Romance
We love so many books that it’s impossible, and impractical, to try and list them all. We can, however, recommend some of them to you. This list will be updated periodically, so check back every once in a while to see what’s new.
(Updated June 29, 2011)
Shanda’s Recommendations
- Seeking Persephone, Courting Miss Lancaster, The Kiss of a Stranger by Sarah M. Eden (regency romances; very clean)
- Cross My Heart by Julie Wright (contemporary romance; clean)
- My Ridiculous, Romantic Obsessions by Becca Wilhite (contemporary romance; clean)
- The List by Melanie Jacobson (contemporary romance, great summer read; sassy, fun & clean)
- Saving Madeline, Imprints by Rachel Ann Nunes (contemporary romantic-suspense; clean)
- Any fiction book by Dorothy Keddington (contemporary romantic-suspense; a few incidents of a swear word or two, otherwise clean)
- Loyalty’s Web, Illuminations of the Heart by Joyce DiPastena (historical medieval romances set in France; clean)
- Counting Stars, All the Stars in Heaven by Michele Paige Holmes (contemporary romance; clean)
- Captive Heart by Michele Paige Holmes (historical romance; clean)
- Royal Target by Traci Hunter Abramson (contemporary romantic-suspense; clean)
- Hearts in Hiding by Betsy Brannon Green (contemporary romantic mystery-suspense; clean)
- Heart of Stone by Jill Marie Landis (historical romance; Christian elements)
- Counting the Cost by Liz Adair (historical romance- based on author’s family history; an incident of premarital relations with no description, otherwise clean)
- Meg’s Melody by Kaylee Baldwin (debut contemporary romance; clean)
- Makeover, Taking Chances, The Broken Road by Shannon Guymon (contemporary romance; clean)
- Spare Change, Santa Maybe by Aubrey Mace (contemporary romance; clean)
- The Icing on the Cake, Previously Engaged by Elodia Strain (contemporary romance; clean)
- Persuasion by Jane Austen (classic literature; regency romance; clean)
Sheila’s Recommendations
- Counting Stars, All the Stars in Heaven by Michele Paige Holmes
- Cross My Heart by Julie Wright
- Meg’s Melody by Kaylee Baldwin
- Courting Miss Lancaster, Kiss of a Stranger and Seeking Persephone by Sarah M. Eden
- Taking Chances by Shannon Guymon
- To Have or to Hold by Josi Kilpack
- The Independence Club by Rachel Ann Nunes
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Rebound by Heather Justesen
- I’ll Know You By Heart by Kimberley Job
- A Modest Proposal by Michele Ashman Bell
- Hearts in Hiding by Betsy Brannon Green
- Loyalty’s Web, Illuminations of the Heart by Joyce DiPastena
Mindy’s Recommendations
- Shadow Song by Dorothy M. Keddington
- Cross My Heart by Julie Wright
- Courting Miss Lancaster by Sarah M. Eden
- Luck of the Draw by Rachael Renee Anderson