What is your favorite romantic book –or book that includes a love story? (an adult romance, young adult, kids’ story, anything)

- Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell,
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë, and I don't care what anyone says about it being ridiculous, etc.; also
- A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot, set after World War I and about a woman's determination to find out what happened to her lover,
- The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje, the book so much better than the movie, and
- Persuasion, by Jane Austen, a more grown-up look at the marriage plot than most other Austens.
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GWTW and Persuasion are two favs of mine, but I think my favorite love story might have to be The Time Traveler's Wife. I tear up just thinking about it.
You have persuaded me to read Persuasion, an Austen that I have not yet read!
You hit on several here that I might not have thought of straight off. Namely: The English Patient. I loooooved that book and would love to re-read it.
Ooh, yes Possession has a great love story :)
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I was going to say Possession as well! I guess you beat me to it!
I love Gone with the Wind and Jane Eyre also. I read The English Patient for a college course and had to rush through it. I've got to reread that one some day soon.
I didn't think of Gone With the Wind, but it is a romance!
I was reading Scott Spenser's Endless Love with my future husband at the time we were falling in love, so I still regard it as romantic, even though it's a tale of obsessive love that gets way out of hand.
Jane Eyre ridiculous?? Who said that? I am going to have a word with them.
BTW, Jane Eyre was my answer. :-)
Love Jane and Persuasion! I need to read Possession.
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