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Books That Show Up on "Best Romance" Lists That REALLY Shouldn't Be There

These books are sometimes classified as romance or even erotic books, but unless romance is defined as "extremely messed up, unhealthy, and/or downright abusive relationships," they really shouldn't be considered part of those genres.
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Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca
1
Daphne Du Maurier
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
2
Emily Bronte
Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Tender Is the Night
3
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
4
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
5
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
6
Gustave Flaubert
The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
The French Lieutenant's Woman
7
John Fowles
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
8
Leo Tolstoy
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
9
Margaret Mitchell
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
10
Vladimir Nabokov
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