The best romance books

Witty, sharp, and endlessly satisfying -- the story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy is the template for all romance.

A WWII nurse falls through a standing stone and lands in 1743 Scotland -- and into the arms of a Highland warrior.

Small-town girl Lou Clark takes a job caring for a paralyzed man who has decided he no longer wants to live -- and the two begin to change each other.

A brave, tender story about love, loss, and the hardest choices -- the book that made Colleen Hoover a phenomenon.

Anne Elliot persuaded herself to refuse the man she loved eight years ago. Now he is back -- successful, sought-after, and seemingly indifferent to her.

An old man reads to his wife from a weathered notebook -- the story of a summer, a love, and a promise kept.

A married aristocrat's passionate affair with a dashing officer unravels her life, her reputation, and everything she believed about love.

The most popular boy in a small North Carolina town falls for the minister's daughter -- the one girl no one expected him to notice.

Cath heads to college still writing fan fiction obsessively, terrified to live outside the world she has built online -- until real life starts demanding she show up.

Two misfit teenagers in 1986 Omaha fall in love over comic books and mixtapes, in a relationship both of them know is fragile in ways they cannot yet understand.

Two Dashwood sisters -- one ruled by feeling, one by reason -- navigate love and financial ruin in a world that offers women almost no other options.

Best friends who are nothing alike take a summer trip every year -- until one trip ruins everything. Now she has one vacation to fix it.

A chaotic free spirit accidentally hits a grumpy B&B owner with her car -- then talks her way into a job at his inn.

Four mismatched women rent an Italian castle for April. By the end of the month, none of them will be the same person who arrived.

Prim and penurious Miss Pettigrew is sent to the wrong address and finds herself swept into the gloriously chaotic life of a nightclub singer -- in a single breathless London day.

Figure skater Anastasia has her practice ice stolen by the hockey team -- and her growing feelings for their captain complicate everything.

Two executive assistants who share an office and absolutely despise each other -- or so they keep telling themselves.

An autistic economist hires an escort to teach her about physical intimacy -- and discovers that the real lesson is in letting someone see you completely.

She needs a fake boyfriend for a family wedding in Spain. He's the last man she'd ever ask -- and the only one who volunteers.

Henry has a genetic disorder that sends him involuntarily through time. His wife Clare must love a man who disappears without warning and sometimes returns younger than she is.

IT guy Lincoln is hired to flag inappropriate workplace emails -- and instead falls in love with two women whose messages he shouldn't be reading.

Laurie spots her dream man through a bus window and spends a year searching for him -- then he walks through the door as her best friend's new boyfriend.

PhD student Olive needs a fake boyfriend to convince her best friend she has moved on. The only person available is the most intimidating professor in the department.

Harriet and Wyn broke up months ago, but haven't told their friends -- who just invited them both to the annual cottage vacation.

A cutthroat literary agent and the editor who keeps rejecting her clients keep running into each other in the same small town -- and cannot decide if they hate each other.

A thirty-something Londoner documents her chaotic attempts at self-improvement and love in a diary of magnificent honesty and questionable decisions.

Clementine inherits her aunt's apartment and finds a stranger living in it -- a man who exists seven years in the past and is about to become someone she will lose.

Two rival writers dare each other to swap genres for the summer -- one writes literary fiction, the other tries romance.

Bella Swan moves to rainy Forks, Washington, and falls in love with a boy who is impossibly beautiful, cold to the touch, and never eats lunch.

A cautious retirement home manager falls for the chaotic tattoo artist next door -- and discovers that playing it safe was the biggest risk of all.