romantic novels
Fiction about courtship
Romantic novels are fiction centered on love relationships, typically following characters through emotional and physical attraction toward a satisfying resolution.
The genre ranges from chaste historical romances to explicit contemporary stories.
She reads romantic novels on her commute.
Romance novels dominate popular fiction sales worldwide.
- Jane AustenRegency-era English novelist
- slow burnGradual buildup of rage
- happily-ever-afterIdyllic permanent resolution
- tropesRecurring thematic conventions
- forbidden loveRomance society prohibits
brooding hero · damsel in distress · love triangle · beach read · Jane Eyre · romantic suspense · emotional conflict · meet-cute · love at first sight · stolen glances · Nicholas Sparks · yearning · Harlequin · bodice-rippers · passion · star-crossed lovers · enemies to lovers · friends to lovers
- romancelove story, amor, love, boyfriend, courting
- pulp fictionpulp, pulp fiction, pulp magazines, pulp novels, dime novels
romantic novelsthrillers
Gripping suspense works
mysteries · war novels · crime fiction · spy novels · hard science fiction
romantic novelstragedy
Disastrous or sorrowful event
grimdark · cosmic horror · dystopian novels · horror fiction · horror