arundelo comments on October 2012 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion
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Disclaimer: I have read very little romance. Also I'm not particularly into the dominance/submission dynamic.
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is the O.G. of romance novels. It's funny and engaging and has well-drawn characters. No dominance stuff though.
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind is a good read (with obvious cultural baggage) that has a bit of this dynamic between Rhett and Scarlett.
Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is not a romance per se, but the romantic subplot is full of power games.
Rand is a love-or-hate author. If you read the first chapter and you don't like it you probably won't like the rest. If you decide not to read the whole book, though, then before putting it down you might as well skip ahead to the (in)famous scene in Chapter II of Part 2. Trigger warning for sex that a fly on the wall would find indistinguishable from rape.
Hmm, maybe I'll read P&P since it comes free on the Kindle.