h2>Dating : 10 Best Romantic novels of All Times
Get ready to enter into an aura which will make your toes curl — with the ink of these prolific and exemplary writers. From childhood love to age-old romance, we bring to you a collection of the 10 romantic classics of all times.
Let’s scoot over:
- SENSE AND SENSIBILITY BY JANE AUSTEN
Sense and Sensibility is a story about Henry Dashwood’s daughters — Elinor, Marianne and Margaret. They have an elder half-brother John, the son of Henry Dashwood’s first wife. Mrs. Dashwood, now a widow, along with her three daughters now move from Norland Park, where they grew up to Barton Cottage, on the property of a distant relative, Sir John Middleton. What they didn’t know was that love, romance and heartbreak awaits in the Barton Cottage for them.
The title is well justified as — Elinor Dashword represents the ‘sense’, just as Marianne represents the ‘sensibility’ in it. This magniloquent book is set as a coming-of age romantic novel, and is a must read for all the romance lovers!
2. JANE EYRE BY CHARLOTTE BRONTЁ
Charlotte’s novels are classics in English literature. Jane Eyre is one of the most famous romance novels of all times. Jane is an orphan, a girl with a sense of self-worth and dignity, a commitment to justice and principle, and undoubtful trust in God. The story revolves around love, social class, gender relations and religion. Jane says to Helen Burns,“To gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest.” She searches, not just for romantic love, but also for a sense of being valued.
3. LORD OF SCOUNDRELS BY LORETTA CHASE
It is the third installment of her Débauchés series. Lord of Scoundrels, set in 1828, follows the story of the Marquess of Dain, a half-English half-Italian aristocrat known as the ‘Lord of Scoundrels’ for his unscrupulous, immoral behavior, and Jessica Trent, a 27-year old bluestocking. Dain had a troubled childhood. He finds his match in Jessica.
This regency romance novel is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, with Loretta stating that like the Beast, Dain is an outcast and misfit among his society. In 1996, it earned the RITA Award for ‘Best Short Historical’. Also during that year, Lord of Scoundrels won the Romantic Times’ ‘Regency Historical Romance’ award. It is a novel with well-developed characters and has enough room for wit. It is one of the best romance novels of all times.
4. LOVER AWAKENED BY J.R. WARD
“I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came…and I was awakened,” J.R. Ward, Lover Awakened.
A former blood slave, the vampire Zsadist still bears the scars from a past filled with suffering and humiliation. nger is his only companion, and terror is his only passion — until he rescues a beautiful aristocrat from the evil Lessening Society, Bella.
Bella is instantly entranced by the seething power Zsadist possesses. But even as their desire for one another begins to overtake them both, Zsadist’s thirst for vengeance against Bella’s tormentors drives him to the brink of madness.
5. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BY JANE AUSTEN
“It’s a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” The novel opens up with this sentence.
This masterpiece by Jane Austen revolves around love, reputation, class, integrity, gender and last but not the least, family. Pride and Prejudice contains one of the most cherished love stories in English literature: the courtship between Darcy and Elizabeth. It’s a scheme circling around the Bennett sisters, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia, and who later become the lovers, Mr. Bingley, Mr. Darcy and Wickham. At a ball, the wealthy and newly arrived Mr. Bingley takes an immediate interest in the eldest Bennet daughter, the beautiful and shy Jane. The encounter between his friend Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth is less cordial. Although Austen shows them intrigued by each other, she reverses the convention of first impressions: pride of rank and fortune and prejudice against the social inferiority of Elizabeth’s family hold Darcy aloof, while Elizabeth is equally fired both by the pride of self-respect and by prejudice against Darcy’s snobbery.
Who’s prideful and who’s prejudiced?
6. RAVISHED BY AMANDA QUICK
Ravished is another regency historical romance novel. Quick offers an enthralling tale of a mismatched couple poised to discover the rapture of love. Harriet Pomeroy, the protagonist of our novel, needs a powerful and clever man, someone who could help her rout the sly thieves who were using her beloved caves to hide their loot. When Harriet summoned Gideon Westbrook, Viscount St. Justin, to her aid, she could not know that she was summoning the devil himself. But Harriet could not find it in her heart to fear him.
7. PS, I LOVE YOU BY CECELIA AHERN
This is the debut novel of Cecelia Ahern. Holly and Gerry are a married couple who live in New York City. They are deeply in love, but they fight occasionally. By winter that year, Gerry suddenly dies of a brain tumor and Holly realizes how much he means to her as well as how insignificant their arguments were. Lately, she receives a package, within which are ten envelopes, one for each month after Gerry died, containing messages from him, all ending with “P.S. I Love You”. As the months pass, each new message fills her with encouragement and sends her on a new adventure. With Gerry’s words as her guide, Holly slowly embarks on a journey of rediscovery.
8. VISION IN WHITE BY NORA ROBERTS
Vision in White is the first book of the Bride Quartet series of romance novels, written by Nora Roberts. Mac and her childhood friends Parker, Emma, and Laurel are the founders of Vows, a fictional wedding planning company in Connecticut. The novel follows the relationship of photographer Mackensie ‘Mac’ Elliot and English teacher Carter Maguire. While accompanying his sister to a planning session at Vows, Carter renews his acquaintance with Mac and confesses that he had been infatuated with her since high school. She is intrigued by his honesty and decides to embark on a casual fling with him. After seeing her parents’ numerous failed marriages, Mac does not trust the idea of commitment. By the end of the novel, she realizes that she does not have to relive her parents’ mistakes, and chooses to embrace her love for Carter.
9. THIS MAN BY JODI ELLEN MALPAS
Young interior designer Ava O’Shea has no idea what awaits her at the Manor. A run-of-the-mill consultation with a stodgy country gent seems likely, but what Ava finds instead is Jesse Ward — a devastatingly handsome, utterly confident, pleasure-seeking playboy who knows no boundaries. Ava doesn’t want to be attracted to this man, and yet she can’t control the overwhelming desire that he stirs in her. She knows that her heart will never survive him and her instinct is telling her to run, but Jesse is not willing to let her go. He wants her and is determined to have her.
10. FALLEN TOO FAR BY ABBI GLINES
After Blaire Wynn’s mother died, she had to move in with her father’s new family to Rosemary Beach, Florida, and this is the last thing on earth she wants to do. She has no choice. Blaire’s mother has passed away after a long illness, leaving behind a mountain of medical debts and no way for Blaire to keep their small Alabama farmhouse. Driving into the wealthy resort town in a pickup truck with a pistol under her seat, Blaire knows she’ll never fit in. She’s even more disappointed to discover that her father has left for Paris, leaving her with her new stepbrother, Rush Finlay. The cynical, condescending, and unapologetic son of an infamous rock star, Rush is as spoiled as he is gorgeous — and he immediately gets under Blaire’s skin.
But as the summer goes by, Blaire begins to see a side of Rush she never expected, and the chemistry between them becomes impossible to ignore. Unknown to her, Rush has a secret that could destroy Blaire’s entire world. Will she find out what he’s hiding before she falls too far?
From regency romance to contemporary romance, now you have a list of every book you are going to pick up in near future. Go deep, and get lost in the romances, as you witness them happen before like miracles unfold themselves.
