TOP 20 LOVE NOVELS

TOP 20 LOVE NOVELS

(1) Love Story by Erich Segal. Love means never having to say you're sorry... He is Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law. She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe. Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny immediately attract, sharing a love that defies everything ... yet will end too soon. A love that will linger in your heart now and forever....amazon.... Love Story

(2) Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks. If you thought The Notebook was a tearjerker, get out the hankies, pull up a chair, and get ready to have your heart monkey-wrenched by Nicholas Sparks's second star-crossed love story, Message in a Bottle. When Theresa Osborne takes a much-needed summer holiday at Cape Cod, she finds a lot more than a break from the hustle and bustle. On an early-morning jog along Cape Cod Bay, she comes across a corked bottle with a scrolled-up message inside that reads, "My Dearest Catherine, I miss you, my darling, as I always do, but today is especially hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together..." It bobbles around in the same vein for several more paragraphs and ends with "...am alone on the pier and I do not care what others think as I bow my head and cry and cry and cry. Garret."....amazon.... Message in a Bottle

(3) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Wuthering Heights

(4) The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough. The Thorn Birds

(5) The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. "Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love.".... The Notebook

(6) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre

(7) Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies

(8) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. In Outlander, a 600-page time-travel romance, strong-willed and sensual Claire Randall leads a double life with a husband in one century, and a lover in another. Torn between fidelity and desire, she struggles to understand the pure intent of her heart....amazon.... Outlander

(9) Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Love in the Time of Cholera

(10) A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks. first you will smile, and then you will cry.... A Walk to Remember

(11) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead

(12) Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson. Written on the Body

(13) Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet (Bantam Classic)

(14) The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as World War II ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. In lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael Ondaatje weaves these characters together, pulls them tight, then unravels the threads with unsettling acumen....amazon.... The English Patient

(15) My Antonia by Willa Cather. My Antonia

(16) Mistral's Daughter by Judith Krantz. Mistral's Daughter

(17) Persuasion by Jane Austen. Persuasion (Modern Library Classics)

(18) Love in Another Town by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Love in Another Town

(19) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice

(20) A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Farewell To Arms

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