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ROMANCE NOVELS / INSPIRATIONS

Charlotte Bronte, “Jane Eyre”
Sandra Brown, (most anything written by her)
Emma Chase, “Tangled”
Laura Drake, “The Sweet Spot”
Linda Howard, “After the Night”
Laura Kinsale, “Flowers from the Storm”
Lisa Kleypas, “The Devil in Winter”
Margaret Mitchell, “Gone with the Wind”
Jojo Moyes, “Me Before You”
David Nicholls, “One Day”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, “It Had to be You”
Francine Rivers, “Redeeming Love” and her Mark of the Lion series
LaVyrle Spencer, “Bittersweet” & “The Gamble”
J. R. Ward, “Bourbon Kings” series
Whitney G., “Reasonable Doubt”

FILMS

500 Days of Summer (2009)
About a Boy (2002)
Atonement (2007)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1960)
Casablanca (1942)
Crazy Stupid Love (2011)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Enough Said (2013)
Four Weddings and A Funeral (1994)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Jane Eyre, (2011) and all adaptations
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Sabrina (1954)
Sierra Burgess Is a Big Loser (Netflix, 2018)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
The Apartment (1960)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Cutting Edge (1992)
The English Patient (1998)
The Long Hot Summer (1958)
The Notebook (2004)
The Princess Bride (1987)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Wuthering Heights (2009), other adaptations

TV
Downton Abbey
Poldark
The Walking Dead
Younger

More Favorites
Caleb Carr’s novel, “The Alienist”
Game of Thrones
Fixer Upper
Hell or High Water (2016)
Justified
L. A. Confidential (1997)
Love It or List It
Mad Men
Sicario (2015)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Verdict (1980)