With this list of the most famous love books we want to help you find your favorite story. These are works that have transcended time for the quality with which they were written and for dealing with such a universal theme.
Who does not feel identified with a great love story? The truth is a subject that very few could not be interested in.
Throughout history, the best love books or, as they are often colloquially called, romance novels have quenched the thirst of readers looking to be thrilled with love stories tailored to their needs.
It is a genre that, without a doubt, still has a lot to offer to the public and that is why it seems important to us that you start today to catch up with these readings.
Perhaps the opinions are diverse regarding this top 10, but the books that we will briefly review, coincide in many specialized lists, for a reason. So let’s get started!
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#1 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
We could not fail to include the most famous love tragedy in the world. Who does not have a reference about this couple who love each other to death? Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most idealized couple of all times.
The plot is simple but not superficial. The Capulets and Montagues are feuding families who will sacrifice the lives of some of their members to keep their feud alive.
Juliet is a Capulet and Romeo is a Motesco. Both fall madly in love, but a series of tragic events and misunderstandings begin to fork their paths. They can only be united under the shadow of death.Intense, isn’t it? Well, it’s a tragic love story that is also quite romantic. If you haven’t yet read it from Shakespeare’s own pen, do it right now.
#2 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
We could not fail to include the most famous love tragedy in the world. Who does not have a reference about this couple who love each other to death? Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most idealized couple of all times.
The plot is simple but not superficial. The Capulets and Montagues are feuding families who will sacrifice the lives of some of their members to keep their feud alive.
Juliet is a Capulet and Romeo is a Motesco. Both fall madly in love, but a series of tragic events and misunderstandings begin to fork their paths. They can only be united under the shadow of death.Intense, isn’t it? Well, it’s a tragic love story that is also quite romantic. If you haven’t yet read it from Shakespeare’s own pen, do it right now.
#3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
A love story that grips from beginning to end. Its protagonists, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy will have to face the obstacles of the English society of the early nineteenth century.
She comes from a country family, he is a man with a lot of money, they face a series of misunderstandings that will feed pride, but also passion.
If anything is clear in this romantic novel, it is that prejudice can damage anyone’s life and that love can overcome social conventions.
Elizabeth is a very intelligent female protagonist with a sense of humor. The reading of this work is very nourishing and profitable for those who allow themselves to be caught by the classics. We invite you to read it, putting aside pride and discarding prejudices.
#4 Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoi
A love story set in the Russian society of the late 19th century. Anna Karenina is the wife of a high official and aristocrat of St. Petersburg.Her brother begins to have problems in his marriage, so our protagonist decides to travel to Moscow to try to avoid divorce.
It is on that trip that she meets Vronski, a young militant with whom she falls in love at first sight. Anna Karenina’s life begins to get complicated, because when she returns to St. Petersburg, Vronski follows her and she cannot avoid falling into infidelity.
What follows is a strong social condemnation that the beautiful woman will not be able to cope with, to the point of driving her to suicide. Another intense novel that leaves us conflicted throughout its pages.
#5 The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
It tells a tragic love story between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, from the perspective of Nick Carraway, who is in charge of bringing the couple together, with the small detail that she is married. Gatsby is a mysterious millionaire who is Nick’s neighbor.
Although Daisy’s husband, Tom, is also unfaithful to her, the affair is still not remotely accepted by him.
A car accident, caused by Daisy, takes the life of Myrtle, her husband’s mistress. But, it is Gatsby who will be held responsible. This triggers an even worse tragedy. And so much entanglement could not end in any other way.
This book was published in 1925 and portrays very well the American society of that decade. It is a novel where the excesses of the life of the rich people of the East Coast are reflected. We recommend it with eyes closed.
#6 Like water for chocolate by Laura Esquivel
It is one of the most representative novels of magical realism, after Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.
It tells the story of the intense and voracious love of Tita and Pedro, who, due to certain social conventions, were unable to consummate their love while they were young.
Tita was the youngest of Elena’s daughters. For Mexican society at the beginning of the 20th century, in the midst of the Mexican revolution, being the youngest daughter meant taking care of her mother until death. For this reason, Tita could not marry Pedro.
Pedro, just to have her around, agrees to marry Gertrudis, Tita’s older sister. There will begin the torture of both, who after many years, manage to consummate their love, after the death of Elena and Gertrudis.You will not regret witnessing this plot full of gastronomic smells, humor and pain. This work was published in 1989, obtaining quick success among the readers of the time.
#7 Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza had a brief romance by letters when they were teenagers. But, as fate would have it, they are separated by many kilometers of distance for a few years.
After the separation, Fermina decides to continue with her life, but Florentino falls in love with her, unable to forget her. Although she returns to the town where they met, she does not want to go back to him.
Florentino never loved anyone else again, even though he had dozens of lovers. Fermina married Dr. Juvenal Urbino, who adored her. He was a good husband and she had a peaceful marriage.
When her husband died, Fermina was free, although she was already a sexagenarian. Old age did not discourage Florentino, who went on the prowl again, this time unwilling to lose her.
After more than 50 years, they manage to consummate their love while traveling on a boat, aimlessly. You can’t deny that this is an incredible love story. You will fall in love with it, we assure you.
#8 Doctor Zhivago by Borís Pasternak
Another classic of Russian literature, this time framed in the First World War and the Russian revolution of the early twentieth century. Its protagonist, Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago, a young doctor begins a journey he never imagined.
After starting a family with his wife Tonia, he has to go on a medical mission in the war. There he meets a nurse named Larisa, also married, with whom he falls in love.
When he returns home, all was hunger and misery, so they decide to go to the countryside to live from planting. On his trips to the village, Yuri meets Larisa again and they start a relationship. However, this relationship ends because the nurse’s husband returns.
Yuri is captured and separated from his family for a few years. When he returns, he realizes that they have gone to Paris. While trying to reunite with Tonia, he meets another woman with whom he has several children. Finally, Yuri dies on a train. The truth is that he cannot say that he did not live love intensely and in all its forms.
This novel is peculiar, as it is written in verses of high level, of an inimitable beauty that won Pasternak the Nobel Prize for literature. Although he turned it down due to governmental pressure.
#9 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Charles Bovary is a widowed doctor who is dazzled by Emma Bovary and asks her to marry him. She accepts and becomes Madame Bovary. Soon, her married life begins to seem tedious and boring.
Due to her constant reading of romance novels, Emma has a rather idealized conception of relationships. This makes her detest her purposeless, emotionless life.
Seeking novelty for his wife, Charles moves with her to Yonville. There, Emma meets Léon Dupuis, who captivates her as a reader of her books.
They fall madly in love with each other, but when it becomes impossible for them to be together, Léon decides to leave town.
Later, she meets Rodolphe Boulanger with whom she has a brief romance. She decides to run away with him, but he leaves her in the lurch. At the same time, Madame Bovary falls into terrible debt with a moneylender.
Seeing her situation and feeling at a dead end, she decides to end her life, leaving her daughter and husband with a mortgaged life. Do you dare to read it?
#10 Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell
Yes, it is a book, even if the movie is the one many remember. This great story of love and pain is set during the American Civil War. It is the only significant book published by the writer, but she did not need to write more to catapult herself to fame.
This is a work of art of 1,037 pages, according to internet data. The plot begins in 1861, when the war breaks out, and tells the story of Scarlett O’hara, the most beautiful and vain young woman in the region.
She is in love with Ashley Wilkes, but it will be an impossible love, since he marries her cousin. Rhett Butler also enters the scene, who desires her, but she finds him rude and vulgar.
For revenge, she marries Ashley’s wife’s brother and has a child, but is soon widowed. The war gradually takes away the life she knew so far, making her go through a profound transformation.
This novel is one of those books you must read before you die.
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