Top 10 Romance Novels of all time
Reading books are my favorite pastime. I love picking up a book and read in my free-time. I love romance novels. So here are a list of 30 of my favorite romance novels of mine.
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
One of the best and beloved love story of all time, this book is the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book.
2. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
This widely acclaimed classic by Shakespeare is regarded as a work of excellence by readers and critics alike. The play continues to be most people’s idea of true love.
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre is a novel written by Charlotte Bronte. This novel revolutionized prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist’s moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative, where actions and events are colored by psychological intensity. Charlotte Bronte has been called the “the first historian of the private consciousness,” and the literary ancestors of writers like Joyce.
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Bronte, under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell. It talks about two families of the landed gentry on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw’s adopted son, Heathcliff.
5. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy’s fourth novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership. The novel is he first to set in rural Southwest England. It deals with the themes of love, honor and betrayal against a backdrop of the seemingly idyllic, but often harsh realities of farming community in Victorian England. It describes the life and relationships of Bathsheba Everdene, with her lonely neighbor William Boldwood, the faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak, and the thriftless soldier Sergeant Roy.
6. Emma by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls, and Downwell Abbey, and involves the relationship among people from a small number of families.
7. A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare is a comedy written in 1595–1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict between four Athenian lovers. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the play they are to perform before the wedding. This play is Shakespeare’s most popular and widely performed.
8. Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare
This is a comedy written by Shakespeare, around 1598–1599. The play was included in the First Folio, published in 1623.The play is set in Messima and centers around two romantic pairings that emerge when a group of soldiers arrive in town. The first, between Claudio and Hero, is nearly altered by the accusation of the villain, Don John. The second romance, between Claudio’s friend Benedick and Hero’s cousin Beatrice, takes center stage as the play goes on, with both characters’ wit and bunter providing much of the humor.
9. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters as they must move with their widowed mother from the estate on which they grew up, Norland Park. Because Norland is passed down to John, the product of Mr. Dashwood’s first marriage, and his young son, the four Dashwood women need to look for a new home. They have the opportunity to rent a modest home, Barton Cottage, on the property of a distant relative, Sir John Middleton. There they experience love, romance, and heartbreak. The novel is set in South West England, London, and Sussex, likely between 1792 and 1797.[1]
The novel, which sold out its first print run of 750 copies in the middle of 1813, marked a success for its author. It had a second print run later that year. It was the first Austen title to be republished in England after her death, and the first illustrated Austen produced in Britain, in Richard Bentley’s Standard Novels series of 1833.[2] The novel has been in continuous publication since 1811, and has many times been illustrated, excerpted, abridged, and adapted for stage, film, and television.[3]
10. The Fault in our Stars by John Green
The Fault in Our Stars is a novel by John Green. It is his fourth solo novel, and sixth novel overall. It was published on January 10, 2012. The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” The story is narrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old girl with thyroid cancer that has affected her lungs. Hazel is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she subsequently meets and falls in love with 17-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player and amputee.
