The Best Romance Novels Ever Written! Today we are focusing on romance novels, from the classics to the breathless reads of today's masters. Suggestions have come from NPR and Goodreads... See if you agree!
2. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (1991) - Claire is thrust back in time to Scotland in the 1700s, where she meets Jamie Fraser, a Scots warrior who teaches Claire love that she's never known. But she still has a husband back in her own time, one patently different from the wild and wonderful Scotsman. Whom will she choose?
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847) - Jane Eyre, an orphan and an outcast, accepts a governess position for a young girl in a somewhat mysterious situation with a dark and brooding master, Edward Rochester. What secrets hide in Thornfield Hall? And what will Jane do once she uncovers Mr Rochester's dark past?
4. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936) - Spoiled, headstrong Scarlett O'Hara finds herself in dire straits during the Civil War. Her family's fortune and plantation are in tatters, and Scarlett uses every wile in her toolkit to keep her family and land out of poverty. The infamous Rhett Butler offers her a way out, but will she lose her heart in the process?
5. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811) - Another amazing story from the master Jane Austen, S & S shows us two women in Love. Marianne Dashwood is impulsive in her love for the charming Willoughby, and Elinor Dashwood is sensible but struggles to conceal her angst with her love for Edward Ferras.
6. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (1996) - This man can write a love story. An older gentleman visits a woman with a fading memory every morning to read to her from a well-worn notebook. The notebook he reads contains the love story of Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson and Allie's quandary: to marry her fiance or give it all up for Noah.
7. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938) - This novel begins in Monte Carlo where the heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives - presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.
8. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (1998) - It's first the story of two women in the 1980s, of gray-headed Mrs Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women - of the impressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth, who back in the 1930s ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder.
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