Five top literary romance titles

Alison Doherty is a writing teacher and part time assistant professor living in Brooklyn, New York. She has an MFA from The New School in writing for children and teenagers. She loves writing about books on the Internet, listening to audiobooks on the subway, and reading anything with a twisty plot or a happily ever after.

At Book Riot she tagged five top literary romance novels, including:

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

This genre-bending sci-fi sapphic love story features time-traveling spies from warring empires. Red and Blue jump from timeline to timeline and universe to universe. They start out on opposite sides, but start leaving each other messages that slowly morph from adversarial to friendly to loving. Through the letters they write each other, the book takes on a lyrical and often philosophical quality. At just under 200 pages, it’s a short read that will keep your mind occupied with big thoughts long after you finish.

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue