Nonfiction About Romance Fiction
1. 
Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels
by:
Sarah Wendell
3.94 avg rating — 1,656 ratings 
3. 
Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained
by:
Maya Rodale
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 612 ratings 4. 
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
by:
Jayne Ann Krentz
3.91 avg rating — 417 ratings 5. 
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature
by:
Janice A. Radway
3.82 avg rating — 655 ratings 
7. 
Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels
by:
Sarah Wendell
3.62 avg rating — 615 ratings 
10. 
The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs
by:
Joanna Bowring
3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings 
12. 
Hard-Core Romance: "Fifty Shades of Grey," Best-Sellers, and Society
by:
Eva Illouz
3.52 avg rating — 263 ratings 14. 
Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present
by:
John Markert
3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings 
16. 
Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre (Genreflecting Advisory Series)
by:
Kristin Ramsdell
3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings 17. 
When Flesh Becomes Word: An Anthology of Early Eighteenth-Century Libertine Literature 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
19. 
Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity
by:
Lisa Fletcher
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 20. 
21. 
The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity
by:
Carol Thurston
4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings 22. 
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Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965 3.81 avg rating — 262 ratings
25. 
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood
by:
Ellen F. Brown
4.12 avg rating — 481 ratings 
27. 
Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Wind 3.66 avg rating — 188 ratings
29. 
Love on the Racks: A History of American Romance Comics
by:
Michelle Nolan
4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings 30. 
Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 93 ratings
36. 
The Twilight of the Gothic?: Vampire Fiction and the Rise of the Paranormal Romance
by:
Joseph Crawford
4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings 
38. 
Talking Sense About 'Fifty Shades of Grey', or, Fanfiction, Feminism, and BDSM
by:
John Lennard
3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings 38. 
Loving with a Vengeance: Mass Produced Fantasies for Women
by:
Tania Modleski
3.80 avg rating — 104 ratings 40. 
Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women
by:
Jan Cohn
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 41. 
Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
41. 
The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993
by:
Lori A. Paige
3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings 43. 
Happily Ever After: A Guide to Reading Interests in Romance Fiction
by:
Kristin Ramsdell
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 
45.
Where's Love Gone: Transformations in the Romance Genre
by:
Kay Mussell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 46. 
The Happily Ever After: A Memoir of an Unlikely Romance Novelist
by:
Avi Steinberg
3.44 avg rating — 94 ratings 46. 
Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters
by:
Jessica P. Pryde
4.27 avg rating — 449 ratings 48. 
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Love Lines: A Romance Reader's Guide to Printed Pleasures really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
50. 
Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance
by:
Paul Grescoe
3.42 avg rating — 24 ratings 52. 
Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality
by:
Catherine Salmon
3.21 avg rating — 47 ratings 
57. 
Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women's Romance Fiction
by:
Kay Mussell
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings 58. 
Good-Bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women's Category Romances 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
59. 
Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969
by:
Jaye Zimet
3.98 avg rating — 122 ratings 
61. 
Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel
by:
Amy S. Pattee
3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings 62. 
Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis
by:
Phyllis M. Betz
2.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 
64. 
Romance Reader's Advisory: The Librarian's Guide to Love in the Stacks 3.26 avg rating — 31 ratings
65. 
Heart & Craft: Bestselling Romance Writers Share their Secrets with You
by:
Valerie Parv
4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings 66.
The romantic novel: a survey of reading habits
by:
Peter H. Mann
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
