Our June reading recommendations for adults are a bit different this month. In honor of the romantic month of June I have two lists for you.
The first list contains authors and at least one novel or play they penned with passages so romantic they take our breath away.
Sometimes the hero and heroine of the story get their happily ever after, but sometimes they don’t.
Those of us lucky enough to experience a great romance can appreciate the gift it brings to this journey we call life. The second list is composed of books of poetry by poets known for some of the most romantic poems ever written. The lists are in no particular order.
What plays, novels, authors, or poets would you add to these lists?
Great Romances
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Tristan and Isolde – A Celtic Legend based on an actual Pict King – the original poem which told the story was not preserved, but the legend remains in poems, books, and films.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Maurice by E.M. Forster
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Thornbirds by Colleen McCollough
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Outlander by Diane Gabaldon
The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin
Poetry for Romantics
And the Time Is… by Samuel Hazo
They Rule the World by Samuel Hazo
The Book of Love by Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)
Love Her Wild by Atticus
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
Sonnets from the Portuguese: And Other Love Poems By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Sun and Her Fowers by Rupi Kaur
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
The Sonnets of William Shakespeare
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
Selected Poems of Lord Byron
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes