Sylvia DayFifty Shades Darker by E.L. JamesFifty Shades Freed by E.L. James
    Controlling/Sexy/Possessive Men
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    City of Bones by Cassandra ClareHush, Hush by Becca FitzpatrickTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsLast Sacrifice by Richelle Mead
    Character You Most Want to Sleep With
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    Intense And "Angsty" Romance
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    Bet Me by Jennifer CrusieCan You Keep a Secret? by Sophie KinsellaIt Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth PhillipsMatch Me If You Can by Susan Elizabeth PhillipsNobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    Best Ever Contemporary Romance Books
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    Best of Little-Known Authors
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    The Love Hypothesis
    Beach Read
    Book Lovers
    Pride and Prejudice
    It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
    People We Meet on Vacation
    Red, White & Royal Blue
    The Fault in Our Stars
    Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
    The Hating Game
    A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
    The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1)
    Happy Place
    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
    Funny Story

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