Love novels
Love novels
About genre
The genre is popular in the US (accounting for 55% of all paperbacks sold in 2004), Europe, Australia. According to a 2014 poll, 13% of those polled in Russia choose them to read - which makes this genre the most popular. Love novels are available in 90 languages.
Most books, however, are written by English-language authors. Despite the popularity and good sales of romance novels, the genre is also often criticized and ridiculed.