I am not ashamed of loving women’s romance novels. Romance readers read often and read widely. Perhaps the discomfort modern literary culture has is not in the content of romance fiction, but in the quietly, structurally political nature of romance fiction: it is inherently conservative. What Contemporary Literature Has Lost, And Why Romance EnduresMore than anything, romance novels focus on the Happily Ever After ending, or the HEA. So I am not ashamed of loving women’s romance novels.