Here is a short list of some of these romantic movies we have available at the library. Put your holds on them now, to have them available to watch on Valentine's Day!
Gone With the Wind
It Happened One Night
Casablanca
Adam's Rib
Born Yesterday (Not the library catalog, but a wonderful romantic comedy!)
Roman Holiday
An Affair to Remember
Sabrina
The Apartment
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
The Sound of Music
Love Story
Annie Hall
When Harry Met Sally
Pretty Woman
Princess Bride
Sleepless in Seattle
Titanic
Shakespeare in Love
Amelie
The Notebook
Waitress
He's Just Not that Into You
The Five Year Engagement
Hope Springs
This is but a few wonderful romantic movies. Let us know if your favorite romantic movie didn't make it onto our list in the comments section. Or check out these links that claim to list the greatest romantic movies of all time:
The 50 most romantic movies of all time (Time Out)
50 Greatest Romantic Movies (AMC)
The Top 15 Greatest Romantic Comedies (TCM)
These books of love poems, love letters, and love memoirs are fun to look through this time of year:
Will You Marry Me?: Seven Centuries of Love edited by Helene Scheu-Riesz
The Vow: The True Events That Inspired the Movie by Kim and Krickett Carpenter
Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 by Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson
Two Rings: A Story of Love and War by Millie Werber and Eve Keller
Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion compiled by Michelle Lovric
The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time edited by Leslie Pockell
The Erotic Spirit: An Anthology of Poems of Sensuality, Love, and Longing edited by Sam Hamill
I love novels about people falling in love that are not paperback romance novels. Here is a short list of my favorites:
Forty Rules of Love: A Novel by Elif Shafak
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats: A Novel by Jan-Philipp Sendker
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