SUGGESTIONS - Clean Romance Books *List on Page 1*

[michelleranae]

Hi! I am having the hardest time finding good clean romances, and especially since I have found Stephenie! Nothing else even comes close to the make-me-want-to-melt fall in love again feeling I get from Edward...and Jacob !

I was wondering if anyone has some suggestions. I don't like wading through sex scenes, I'd rather it be left up to imagination!

I just re-read Autsenland by Shannon Hale (excellent, by the way!) and got a little fix. I am LDS so I'd love some LDS recommendations too! I recently read Sariah Wilson's 2 books "Desire of Our Hearts" and "Secrets in Zarahemla" (I wish she had more, she is up there with Stephenie in romance writing IMO!).

Thanks!

MOD UPDATE: We're going to start an on-going list of everything posted in here so y'all can find all the great suggestions nice and quick!

A Bride in the Bargain by Deanne Gist
A Bride Most Begrudgingly by Deeanne Gist
A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
Anita Stansfield
Austenland by Shannon Hale
Bookends by Liz Curtis Higgs
Catherine Gaskin
Rosamund Pilcher
Completely Smitten by Kristin Grayson
Dee Henderson
Desire of Our Hearts by Sariah Wilson
Enchanted Inc. series by Shanna Swendson
Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Garden Spells by Sara Addison Allen
Goose Girl series by Shannon Hale
Grace Livingston Hill
Hearts in Hiding by Betsy Brannon Green
Homebody by Orson Scott Card
How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend by Janette Rallison
Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
It's a Mall World by Janette Rallison
Jack Weyland
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Last Bite by Nancy Verde Barr
Linda Windsor
Liz Curtis Higgs
Love Comes Softly by Jannete Oke
Love Overboard by Janet Evanovich
Manhunt by Janet Evanovich
Nicholas Sparks
Nora Roberts
Patricia Veryan
Poison Study by Maria V Snyder
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rather series by C.A. Belmond
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Robin McKinley
Secrets in Zarahemla by Sariah Wilson
Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Simply Irresistible by Kristin Grayson
Smitten by Janet Evanovich
Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson
Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Sugar Queen by Sara Addison Allen
The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale
The Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Baxter Family series by Karen Kingsbury
The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
The Camelot series by Sarah Zettel
The Christie Miller series by Deeanne Gist
The Glennbrooke series by Robin Jones Gunn
The Little Lady Agency series by Hester Browne
The Mark of the Lion series by Francine Rivers
The Measure of a Lady by Deeanne Gist
The Mitford series by Jan Karon
The Princess and the Hound by Mette Ivie Harrison
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Princess by Lori Wick
The Sevenwaters trilogy by Juliet Marillier
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
These Is My Words by Nancy Turner
Tigers Curse by Colleen Houck
Treasure Box by Orson Scott Card
Utterly Charming by Kristin Grayson
Vampires Rule by K. C. Blake
Victoria Holt
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier

[cometomama]

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card

[michelleranae]

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card

I have this book!!! I saw that you mentioned it a couple times in another thread and I was going to ask you about it. I actually started it in January but the whole beginning was kind of hard to get through, so I put it away for a while.

Should I start it again immediately? :wink:

[cometomama]

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card

I have this book!!! I saw that you mentioned it a couple times in another thread and I was going to ask you about it. I actually started it in January but the whole beginning was kind of hard to get through, so I put it away for a while.

Should I start it again immediately? :wink:

It took me a few chapters to get into it, but it was SO worth it. Read on, my friend! Read on!

Janet Evanovich wrote a series of what could be called "fluff romance" novels before she became the author of the Stephanie Plum novels. They are quick little 200 + page books; fast, sweet romance novels... there is some premarital stuff going on, but they always get married in the end! And she's not a graphic romantic writer, either. They're cute... Love Overboard, Smitten and Manhunt are the ones I remember.

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card

I just finished it this morning. It is very hard to get in to, but by 1/3 the way through I could not put it down. The only reason I did not finish it last night was that I was falling asleep reading it. There are very gratuitious sex comments, leaves nothing to the imagination IMO, but then it was written by a man. I think most of his books are more male oriented, but I am a sucker for a romance in any form.

[flaherty1013]

You could try A Certain Slant of Light (very minor, almost nothing love scene).

Or, read the Goose Girl series written by Shannon Hale.

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card

I just finished it this morning. It is very hard to get in to, but by 1/3 the way through I could not put it down. The only reason I did not finish it last night was that I was falling asleep reading it. There are very gratuitious sex comments, leaves nothing to the imagination IMO, but then it was written by a man. I think most of his books are more male oriented, but I am a sucker for a romance in any form.

Came back to clarify...it wasn't the sex scene, as that was hot and not graphic, just lustful and inspiring and they were married! but I think more of the language and the way the people talked back then, but then it probably is true to they way the did talk, so I just have baby ears and don't like to think like that. The book was really good and apparently I was not offended as I continued to read.

[inspiredbytwilight]

I love all of Nicholas Sparks' books. There is always one bedroom scene in them but other than that they are pretty clean (except for a walk to remember that didn't have a bedroom scene).

[1DRTWINS]

If you like teen books, Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr is really good. It's a tad bit steamier than Stephenie's stuff, but nowhere near an adult romance.

[michelleranae]

Thank you all for your suggestions! I'm definintely going to check some of these out!

I just finished reading Enchantment. I thought it was really good! I should have stuck with it the first time! Well worth it!

[KissTheMoon]

Janet Evanovich wrote a series of what could be called "fluff romance" novels before she became the author of the Stephanie Plum novels. They are quick little 200 + page books; fast, sweet romance novels... there is some premarital stuff going on, but they always get married in the end! And she's not a graphic romantic writer, either. They're cute... Love Overboard, Smitten and Manhunt are the ones I remember.

I agree. i love these books....but will puta warning that there is strong language.

Theres an LDS author, i can not for the life of me remember his name. But my Grandma used to buy us his books all the time. i loved them. ( and i'm not LDS)

If i think of it.....i'll let you know.

EDIT: Okay i remembered. Jack Weyland!