We all need a bit of romance in our lives, even if our own relationships aren’t looking like they will end happily ever after. While there be moans and groans about how we don’t need books anymore, there is nothing like an old-fashioned page-turned to buoy your spirits.
Lovestruck’s fave love stories of all time – do you agree?
Get a tissue, and have a read of Lovestruck.com’s top reads:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife’ may not necessarily stand up these days but who cares? Austen spawned the most handsome protagonist of all time with the hunky Mr Darcy.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: This was the author’s only novel and has even have been on the dreaded school exams reading list. However boring it may have seemed then (cue doodling on the desk, writing notes and throwing things at the teacher’s back), the love story between dark and brooding Heathcliff and wild Catherine is a blinder and it deserves another chance. Useless but interesting fact: Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart was inspired by this book!
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje: Most of you have probably seen the 1996 film starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche and while the book is thick and hard-going, it’s worth the effort.
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell: This sweeping novel first published in 1936, pioneered the romance genre. It depicts the experiences of Scarlett O’Hara who falls for the roguish Rhett Butler and will have you weeping into your wine.
The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The most contemporary on our list, this novel tells the story of Clare and Henry, who are soul-mates and are interrupted by Henry’s genetic abnormality, which makes him travel through time. It’s fantastical and heart-warming. A must read!
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Who wants to read about boring families? (Snore) This is literature’s version of Jeremy Kyle set in the 19th century Russia and tells the story of married aristocrat and socialite Anna and her affair with Count Vronsky.
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