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14 Books About Love

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Happy Valentine’s Day!! There are so many wonderful love stories in literature it’s hard to pick just a handful to highlight on this auspicious yet pretty commercial day. We thought the best approach would be to show how many different kinds of love there are, something for everyone really. [SPOILER ALERT for some books!]

Rough Start Love - Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen: So the first run-in wasn’t the best, you don’t really know someone until you give them a chance.

Love in the Face of Adversity (or: There’s a Crazy Lady in the Attic)Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: Jane knows who she is and what she wants and she isn’t willing to compromise. Though it’s a hard fought battle, she eventually ends up with the one she loves without being polygamous or marrying her half cousin.

Love That Would Have BeenAtonement by Ian McEwan: Cecilia and Robbie’s love was complicated to say the least and though it wasn’t meant to be, the life that Briony laid out for them was redeeming.

Magical LoveThe Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern: Literally, magical love. Two competing magicians fall for each other at a wondrous, ephemeral circus.

Long Distance LoveThe Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffeneger: What distance is longer than the one through time? Claire and Henry made it work in their own heartbreaking way.

 Are We Friends? LoveOne Day by  David Nicholls: Emma and Dexter are the epitome of not seeing the forest for the trees. Over 20 years we follow their friendship/loveship/relationship.

Just As You Are LoveBridget Jones’ s Diary by Helen Fielding: Bridget is less than successful at most things: her career, cooking, not sleeping with Daniel Cleaver but Mark Darcy doesn’t care. And in the end, don’t we all want to be with someone who loves us just as we are?

Young LoveEleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell: High school was the best/worst time and reliving falling in love for the first time through the eyes of Eleanor and Park is spectacularly accurate.

Lost LovesWake by Anna Hope: On the surface this novel is about war and it’s devastating effects on everyone it touches. But beneath that it is love, love for a brother, a son or a partner that propels this story to it’s fantastic finish.

Long Term LoveThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce: Harold’s journey to Queenie is one of love, though not the romantic kind, and of self discovery.

Soul Mate Love - The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg – This graphic novel tells the story of two lovers desperate to be together but destined to never touch.

Quirky LoveThe Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion: These are two people who don’t go together on paper, but over time they grow on each other in a way that is charming, adorable and wonderful.

Saucy LoveS.E.C.R.E.T by L. Marie Adeline: Cassie discovers a new life for herself when she joins, S∙E∙C∙R∙E∙T, an underground society dedicated to helping women realize their wildest, most intimate sexual fantasies.

Under Cover LoveLongbourn by Jo Baker: Sarah is just a maid in the Bennet house (yes, those Bennet’s.) When a new horseman named James arrives under mysterious circumstances, Sarah must navigate the social conventions of her time to unravel his past and her feelings for him.

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