Umm yeah technically something like that only.
I have been reading a lot of contemporary and smutty books (and smiling like a maniac) but somehow they all feel very short lived with a super predictable plot (i know this but I still read them like a crazy person).
But I really really want to read some classic romance novels (please spare jane austen, Charlotte Bronte). I want to read something different from the main stream but still based on human love only (no vampires, half humans or sci-fi) – just love. Something that goes in deep, maybe something written by men (i want to read their pov as well) and something that takes you on a cinematic journey (generally and exactly how classic literature does – pure ecstasy).
Give me your best classic romance novel.
by stfudeer
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman and/or The Magus by John Fowles
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Love in the time of cholera
A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens. I figured out the ending & sobbed throughout the last 25% of the book.
Euphoria by Lily King
Rules of Civility by Towles
Anna Karenina
i who have never known men
braiding sweetgrass
I know it doesn’t perfectly fit your criteria, but I just finished Gone with the Wind and it’s all I can think of based on the title of your post. Have the tissues handy!
11/22/63 made me cry at the end
A book that made me hold my heart on my hand- Lust for life by Irving Stone. But is it a romance? No? Maybe? I’ve read every year for 5 years and reread the first year, 3x more.