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Readers' Corner - Featured Genre
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Romances...
For Those Who Despise Romances

Want a little romance in your books without the sugary sweetness? Try these titles which feature romance with a twist.

"Hello, Clarice."
- Hannibal by Thomas Harris

Titles and Authors

  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown
  • Possession: a Romance by A.S. Byatt
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
  • Don't Look Down by Jennifer Crusie
  • Faking It by Jennifer Crusie
  • Correli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
  • Into The Wilderness by Sarah Donati
  • The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
  • Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
  • Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding
  • A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
  • Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
  • Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
  • Blind Waves by Steven Gould
  • Daughter of the Game by Tracy Grant
  • The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
  • Once In Every Life by Kristin Hannah
  • Hannibal by Thomas Harris
  • Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
  • Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
  • The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause
  • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  • First Lady by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
  • Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
  • September by Rosamunde Pilcher
  • The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
  • Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray
  • In Pursuit of the Green Lion by Judith Merkle Riley
  • A Vision of Light by Judith Merkle Riley
  • Eve Dallas (In Death) series by J. D. Robb
  • Lady of Sherwood by Jennifer Roberson
  • Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson
  • Northern Lights by Nora Roberts
  • Birthright by Nora Roberts
  • Knight Errant by R. Garcia y Robertson
  • Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • The Temple of my Familiar by Alice Walker
  • The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
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"If I cry one tear for my daddy I stole it off a crocodile."
-Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier


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Other Resources

The Morton Grove Public Library's Webrary

Novelist database on GALILEO

Find more reading lists by visiting the Reader's Corner on our library website.

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"Nothing is more difficult than love."
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez



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