Everyone knows that real booklovers can't walk past a bookstore without stopping. They love nothing more than to browse or to gab with a fellow booklover about books: new books, old books, first books, beloved books. Readers are loyal to their favorite books and authors, and if a book is a true gem, readers enjoy, appreciate and remember forever.
Most readers classify their favorite books by theme, and romance novels offer hundreds of delicious themes to savor. Romantic Times thought its readers would enjoy a column that groups readers' all-time favorite books by theme. To find these classics, we polled two hundred readers.