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J.T. Geissinger
A. E. W. Mason
A. S. Byatt
A.K. Leigh
Abby Jimenez
Abra Taylor
Achilles Tatius
Ada Cambridge
Adele Ashworth
Adeline Sergeant
Ado Ahmad
Adriana Herrera
Adrienne Kress
Africa
African American romance
ageism
Aiden Thomas
Aisha Ford
Akwaeke Emezi
Albertine Laperle-Bernier
Alex Beecroft
Alex Stuart
Alexa Riley
Alexandra Ivy
Alexandra Sellers
Alexandria House
Alexis Hall
Alexis Harrington
Ali Hazelwood
Alice Askew
Alice Duncan
Alice Eustace
Alice Grant Rosman
Alice Lent Covert
Alice Ogando writing as Mary Love
Alice Oseman
Alice Perrin
Alice Williamson/A. M. Williamson/Mrs. C. N. Williamson
Alice Wootson
Alicia Fox
Alicia Rasley
Alisa Klever/Tatiana Vedenska
Alisha Rai
Alison Kelly
Alissa Johnson
Alyssa Cole
Alyxandra Harvey
Amanda Grange
Amanda McCabe
Amanda Scott
Amani N'Guessan/Nathalie Amani N'Guessan épouse Gbalou
Ameera Al Hakawati
Amii Lorin
Amy J. Fetzer
Ana Huang
Ana Marcela García
Ana Seymour
Andrea Pickens
Andrew O’Connor
Angela Benson
Angela Hunt
Ángeles Villarta Tuñón
animals
Anita Heiss
Anita Richmond Bunkley
Ann Allen Shockley
Ann Bannon
Ann Charlton
Ann Herendeen
Ann Major
Ann Radcliffe
Anna Campbell
Anna Cowan
Anna Gavalda
Anna Harrington
Annabeth Albert
Anne Fortier
Anne Gracie
Anne Hampson
Anne Lorraine
Anne Mather
Anne Maybury
Anne Singe et Marine Ange
Anne Stuart
Anne Tenino
Anne Weale
Annette Charles
Annette Mahon
Annie S. Swan
Annie Vivanti/Annie Vivanti Chartres
Anthony Hope
Anthony Trollope
Anya Seton
April Kihlstrom
Argentina
Arlene James
Arnette Lamb
Asenath Odaga
Ashley Herring Blake
Asia
Audrey Niffenegger
Augusta Jane Evans
Australia
authors
Avon
B. J. James
Balaraba Ramat Yakubu
Bangladesh
Barbara Cartland
Barbara Delinsky
Barbara Faith
Barbara Ferry Johnson
Barbara Freethy
Barbara McMahon
Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz
Barbara Perkins
Barbara Stephens
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Baroness Orczy
BDSM
Beatrice Grimshaw
Bella Andre
Berta Ruck
Berthe Bernage
Bertrand Gauthier
Bertrice Small
Bessie Marchant
Betina Krahn
Betty Beaty
Betty Cavanna
Betty Neels
Beverly Jenkins
Beverly Lewis
Beverly Sommers
Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa
Billie Green
Bisi Abejo
Bithia Mary Croker
Blythe Gifford
Bolu Babalola
bonkbuster
Bram Stoker
Brazil
Brenda Jackson
Brenda Joyce
Brenda Novak
Brenda Wilbee
Brigitte Bautista
Brittany Young
Broda Reynolds
Bronwyn Williams
Brunella Gasperini
Buddhism
C. J. Dennis
C. M. Nascosta
C. S. Pacat
Camy Tang
Canada
Candace Schuler
Candice Hern
Candice Proctor
Candis Terry
capitalism/business
Cara McLean
Caribbean
Carla Neggers
Carlota O'Neill/Laura de Noves
Carly Phillips
Carmen Cabiling
Carmen de Icaza
Carola Dunn
Carole Buck
Carole Mortimer
Carolina Invernizio
Caroline Anderson
Caroline Stevermer
Carolyn Jewel
Carrie Lofty
Carrie Vaughn
Casey McQuiston
Cassandra Clare
Cassie Edwards
Cat Sebastian
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Catherine Anderson
Catherine Cookson
Catherine Coulter
Catherine George
Catherine Hart
Catherine Hay
Catherine Mann
Catherine Marshall
Catherine Mulvany
Cathie Linz
Cathy Gillen Thacker
Cathy Maxwell
Cathy Sablan Gault
Cecilia Grant
Celeste Bradley
Chariton
Charlaine Harris
Charles Brockden Brown
Charles Garvice
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Lamb
Charlotte M. Brame
Charlotte M. Yonge
Charlotte Stein
Charlotte Vale-Allen
Chassie L. West
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Cherry Adair
chick lit
Chimamanda Adichie
China
Chloé Duval
Christen Anne Kelley
Christian romance
Christina C. Jones
Christina Dodd
Christina Lauren
Christina Schiller
Christina Skye
Christine Feehan
Christine Flynn
Christine Marion Fraser
Christine Warren
Cindy Gerard
Cindy Woodsmall
Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith
Claire Thornton
Claire von Glümer
Clara Bernice Miller
Claudette Nicole
Claudia Dain
Claudia Jameson
close reading
Colette
Colin Channer
Colleen Faulkner
Colleen Gleason
Colleen Hoover
Colleen McCullough
comics/manga
community
computer/video/digital games
Concha Linares-Becerra
Concordia Merrel
Connie Briscoe
Connie Brockway
Connie Rinehold
Constance M. Evans
Constance O'Day Flannery
Constance O’Banyon
contemporary romance
Cora Gottschalk Welty
Corín Tellado
Courtney Milan
Courtni Wright
Croatia
cross-dressing
Crystal Maldonado
Cuba
Czech Republic
Dana Marton
Daniel Waters
Danielle Allen
Danielle Lori
Danielle Monsch
Danielle Steel
Daoma Winston
Daphne Clair
Daphne du Maurier
Dara Joy
dark romance
Darlene Marshall
Darynda Jones
Deanna James
death
Deb Stover
Debbie Macomber
Deborah Powell
Deborah Simmons
Debra Webb
Debra White Smith
Dee Henderson
Deidre D'Allan
Deidre Knight
Delariver Manley
Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe
Delly
Demetra Vaka
Denise Robins
Diana Gabaldon
Diana Hamilton
Diana Palmer
Diana Simmonds
Diane Carey
Diane Farr
Dianne Sylvan
dime novels
Dinah Craik
Dinah Jefferies
disability
Donna Hill
Donna Maree Hanson
Donna Simpson
Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth
Doreen Owens Malek
Dorie Graham
Dorien Kelly
Dorothy Canfield
Dorothy Dowdell
Dorothy Eden
Dorothy Jolly
Dorothy MacCardle
Dyanne Davis
E. D. E. N. Southworth
E. Juncker
E. Lynn Harris
E. M. Forster
E. M. Hull
E. Marlitt/Eugenie John
E. P. Roe
E. Werner/Elisabeth Bürstenbinder
Eboni Snoe
ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change
Edith Layton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edwina Shore
Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi
Egypt
Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel
Elaine Raco Chase
Elda Minger
Eleanor Farnes
Elena Armas
Elena Puerto/Mercedes Formica
Elinor Glyn
Elisabeth Fairchild
Elisabeth Macdonald
Eliza Haywood
Elizabeth Ashton
Elizabeth Bevarly
Elizabeth Boyle
Elizabeth Carfrae
Elizabeth Dyer
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gilzean
Elizabeth Graham
Elizabeth Grayson
Elizabeth Hoy
Elizabeth Hoyt
Elizabeth Hunter
Elizabeth Inchbald
Elizabeth Kingston
Elizabeth Lowell
Elizabeth Mayne
Elizabeth Power
Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Elizabeth Vaughn
Elle Kennedy
Ellen Wilkinson
Ellora's Cave
Eloisa James
Emery Lee
Emiko Jean
Emilie Richards
Emily Brontë
Emily Carmichael
Emily Henry
Emily Jolly
Emily Toth
Emma Darcy
Emma Holly
Emma Merritt
Emma Richmond
Emma Wolf
emotions
Erika Wilde
Erin McCarthy
Ernest Choquette
erotic romance
Essie Summers
Esti Kinasih
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt
Ethel Hamill/Jean Francis Webb
Ethel M. Dell
Eva Burfield
Eva Rutland
Evangeline Parsons Yazzie
Evelyn Everett-Green
Evelyn Palfrey
Evelyn Richardson
Evelyn Rogers
Evie Dunmore
evolutionary psychology
Fabio Lanzoni, also known as Fabio
fairytales/folktales
Faith Baldwin
family
fanfiction
Fanny Lewald
fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
fashion/clothing
fat, fatness
Fattaneh Haj Seyyed Javadi
Fauziah Ashari
Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest
Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston
Faye Kellerman
Fayrene Preston
Fearne Hill
Felicia Mason
feminism
Fern Michaels
Fifty Shades
film/movies
Finland
Fiona Palmer
Flora Annie Steel
Florence Barclay
Florence Riddell
food, drink
fotonovela
France
Frances Brooke
Frances Burney
Frances Shelley Wees
Frances Watkins Harper
Francine Craft
Francine Rivers
Francis Ray
Frank Yerby
friendship
Gabrielle Roy
Gaelen Foley
Gail Carriger
Gale Wilhelm
Galina Kulikova
Gay G. Gunn
Gayle Forman
gender
Gene Stratton-Porter
Genell Dellin
genre definitions
George Eliot
Georges Ohnet
Georgette Heyer
Geralyn Dawson
Germany
Gertrude Page
Gertrude Schalk
Gil Sanderson
Gilbert Frankau
Gina Wilkins
Ginger Chambers
Ginna Gray
Giorgio Scerbanenco
Gloria Bevan
Gloria Naylor
Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich
Gordon Merrick
gothic romance
Grace Burrowes
Grace Livingston Hill
Greece
Guam
Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough
Gwynne Forster
Habiburrahman El-Shirazy
Haemi Balgassi
Hannah Grace
happy ending
Harlequin Mills & Boon
Harriet Lewis
Hauwa Ali
health/medical
Heather Graham
Hedwig Courths-Mahler
Helen Arvonen
Helen Bianchin
Helen Dore Boylston
Helen Fielding
Helen Hoang
Helen Reimensnyder Martin
Heliodorus
Hilary Neal
Hilary Wilde
Hilda Pressley, pseudonym of Hilda Nickson
Hilda Stahl
Hinduism
historical romance
history
Holly Black
Homa Puresfahani
Hong Kong
Hope Tarr
Horace Walpole
humour
I. T. Lucas
Iceland
Ilham Hamdani
Ilima Todd
Indah Hanaco
India
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Irene Brand
Irene Clyde
Iris Danbury
Iris Johansen
Isabel Miller
Isabel Sharpe
Isabelle Holland
Islam
islands
Ismée Williams
Isobel Chace
Italy
Ivory Coast
Ivy Devlin
Ivy Preston
J. R. Ward
Jack Byrne
Jackie Rose
Jackie Ashenden
Jackie Collins
Jackie Williams
Jackson Pearce
Jaclyn Reding
Jacquie D'Allessandro
Jade Lee
Jade West
Jamaica
James Buchanan
James Earl Hardy
Jamie McGuire
Jane Aiken Hodge
Jane Almquist
Jane Arbor
Jane Austen
Jane Blackmore
Jane Donnelly
Jane Feather
Jane Porter
Jane Rule
Jane Sullivan
Jane Toombs
Janeen O'Kerry
Janet Dailey
Janet Evanovich
Janet Laing
Janet Lambert
Janet Wellington
Janette Kenny
Janette Oke
Janice Kaiser
Janice Kay Johnson
Japan
Jas Hammonds
Jasmine Cresswell
Jasmine Guillory
Jaye Wells
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Jean Herbert
Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie
Jean Webster
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanne Laws
Jeannette Ahonsou
Jeannie Lin
Jeffrey Farnol
Jennifer Ames
Jennifer Ashley
Jennifer Crusie
Jennifer Fulton
Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart
Jennifer Hallock
Jennifer Lewis
Jenny B. Jones
Jenny Han
Jessica Hart
Jessica Scott
Jessie Nichols
Jill Marie Landis
Jill Shalvis
Jilly Cooper
Jo Ann Ferguson
Jo Ann Simon
Jo Beverley
Jo Davis
Jo Morrison
Joan Blair
Joan Butler, pen name of R. W. Alexander
Joan Conquest
Joan Elliott Pickart
Joan Johnston
Joan Sutherland
Joan Wolf
JoAnn Ross
Joanna Bourne
Joanna Lloyd
Joanna Trollope
Joanne Redd
Joey W. Hill
Johanna Lindsey
John Cleland
John Preston
Joi Barrios
Jordan L. Hawk
Joseph Doutre
Joseph W. Yoder
Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr
Judaism
Jude Deveraux
Jude Ouvrard
Judi McCoy
Judith Arnold
Judith E. French
Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas
Judith Krantz
Judith McNaught
Julia Davis
Julia Quinn
Julia Ross
Juliana Conners
Julie Anne Long
Julie Cohen
Julie Garwood
Julie Kagawa
Julie Kenner
Julie Murphy
Julie Tetel Andresen
Juliet Armstrong
Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton
June Lund Shiplett
Justine Davis/Justine Dare
K. C. Wells
K. Fatym/Kaba Fanta
K. J. Charles
Kalen Hughes/Isobel Carr
Kandy Shepherd
Karen A. Bale
Karen Harper
Karen Kingsbury
Karen Marie Moning
Karen Ranney
Karen Robards
Karen Templeton
Karen van der Zee
Karin Kallmaker
Karly Lane
Kasey Michaels
Kasey Stuart
Kate Breslin
Kate Bridges
Kate Emberg
Kate Hardy
Kate Hewitt
Kate Huntington
Kate Norway/Olive Norton
Kate Robb
Kate Walker
Katharine Bruce Glasier
Katharine Kincaid
Katherine Garbera
Katherine Locke
Katherine Stone
Katherine V. Forrest
Kathleen Drymon
Kathleen Eagle
Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Kathleen Harrington
Kathleen Kane
Kathleen Morgan
Kathleen O’Neal Gear
Kathleen O’Reilly
Kathleen Thompson Norris
Kathleen Winsor
Kathleen Woodiwiss
Kathlyn Rhodes
Kathryn Caskie
Kathryn Shay
Katia Rose
Katie Cotugno
Katie MacAlister
Kay Stockham
Kay Thorpe
Kayla Perrin
Kaylea Cross
Keene Alicante
Kekla Magoon
Kelley Armstrong
Kelly Quindlen
Kendra Elliot
Kenya
Keri Arthur
Kerime Nadir
Kerrelyn Sparks
Kerry McGinnis
Kim Lawrence
Kim Vogel Sawyer
Kimberla Lawson Ruby
Korea
Kosoko Jackson
Koussoh Mélika/Hélène Soungalo Diomandé
Kresley Cole
Kris Ripper
Krista and Becca Ritchie
Kristan Higgins
Kristi Gold
Kristin Hannah
Kylie Scott
L. J. Shen
languages
Lani Wendt Young
LaQuette
Lara Adrian
Larissa Ione
Larry Duplechan
Latin America
Latvia
Laura Abbot
Laura de Cominges/Josefina de la Torre
Laura Jean Libbey
Laura Kinsale
Laura Lee Guhrke
Laura Lou Brookman
Laura Martin
Laura Parker
Laura Steven
Laura Wright
Laurell K. Hamilton
Lauren Ekué
Lauren Royal
Laurie Grant
Laurie Schnebly Campbell
LaVyrle Spencer
Lea Santos
Leah Ashton
Leah Bach
Leigh Greenwood
Leigh Michaels
Leigh Morano
Leila Aboulela
Lena Dowling
Leonard Noel Barker writing as L. Noel
Leonora Pruner
lesbian romance
Leslie Esdaile Banks
Leslie Holden
Leslie LaFoy
Lexi Ander
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Lía Ramos
Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
libraries/librarians
Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway
Linda Barlow
Linda Byler
Linda Conrad
Linda Harrel
Linda Howard
Linda Lael Miller
Linda Shaw
Linda Turner
Lindsay Evans
Lindsay McKenna
linguistics
Linnea Sinclair
Lisa Blackwood
Lisa Cach
Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gregory
Lisa Kleypas
Lisa Marie Rice
Lisa Plumley
Lisa Shapiro
Liz Carlyle
Liz Fielding
Lizzette Carter
Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Lolah Burford
Longus
Lora Leigh
Loretta Chase
Loretta Hill
Lori Foster
Lori Herter
Lori Wick
Lorraine Heath
Louisa May Alcott
Louise Allen
Louise Bergstrom
Louise Gerard
Louise Mack
love
Lualhati Bautista
Luciana Peverelli
Luciana Peverelli
Lucilla Andrews
Lucille Colleton
Lucille Hollis
Lucy Agnes Hancock
Lucy Walker
Ludwig Philippson
Luisa-María Linares
Lurlene McDaniel
Lydia Maria Child
Lyn Denison
Lyn Gala
Lynn Kerstan
Lynn Painter
Lynn-Ann Ali
Lynne Graham
Lynne Raye Harris
Lynsay Sands
Lyssa Kay Adams
M. B. Mulhall
M. M. Kaye
m/m romance
Mabel Barnes Grundy
Mabel Forrest
Mabel Seeley
Mac Flynn
Madeleine Ker
Madeline Baker
Madeline Ker
Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert
Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George
Maggie Shayne
Maggie Stiefvater
Maisey Yates
Malawi
Malaysia
Mallory Rush
Malta
Marc Levy
Marcelle Tinayre
March Hastings
Marcia King-Gamble
Marcus Lehmann
Mardi Ballou
Margaret Baillie-Saunders
Margaret Evans Porter
Margaret Holt
Margaret Malcolm
Margaret Mallory
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Moore
Margaret Pargeter
Margaret Pedler
Margaret Rome
Margaret Summerton
Margaret Way
Margery Hilton
Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace
Margot Early
Marguerite Jervis/Oliver Sandys
Marguerite Kaye
Marguerite Lees
Marguerite Mooers Marshall
María Adela Durango
María del Pilar Carré
Maria Edgeworth
María Mercedes Ortoll
María Morgan/Rosa María Cajal
Mariana Zapata
Marianne K. Martin
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Marie Bjelke Petersen
Marie Carnay
Marie Corelli
Marie Donovan
Marie Force
Marie G. Lee
Marie Sexton
Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay
Marija Jurić Zagorka
Marina Fiorato
Marine Rambach and Anne Rousseau
Marion Lennox
Marion Smith Collins
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan
Marjorie Lewty
Marjorie M. Liu
Marjorie Moore
Marjorie Norrell
marriage
Martha Finley
Mary Alice Monroe
Mary Balogh
Mary Bradford Whiting
Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook
Mary Burton
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mary Gaunt
Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex
Mary Hamilton
Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Jo Putney
Mary Johnston
Mary LaPietra
Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham
Mary Moore
Mary Renault
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Stewart
Mary Stolz
Mary Tate Engels
Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward
Mary Webb
Maryam Riahi
Maryam Sahabi Liman
Maryan, pen name of Marie Cadiou
Maud Diver
Maureen Bronson
Maureen Child
Maureen Daly
Maureen Wartski
Max du Veuzit
May Agnes Fleming
May McGoldrick
Maya Banks
Maya Rodale
Maysie Greig
Meagan McKinney
medical romance
Megan Crane writing as Caitlin Crews
Melissa McClone
Melissa Senate
Meljean Brook
Meredith Duran
Meredith Fletcher
Meredith Webber
Merline Lovelace
metafiction
metaphor/symbolism
Mexico
Michele Andrea Bowen
Michele Hauf
Micheline Perron
Michelle Douglas
Michelle Martin
Michelle Reid
Michelle Styles
Milton
Mina V. Esguerra
Mira Stables
Miranda Lee
Miriam Macgregor
modernism
Monica White
Morgan Matson
Morgan Rogers
Moritz von Reichenbach/Valeska von Reiswitz, Gräfin von Bethusy-Huc
Morocco
Mrs F. E. Penny
Muazzez Tahsin Berkand
Mura
music
Muslim romance
Myne Whitman
myth
N. K. Jemisin
NA romance
Nalini Singh
Nan Ryan
Nancy Garden
Nancy Kennedy
Nancy Martin
Natalie Anderson
Natalie Normann
Nataly von Eschstruth
Natal’ia Mironova
national identity
Native American romance
Nazi Safavi
Nell Stark
Netherlands
Netta Muskett
New Zealand
Nicholas Sparks
Nicola Yoon
Nicole Alexander
Nicole C. Vosseler
Nicole Jordan
Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush
Nicole Peeler
Nigeria
Noel Barber
Nora K. Strange
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Norrey Ford
Norway
O. Douglas/Anna Buchan
Oceania
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Olivia Gates
Olivia Waite
Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton
Ophelia Silk
Ouida
Paganism/Wicca
Pakistan
Pam Rosenthal
Pamela Britton
Pamela Clare
Pamela Kent
Pamela Morsi
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
paratext
Parinush Saniee
Pat Warren
Patricia Briggs
Patricia Gaffney
Patricia Gallagher
Patricia Haley
Patricia Knoll
Patricia Matthews
Patricia Mennen
Patricia Pellicane
Patricia Potter
Patricia Rice
Patricia Veryan
Patricia Wrede
Patrick Califia
Patti Berg
Paula Christian
Paula Detmer Riggs
Paula Marshall
Paula Quinene
Pauline Hopkins
Peggy Gaddis Dern with many pseudonyms including Perry Lindsay
Peggy Herring
Peggy Stoks
Peggy Webb
Penelope Douglas
Penelope Neri
Penelope Williamson
Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney
Petra Pierre-Robertson
Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Jr.
Philippines
philosophy
Phyllis A. Whitney
Phyllis Matthewman
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
Piper Huguley
pirates and outlaws
Poland
police officers/police forces
Polly Forrester
pornography
Portia Da Costa
Portugal
psychology
Publishing
Qiongyao/Qiong Yao
race/ethnicity
Rachael Allen
Rachael Treasure
Rachel Alexander
Rachel Bo
Rachel Gibson
Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown
Rachel Spangler
Rachelle Swift
Radclyffe Hall
Radclyffe/Len Barot
Rafael Pérez y Pérez
Rafael Sabatini
Rahel Meyer
Rajaa Alsanea
Randy Salem
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Rayda Jacobs
Raymond Plante
readers
Rebecca Flanders
Rebecca Stratton
Rebecca York
Rebekah Weatherspoon
Regina Jeffers
Regina Scott
religion/spirituality
Rhoda Broughton
Richelle Mead
Rilla Berg
Rissa Ahdiya
Rita Clay Estrada
Rita Mae Brown
Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys
Riya Lakhani
Robert Hitchens
Roberta Gayle
Roberta Gellis
Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay
Robin Lee Hatcher
Robin McKinley
Robin Morgan
Robyn Carr
Robyn Donald
Rochelle Alers
rom-com romance
Romance
romance and, or as, activism
romance scholarship
romances in magazines and newspapers
Romania
romantic suspense
Rompaeng
Roni Loren
Rosa María Aranda
Rosa Praed
Rosalie Henaghan
Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington
Rosamond du Jardin
Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosanna Leprohon
Rosanne Bittner
Rose Dana/William Edward Daniel Ross
Rose Lerner
Rosemary Carter
Rosemary Rogers
Roslyn Hardy Holcomb
Roumelia Lane
Rowena Tenet
Roya Khosronajdi
Roz Denny Fox
Rubie Saunders
Ruby Lang
Ruby M. Ayres
RuNyx
rural romance
Russia
Ruth Jean Dale
Ruth Lamb
Ruth Lininger Dobson
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal
Ruthie Knox
Sabrina Jefferies
Sabrina Jeffries
Sally Painter
Sally Rooney
Salomon Formstecher
Samantha Kane
Samoa
Samuel Richardson
Sandhya Menon
Sandra Antonelli/Sandra A. Barletta
Sandra Brown
Sandra Canfield
Sandra Hill
Sandra Kitt
Sandra Marton
Sandra Schwab
Sara Seale
Sara Wood
Sarah Aldridge
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Sarah Doudney
Sarah Holland
Sarah J. Maas
Sarah James
Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Sarah MacLean
Saudi Arabia
science fiction/futuristic romance
science/technology
Scotland
Serena Bell
Serge Azialé/Seraz
Sergeanne Golon
settings
sex/sexuality
Shakespeare
Shana Abé
Shari MacDonald
Sharon and Tom Curtis
Sharon Brondos
Sharon Ewell Foster
Sharon Kendrick
Sharon Sala
Sharon Shinn
Sharon Swann
sheikh romance
Sheila Walsh
Shelby Black
Shelly Laurenston
Sherilee Gray
Sherri WhiteFeather
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sherry Thomas
Shirlee Busbee
Shirley Conran
Shirley Hailstock
Shirley Jump
Sierra Sparks
Simin Shirdel
Simona Ahrnstedt
Singapore
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Walter Scott
Slovenia
small towns
social/economic class
socialism and/or communism
sociology
Sofia Fritzson
Sonali Dev
Sonya Lalli
Sonya Pelton
Sophia Kapp
Sophie Barnes
Sophie Cole
Sophie Weston
Sophilea
South Africa
Spain
sport
Sri Lanka
Stanley Weyman
steampunk
Stefania Bertola
Steffanie Holmes, pen name of Steff Green
Stella Cameron
Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku
Stephanie Bond
Stephanie Howard
Stephanie Laurens
Sue Byfield
Sue-Ellen Welfonder
Sukey Vickery
Suleikha Snyder
Susa Young Gates
Susan Carroll
Susan Donovan
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Susan Ferrier
Susan Fraser King
Susan Howatch
Susan Johnson
Susan Krinard
Susan Mallery
Susan Napier
Susan Plunkett
Susan Stephens
Susan Warner
Susan Wiggs
Susanna Kearsley
Susannah Carleton
Suzanne Brockmann
Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Enoch
Suzanne Forster
Suzanne Robinson
Suzanne Roy
Suzanne Simmons Guntrum
Sweden
Sydney Owenson
Sylvain Reynard
Sylvia Andrews
Sylvia Day
Sylvia Thorpe
SylviaVisconti/Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois
Taiwan
Talia Hibbert
Tamera Alexander
Tami Hoag
Tanya Huff
Tara Taylor Quinn
Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy
Tea Cooper
teaching romance
Temple Bailey
Teresa Edgerton
Teresa Medeiros
Terri Brisbin
Terry Blackstock
Terry McMillan
Tess Gerritsen
Tessa Dare
Tessa Radley
Thailand
Theresa Romain
Thomas Hardy
Thomyantri
Tijan
Tina McElroy Ansa
Tina St. John
Togo
Toni Jordan
Tracey Garvis Graves
Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West
translation
trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Turkey
Twilight
UK
United Arab Emirates
United States of America
Ursula Bloom
Ursula Zöge von Manteuffel
Uzma Jalaluddin
V. C. Andrews
Valerie Belgrave
Valerie Flournoy
Valerie K. Nelson
Valerie Parv
Valerie Sherwood
Valerie Taylor
Valerie Thian
Vera Caspary
Vicki Essex
Vicki Hinze
Vicki Lewis Thompson
Victoria Aldridge
Victoria Gordon
Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert
Vietnam
Viña Delmar
Vincent Virga
Violet Winspear
Virginia Coffman
Virginie Dussault
virginity
Vivian Stephens
Wallace Hamilton
Walter Jon Williams
Wanda Brunstetter
war/armed forces
wealth/prosperity
Wilhelmine Heimburg/Bertha Behrens
Wilhelmine von Hillern
Wilkie Collins
Winston Churchill
work
Xan West
Xenophon of Ephesus
YA/teenage romance
Yeveny Bomou/Bomou Karidja
Yuikawa Kei
Zaid Akhtar
Zane
Zimbabwe
Zoë Archer