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Great love stories

From Regency drawing rooms to BookTok — the love stories readers can't put down.

Curated by Naila Karim· 13 books

01
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
4.7
Scarlett O'Hara survives the collapse of her whole world by refusing, ever, to stay down.
02
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
4.7
Two teenagers meet in a cancer support group and refuse to be a tragedy.
03
It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover
4.8
A love story that turns into the harder story of leaving one — BookTok's defining novel.
04
The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune
4.4
A caseworker audits an orphanage of magical children — including the Antichrist, age six — and finds a home.
05
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
4.6
A fishing-village girl becomes Kyoto's most celebrated geisha — art, rivalry, and a life that was never hers to choose.
06
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
4.6
The blueprint: wit first, love after.
07
Normal People
Sally Rooney
4.4
Two people who keep finding, and losing, each other.
08
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
4.4
You know how Troy ends. You'll hope anyway.
09
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
4.6
Seven marriages; one love story underneath.
10
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
4.5
Love negotiated as equals — or not at all.
11
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
4.4
Love as force of nature, mercy not included.
12
Beach Read
Emily Henry
4.5
A romance novelist who stopped believing in love, a literary rival next door, and one summer to swap genres.
13
Eat Pray Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
4.5
Italy, India, Indonesia — one year of putting a life back together, 12 million readers along for the trip.

Gone with the Wind