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Katherine Center

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Katherine Center is an American novelist who writes contemporary fiction about people putting themselves back together, and who has become one of the more reliable bestsellers in the category. Several of her books have been adapted for film. She is unusually willing to defend romance as a serious form rather than apologise for it, and her own reading runs from Jane Austen through to the behavioural science of why people fall in love at all.

2 books · Updated August 2026 As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
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Beach Read

by Emily Henry · 2020

“Emily Henry is one of the all-time greats, and this contemporary romance is my favorite of hers. Two writers, one a writer of literary fiction, the other a romance writer, wind up summering next door to each other as they work on their novels. The sparring between them is unbeatable.” Source, June 2026
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Persuasion

by Jane Austen · 1817

“This is my all-time favorite Jane Austen novel and hands-down favorite literary love story. The romantic angst and the longing that Anne Elliott feels as the man she rejected, Captain Wentworth, shows back up in her life, still angry, it's a feast of love agony. Totally page-turning!” Source, June 2026
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