Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: “A chanting cherub adorned the cover of the sugar bucket, and attempts to portray Romeo and Juliet supplied kindling for some time.”
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: “I think it would be lovely to present 'Romeo and Juliet'!"”
The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells: “I always thought there was nothing but 'Hamlet' and 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Macbeth' and 'Richard III.”
Dubliners by James Joyce: “A picture of the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet hung there and beside it was a picture of the two murdered princes in the Tower which Aunt Julia had worked in red, blue and brown wools when she was a girl.”
The History of Mr Polly by H. G. Wells: “The Three Ps went to a performance of "Romeo and Juliet" at the Port Burdock Theatre Royal, and hung over the gallery fascinated.”
The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper: “Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood, as any in Italy; and as soon mov'd to be moody, and as soon moody to be moved. --Romeo and Juliet.”
The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green: “The pink of courtesy." Romeo and Juliet.”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Did you ever hear of a man's growing lean by the reading of "Romeo and Juliet," or blowing his brains out because Desdemona was maligned?”
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens: “Only let him be tolerably well up in the Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet, with the slightest possible dab of red on the tip of his nose, and he'd be certain of three rounds the moment he put his head out of the practicable door in the front grooves O.”
The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy: “But you would not have wished that "Romeo and Juliet" should have ended happily, or that Othello should have discovered the perfidy of his Ancient in time to prevent all fatal consequences?”
The Antiquary by Walter Scott: “Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. Romeo and Juliet.”
Ulysses by James Joyce: “he had written Romeo and Juliet”
The Virginian by Owen Wister: “I have read Romeo and Juliet.”
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence: “We’ll go tomorrow to Verona, and find Romeo and Juliet, and sit in the amphitheatre.”
Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington: “It isn't about you: it's only about Romeo and Juliet.”
The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton: “an open-air rendering of Romeo and Juliet, in which he was to play Romeo”
In Chancery by John Galsworthy: epigraph attributed — Romeo and Juliet
To Let by John Galsworthy: Epigraph: “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.” —Romeo and Juliet.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: “Upstairs in his room the Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet.”
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov: “anybody can flip through a Midsummer-Night's Dream or Romeo and Juliet”
Among Others by Jo Walton: “I’ve only seen Romeo and Juliet, in the Sherman Theatre, with Auntie Teg.”
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “She loves books, especially Romeo and Juliet.”
My Life by Richard Wagner: “a translation of a monologue from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet”
Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: “This girl--she's really a very charming, frank person--had had her imagination fired, so she told me, by a school performance of Romeo and Juliet."”
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann: “when he gave out the opinion that Romeo and Juliet was a piece by Schiller”
Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon: “dropped into the dusty boxes of the theatre to witness the performance of 'Romeo and Juliet;' the heiress of the Capulets being represented by Miss Eliza Percival”
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand: “It was a movie theater and the marquee had letters made of rainbows: Romeo and Juliet.”
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King: ““Romeo and Juliet.” “Merchant of Venice, dummocks,” Crow said.”
Shogun by James Clavell: “"I took my wife to Romeo and Juliet and she liked it very much." He explained the plots to her.”
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein: “I then read the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by Master William Shakespeare of London.”
The Comedians by Graham Greene: “That had been finally wrecked by a college performance of Romeo and Juliet in its very staid French translation.”
Gai-Jin by James Clavell: “...heard the Yokohama Players were putting on a performance of Romeo and Juliet...”
Tai-Pan by James Clavell: “She would have said Romeo and Juliet, but that would have been stupid for she knew that her husband would see instantly through her purpose.”
Another Country by James Baldwin: “'It'd be the biggest battle since the Civil War.' 'Or since Romeo and Juliet,' Belle suggested.”
Contact by Carl Sagan: Chapter epigraph: "—WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Romeo and Juliet" ("Oh, speak again, bright angel...")
Cosmos by Alexander von Humboldt: “Same passage listing Shakespeare's lost-analogy plays: Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet.”
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari: “How much pain and sorrow would have been avoided if instead of drinking poison, Romeo and Juliet could just take a pill or wear a helmet that would have redirected their star-crossed love”
On Literature by Umberto Eco: “the ending is quoted and discussed as a possible stopgap”
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie: “opening epigraph, 'A plague on both your houses.' —MERCUTIO, IN Romeo and Juliet, BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE”
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “As in Romeo and Juliet – a love story dependent on Romeo's quick abandonment of Rosalind”
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe: “Come, weep with me;--past hope, past cure, past help! ROMEO AND JULIET”
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham: “Miss Wilkinson oddly enough had suggested that they should read Romeo and Juliet together; but Philip had firmly declined.”
Waverley by Walter Scott: “'Romeo and Juliet' was selected, and Edward read with taste, feeling, and spirit several scenes from that play.”
John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Mulock Craik: “We finished the morning by reading Shakspeare--Romeo and Juliet--at which the old folio seemed naturally to open.”
The Pirate by Walter Scott: “A torch for me--let wantons, light of heart, Tickle the useless rushes with their heels: For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase-- I'll be a candle-holder, and look on. _Romeo and Juliet._”