Romantic Suspense
- Barry, Brunonia, The Fifth Petal, The Lace Reader, The Map of True Places
- Fraser, Charles, Nightwoods
- Kostova, Elizabeth, The Shadow Land
- Lee, Edna, The Web of Days
- McPherson, Catriona, Quiet Neighbors
- Powell, Laura, The Unforgotten
- St. James, Simone, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, An Inquiry into Love and Death, The Other Side of Midnight, Silence for the Dead
- Stewart, Mary, Nine Coaches Waiting, This Rough Magic, Touch Not the Cat
Love and Romance
I don’t usually read traditional romance novels, but these are novels that feature love as an important part of the plot.
- Austen, Jane, Persuasion
- Baszile, Natalie, Queen Sugar
- Boyne, John, The House of Special Purpose
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson, Dolly: A Love Story, The Making of a Marchioness
- Burney, Frances, Evelina
- Cadell, Elizabeth, Money to Burn
- Catton, Eleanor, The Luminaries
- Colette, Chéri, The Last of Chéri
- Franklin, Tom and Beth Ann Fennelly, The Tilted World
- Gaskell, Elizabeth, The Moorland Cottage
- Gilbert, Elizabeth, The Signature of All Things
- Glaspell, Susan, Fidelity
- Glyn, Elinor, Three Weeks
- Green, John, The Fault in Our Stars
- Gruen, Sara, At the Water’s Edge
- Harkness, Deborah, A Discovery of Witches
- Haynes, Melinda, Mother of Pearl
- Heyer, Georgette, Black Sheep, The Convenient Marriage, The Corinthian, Cotillion, Cousin Kate, Frederica, Friday’s Child, Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle. The Talisman Ring
- Joyce, Rachel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
- Kearsley, Susanna, The Winter Sea
- McDermid, Val, Northanger Abbey
- Morgenstern, Erin, The Night Circus
- Nesbit, E., The Lark
- Ridgway, Bee, The River of No Return
- Scarlett, Susan, Babbacombe’s, Clothes-Pegs, Summer Pudding
- Seton, Anya, Katherine
- Simonson, Helen, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, The Summer Before the War
- Smith, Betty, Joy in the Morning
- Soueif, Ahdaf, The Map of Love
- Stevenson, D. E., The Baker’s Daughter, The Blue Sapphire, Vittoria Cottage
- Thirkell, Angela, Pomfret Towers, Wild Strawberries
- Trollope, Joanna, Sense & Sensibility
- Walter, Jess, Beautiful Ruins
- White, Karen, Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig, The Forgotten Room
- Williams, Niall, Four Letters of Love
- Willig, Lauren, The Other Daughter
- Zevin, Gabrielle, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
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