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Romantic Tearjerkers

Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Anna and the King by Margaret Landon

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

Born Free by Joy Adamson

Bridges of Madison County by Robert J. Waller

Camille by Alexander Dumas

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis DeBerniaeres

Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks

Cider House Rules by John Irving

Color Purple by Alice Walker

Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Dying Young by Marti Liembach

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Endless Love by Scott Spencer

End of the Affair by Graham Greene

English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye

Field of Dreams by W. P. Kinsella

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom

French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg

From Here to Eternity by James Jones

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey

Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans

House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann

Iris by John Bayley

Ironweed by William Kennedy

It's a Wonderful Life by Philip Van Doren Stern

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien

Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Long Hot Summer by William Faulkner (based on the novel "The Hamlet")

Love Story by Erich Segal

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton

Mermaids by Patty Dann

Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The Natural by Bernard Malamud

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

Passage to India by E. M. Forester

Pay it Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

Rambling Rose by Calder Willingham

Reds by John Reed

Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Return of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis

Revenge by Jim Harrison

Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Sarah, Plain & Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson

Sommersby see Return of Martin Guerre

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

Spartacus by Howard Fast

Splendor in the Grass by William Inge

Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling

Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

To Dance with the White Dog by Terry Kay

Unbearable Lightness of Being by M. Kundera

Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan

Walk in the Clouds by D. Chiel

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Romantic Comedies

The Apartment by Billy Wilder

Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd

Cocoon by David Saperstein

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Emma by Jane Austen

Father of the Bride by Edward Streeter

First Wives Club by Olivia Goldsmith

Goodbye Girl by Neil Simon

Indiscreet by Norman Krasna (based on the novel "Kind Sir")

It Happened One Night by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Mrs. Doubtfire by Anna Fine

Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry

Play It Again Sam by Woody Allen

The Princess Bride by William Golding

The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

Romancing the Stone by Diane Thomas

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin

Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell

Shrek by William Steig

Someone Like You by Laura Zigman (based on the novel "Animal Husbandry")

To Catch a Thief by David Dodge

Drama

All Creatures Great and Small byJames Herriott

All Quiet on the Western Front by Eric M. Remarque

Along Came a Spider by James Patterson

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Billy Budd by Herman Melville

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden

Blade Runner by Philip K. Dick (based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep")

Blue Angel by Heinrich Mann

Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

Boys From Brazil by Ira Levin

Camille by Alexander Dumas

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy

Coma by Robin Cook

Conan the Barbarian by Robert Ervine Howard

Contact by Carl Sagan

Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

Crucible by Arthur Miller

Cry Freedom by Donald Woods (based on the novel "Biko")

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Michard

Dinotopia by James Gurney

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

Doll's House by Henrick Ibsen

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins

The Elephant Man by Ashley Montague

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

The Firm by John Grisham

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton (based on the novel "Angel Street")

Gilda by E.A. Ellington

Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Good Earth by Pearl Buck

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great Santini by Pat Conroy

The Green Mile by Stephen King

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Haunting by Shirley Jackson's "Haunting of Hill House"

Hercule Poirot series by Agatha Christie

Henry V by William Shakespeare

Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Howard's End by E.M. Forster

Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Interview With A Vampire by Anne Rice

Iris by John Bayley

Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

Jaws by Peter Benchley

The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott

Journey by Patricia MacLachlan

Jurassic Park by Michael Creighton

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

L. A. Confidential by James Ellroy

Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien

Left Behind by Jenkins and LaHaye

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Man in the Iron Mask by Alexander Dumas

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Midnight Express by William Hayes & William Hoffer

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Miss Marple series by Agatha Christie

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham

My Left Foot by Christy Brown

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

1984 by George Orwell

North and South by John Jakes

Odd Couple by Neil Simon

The Odyssey by Homer

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Patriot Games by Tom Clancy

Pelican Brief by John Grisham

Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Remembrance by Danielle Steel

Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Rich Man Poor Man by Irwin Shaw

Rider's of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

Roots by Alex Haley

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodges Burnett

Shadow Riders by Louis L'Amour

Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

The Shining by Stephen King

Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

Tamarind Seed by Evelyn Anthony

Tess by Thomas Hardy

13th Warrior by Michael Crichton

Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas

Tim by Colleen McCullough

Time Machine by H.G. Wells

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Veiled Lady by Agatha Christie

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum

Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford

Year of Living Dangerously by C.J. Koch

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