Um, I would recommend "Romeo and Juliet", if you haven't read it. No vampires, last time I checked.

You should read Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell and The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough!!!
as for me, these are two greatest love stories ever!!!!
also Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is awesome!
you could also try some of Jane Austen novels!
no fantasy, no vampires, just love =)

If you like love stories, and still a bit of supernatural. start with kelley armstrong's saga 'the women of the other world', first one is called bitten

I loved "The Morning Gift" by Eva Ibbotson it's a beautiful book, though it is YA fiction by the way.

I've noticed a lot of people recommending the classics-- and the classics are beautiful reads! But if you're not feeling literary, and just want a fun, sweet romantic read, my suggestion is Ella Enchanted. I read this book in ninth grade, and before that I wasn't really interested in romance at all, but I found myself really getting into Ella's story.

It's another Cinderella story in a way, if you're unfamiliar with the movie (the book is much better, of course, as usual). When she was a baby she was cursed (or according to the fairy who cursed her, "gifted") with absolute obedience. If anyone gave her an order, then she had to obey it. But despite this, Ella grows into a precocious and defiant child and meets Prince Charmont, who first becomes her friend, and later her first love.

It doesn't have any vampires, but it does exist in the fairy tale realm. Unfortunately, I still don't read many straight-romance books. But I would actually recommend against Romeo and Juliet. It's one of Shakespeare's worst plays and, tragically, is also his most famous. If you want to read a Shakespearean love story, my recommendation would be Much Ado About Nothing. It's a much more interesting plot with (two!) much more believable romances.

As for classic romance, I would second the Gone With the Wind recommendation. It's a fabulously intricate story about a driven women torn between the two loves of her lives-- Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler. She's married to Rhett, but Ashley is married to Melanie and, for some reason, Scarlet can't help but constantly pursue him, which changes all her relationships.

I love classics, and the ones the others mentioned are great!! but I read a book a couple of years ago and I just felt in love with it.. it´s ¨By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept¨ by Paulo Coelho... I read it in spanish but it´s also in english... It´s really beautiful book
Hope you like it too!!

Like all the other responses, all the classics are brilliant, and alongside the Brontes and Jane Austen I would definitely recommend Mrs Gaskell's 'North and South' or 'Mary Barton'. Also, although it is YA fiction, another good love story is 'Soul Love', by Lynda Waterhouse. Finally, if you are willing to read a saga, there is the 'Outlander' series by Diana Gabaldon, starting with 'Cross Stitch'. Each book tells of the epic (and time-travelling) love story between a 1940s nurse and an 18th Century Scotsman, set in the Scottish Highlnds. (A little warning - these books made me cry!)

Have you read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte,A Beggar at the Gate by Thalassa Ali or Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

The Noughts & crosses series are all great reads by Malorie Blackman. And as everyone else has said the classics and also a great series I love, a Japanese love story beginning with Across The Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn. The Time Travelers Wife is great too by Audrey Niffenegger. Or even Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden has a love story within it :)

Well, if you want a classic than I would suggest - Wuthering Heights
- Sense and Sensibility; and
- Pride and Prejudice.
Which are all Favourites of mine. Oh, and there is always 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' but that is not your classic Romance novel... is rather sad!

If your after something a bit more recent, than I enjoyed 'The Time Travelers Wife' though it is a bit like a fantasy it is still a really different Romance.
Theres:
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Summer of Roses by Luanne Rice
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Um, yeah hope that helped a little if you still looking for a Romance novel and if you have not read them :D :D

Jack Weyland's books are pretty good, like Charly, Sam, Brittany, Kimberly, Jake.... he's written lots and they're all great love stories, no fantasy, just fiction.

Sarah Dessen has really good books. My favorite is this lulaby and just listen. also Bloom and Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott are really good too. Oh and Beastly by Alex Filnn is a amazing romance story. its like a modern Beauty and the beast.

I loved reading this book, based on a true story and even though you know whats gonna happen the author does a fantastic job in making it as if you dont know what is gonna happen around the corner.

The story is told through Helen's POV :)

my friend said kissed by anf angel was really good

You should really try some of Nicholas Sparks books, they are so sweet and romantic. Try "Message in a Bottle" "The Notebook" "The Wedding" and "A walk to remember".. There has been made a movie of "The Notebook" and "A walk to remember", and they are really great to:)

you should really read "This Lullaby" by Sarah Dessen, or any book by her all of them are really good love stories, they will make you laugh, and maybe even cry.

Starcrossed‎
by Mark Schreiber is really good.
here's the storyline: How can Christy Marlowe--a wise-cracking horoscope junkie--be in love with Ben, a well-mannered college freshman? Their fateful first meeting takes place at a plastic surgeon's office, where both plan to erase unwanted tattoos along with painful memories. Burying the past isn't easy, and soon their romance is ensnared in secrets and lies. Starcrossed or starmates, can Christy and Ben find their way back to truth and trust?

Persuasion by Jane Austen still my fave to this day!

Jane Austen is, in my mind, the goddess of romances! So anything by her would be great.

Also, (not so classic though) "A Victorian Christmas Cottage" by Jeri Odell, Catherine Palmer, Debra White Smith and Peggy Stoks is great. It's four different stories in the same book. I read it last Christmas, and loved it!

And finally, you can never go wrong with "The Princess Bride"! XD That was originally written by S. Morgenstern, but I recommend reading the abridged version by William Goldman.

No vampires, no "fantasy". Just true love!

This author that I really enjoy is new and is great, its not vamps more grim reapers and its a love story but not all mushy lots of things going on, me and my friends really like it. You can read the first 45 pages on the site too! :) It's called Wingless

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/wingless/7678705

Well, I'm not really that much about romance novels without a bit of fantasy or something else like a historical angle. But here are my suggestions anyway:
'The Birth of Venus' and 'In the Company of the Courtesan' by Sarah Dunant (takes place in Renaissance Italy)
'The Dark Queen', 'The Courtesan' and 'The Silver Rose' by Susan Carroll (these are with a small part of fantasy)
'Hija de la Fortuna' by Isabel Allende (I don't know the correct English title, but it means The Daughter of Luck and takes place in Chile and California)
'The Year the Horses Came' by Mary Mackey
'The Girl Who Played Go' by Shan Sa
'Brief Candles' by Alan E. Fisher (Takes place in Skt. Petersburg during the Russian Revolution)
'Les Miserables' by Victor Hugo (I can't believe that nobody else suggested it)
'Doctor Zivago' by Boris Pasternak
'The Other Boleyn Girl' by Philipa Gregory (the book is better than the movie!)
And even if you don't like Fantasy I strongly recommend all books by Tamora Pierce and Lian Hearn.

Hope I have been of some help :)