This page brings together free online pdf books, novels, topic searches, and audiobooks related to romance, including love stories, courtship, marriage, domestic life, and emotional relationships. The materials range from older public domain works to modern novels.
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Topics: Romantic Novels PDF – Free Romance Books Online
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Vintage Free Romance Novels – Romance Books PDF
Vintage books were nearly always published before 1930. They can be read online.
Audiobooks – Free Romance Novels for Download
These audiobook links lead to public domain recordings from LibriVox at Internet Archive. The books recorded by Librivox volunteers were nearly all published before 1930. Recordings include free online romance books in a wide variety of places, time periods, and genres.
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Audiobooks by Authors of Romantic Novels
- Louisa May Alcott
- Grant Allen
- Dante Alighieri
- Elizabeth von Arnim
- Gertrude Atherton
- Jane Austen
- Honoré de Balzac
- Arnold Bennett
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Charlotte Bronte
- Emily Bronte
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Max Brand
- Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Algernon Blackwood
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Fanny Burney
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Madison Cawein
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Anton Chekhov
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
- John Clare
- John Cleland
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Wilkie Collins
- Joseph Conrad
- Marie Corelli
- James Oliver Curwood
- Maria Thompson Daviess
- Richard Harding Davis
- Ethel M. Dell
- Charles Dickens
- John Donne
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Alexandre Dumas
- George Elliot
- Edna Ferber
- Martha Finley
- Eugene Field
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Jean de La Fontaine
- Ford Madox Ford
- R. Austin Freeman
- John Galsworthy
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- George Gibbs
- George Gissing
- Anna Katharine Green
- Zane Grey
- H. Rider Haggard
- Thomas Hardy
- Lafcadio Hearn
- Georgette Heyer
- Grace Livingston Hill
- Anthony Hope
- Laurence Hope
- Victor Hugo
- Henry James
- Joyce Kilmer
- Selma Lagerlof
- D. H. Lawrence
- Sinclair Lewis
- William Le Queux
- George MacDonald
- Edward Powys Mathers
- Thomas Moore
- George Moore
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- William Morris
- Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- E. Nesbit
- Baroness Orczy
- Pansy
- Eleanor H. Porter
- Gene Stratton-Porter
- Alexander Pushkin
- Ann Radcliffe
- Myrtle Reed
- Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Christina Rossetti
- Sax Rohmer
- Rafael Sabatini
- George Sand
- Sir Walter Scott
- William Shakespeare
- Mary Shelley
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- May Sinclair
- Charlotte Turner Smith
- Bram Stoker
- James Stephens
- Booth Tarkington
- Sara Teasdale
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Leo Tolstoy
- Anthony Trollope
- Ivan Turgenev
- Edgar Wallace
- Susan Warner
- Carolyn Wells
- Jean Webster
- Edith Wharton
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Oscar Wilde
- Owen Wister
- P. G. Wodehouse
- William Wordsworth
- Harold Bell Wright
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