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Love Triangles in Literature

Description: Books that feature the ever-popular love triangle. Who gets the girl (or boy)?

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by Charlotte Brontë

59,358 members

924 reviews

4.2

8 Members: roby72, merrystar, souloftherose, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, kiran2, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,564 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

6 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

13,688 members

221 reviews

½ 3.5

6 Members: hipdeep, inge87, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Edith Wharton

9,541 members

217 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: inge87, roby72, merrystar, souloftherose, thecoroner, ahef1963

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22,647 members

360 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

19,278 members

248 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, merrystar, souloftherose, thecoroner, ahef1963

7

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,983 members

302 reviews

4

5 Members: roby72, merrystar, souloftherose, thecoroner, Dilara86

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by Pearl S. Buck

13,926 members

264 reviews

4

5 Members: dara85, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, ahef1963

9

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

6,566 members

172 reviews

3.9

5 Members: hipdeep, roby72, merrystar, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Gustave Flaubert

26,347 members

389 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, ahef1963

11

24,214 members

379 reviews

4

4 Members: aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

12

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,525 members

384 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, souloftherose, Dilara86, ahef1963

13

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

11,240 members

224 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, ahef1963

14

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

10,743 members

100 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

7,608 members

169 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, merrystar, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

3,487 members

133 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by León Tolstói

38,666 members

632 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, souloftherose, thecoroner

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by George Eliot

17,818 members

331 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

12,988 members

184 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

20

Like Water for Chocolate

by Laura Esquivel

11,912 members

257 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, thecoroner, cej1027

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by E. M. Forster

8,815 members

133 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Daniel Defoe

7,718 members

102 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

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The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,559 members

108 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

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The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

4,810 members

115 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner

25

The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

2,528 members

42 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

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1,974 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: souloftherose, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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Les Misérables

26,417 members

341 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: roby72, merrystar

28

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,952 members

370 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

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by Boris Pasternak

11,486 members

152 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

30

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

10,189 members

141 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

31

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,513 members

255 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

32

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,076 members

181 reviews

4

2 Members: inge87, ManWithAnAgenda

33

8,000 members

85 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

34

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

6,816 members

247 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

35

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

6,514 members

87 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

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by Jodi Picoult

5,886 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

37

A Spot of Bother

5,768 members

185 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

38

The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene

5,095 members

84 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

39

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,917 members

46 reviews

½ 4.6

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

40

Clouds of Witness

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,673 members

102 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, merrystar

41

Thérèse Raquin

3,165 members

80 reviews

3.8

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

42

Can You Forgive Her?

by Anthony Trollope

2,356 members

59 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, souloftherose

43

A Month in the Country

2,330 members

120 reviews

4.2

2 Members: inge87, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Elective Affinities

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2,032 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

45

The Pursuit of Love

by Nancy Mitford

1,951 members

70 reviews

3.9

2 Members: inge87, merrystar

46

The Devil in the Flesh

by Raymond Radiguet

1,124 members

22 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

47

The Man in the Wooden Hat

1,018 members

48 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, souloftherose

48

He Knew He Was Right

by Anthony Trollope

987 members

28 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, ManWithAnAgenda

49

Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart

by Chrétien de Troyes

615 members

7 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, Dilara86

50

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

22,555 members

275 reviews

4

Member: roby72

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by Margaret Atwood

17,025 members

538 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

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Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,267 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

53

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

11,423 members

198 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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11,055 members

173 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

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The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

11,038 members

194 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

56

The Portrait of a Lady

10,794 members

125 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

The Red and the Black

9,550 members

136 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

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9,376 members

225 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Dilara86

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by Stephen King

8,940 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

by John le Carré

8,498 members

232 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

61

American Pastoral

8,099 members

180 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

62

The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy

7,955 members

92 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

63

The Pilot's Wife

by Anita Shreve

7,691 members

122 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

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7,455 members

193 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: thecoroner

65

The Robber Bride

by Margaret Atwood

7,404 members

132 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

66

The Mermaid Chair

by Sue Monk Kidd

6,887 members

185 reviews

3.1

Member: dara85

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The Human Stain

6,596 members

97 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

68

The Bridges of Madison County

by Robert James Waller

6,491 members

101 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

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by Neal Stephenson

6,486 members

78 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

70

6,172 members

110 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: roby72

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The House at Riverton

5,450 members

249 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

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5,219 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

73

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

4,424 members

89 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

74

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

by Vladimir Nabokov

4,025 members

65 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

75

Notes on a Scandal

3,096 members

105 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: roby72

76

by James Patterson

2,834 members

69 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

77

The Golden Bowl

2,765 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: inge87

78

by Honoré de Balzac

2,268 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

79

by Theodor Fontane

2,220 members

32 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

80

by Abbé Prévost

2,039 members

51 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: thecoroner

81

The Owl Service

1,963 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

by Arthur Schnitzler

1,849 members

28 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

83

1,821 members

21 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

84

A Soldier of the Great War

by Mark Helprin

1,791 members

37 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

85

Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath

by Sigrid Undset

1,728 members

38 reviews

4.1

Member: inge87

86

Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England

1,231 members

34 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

87

Fire in the Blood

by Irène Némirovsky

1,229 members

57 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

88

The Awakening and Selected Stories

1,207 members

15 reviews

3.9

Member: Dilara86

89

Chéri and The Last of Chéri

1,012 members

18 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

90

The Sealed Letter

by Emma Donoghue

900 members

47 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: souloftherose

91

by Hanif Kureishi

867 members

18 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Dilara86

92

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

626 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

93

Someone at a Distance

by Dorothy Whipple

614 members

26 reviews

4.2

Member: souloftherose

94

The Weather in the Streets

by Rosamond Lehmann

562 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: souloftherose

95

Thy Neighbor's Wife

468 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

96

The Ballad of Tom Dooley

by Sharyn McCrumb

355 members

42 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

97

A Pin to See the Peepshow

by F. Tennyson Jesse

234 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: souloftherose

98

Love, Anger, Madness

by Marie Vieux-Chauvet

224 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Dilara86

99

120 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: roby72

100

A Heritage and its History

by Ivy Compton-Burnett

114 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: roby72

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July 2013
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