Classic Romance Novels: A Starter Pack

Every now and again some starry-eyed optimist tries to craft an all-time best-of romance canon, and the gods laugh and make popcorn for the ensuing discourse fiasco. Romance is a slippery genre — in so many ways — and frequently there’s a seismic shift in the conversation that instantly dates everything that came before. Any individual reader’s perspective is therefore tangled in the cobwebs of time: A Kindle Unlimited reader is going to have a wildly different journey than someone who stole Violet Winspear from the shelves of their mothers and grandmothers. This is true of any genre, of course, but romance has a nonstop fire hose of material.