List of romantic novelists

Notable novelists who specialise or specialised in writing romance novels include:

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• Laura Abbot

• Hailey Abbott

• Shana Abé

• Cherry Adair

• Jennie Adams

• Lara Adrian

• Cecelia Ahern

• Michele Albert

• Rochelle Alers

• Kate Alexander

• Trisha Alexander

• Victoria Alexander

• Jo Ann Algermissen

• Barbara Allen

• Charlotte Vale Allen

• Harper Allen

• Joan M. Allen

• Heather Allison

• Elizabeth Amber

• Jessica Andersen

• Susan Andersen

• Caroline Anderson

• Catherine Anderson

• Barbara Andrews

• Lucilla Andrews

• Laura Anthony (pen name of Lori Wilde)

• Jane Arbor

• Catherine Archer

• Jennifer Archer

• Catherine Archibald

• Lindsay Armstrong

• Tilly Armstrong

• Judith Arnold

• Jane Ashford

• Dawn Atkins

• Kathryn Atwood

• Jane Austen

• Anne Avery

• Jessica Ayre

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• Jacqueline Baird

• Anne Baker

• Faith Baldwin

• Kathleen Baldwin

• Donna Ball

• Mary Balogh

• Leanne Banks

• Maya Banks

• Michele Bardsley

• Jill Barnett

• Jean Barrett

• Susan Barrie

• Allie Bates

• Jane Beaufort

• Sally Beauman

• Alex Beecroft

• Marguerite Bell

• Jayne Bentley

• Laurien Berenson

• Ariel Berk

• Elizabeth Bevarly

• Jo Beverley

• Helen Bianchin

• Janet Bieber

• Maeve Binchy

• Charlotte Bingham

• Jessica Bird (also known as J. R. Ward)

• Claudia Bishop

• Jaid Black

• Jenna Black

• Terri Blackstock

• Ally Blake

• Andrea Blake

• Jennifer Blake

• Emma Blair

• Laurien Blair

• Diana Blayne

• Annalee Blysse

• Pat Booth

• Elaine Bossik

• Donna Boyd

• Joanna Bourne

• Carla Bracale

• Barbara Taylor Bradford

• Celeste Bradley

• Rita Bradshaw

• Taylor Brady

• Joan Bramsch

• Kylie Brant

• Kate Bridges

• Laurey Bright

• P.A. Brisco / Patty Brisco

• Leigh Bristol

• Annette Broadrick

• Anne Brock

• Suzanne Brockmann

• Connie Brockway

• Anne Brontë

• Charlotte Brontë

• Emily Brontë

• Helen Brooks

• Sandra Brown

• Diana Browning

• Dixie Browning

• Niobia Bryant

• Elizabeth Buchan

• M. L. Buchman

• Nancy Buckingham

• Mary Burchell

• Eleanor Burford

• Pamela Burford

• Rose Burghley

• Nicole Burnham

• Beatrice Burton

• Rebecca Burton

• Shirlee Busbee

• Rob Byrnes

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• Meg Cabot

• Hall Caine

• Linda Cajio

• Candace Camp

• Bethany Campbell

• Marsha Canham

• Ann Carberry

• Ruth Cardello

• Donna Carlisle

• Liz Carlyle

• Teresa Carpenter

• Philippa Carr

• Robyn Carr

• Sherry Carr (also known as Lacey Dancer, Sara Chance, and Sydney Ann Clary)

• Tori Carrington

• Susan Carroll

• Rosemary Carter

• Barbara Cartland

• Zoe Cass (pseudonym of Lois Dorothea Low)

• Carla Cassidy

• Jayne Castle

• Clare Cavendish

• Diane Chamberlain

• Sara Chance (also known as Lacey Dancer, Sherry Carr, and Sydney Ann Clary)

• Lauryn Chandler

• Anita Charles

• Marie Charles

• Loretta Chase

• Marion Chesney

• Sarah Chester

• Denise Chesterton (pseudonym of Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson)

• Maureen Child

• Jill Christian (a pseudonym of Norren Dilcock)

• Sue Civil-Brown

• Daphne Clair

• Sydney Ann Clary (also known as Lacey Dancer, Sherry Carr, and Sara Chance)

• Rita Clay

• Margaret Major Cleaves

• Wendy Coakley-Thompson

• Sheila Coates

• Nicole Cody

• Jan Coffey

• Elaine Coffman

• Jackie Collins

• Phoebe Conn

• Helen Conrad

• Carla Cook

• Catherine Cookson

• Deborah Coonts

• Jilly Cooper

• Lori Copeland

• Susan Coppula

• Lecia Cornwall

• Catherine Coulter

• Caroline Courtney

• Josephine Cox

• Helen Crampton

• Sara Craven

• Jasmine Cresswell

• Millie Criswell

• Linda Crockett

• Tanya Anne Crosby

• Jennifer Crusie

• Katy Currie

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• Janet Dailey

• Claudia Dain

• Ruth Jean Dale

• Blanche d'Alpuget

• Cami Dalton

• Margot Dalton

• Barbara Daly

• Lacey Dancer

• Jordan Dane

• B.J. Daniels

• Emma Darcy

• Lilian Darcy

• Iris Rainer Dart

• Trisha David

• MaryJanice Davidson

• Geralyn Dawson

• Sylvia Day

• Daphne de Jong

• Kit Dealtry (a pseudonym by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)

• Connie Deka

• Barbara Delinsky

• Jude Deveraux

• Jacqueline Diamond

• Christina Dodd

• Robyn Donald

• Sara Donati

• Jane Donnelly

• Carole Nelson Douglas

• Billie Douglass

• Zoe Dozier

• Bonnie Drake

• Shannon Drake

• Jennifer Drew

• Daphne du Maurier

• Elizabeth Duke

• Judith Duncan

• Carola Dunn

• Lee Duran

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• Kathleen Eagle

• Mignon G. Eberhart

• Dorothy Eden

• Rosemary Edghill

• Cassie Edwards

• Mary Tate Engels

• Tina Engler

• Suzanne Enoch

• Erastes

• Lynn Erickson

• Patricia Ernst

• Leslie Esdaile

• Rita Clay Estrada

• Janet Evanovich

• Shoshanna Evers

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• Ann Fairfax

• Barbara Faith

• Colleen Faulkner

• Jane Feather

• Constance Fecher (a pseudonym by Constance Fecher Heaven)

• Christine Feehan

• Marie Ferrarella

• Gina Ferris

• Katie Fforde

• Sandra Field

• Liz Fielding

• Rebecca Flanders

• Fiona Finlay

• Cardine Fleming

• Caroline Fleming

• Gaelen Foley

• Norrey Ford (a pseudonym of Norren Dilcock)

• Helen Forrester

• Lori Foster

• Natalie Fox

• Jacqueline Frank

• Thea Frederick

• Ashley French

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• Diana Gabaldon

• Patricia Gaffney

• Abby Gaines

• Shana Galen (also known as Shane Bolks)

• Rita Gallagher

• Clarissa Garland

• Dorothy Garlock

• Julie Garwood

• Diane Gaston (also known as Diane Perkins)

• Tess Gerritsen

• Rachel Gibson

• Amanda Glass

• Ruth Glick

• Elinor Glyn

• Kristi Gold

• Emma Goldrick

• Sergeanne Golon

• Diana Gordon

• Lucy Gordon

• Judith Gould

• Iris Gower

• Heather Graham

• Lynne Graham

• Jeanne Grant

• Susan Grant

• Vanessa Grant

• Patricia Grasso

• Harriet Gray

• Maysie Coucher Greig

• Jennifer Greene

• Tilly Greene

• Lisa Gregory

• Clarice Groom / C. Groom / Kathleen Clarice Groom / Mrs. Sydney Groom (pseudonyms by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)

• Annie Groves

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• Elizabeth Habersham

• Ginn Hale

• Jocelyn Haley

• Alexis Hall

• Steffie Hall

• Diana Hamilton

• Hervey Hamilton (a pseudonym of Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson)

• Laurell K. Hamilton

• Anne Hampson

• Jenny Han

• Lori Handeland

• Kristin Hannah

• Barbara Hannay

• Sarah Hardesty

• Laura Hardy

• Karen Harper

• Madeline Harper

• Lisa Harris

• Elizabeth Harrison

• Jessica Hart

• Sarah Hart

• Caroline Harvey

• Kathryn Harvey

• Diana Haviland

• Karen Hawkins

• Constance Heaven (a pseudonym by Constance Fecher Heaven)

• Shirl Henke

• Virginia Henley

• Ann Herendeen

• Georgette Heyer

• Brenda Hiatt

• Grace Livingston Hill

• Lydia Hitchcock

• Tami Hoag

• Helen Hoang

• Kate Hoffmann

• Joan Hohl

• Sheila Holland

• Emma Holly

• Kate Holmes

• Victoria Holt (also known as Eleanor Hibbert, Jean Plaidy, Philippa Carr)

• Kay Hooper

• Linda Howard (also known as Linda S. Howington)

• Hannah Howell

• Elizabeth Hoyt

• Anna Hudson

• Callie Hugher

• Cally Hughes

• Charlotte Hughes

• Karen Hughes

• Victor Hugo

• Jena Hunt

• Jillian Hunter

• Jackie Hyman

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• Averil Ives

• Judith Ivory

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• Brenda Jackson

• Lisa Jackson

• Anna Jacobs

• Michele Jaffe

• Anna James

• E.L. James

• Eloisa James

• Julie James

• Kristin James

• Stephanie James

• Susan James (pen name of Rochelle Alers)

• Vanessa James

• Claudia Jameson

• Kelly Jamison

• Miranda Jarrett

• Sabrina Jeffries

• Michelle Jerott

• Iris Johansen

• Nancy John

• Milly Johnson

• Susan Johnson

• Joan Johnston

• Linda O. Johnston

• Catherine Jones

• Jan Jones

• Crystal Jordan

• Laura Jordan

• Nicole Jordan

• Penny Jordan

• B.D. Joyce

• Brenda Joyce

• Janet Joyce

• Jenna Lee Joyce

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• Karin Kallmaker

• Andrea Kane

• Julia Kane

• Kathleen Kane

• Alex Kava

• Karen Kay

• Patricia Kay

• Corey Keaton

• Lindsey Kelk

• Kathleen Kellow

• Carla Kelly

• Nancy Kelly

• Sharon Kendrick

• Elle Kennedy

• Kathryne Kennedy

• Lena Kennedy

• Julie Kenner

• Pamela Kent

• Cory Kenyon

• Sherrilyn Kenyon

• Madeleine Ker

• Flora Kidd

• Susan King

• Maggie Kingsley

• Laura Kinsale

• Alexandra Kirk

• Sandra Kitt

• Lisa Kleypas

• TJ Klune

• Angela Knight

• Karleen Koen

• Rosanne Kohake

• Betina Krahn

• Amanda Kramer

• Judith Krantz

• Jayne Ann Krentz (also known as Amanda Quick, Jayne Castle)

• Susan Krinard

• Lynn Kurland

• Susan Kyle

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• Kate Lace

• Patricia Lake

• Rozella Lake

• Arnette Lamb

• Charlotte Lamb

• Alice Elinor Lambert

• Elizabeth Lambert

• Sheila Lancaster

• Jill Marie Landis

• Connie Lane

• Elizabeth Lane

• Roumelia Lane

• Chloe Lang

• Ruth Langan

• Tania Langley

• Cheryl Lanham

• Christina Lauren

• Stephanie Laurens

• Constance Laux

• Kathy Lawrence

• Day Leclaire

• Jane LeCompte

• Miranda Lee

• Rachel Lee

• Lora Leigh

• Roberta Leigh

• Judith Lennox

• Marion Lennox

• Laura Leone

• Julie Elizabeth Leto

• Kathryn Le Veque

• Marjorie Lewty

• Alice Chetwynd Ley

• Sophie Leyton (a pseudonym of Sheila Walsh)

• Rachel Lindsay

• Johanna Lindsey

• Cathie Linz

• Rosina Lippi

• Caren Lissner

• Cait Logan

• Cait London

• Hilary London

• Julia London

• William Stuart Long

• Claire Lorel

• Amii Lorin

• Emilie Loring

• Claire Lorrimer (a pseudonym of Patricia Denise Robins)

• Dorothy Mackie Low (a pseudonym of Lois Dorothea Low)

• Elizabeth Lowell

• Mary Lyons

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• Heather MacAllister

• Katie MacAlister (also known as Katie Maxwell and Kate Marsh)

• Kinley MacGregor

• Allie Mackay

• Mary Mackie (also wrote as Cathy Christopher, Alex Andrews and Caroline Charles)

• Jan MacLean

• Della Campbell MacLeod

• Debbie Macomber

• Ann Major

• Susan Mallery

• Anne Mallory

• Raynetta Mañees

• Jill Mansell

• Joanna Mansell

• Winifred Langford Mantle (also known as Jan Blaine, Anne Fellowes, Frances Lang and Jane Langford)

• Jill March

• Joanna Marcus

• Deb Marlowe

• Katherine Marlowe

• Ellen Tanner Marsh

• Debra Marshall

• Deborah Martin

• Gail Gaymer Martin

• Gail Z. Martin

• Kat Martin

• Laura Martin

• Sandra Marton

• Kasey Marx

• Jessica Massey

• Anne Mather (also known as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming)

• Laura Matthews

• Patricia Matthews

• A.E. Maxwell

• Kathleen Maxwell

• Mary Maxwell

• Patricia Maxwell

• Anne Mayfield

• Margaret Mayo

• Anne McAllister

• Laurie McBain

• Mary McBride

• Susanne McCarthy

• Barbara McCauley

• Sharron McClellan

• May McGoldrick

• Tate McKenna

• Meagan McKinney

• Rena McLeary

• Barbara McMahon

• Karen McManus

• Kate McMurray

• Judith McNaught

• Casey McQuiston

• Teresa Medeiros

• Susan Meier

• Christina Merlin (a pseudonym by Constance Fecher Heaven)

• Stephenie Meyer

• Judith Michael

• Marie Michael

• Barbara Michaels

• Fern Michaels

• Leigh Michaels

• Linda Lael Miller

• Serena B. Miller

• Sarah Mlynowski

• Nicole Mones

• Karen Marie Moning

• Karyn Monk

• Margaret Moore

• Rachel Moore

• Peggy Moreland

• Hunter Morgan

• Raye Morgan

• Peggy Morse

• Carole Mortimer

• Jill Munroe

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• Nancy Naigle

• Susan Naiper

• Betty Neels

• Deborah Nicholas

• Marie Nicole

• Celeste O. Norfleet

• Freya North

• Brenda Novak

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• Constance O'Day-Flannery

• Laurel O'Donnell

• Elisabeth Ogilvie

• Janette Oke

• Elizabeth Oldfield

• Margaret O'Neill

• Kathy Orr

• Ruth Owen

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• Lynda Page

• Rebecca Paisley

• Diana Palmer

• Margaret Pargeter

• Adele Parks

• Delia Parr

• Roan Parrish

• Valerie Parv

• Ann Patrick

• Lynn Patrick

• Maxine Patrick

• Lois Paxton (a pseudonym of Lois Dorothea Low)

• Rachel Cosgrove Payes

• Diane Pearson

• Judith Pella

• Rafael Pérez y Pérez

• Diane Perkins (also known as Diane Gaston)

• Carly Phillips

• Dorothy Phillips

• Johanna Phillips

• Susan Elizabeth Phillips

• Joan Elliott Pickart

• Rosamunde Pilcher

• Suzy Pizzuti

• Neil S. Plakcy

• Belva Plain

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Ida Pollock

• Patricia Ponder

• Jane Porter

• Elizabeth Power

• Heather Graham Pozzessere

• ArLynn Leiber Presser

• Evadne Price

• Mary Jo Putney

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• Angela Quarles

• Carol Queen

• Erica Quest

• Amanda Quick (also known as Jayne Ann Krentz, Jayne Castle)

• Julia Quinn

• Paula Quinn

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• Ann Radcliffe

• Radclyffe

• Karen Ranney

• Francis Ray

• Jaclyn Reding

• Laura Resnick

• Luanne Rice

• Emilie Richards

• Serena Richards

• Emma Richmond

• Christie Ridgway

• Judith Merkle Riley

• Christine Rimmer

• Francine Rivers

• Karen Robards

• J.D. Robb

• JoAnn Robb

• JoAnn Robbins

• Nora Roberts

• Paula Roberts

• Patricia Robertson

• Denise Robins

• Patricia Robins (a pseudonym of Patricia Denise Robins)

• Suzanne Robinson

• Claire Robyns

• Pam Rock

• Rosemary Rogers

• Kristine Rolofson

• Jeanne Rose

• Pam Rosenthal

• JoAnn Ross

• Kathryn Ross

• Renee Roszel

• Ann Roth

• Barbara Rowan

• Rosamond Royal

• Nan Ryan

• Nancy Henderson Ryan

• Patricia Ryan

• Rachel Ryan

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• Lynsay Sands

• Robin Schone

• Alicia Scott

• Janey Scott

• Sara Seale

• Alexandra Sellers

• Anya Seton

• Jill Shalvis

• Merry Shannon

• Maggie Shayne

• Jill Sheldon

• Sidney Sheldon

• Suzanne Sherrill

• Valerie Sherwood

• Gena Showalter

• Anita Shreve

• Linnea Sinclair

• Rebecca Sinclair

• Nalini Singh

• Susan Sizemore

• Christina Skye

• Bertrice Small

• Lass Small

• Barbara Dawson Smith

• Joan Smith

• Karen Rose Smith

• Alexandra Sokoloff

• Teresa Southwick

• Nicholas Sparks

• Terry Spear

• LaVyrle Spencer

• Erin St. Claire

• Lael St. James (pen name of Linda Lael Miller)

• Danielle Steel

• Jessica Steele

• Sharon Stephens

• Mariah Stewart

• Mary Stewart

• Bram Stoker

• Katherine Stone

• Alex Stuart

• Anne Stuart

• Robyn Stuart

• V.A. Stuart

• Vivian Stuart

• Katherine Sutcliffe

• Kari Sutherland

• Shanna Swendson

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• Gladys Taber

• Janelle Taylor

• Jayne Taylor

• Jennifer Taylor

• Corín Tellado

• Sarah Temple

• Cathy Gillen Thacker

• Joyce Thies

• Diane Thomas

• Jodi Thomas

• Rosie Thomas

• Kate Thompson

• Vicki Lewis Thompson

• Elizabeth Thornton

• Kay Thorpe

• Sylvia Thorpe (a pseudonym of June Sylvia Thimblethorpe)

• Jacqueline Topaz

• Betty Trask

• Elizabeth Trehearne

• Jennie Tremaine

• Adriana Trigiani

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• Karen Van der Zee

• Mona Van Wieren

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• Tina Wainscott

• Christian Walford (a pseudonym of Norren Dilcock)

• Elizabeth Walker

• Kate Walker

• Shiloh Walker

• Pamela Wallace

• Vivienne Wallington

• Maggie Walsh

• Sheila Walsh (also known as Sophie Leyton)

• J. R. Ward (also known as Jessica Bird)

• Charlotte Ward

• Linda Warren

• Nancy Warren

• Pat Warren

• Wendy Warren

• Elsie B. Washington (using the pseudonym Rosalind Welles)

• Shannon Waverly

• Margaret Way

• Joanna Wayne

• Anne Weale

• Carrie Weaver

• Ingrid Weaver

• Debra Webb

• Peggy Webb

• Meredith Webber

• Tawny Weber

• Theresa Weir

• Sue-Ellen Welfonder

• Kate Welsh

• Sally Wentworth

• Sophie Weston

• Edith Wharton

• Yvonne Whittal

• Mary Whistler

• Susan Wiggs

• Jane Wilby

• Jennifer Wilde

• Lori Wilde (also writes as Laura Anthony)

• Quinn Wilder

• Gina Ferris Wilkins

• Lee Wilkinson

• Eileen Wilks

• Bronwyn Williams

• Cathy Williams

• Tammy Williams

• Penelope Williamson

• Penn Williamson

• Lauren Willig

• Patricia Wilson

• Kathleen Winsor

• Violet Winspear

• Anne Marie Winston

• Rebecca Winters

• Linda Randall Wisdom

• Joan Wolf

• Barbara Wood

• Sara Wood

• Anne Woodard

• Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

• Sherryl Woods

• Victoria Woolf

• Francesca Wright

• Laura Wright

• Melinda Wright

• Laura Wylie

• Trish Wylie

• Pamela Wynne

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• Jane Yardley

• Rebecca York

• Karen Young

• Mia Zachary

• Carolyn Zane