I've done so much serious reading lately that I need a break!

Here's a link to a list of the top 100 romance novels as compiled by readers. Pretty decent website, my wife says. http://www.likesbooks.com/top1002007results.html  Maybe you can find something there.

Les

No need to be ashamed! I know a Civil Rights attorney who reads nothing for pleasure but romances. Like you, she thinks they rest her brain.

Have no shame... We all like diff genres. I just love the term "bodice ripper" it's so funny :0)

I think there is a specific forum group for this type as well on here

One of my favorites is Amanda Quick's Ravished. 

No shame... huge bodice riper fan... I recommend Elizabeth Hoyt's "Prince" series... heavy on the ripping and dern good plots to! :)

Any book by Amanda Quick will fit the bill.   Great characters.

Thanks for the recs everyone.

I'm not really into that type of book but the movie P.S. does something for me and it's based on the book P.S. by Helen Schulman

Sorry for the second post but according to the review on here I guess the book is more explicit http://www.paperbackswap.com/book/details/9781582342085-PS+A+Novel  This copy is not in the system but another on is there I noticed.

You should never be ashamed of what you like. I have no rec's for you Ive never read a bodice ripper that I can think of at least. Now if you want graphic violence gore and blood I can help you out ;)

I'll admit, I liked Topher Grace in P.S.=)

When I was deployed, I got hooked on Julia Quinn and Nora Roberts.  Neither are really bodice ripper authors, but both are really fun reads.

Wait Crusies are bodice rippers? Well then Ive read several bodice rippers. Her books are roll around in the floor laughing funny.

To me, bodice ripper is usually the plot where the two main characters don't get along and he kind of forces it along, if you get my drift.  But I think that was more in the 70's/80's....Luke & Laura on General Hospital had a modern day bodice ripper storyline, if you remember it.  They were pretty popular then.  The current historical romances that I've read are not the same - no "Me Tarzan, You Jane" to them.  More soft romance and events leading up to the Big Event.  And some would say, "As it should be!"  :) 

I just finished the first of the Royal Brotherhood books by Sabrina Jeffries. I highly recommend it.

Jenn

Penelope and Prince Charming by Jennifer Ashley comes to mind to me! Good book!

Sweet Savage Love Rosemary Rogers

Ginny and Steve....oh I loved those books.  I think I will have to go back and read them again!!

No Shame Allowed.  Those are some of my favorite romances.  Classics :) They don't make true bodice rippers much anymore.    When I'm in the mood I go to halfpricebooks and look for the old used romance I can find.  Only problem is they never get requested on here much. 

Some favorite authors: Jude Deveraux, Julie Garwood, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Johanna Lindsey, and older Catherine Coulter

For Bodice rippers I tend to think of Johanna Lindsay, Catherine Coulter, Jude Devereaux, Linda Howard or Elizabeth Lowell.  I've read a bunch of Julie Garwood and I don't remember any of them having "forced seduction".  For more politically correct historicals my faves are: Julia Quinn, Jillian Hunter, Kresley Cole, Deborah Macgillavray, Monica McCarty,

I used to shun romances too. In High School I read Kurt Vonneget and a lot of classics. But now I love them. I was surprised at how good the plots on some these are.  I'm hooked.