14 Romance Books For People Who Hate Romance Novels

Anton DiSclafani's coming-of-age tale The Yonahlossee Riding Camp For Girls pulls you in with the mysterious past of a girl sent off to a riding camp for wealthy Southern girls during the Great Depression. Following this far-from-perfect heroine as she flashes back to the memories that haunt her and ends up tempting fate with a forbidden love affair made this a book I couldn't put down.

Love quote: "I knew what it was like to want, to desire so intensely you were willing to throw everything else into its fire."