A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Adam Bede by George Eliot
Adèle and Co. by Dornford Yates
Adolphe by Benjamin Constant
After by Anna Todd
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Arabian Nights (Scheherazade & Shahryar) by Various (Middle Eastern Folklore)
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Autumn in Paris by Ilana Tan
Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Bride and Prejudice (adapted) by Gurinder Chadha
Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
Carmen by Prosper Mérimée
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Elektra by Sophocles
Endless Love by Scott Spencer
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
Great Expectations (Pip & Estella) by Charles Dickens
Hamlet (Hamlet & Ophelia) by William Shakespeare
He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Inferno (Dante & Beatrice arc) by Dante Alighieri
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Jasmine Nights by Julia Gregson
Jorinda and Jorindel by Brothers Grimm
Kama Sutra by Vatsyayana
Karna and Vrushali (Mahabharata legend) by Vyasa (Epic)
King Lear (Lear & Cordelia arc) by William Shakespeare
Krishna and Radha (Bhagavata Purana) by Ancient Sanskrit Texts
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils
La Nouvelle Héloïse by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Laila Majnu by Nizami Ganjavi
Les Misérables (Marius & Cosette) by Victor Hugo
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Love Story by Erich Segal
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Mahabharata (love arcs) by Vyasa
Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Othello by William Shakespeare
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Paradise Lost (Adam & Eve) by John Milton
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Ramayana (Rama & Sita) by Valmiki
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Sakuntala by Kālidāsa
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Siddhartha (romantic subplot) by Hermann Hesse
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Song of the Yue Boatman by Ancient Chinese Poem
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Alchemist (Fatima subplot) by Paulo Coelho
The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
The Count of Monte Cristo (love arcs) by Alexandre Dumas
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
The Kiss by Danielle Steel
The Lake House by James Patterson
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
The Sound and the Fury (romantic threads) by William Faulkner
The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Vampire Diaries by L. J. Smith
The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
The Zahir by Paulo Coelho
Tristan and Isolde by Gottfried von Strassburg (retelling)
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Vanity Fair (romantic arcs) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
Waverley by Walter Scott
We the Living by Ayn Rand
Where Rainbows End (Love, Rosie) by Cecelia Ahern
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Wild Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
Withering Heights (retold arc) by Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
