
With Valentine's Day approaching we thought we'd put together a list of romantic reads (ooh la la, hubba hubba, etc). We started off with a handful of books chosen by Readings staff and put the call out to our Facebook fans and Twitter followers this morning, looking for more suggestions.
In the end we've come up with a pretty solid list of books. It's not a list of love stories or ideal endings only. Many of the books feature tragedy and heartbreak. But all, are romantic in some way or another. Thanks for everyone who added a book to the list.
So here they are. A list of romantic reads, as compiled by Readings staff, fans, followers and customers:
- Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
- One Day by David Nicholls
- Just Kids by Patti Smith
- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Beauty And Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Addition by Toni Jordan
- The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
- Holding The Man by Timothy Conigrave
- The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
- A Song For Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Essays In Love by Alain de Botton
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- The Story Of A Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
- She Came To Stay by Simone De Beauvoir
- South Of The Border, West Of The Sun by Haruki Murakami
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
- Paper Towns by John Green
- Venus As A Boy by Luke Sutherland
- A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
- The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- A Room With A View by E.M. Forster
- Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
- Here On Earth by Alice Hoffman
See the full list of romatic reads.
And stay tuned tomorrow when we compile another Valentiney list - this time looking at break-up books.