Finding a list of best romance books is sure to be an exciting activity especially as the twentieth century has seen a plethora of romance books being written that without a list of best romance books to help you would make it very difficult knowing which among the hundreds of romance books are the best. Luckily, there are places that devote to just listing best romance books and one such source is The Romance Reader that has compiled a list of the top hundred romance books.

Pandora’s Box

Once you begin your journey of finding which are the best romance books, you will have opened up a Pandora’s box because one list will lead you to another and then to another, and so on. There are also many hundreds of readers who too have compiled their own list of best romance books that are also listed on The Romance Reader website and this will mean that you may well end up having to pour over a thousand plus books written by five hundred odd authors.

Every list of best romance books will definitely contain some of the classics such as Gone with the Wind and Pride and Prejudice and also some pioneering romance books such as those written by Georgette Heyer as well as Roberta Gellis. Other best romance books include innovative books such as The Flame and the Flower and Sweet, Knight in Shining Armor, Savage Love as well as Outlander.

Some of these outstanding romance novels have been written by some great authors with names such as McNaught, Roberts, Howard and Garwood, while among the newer genre of authors are names such as Laurens, Joy and Crusie. If you have the patience and the desire, you could start at the very top of the list of outstanding romance novels and then read one novel after the other.

You could start with reading Outlander by Diana Gabaldon and after finishing that you can move on to reading Dream Man by Linda Howard and then on to It Had to be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Another novel that has also been written by Linda Howard and which figures at the top of the list is McKenzie’s Mountain, and even Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Nobody’s Baby But Mine is another great and outstanding romance novel worth reading.

If you are very keen on reading some of the best romance books, you should then consider joining a romance book club where you can find almost every great romance novel that has ever been written and also benefit by saving money as well as read reviews of great romance novels to help you select only the well recommended romance novels.

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