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  Romances for Those Who Despise Romances

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May 2006
Compiled by Erin Apostolos, of Merrimack Valley Library Consortium, Andover, MA, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)

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Criteria: Well-written, cross-over genre, no bodice rippers.
*indicates more than one recommendation

Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger*

SHARDS OF HONOR, CIVIL CAMPAIGN by Lois McMaster Bujold

Hannibal by Thomas Harris

2176 series from Love Spell

Crimson City series from Love Spell

Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig*

Eve Dallas series by J. D. Robb

In Death series by J. D. Robb

Faking It by Jennifer Cruise

Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

Shell Seekers, September and Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher

First Lady by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Enchanted, Inc. and Once Upon Stilettos by Shanna Swendson

Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding

Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray

Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Captain Correli's Mandolin by Louis de Berni¸res

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

The Temple of my Familiar by Alice Walker

Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger*

Possession by A. S. Byatt

The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi

Emma by Jane Austen

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

Blind Waves and Helm by Steven Gould

Flowers From the Storm by Laura Kinsale

Don't Look Down by Jennifer Cruise and Bob Mayer

Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen

Northern Lights and Birthright by Nora Roberts

Possession: a Romance by A.S. Byatt

Midnight Honor by Marcia Canham

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Into The Wilderness by Sarah Donati

Cold Mountain by Charles Frasier

Once In Every Life by Kristin Hannah

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Second Glance by Jodi Piccoult

Knight Errant by R. Garcia y Robertson

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

Lady of Sherwood and Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

Blood and Chocolate and the Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause

Sevewaters Trilogy by Juliet Marrillier

Louisiana Breakdown by Lucius Shepard

A Vision of Light and In Pursuit of the Green Lion by Judith Merkle Riley

Daughter of the game by Tracy Grant

Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett

Tiger Eye by Marjorie Liu

Dangerous Passions by Lynn Kerstan

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AUTHORS

Catherine Asaro

Jack Finney

Maggie Gee

Jane Austen

Pamela Morsi

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Kristine Grayson (writes mysteries as Kris Nelscott and sci-fi as Kristine Kathryn Rusch)

Jonathan Carroll

Eva Ibbotsen

Lavyrle Spencer

Roberta Gellis*

Dorothy Eden

Victoria Holt

Mary Stewart

Phyllis A. Whitney

Belva Plain

Maeve Binchy

Mary Johnston

F. Van Wyck Mason

Noel F. Gerson

James Fenimore Cooper

Thorne Smith

Elswyth Thane

Inglis Fletcher

Jennifer Cruise

Barbara Kingsolver

Tami Hoag

Edna Ferber

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NON-FICTION ABOUT ROMANCE

Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women edited by Judith Krantz

 
 
      
   
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