Best Romance Books

An elderly man reads aloud to his wife from a notebook — the story of their love across decades, class barriers, and the Second World War. One of the best-selling love stories ever written.

A Maiden chosen by the gods and forbidden from human touch falls for her enigmatic new guard, whose true identity threatens to unravel everything she has been taught to believe.

Lara is trained from birth to be a spy-bride sent to destroy the Bridge Kingdom from within, but when she arrives she must choose between the mission she was raised for and the truth she discovers.

Henry DeTamble has a genetic condition that causes him to involuntarily time travel, always to times and places connected to his own life — including the childhood of the woman he will one day marry.

A witch-historian at Oxford's Bodleian Library unearths an enchanted alchemical manuscript and finds herself at the center of a centuries-old conflict between vampires, witches, and daemons — and falling for a 1,500-year-old vampire geneticist.

A Sicilian girl makes a dangerous pact with a demon prince named Wrath to uncover who murdered her twin sister in 1800s Sicily, weaving Italian folk magic and Dante's Seven Princes of Hell into a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers mystery.

Therese Belivet, a young woman working in a New York department store, meets Carol Aird — older, wealthy, in the midst of a difficult divorce. A love story told with Highsmith's characteristic precision, remarkable for its time because it ends happily. Originally published in 1952 under the pseudonym Claire Morgan as 'The Price of Salt', it was the first novel in American publishing to portray a lesbian relationship without punishment or renunciation. Filmed in 2015 with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

Hyacinth Bridgerton recruits the roguish Gareth St. Clair to translate his grandmother's Italian diaries — and discovers that the diaries contain a secret that changes both their lives.

A rebellious teenager falls for the quiet minister's daughter in a small North Carolina town — and discovers what it truly means to love someone, and what it costs.

A Regency Cinderella: Benedict Bridgerton dances with a mysterious masked woman at a masquerade ball and cannot forget her — but Sophie Beckett is a servant who knows their worlds can never meet.

Gregory Bridgerton falls for a woman who loves someone else — and must stop a wedding to claim his own happy ending in the final chapter of Julia Quinn's beloved Regency series.

Poppy learns the truth about her origins and what she truly is — a revelation that shifts the entire Blood and Ash series into a larger, more mythological conflict. The third book takes the story from personal stakes to civilisational ones.

Eloise Bridgerton has been writing letters to a widowed botanist for months. When she decides to meet Sir Phillip Crane in person, she discovers that a man on paper and a man in a home are not the same man at all.

Michael Stirling falls in love with Francesca Bridgerton at first sight — and discovers that she is about to marry his cousin. This is the darkest, most formally daring novel in the Bridgerton series.

Poppy has been taken captive and must survive with Hawke — revealed as Hawke Flynn, a Prince and not the Royal Guard she believed him to be. With truths unravelling around her, Poppy must decide who to trust in a kingdom that has kept her blind.

A divorced journalist finds a heartbreaking love letter in a bottle on the beach and tracks down its author — a widower still grieving his lost wife — and must discover whether love can exist alongside grief that refuses to be finished.