Top 10 Love Story Books
1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell This was the first book I read that took me on that journey. Rhett Butler's slow, cool attention to Sca...
1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
This was the first book I read that took me on that journey. Rhett Butler’s slow, cool attention to Scarlett thru such a lot of the novel, and the frightful moment when he stops loving her, and she realizes she is doing, in reality, love him, had me feverishly begging destiny, or Margaret Mitchell to arbitrate. My copy was battered and tear-stained when the book was completed.
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront
Jane Eyre was answerable for a badly judged belief in the power of romance that difficult my teen years. The concept that you might lean out of your window and murmur your lover’s name, and he might essentially hear you, appealed to me too much.
3. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Who can ever forget the instant when Tess fails to find the letter which has been pushed under her door? The scene is sealed into the hearts of millions of readers around the planet.
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
most likely the best novel ever written. Tolstoy captures the rollercoaster arc of Anna’s fervour for Vronsky, and shows us the impossibility of her love ever being a match for what she’s lost.
The scenes between her and her little child whom she must desert, are saddening in their restraint, and it’s these moments you remember, when Vronsky’s ardour begins to fade.
5. Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
It’s tough to beat a Russian love story, particularly this classic story, set against the background of war, but Zhivago’s love for Lara and the surprising chance they need to re-kindle their enthusiasm when destiny throws them together exiled, is troublesome to fight.
6. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Like consuming the most tasty treat. An acutely funny novel, it is told from the viewpoint of Fanny whose mummy “The Bolter”, has left her to be brought up by an aunt.She spends much of her time with her cousins, the eccentric, glamorous Radletts, and it’s Linda Radlett a composite of Mitford and her sisters whose search for the ideal companion is at the center of this fantastic book.
7. The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
First broadcast in 1936, this was years before its time in its outline of a young woman’s affair with a married man. Lehmann takes you on her journey the waiting, the bright moments of hope without ever permitting you to lose sympathy for any of the characters. Eager and fully truthful in its portrayal of how love can overwhelm your life.
8. Unused Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
In this collection of stories, Lahiri gives us 3 linked stories. Hema and Kaushik are 2 Bengali US citizens whose elders were buddies when they were young and who meet by chance in Rome. They are drawn to one another, irresistibly, although Hema is getting ready to be married. As the feelings between them increase, you are consumed with hankering for them to take bravery and change the course of their lives. But then fate or nature arbitrates, and the agony of the ending had me gasping in physical agony.
9. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
A many marooned novel about solitude and the possibilities missed in love. Alma, a 15-year-old girl tries to sound correct of her life after her father’s death by unwinding the tale of the novel her mum is translating.This stunning, funny and puzzling story draws its characters together in the extremely unlikely but life-affirming way.
10. One Day by David Nicholls
Following the tale of Emma and Dexter thru twenty years of fellowship, obsession, missed opportunities, badly judged marriages and eventual coming together, this is a brilliantly structured, rabid and finally saddening book.
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