Seeking specific recommendations

Hi all, I'm looking for examples of literary novels from the 20th or 21st centuries with compelling romance plots or subplots. My parameters: nothing in the romance genre itself, no sci-fi/fantasy, no crime/etc, no YA. No judgement, I'm just really specifically looking to survey the field of realist adult fiction. I figured crowdsourcing answers would do better than messing around on google, and I want to know *why* you like these books, what about the romance had you hooked, etc.

An easy contemporary example is Sally Rooney's novels, but I'd like to really get an idea of what's out there, and look into things that are a little more obscure.

Thanks! :-)

Have you tried our Book Recommendations group?
https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/23175/Book-Recommendations-Requests

gilroy Thank you, hadn't seen that! I'll cross-post there.