What's the Best Romance Novel You've Ever Read?

I love reading books as well and romance novels are one of the books I really like to read. I have so many favorite and like one of them are the romance novels of Judith Mcnaught, Jude Deveraux and Mary Jo Putney. Really love their works particularly their historical romance novels. As for classic romance novels, I also like Pride and Prejudice, for me, it's one of the best classic novel ever.

I don't remember any romance novel to be that great to be my favorite. My sister though, loves the book entitled 'heaven sent husband' by gilbert morris.

I read romance novels since grade school. I have a lot of favorite and so I could not name it all. But recently I read the May-December souls. I love it too. It talks about self respect and knowing self-worth. Somehow I can relate to the story and maybe that's the reason why I like it. ^_^

I love reading romance novels. In fact, I have a huge collection of romance novels. I guess I am a true romantic at heart. My favorite romance authors are Judith Mcnaught, Julie Garwood, and Stephanie Laurens. I love how they write their novels which always seem to make me cry even if I have read their books over and over again. Their novels are so addicting that I cannot seem to put down the book until I finish it. It takes me just a few hours to finish reading a novel of theirs.

I love to read romantic books. I have lots of Harlequin romance books. Right now I am reading Roarke's Kingdom. When I was in a club I brought lots of their Harlequin and got some at yard sales.

The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late 20th and early 21st centuries, these novels are commercially in two main varieties: category romances, which are shorter books with a one-month shelf-life, and single-title romances, which are generally longer with a longer shelf-life. Separate from their type, a romance novel can exist within one of many subgenres, including contemporary, historical, science fiction and paranormal. One of the earliest romance novels was Samuel Richardson's popular 1740 novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, which was revolutionary on two counts: it focused almost entirely on courtship and did so entirely from the perspective of a female protagonist. In the next century, Jane Austen expanded the genre, and her Pride and Prejudice is often considered the epitome of the genre. Austen inspired Georgette Heyer, who introduced historical romances in 1921. A decade later, British company Mills and Boon began releasing the first category romance novels. Their books were resold in North America by Harlequin Enterprises Ltd, which began direct marketing to readers and allowing mass-market merchandisers to carry the books. The modern romance genre was born in 1972 with Avon's publication of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower, the first single-title romance novel to be published as an original paperback. The genre boomed in the 1980s, with the addition of many category romance lines and an increased number of single-title romances. Popular authors began pushing the boundaries of the genre and plots and characters began to modernize. In North America, romance novels are the most popular genre in modern literature, comprising almost 55% of all paperback books sold in 2004. The genre is also popular in Europe and Australia, and romance novels appear in 90 languages. Most of the books, however, are written by authors from English-speaking countries, leading to an Anglo-Saxon perspective in the fiction. Despite the popularity and widespread sales of romance novels, the genre has attracted significant derision, skepticism and criticism.