Romance

According to the Romance Writers of America, "Two basic elements comprise every romance novel: a central love story and an emotionally-satisfying and optimistic ending." Both the conflict and the climax of the novel should be directly related to that core theme of developing a romantic relationship, although the novel can also contain subplots that do not specifically relate to the main characters' romantic love. Other definitions of a romance novel may be broader, including other plots and endings or more than two people, or narrower, restricting the types of romances or conflicts. ...more

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Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It
Dolly All the Time
First and Forever
Behind Five Willows
The Last Page
Bad Boy Era (Mountain Men Matchmaker #4)
The Summer of Second Chances
The Library of Flowers
Burnout Summer
Score (Hollywood Renaissance, #2)
Death's Daughter (Children of the Old Ones, #1)
Strange Familiars (Seamere College, #1)
Take Me With You
Student Union (The Undergrads #1)
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    Fever Dream (Emerald Lake, #1)
    People We Meet on Vacation
    The Love Hypothesis
    Atmosphere
    Heart the Lover
    Reminders of Him
    Dolly All the Time
    S'more of You (Summer Lovin' collection)
    It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2)
    Crown Me Dead (Heartstring Duet, #1)
    Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)
    Rites of the Starling (Shield of Sparrows, #2)
    Lessons in Chemistry
    The Fault in Our Stars by John  GreenThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherThe Help by Kathryn StockettLooking for Alaska by John  GreenThe Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
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    People We Meet on Vacation
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    The Fault in Our Stars
    Twilight (Twilight Saga, #1)
    A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
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    The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1)
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