Skip to main content

Love and Marriage

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

Rank Title Author Added

1

Pride and Prejudice

94,120 members

1,512 reviews

½ 4.4

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

2

33,274 members

576 reviews

4.2

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

3

by Charlotte Brontë

68,015 members

1,017 reviews

4.2

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

4

44,148 members

570 reviews

4.1

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

5

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

22,347 members

203 reviews

4

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

6

25,689 members

403 reviews

3.8

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

7

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

32,903 members

308 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,154 members

812 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

29,316 members

600 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: timspalding, merrystar, ahef1963

10

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,968 members

1,304 reviews

3.8

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,816 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

42,074 members

1,313 reviews

4.1

4 Members: olgakm, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

13

Northanger Abbey

25,013 members

463 reviews

3.8

4 Members: AnnaClaire, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Importance of Being Earnest

12,100 members

196 reviews

4.2

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

14,256 members

313 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

15,330 members

242 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

9,761 members

131 reviews

3.8

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Daphne Du Maurier

23,962 members

686 reviews

4.2

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

11,976 members

271 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

19,185 members

524 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

21,646 members

264 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

22

Wide Sargasso Sea

9,468 members

273 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

12,599 members

246 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

25

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,589 members

104 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Gustave Flaubert

29,833 members

428 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

27

by Charles Dickens

15,371 members

273 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by Louisa May Alcott

33,233 members

473 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

29

8,031 members

115 reviews

3.1

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,296 members

635 reviews

4.1

3 Members: timspalding, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

31

by Stephen King

9,751 members

202 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

32

33,591 members

511 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

33

by Walter Scott

15,041 members

137 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: AnnaClaire, thecoroner

34

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

16,390 members

207 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

35

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,819 members

336 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, thecoroner

36

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

13,012 members

212 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

37

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

8,553 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

30,650 members

380 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: AnnaClaire, thecoroner

41

The French Lieutenant's Woman

7,090 members

109 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

42

by Stephen King

9,130 members

83 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

43

10,352 members

142 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

44

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

17,773 members

391 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

45

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

9,416 members

165 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

46

by Margaret Atwood

18,824 members

577 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

47

by Ann Patchett

14,471 members

482 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

48

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

25,691 members

281 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

49

12,656 members

641 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

50

by Edith Wharton

10,666 members

241 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

51

Water for Elephants

31,539 members

1,216 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

52

The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham

3,813 members

154 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

53

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

21,579 members

222 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

54

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

by Louis De Bernières

8,534 members

159 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

55

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

30,943 members

445 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

56

Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

5,983 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

12,990 members

172 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

59

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

4,187 members

101 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

60

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

24,899 members

305 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

61

The Sorrows of Young Werther

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9,245 members

151 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

62

The Marquis of Roccaverdina

by Luigi Capuana

99 members

3.9

Member: thecoroner

63

by Dante Alighieri

2,578 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

64

Appointment in Samarra

2,018 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

65

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

15,594 members

282 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

66

by Nella Larsen

3,569 members

133 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

67

by Isak Dinesen

5,814 members

111 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

68

by Olive Higgins Prouty

230 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.]

249 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: thecoroner

71

A Good Marriage

by Kimberly McCreight

981 members

44 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

72

by Patricia Highsmith

839 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

73

The Book of Strange New Things

by Michel Faber

2,469 members

142 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

74

Dept. of Speculation

by Jenny Offill

2,444 members

155 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

75

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

26,043 members

477 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: thecoroner

76

Difficult Loves

by Italo Calvino

1,986 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

77

The Sealed Letter

by Emma Donoghue

968 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

78

by E. M. Forster

9,668 members

144 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

79

by Alexander Pushkin

5,176 members

74 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

80

3,052 members

206 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

81

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

17,882 members

356 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

82

A Town Like Alice

4,102 members

150 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

83

Little Children

by Tom Perrotta

3,661 members

111 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

84

Dolores Claiborne

by Stephen King

10,032 members

112 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

85

by Gillian Flynn

26,229 members

1,636 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

86

The Devil in the Flesh

by Raymond Radiguet

1,287 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

87

329 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

88

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

7,444 members

259 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

89

The Silent Wife

by A. S. A. Harrison

2,391 members

142 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: sturlington

90

by Pearl S. Buck

15,319 members

290 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

91

In the Lake of the Woods

3,056 members

79 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

92

The Rosie Project

by Graeme Simsion

8,736 members

593 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963,sturlington

93

by Diana Gabaldon

27,159 members

1,054 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963,sturlington

About This List

Started: sturlington
July 2013
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

Related Lists

Favorite Literary Love Stories

Favourite Love Stories

Anti-heroines in fiction

Books in Riverdale

In-Yun: Historias de Amores Escritos en las Estrellas

Best Book and Movie Combos

Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

Rory Gilmore Challenge 1-100

Current Discussions

None

Related Tags

19th century (13,285) 20th century (6,073) American literature (6,541) British (7,198) British literature (7,377) classic (33,266) classic literature (4,536) classics (37,522) drama (5,044) ebook (4,981) England (8,669) English (4,218) English literature (7,529) fantasy (6,205) fiction (130,502) historical fiction (13,811) Kindle (4,776) literature (23,347) love (5,791) novel (22,569) own (6,246) read (15,920) romance (22,008) to-read (59,494) unread (5,515)

Verdana Standard Verdana Small The Lorax System Standard System Large Georgia Large Text Atkinson