The intent of this list is to provide a list of works of fiction or poetry written in the romantic literary style.

Romanticism is the conceptual school of art. It deals, not with the random trivia of the day, but with the timeless, fundamental, universal problems and values of human existence. It does not record or photograph; it creates and projects. It is concerned—in the words of Aristotle—not with things as they are, but with things as they might be and ought to be.
—Ayn Rand, "Introduction to The Fountainhead,”
The Objectivist, March 1968


(The list isn’t for the genre of romance novels or works on the philosophy of Romanticism. There are lists for those elsewhere.)
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message 1: by Nikos (new)

Nikos Gouliaros I respectfully disagree with the title, introduction, and much of the top content of this list. The featured definition refers to the idiosyncratic use of the term by Ayn Rand in the mid-20th century, which bears little connection to the much earlier literary and cultural movement, and of course is nowhere mentioned in the linked Wikipedia article or major literary histories.


message 2: by Dean (last edited Mar 19, 2024 04:51AM) (new)

Dean You are welcome to propose a better title, introduction, definition, and even your own list. I’d be interested to read these. As for the books in the list and their ranking, Goodreads has set this up to be democratic in that as the number of votes there are for a book increases, the ranking increases. In other words, the books listed at the top have the most votes.


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