💕 Romance · International
Best Romance Books from International
Romance fiction is the most commercially successful literary genre, accounting for more annual book sales than any other category. International has produced some of the most internationally recognised works in romance, with titles that have appeared on major prize lists and critical surveys worldwide. This page ranks the best romance from International by editorial consensus.
#1
literary-fiction
Анна Каренина
Лев Толстой· 1876
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#2
literary-fiction
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins· 1800
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#3
literary-fiction
My Ántonia
Willa Cather· 1818
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#4
literary-fiction
She
H. Rider Haggard· 1886
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#5
literary-fiction
Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott· 1800
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score55/100
#6
literary-fiction
The pioneers
James Fenimore Cooper· 1800
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#7
literary-fiction
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton· 1920
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#8
literary-fiction
Daisy Miller
Henry James· 1877
Library Journal
Editorial Score55/100
#9
literary-fiction
Washington Square
Henry James· 1880
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#10
literary-fiction
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser· 1900
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score55/100
#11
literary-fiction
Can you forgive her?
Anthony Trollope· 1800
Library Journal
Editorial Score55/100
#12
literary-fiction
The Minister's Wooing
Harriet Beecher Stowe· 1800
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score55/100
#13
literary-fiction
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott· 1848
Library Journal
Editorial Score50/100
#14
literary-fiction
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton· 1910
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#15
literary-fiction
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe· 1850
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#16
literary-fiction
The Lone Star Ranger
Zane Grey· 1914
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#17
literary-fiction
Pelham
Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton· 1828
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#18
literary-fiction
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Anthony Trollope· 1867
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#19
literary-fiction
The Talisman
Sir Walter Scott· 1800
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#20
literary-fiction
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand· 1943
Library Journal
Editorial Score50/100
#21
literary-fiction
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon· 1991
Library Journal
Editorial Score50/100
#22
literary-fiction
Works (Poems / Wuthering Heights)
Emily Brontë· 1907
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#23
science-fiction
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard· 2015
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#24
fantasy
The Rosemary Tree
Elizabeth Goudge· 1956
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#25
mystery-thriller
Lie Down With Lions
Ken Follett· 1985
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#26
romance
The raiders, being some passages in the life of John Faa, Lord and Earl of Little Egypt
Samuel Rutherford Crockett· 1893
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#27
romance
Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed
Edna Ferber· 1911
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#28
romance
Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory· 1557
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#29
romance
Emily's quest
Lucy Maud Montgomery· 1756
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#30
romance
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov· 1777
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#31
romance
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier· 1938
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#32
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romance
The young visiters [sic], or, Mr. Salteena's plan
Daisy Ashford· 1919
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#33
romance
The splendid spur, being memoirs of the adventures of Mr. John Marvel, a servant of His late Majesty King Charles I., in the years 1642-3
Arthur Quiller-Couch· 1889
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#34
romance
That lass o' Lowrie's
Frances Hodgson Burnett· 1877
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#35
romance
Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and Poems
Emily Brontë· 1905
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#36
romance
Romance
Rosemary Gray· 1920
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#37
literary-fiction
Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey· 1912
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score45/100
#38
literary-fiction
Cranford
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell· 1853
Library Journal
Editorial Score45/100
#39
literary-fiction
The ghost
Arnold Bennett· 1907
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score45/100
#40
literary-fiction
Framley Parsonage
Anthony Trollope· 1861
Library Journal
Editorial Score45/100
#41
literary-fiction
Manon Lescaut
Abbé Prévost· 1734
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score45/100
#42
literary-fiction
Trilby
George du Maurier· 1894
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score45/100
#43
literary-fiction
Sybil, or, The Two Nations
Benjamin Disraeli· 1830
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score45/100
#44
literary-fiction
Lucy Gayheart
Willa Cather· 1935
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score45/100
#45
literary-fiction
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer· 2005
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score45/100
#46
literary-fiction
Loving
Danielle Steel· 1980
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score45/100
#47
literary-fiction
Doctor Thorne
Anthony Trollope· 1858
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score45/100
#48
literary-fiction
Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney· 1994
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score45/100
#49
literary-fiction
At Fault
Kate Chopin· 1890
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score45/100
#50
literary-fiction
Genji monogatari
Murasaki Shikibu· 1900
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score45/100
