Anyone have suggests on a romance novel I should read next?

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (I like to call it the Australian version of Gone with the Wind)

Edit: there is a mini-serial of it too ... the sort of thing you invite your girlfriends over and watch while eating ice cream ha ha. I wish I could get a copy so I can do just that!

Since you have read Pillars of the Earth, read its sequel World Without End

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger

Song of the Sound by Adam Armstrong

Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen

Wizard's First Rule is the greatest love story I have ever read, but it is a fantasy. Albeit, a well written fantasy that feels like you are reading a great novel rather than a hard-to-read/comprehend poetic epic, like many fantasy books are.

The story has many amazing aspects to it, but I found myself most engrossed by the heart-aching love story.\

P.S. This isn't a love story that involves much courting, but it does have flirting, and it definitely has scenes that will make you hot and bothered. In a tasteful way, though, of course.

I'm always pushing Jane Austen's novels : Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense & Sensibility etc. The language is a bit archaic of course, but not like reading Shakespeare. Georgette Heyer's work is a more modern version.