Romance

Landmark works

1. 1813 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen · read free
2. 1847 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
3. 1895 The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
4. 1811 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen · read free
5. 1815 Emma by Jane Austen · read free
6. 2011 Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
7. 1817 Persuasion by Jane Austen · read free
8. 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence · read free
9. 1814 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen · read free
10. 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie · read free
11. 1818 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen · read free
12. 1938 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
13. 1901 The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells
14. 1894 The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope · read free
15. 1908 A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
16. 2016 Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
17. 1794 The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe · read free
18. 2012 Fifty Shades Darker by E. L. James
19. 1904 The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. Wells · read free
20. 2012 Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James
21. 1869 Lorna Doone by Richard Doddridge Blackmore · read free
22. 1990 Possession by A. S. Byatt
23. 1951 My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
24. 1797 The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
25. Fifty Shades by E. L. James
26. 1790 A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe · read free
27. 1791 The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe
28. 2015 After You by Jojo Moyes
29. Private Lives by Noël Coward
30. 2003 Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella

Writers

• Jane Austen1775–1817 · author, novelist, writer (1775–1817)
• Agatha Christie1890–1976 · English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
• H. G. Wells1866–1946 · English writer (1866–1946)
• Emily Brontë1818–1848 · English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
• D. H. Lawrence1885–1930 · English writer and poet (1885–1930)
• E. M. Forster1879–1970 · English novelist (1879-1970)
• DD Daphne du Maurier1907–1989 · British writer (1907–1989)
• Noël Coward1899–1973 · English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer (1899–1973)
• Sophie Kinsella1969–2025 · British writer (1969–2025)
• Ann Radcliffe1764–1823 · English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel (1764–1823)
• A. S. Byatt1936–2023 · British writer (1936–2023)
• E. L. James1963 · British writer
• George Meredith1828–1909 · British novelist and poet (1828–1909)
• Jackie Collins1937–2015 · British-American writer and actress (1937–2015)
• Jojo Moyes1969 · British novelist and journalist
• Jilly Cooper1937–2025 · British writer (1937–2025)
• Georgette Heyer1902–1974 · British historical romance and detective fiction novelist (1902–1974)
• Anthony Hope1863–1933 · English novelist (1863–1933)
• Charlotte Mary Yonge1823–1901 · English writer, editor (1823–1901)
• Malorie Blackman1962 · British author, Children's Laureate
• Richard Doddridge Blackmore1825–1900 · English novelist (1825-1900)
• Eliza Haywood1693–1756 · British actor and writer (1693-1756), editor
• Rosamond Lehmann1901–1990 · English writer (1901–1990)
• George W. M. Reynolds1814–1879 · British writer (1814-1879)

And 5 more

• J. S. Fletcher (1863)
• Hannah Cowley (1743)
• Edward Docx (1972)
• Edgar Jepson (1863)
• Ellen Buckingham Mathews (1849)