CLASSIC ROMANCE LITERATURE

Reading Challenge

Whether you enjoy the rich, romantic language of Tolstoy, the quick-witted plots of Austen or the legendary love affairs of Shakespeare; this classic reading challenge has something for everyone.

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30 CLASSIC ROMANCE BOOKS TO READ

 
  • The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton

  • Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

  • Daphnis and Chloe – Longus

  • Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

  • Emma – Jane Austen

  • The End of the Affair – Graham Greene

  • Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

  • Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

  • The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Hamlet – William Shakespeare

 
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

  • Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

  • Lady Chatterley's Lover – D.H. Lawrence

  • Lorna Doone - R.D. Blackmore

  • Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez

  • Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream – William Shakespeare

  • Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare

  • North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell

  • Persuasion – Jane Austen

  • Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

  • The Princess Bride – William Goldman

  • Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

  • Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare

  • A Room with a View – E.M. Forster

  • A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

  • The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough

  • Villette - Charlotte Brontë

  • Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence

  • Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

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