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Love and Marriage

Description: Recommend stories of falling in and out of love, tying the knot, then untying it again.

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1

Pride and Prejudice

93,671 members

1,508 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: AnnaClaire, olgakm, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

33,124 members

576 reviews

4.2

8 Members: AnnaClaire, olgakm, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Charlotte Brontë

67,755 members

1,016 reviews

4.2

6 Members: AnnaClaire, olgakm, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

43,919 members

567 reviews

4.1

6 Members: AnnaClaire, sturlington, thecoroner, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

22,278 members

205 reviews

4

5 Members: AnnaClaire, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

25,577 members

405 reviews

3.8

5 Members: AnnaClaire, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

32,781 members

311 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

61,872 members

810 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

29,132 members

598 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: timspalding, merrystar, ahef1963

10

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,658 members

1,301 reviews

3.8

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,652 members

417 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

42,077 members

1,313 reviews

4.1

4 Members: olgakm, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

13

Northanger Abbey

24,912 members

460 reviews

3.8

4 Members: AnnaClaire, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Importance of Being Earnest

12,055 members

195 reviews

4.2

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

14,212 members

312 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

15,267 members

241 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

9,729 members

131 reviews

3.8

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Daphne Du Maurier

23,901 members

685 reviews

4.2

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

11,922 members

270 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

18,797 members

521 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

21,574 members

265 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

22

Wide Sargasso Sea

9,428 members

272 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

6,229 members

71 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

24

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

12,544 members

247 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

25

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,579 members

104 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Gustave Flaubert

29,717 members

426 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

27

by Charles Dickens

15,325 members

274 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by Louisa May Alcott

33,073 members

472 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

29

8,033 members

115 reviews

3.1

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,176 members

633 reviews

4.1

3 Members: timspalding, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

31

by Stephen King

9,717 members

202 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

32

33,431 members

510 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

33

by Walter Scott

14,959 members

138 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: AnnaClaire, thecoroner

34

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

16,317 members

204 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

35

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,942 members

334 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, thecoroner

36

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

12,986 members

211 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

37

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

8,529 members

102 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

38

Mrs. Mike: The Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan

by Benedict Freedman

1,548 members

41 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

39

Daphnis and Chloe

1,295 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: timspalding

40

Les Misérables

30,381 members

379 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: AnnaClaire, thecoroner

41

The French Lieutenant's Woman

7,065 members

109 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

42

by Stephen King

9,084 members

83 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

43

10,337 members

142 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

44

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

17,744 members

392 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

45

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

9,376 members

165 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

46

by Margaret Atwood

18,674 members

577 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

47

by Ann Patchett

14,434 members

482 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

48

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

25,565 members

280 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

49

12,553 members

640 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

50

by Edith Wharton

10,511 members

239 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

51

Water for Elephants

31,462 members

1,215 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

52

The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham

3,807 members

153 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

53

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

21,514 members

221 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

54

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

by Louis De Bernières

8,527 members

159 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

55

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

30,855 members

444 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

56

Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

5,972 members

198 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

57

by Rose Franken

63 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

58

by Boris Pasternak

12,950 members

172 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

59

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

4,179 members

100 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

60

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

24,742 members

303 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

61

The Sorrows of Young Werther

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9,218 members

150 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

62

The Marquis of Roccaverdina

by Luigi Capuana

98 members

3.9

Member: thecoroner

63

by Dante Alighieri

2,571 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

64

Appointment in Samarra

2,017 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

65

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

15,544 members

282 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

66

by Nella Larsen

3,534 members

133 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

67

by Isak Dinesen

5,795 members

111 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

68

by Olive Higgins Prouty

229 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

69

This Sweet Sickness

by Patricia Highsmith

614 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

70

Anna Karenina [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.]

250 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: thecoroner

71

A Good Marriage

by Kimberly McCreight

977 members

44 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

72

by Patricia Highsmith

831 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

73

The Book of Strange New Things

by Michel Faber

2,465 members

143 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

74

Dept. of Speculation

by Jenny Offill

2,428 members

154 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

75

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

26,025 members

477 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: thecoroner

76

Difficult Loves

by Italo Calvino

1,979 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

77

The Sealed Letter

by Emma Donoghue

966 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

78

by E. M. Forster

9,652 members

144 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

79

by Alexander Pushkin

5,154 members

74 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

80

3,044 members

206 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

81

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

17,825 members

356 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

82

A Town Like Alice

4,084 members

150 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

83

Little Children

by Tom Perrotta

3,666 members

111 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

84

Dolores Claiborne

by Stephen King

9,987 members

112 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

85

by Gillian Flynn

26,327 members

1,630 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

86

The Devil in the Flesh

by Raymond Radiguet

1,280 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

87

326 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

88

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

7,429 members

258 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

89

The Silent Wife

by A. S. A. Harrison

2,385 members

142 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: sturlington

90

by Pearl S. Buck

15,279 members

289 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

91

In the Lake of the Woods

3,019 members

79 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

92

The Rosie Project

by Graeme Simsion

8,681 members

591 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963,sturlington

93

by Diana Gabaldon

27,048 members

1,053 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963,sturlington

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July 2013
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