Romance Novels

I’m looking for a sappy teen romance novel?

I sappier the better! But not something by Nicholas Sparks. Something like Sarah Dessen books, but I’ve read all those.

If you know a good sappy romance movie that’d be great too

Any Simone Elkeles book (I suggest the Perfect Chemistry trilogy)

Elizabeth Scott has a lot. I liked Perfect You and Bloom, they’re both good!

The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy by Jenny Han

What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones

If I Stay by Gayle Foreman (which is coming out with an even more romance-based sequel, I believe)

Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers

The Wake series by Lisa McMann

The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Burned by Ellen Hopkins (not the happiest of endings, though, so if you aren’t up for that…)

The Evernight series (it’s a paranormal romance, though, so if you don’t like that, I’d skip it)

Graceling (again, it’s fantasy. Great romance but if you don’t like fantasy, I don’t think you’d like it.)

I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder

I hope you find something out of this

If We Were A Nicholas Sparks Novel (Official Song & Music Video)

Titanic [VHS] $5.59 When the theatrical release of James Cameron’s Titanic was delayed from July to December of 1997, media pundits speculated that Cameron’s $200 million disaster epic would cause the director’s downfall, signal the end of the blockbuster era, and sink Paramount Studios as quickly as the ill-fated luxury liner had sunk on that fateful night of April 14, 1912. Some studio executives were confident, ot…

The Sound of Music [VHS] $4.50 When Julie Andrews sang “The hills are alive with the sound of music” from an Austrian mountaintop in 1965, the most beloved movie musical was born. To be sure, the adaptation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s Broadway hit has never been as universally acclaimed as, say, Singin’ in the Rain. Critics argue that the songs are saccharine (even the songwriters regretted the line “To sing t…

Sommersby [VHS] $0.70 Based on the French film, The Return of Martin Guerre (which itself was based on a famous court case), this 1993 film by director Jon Amiel recasts the same essential story in post-Civil War Tennessee, in a dirt-poor town suffering the effects of the South’s loss. Jodie Foster plays Laurel Sommersby, a widow whose husband died in the Civil War–or so everyone thinks. Then one day, Jack Sommersby (…

Be My Love $5.55 …

The Lucky One $7.99 In his 14th book, bestselling author Nicholas Sparks tells the unforgettable story of a man whose brushes with death lead him to the love of his life. Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks’s new novel believes he’s found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he’s never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny. The chain of events…

The Frog Prince (A Romantic Comedy) $8.99 It was his pheromones that did it. With one sniff, sex researcher Leigh Fromm recognizes that any offspring she might have with the mysterious stranger would have a better-than-average chance of surviving any number of impending pandemics.But when Leigh finds out that the handsome “someone” at her great aunt’s wake is Prince Roman Habsburg von Lorraine of Austria, she suddenly doubt…

A Walk to Remember $9.99 In the prologue to his latest novel, Nicholas Sparks makes the rather presumptuous pledge “first you will smile, and then you will cry,” but sure enough, he delivers the goods. With his calculated ability to throw your heart around like a yo-yo (try out his earlier Message in the Bottle or The Notebook if you really want to stick it to yourself), Sparks pulls us back to the perfect innocence …

The Notebook $3.70 When you consider that old-fashioned tearjerkers are an endangered species in Hollywood, a movie like The Notebook can be embraced without apology. Yes, it’s syrupy sweet and clogged with clichés, and one can only marvel at the irony of Nick Cassavetes directing a weeper that his late father John–whose own films were devoid of saccharine sentiment–would have sneered at. Still, this touchingly i…