Romance novels are among the most read books in the world. People across all age groups read them and usually dominate the bestseller shelves in bookstores.
Here Are The Best Romance Novels Of All Time
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, who is admired by her surroundings for her beauty and kindness, has an unhappy and monotonous marriage. Her son is the only consolation in her marriage to Aleksey Aleksandrovich, a high-ranking civil servant. When she goes to Moscow to reconcile her brother and sister-in-law, she meets the handsome and young Count Vronsky, which becomes a turning point in Anna’s life.
In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy adds a brand new and long-lasting dimension to the art of the novel, while following themes such as love, marriage and betrayal with an extraordinary power of observation. Anna Karenina, which is considered one of the best novels ever written by the authorities of modern world literature, is a timeless romance novel that will always maintain its relevance.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice is about the contentious love between a wealthy man named Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett, the daughter of a middle-class family. The most common aspect of these two characters, who are complete opposites, is their prideful and prejudiced attitudes toward each other.
However, the attraction between them and the events they experience allows both of them to accept the superiority of love over all emotions. The work, which delicately deals with the social conditions of the period as well as love, also refreshes the horizons of its readers in terms of questioning the relationship between the individual and society.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The whole world seems filled with terrible memories of her once living and of my loss! The story begins with Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange in the gloomy York countryside, having to take shelter in his landlord’s house in Wuthering Heights one night. While the night is expected to calm down, the winds and storms of the past rise from inside the mansion.
As the memories from years ago of the tense passion and eventual betrayal between Heathcliff, one of the most realistic male characters in English literature, and Catherine Earnshaw, one of the most beloved heroines, come back to haunt us, Bronte’s whispers also ring in our ears. While Heathcliff’s ill-temper and passion for revenge affect the next generation, the innocent heirs try to escape the ghost of the past that haunts them.
White Nights by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
“To love is not to fall in love with a beautiful person, but to find yourself in that person in an unexpected moment of an unknown time.”
A young man, a bright moonlit St. Petersburg night, and a lonely woman. White Nights, which tells how expectation, sacrifice, pain, grief and disappointment find a place in love, reveals its difference from other Dostoyevsky works in this sense.
The four white nights, the moments of indecision, uncertainty and waiting experienced by these three characters when the hero meets the young and beautiful Nastenka, falls in love with her and learns that she is waiting for someone else, are also a film script.
Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac
Lily of the Valley is one of the most important and famous books under the title of “Scenes from Country Life” in the monumental work “The Human Comedy” by Honore de Balzac, who is considered to be one of the most important masters of the classical novel genre with his extraordinary observational ability and deep understanding of human nature.
The work, which is considered one of the saddest and most magnificent love stories in world literature, gains another depth with its masterful reflection of the social and political life that took shape after the French Revolution.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The legendary writer, who has continued to influence readers and audiences around the world for nearly 400 years with the power to express the human condition in his plays and poems, deals with a tragic relationship, the love that arises between the children of enemy families, which is encountered in many different societies in Romeo and Juliet.
The work, which wraps the hopeless love of Romeo and Juliet in the semi-dark cover of its romantic plot, nevertheless presents human relations with a realistic understanding.
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
“Sometimes, you’re the only reason I want to wake up in the morning.” Lou, who has to support his family, needs a job. Will, now confined to a wheelchair, needs a reason to continue living.
Sometimes, a romance novel with an impossible love story reminds us that we come to life only once and that we must live it bravely.
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
Madonna in a Fur Coat, a sad love story, has a narrative consisting of two stories. In the first story, the character Rasim finds a job and meets Raif Efendi. We listen to Raif Efendi through the narration of Rasim, who observes the quiet Raif Efendi who does not talk to anyone and wants to get to know him better. We learn why he is so lonely and alienated from society through the black-covered notebook he wrote in the second story.
The second story begins with a love story that Raif Efendi does not tell or tell to anyone. In this notebook, which takes us back to his youth, we suddenly find ourselves in the story of Raif Efendi meeting Maria Puder at a painting exhibition in Germany and then falling in love with each other.
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera is about the deep love of a young man named Florentino Ariza, which begins but never ends. The events in the novel begin when Florentino visits a house to deliver a telegram. And the young man falls in love at first sight with Fermina Daza, who lives with her family in this house.
Florentino, who goes to the house every day to see Fermina, soon manages to attract the young girl’s attention. After a while, Fermina also starts to go out to the garden at the same hours to see Florentino. This goes on, stops, and rekindles after half a century.
Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
“I used to think that I couldn’t stand life, I couldn’t stand people, and I used to be ashamed of myself; but now you’re showing me that it’s not life that’s unbearable for me.”
One of the people to whom Franz Kafka wrote most letters throughout his life was Milena Jesenska, whom he met and fell in love with in 1920.
Milena begins translating the author’s stories into Czech, and the working relationship between the two eventually turns into a desperate and passionate love. The love affair, which lasts about two years, begins with a letter and ends with another letter. Franz Kafka, in his own words, gave “all his kisses” to ghosts.
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