Genre Mash: RTW x Romance

Participating in Read the World this year? Hear are some of our most romantic picks.

Updated April 14, 2026
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The map of love
Soueif, Ahdaf
Paper Book
A story of two love affairs separated by 100 years. It tells of a widow from colonialist Britain who travels to the Middle East in 1900 where she meets and falls in love with an Egyptian nationalist, and how two of their descendants meet in America in 1997 and try to investigate their past.

RTW Africa (Egypt)

Changes : a love story
Aidoo, Ama Ata
Paper Book
Changes explores the complex world in which the lives of professional working women have changed sharply, but the cultural assumptions of men's lives have not. Witty and compelling, Aidoo's novel, according to Manthia Diawara, "inaugurates a new realist style in African literature." "Aidoo writes...

RTW Africa (Ghana)

Sense and sensibility
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel (1811), introduced its readers to many of the themes which would dominate Austen's future work. On one level it is a simple story of two sisters finding fulfilment within a society bounded by regulations and restrictions. But on another it...

RTW Europe (U.K.)

Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
Esquivel, Laura
Paper Book
La icónica novela de Laura Esquivel cobra vida en una apasionante serie romántica en HBO Max, producida por Salma Hayek Pinault y ambientada en la Revolución Mexicana. Terrenal, mágico y absolutamente encantador, este relato de la vida familiar en el México finisecular se convirtió,...

RTW North America (Mexico)

Malinche
Esquivel, Laura
Paper Book
From the international bestselling author of Like Water for Chocolate comes an extraordinary new historical novel about a passionate and tragic love affair during the conquest of the Aztecs.

RTW North America (Mexico)

The thorn birds
McCullough, Colleen
Paper Book
Colleen McCullough's sweeping saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback has enthralled readers the world over. This is the chronicle of three generations of Clearys, ranchers carving lives from a beautiful, hard land while contending with the bitterness,...

RTW Oceania (Australia)

The house of the spirits
Allende, Isabel
Paper Book
Chilean writer Isabel Allende's classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country's turbulent history. In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too...

RTW South America (Chile)

Love in the time of cholera
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Paper Book
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives together for more than fifty years. In the story of Florentino Ariza, who waits more than half a century to declare his undying...

RTW South America (Colombia)


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