The Winsor List: My Favorite 16 Romances

[Miss Moppet]

In honour of Kathleen Winsor's October 16 birthday, Racy Romance Reviews (http://www.racyromancereviews.com/2009/10/16/the-winsor-16-my-favorite-16-romances/) are inviting readers and bloggers to post their favourite 16 romances.

Mine are:

1. Georgette Heyer - Arabella
2. Georgette Heyer - The Grand Sophy
3. Georgette Heyer - Faro's Daughter
4. Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
5. Sergeanne Golon - Angelique
6. Anne Bronte - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
7. Monica Dickens - Mariana
8. Anya Seton - Katherine
9. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
10. Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind
11. Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
12. Daphne du Maurier - Frenchman's Creek
13. Madame de La Fayette - The Princess de Cleves
14. Nancy Mitford -The Pursuit of Love
15. JRR Tolkien - 'Of Beren and Luthien' from The Silmarillion
16. Alexandre Dumas - The Lady of the Camellias

[LoveHistory]

What?! Narrow it down to 16?

[Miss Moppet]

What?! Narrow it down to 16?

Now, I had to think hard about this to get it up to 16. Despite reading lots of romance growing up, I almost never read it now, unless you count something like TOBG, and to be honest I didn't think the romance in that was the best part.

I'm clearly missing out so I will be trawling other people's lists for ideas...

[Anna Elliott]

Oooh, fun! My list: (these aren't all necessarily in the "romance" category, but they're my favorite love stories)

Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
The Blue Castle, by L. M. Montgomery
The Perilous Gard, by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Son of the Shadows, by Juliet Marillier
The Well of Shades, by Juliet Marillier
Heir to Sevenwaters, by Juliet Marillier
This Rough Magic, by Mary Stewart
My Brother Michael, by Mary Stewart
Touch Not the Cat, by Mary Stewart
The Gabriel Hounds, by Mary Stewart
Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon
Dragonfly in Amber, by Diana Gabaldon
Lady of the Forest, by Jennifer Roberson
Night Watch, by Suzanne Brockmann
Hawken's Heart, by Suzanne Brockmann

[Vanessa]

I'll have to have a think about this one, but some of mine are on the lists already posted.

[Madeleine]

Mmm, not really sure if I would call Rebecca a romance in the usual sense of the word!