The 100 best romance novels: from Pride and Prejudice to Twilight, books to fall in love—and lust—with by Jennifer Lawler and the editors of Crimson Romance

Fifty shades of grey by E.L. James

Beautiful disaster: a novel by Jamie McGuire

Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen ; edited with notes by Vivien Jones

The notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Bared to you by Sylvia Day

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davies

Outlander: a novel by Diana Gabaldon

Easy by Tammara Webber

Gabriel's inferno by Sylvain Reynard

Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell ; with a preface by Pat Conroy

Slammed: a novel by Colleen Hoover

The time traveler's wife: a novel by Audrey Niffenegger

Dark lover: a novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward

A walk to remember by Nicholas Sparks

Memoirs of a geisha: a novel by Arthur Golden