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Love and Marriage

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

Members: 9 participating members (show all)

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1
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
70,664 members, 1,248 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: AnnaClaire (1), ahef1963 (1), olgakm (1), merrystar (1), Dilara86 (1), thecoroner (8)

Score: 22.38

2
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
25,130 members, 474 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: AnnaClaire (2), ahef1963 (2), olgakm (2), merrystar (2), Dilara86 (2), thecoroner (27)

Score: 18.57

3
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
51,927 members, 833 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: AnnaClaire (3), olgakm (4), ahef1963 (6), thecoroner (23)

Score: 10.25

4
Emma
by Jane Austen
33,215 members, 462 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: Dilara86 (3), ahef1963 (5), AnnaClaire (6), thecoroner (33)

Score: 9.94

5
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman
22,276 members, 499 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: timspalding (2), ahef1963 (3), merrystar (3)

Score: 9.44

6
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
37,193 members, 1,226 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: olgakm (3), ahef1963 (7), thecoroner (38)

Score: 7.11

7
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
17,489 members, 166 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: AnnaClaire (4), ahef1963 (11), thecoroner (29)

Score: 6.75

8
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
20,024 members, 333 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: AnnaClaire (7), thecoroner (10), ahef1963 (24)

Score: 6.52

9
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
24,914 members, 247 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (2), ahef1963 (4)

Score: 6.19

10
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
44,663 members, 615 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (3), ahef1963 (10)

Score: 5.29

11
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63,447 members, 1,044 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (4), ahef1963 (12)

Score: 4.98

12
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
32,251 members, 341 reviews
3.38 stars (3.38 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (6), ahef1963 (8)

Score: 4.93

13
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
28,903 members, 516 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: timspalding (3), thecoroner (22)

Score: 4.89

14
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
11,410 members, 103 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: AnnaClaire (8), thecoroner (16)

Score: 4.38

15
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
19,068 members, 387 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: AnnaClaire (5), ahef1963 (40)

Score: 4.27

16
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
17,233 members, 231 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13), thecoroner (15)

Score: 4.14

17
Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare
4,824 members, 57 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), thecoroner (26)

Score: 4.08

18
A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
10,056 members, 199 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (13), ahef1963 (18)

Score: 4.05

19
Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand
6,563 members, 71 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (1)

Score: 4

20
Mrs. Mike: The Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan
by Benedict Freedman
1,307 members, 39 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: dara85 (1)

Score: 4

21
Daphnis and Chloe
by Longos
974 members, 15 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: timspalding (1)

Score: 4

22
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
22,748 members, 303 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: AnnaClaire (9), thecoroner (37)

Score: 3.93

23
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
9,989 members, 165 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15), thecoroner (24)

Score: 3.84

24
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
23,538 members, 347 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19), thecoroner (19)

Score: 3.83

25
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
12,100 members, 271 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17), thecoroner (25)

Score: 3.76

26
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
7,824 members, 108 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), thecoroner (36)

Score: 3.63

27
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
12,306 members, 195 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14), thecoroner (43)

Score: 3.63

28
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
7,672 members, 131 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (28), thecoroner (28)

Score: 3.48

29
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
18,069 members, 546 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21), thecoroner (46)

Score: 3.4

30
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
23,980 members, 386 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20), thecoroner (50)

Score: 3.4

31
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
20,044 members, 218 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (29), thecoroner (34)

Score: 3.38

32
Me Before You
by Jojo Moyes
8,087 members, 557 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: dara85 (2)

Score: 3.36

33
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
8,655 members, 196 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (30), thecoroner (35)

Score: 3.35

34
The Painted Veil
by W. Somerset Maugham
3,172 members, 128 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (33), thecoroner (42)

Score: 3.24

35
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
16,926 members, 160 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (34), thecoroner (44)

Score: 3.21

36
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis De Bernières
7,452 members, 144 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (36), thecoroner (47)

Score: 3.16

37
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
12,321 members, 227 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (38), thecoroner (48)

Score: 3.13

38
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
25,348 members, 373 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (42), thecoroner (45)

Score: 3.12

39
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
12,475 members, 280 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (5)

Score: 2.68

40
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
10,051 members, 131 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (7)

Score: 2.46

41
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
20,738 members, 246 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (9)

Score: 2.31

42
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
25,090 members, 392 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (11)

Score: 2.2

43
The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
7,252 members, 108 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (12)

Score: 2.15

44
The Marquis of Roccaverdina
by Luigi Capuana
71 members, 0 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (14)

Score: 2.07

45
Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
10,085 members, 177 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (17)

Score: 1.97

46
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
by Truman Capote
2,356 members, 58 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (18)

Score: 1.94

47
La Vita Nuova
by Dante Alighieri
1,966 members, 23 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (20)

Score: 1.89

48
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
12,409 members, 161 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (21)

Score: 1.87

49
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
14,457 members, 426 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (22)

Score: 1.85

50
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
6,085 members, 97 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23)

Score: 1.83

51
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
9,836 members, 221 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (25)

Score: 1.79

52
Rose Madder
by Stephen King
6,979 members, 64 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (26)

Score: 1.77

53
About a Boy
by Nick Hornby
9,362 members, 133 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (27)

Score: 1.76

54
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
12,528 members, 220 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (30)

Score: 1.71

55
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
15,329 members, 368 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (31)

Score: 1.7

56
Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
4,715 members, 92 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (31)

Score: 1.7

57
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
15,632 members, 503 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32)

Score: 1.68

58
Anna Karenina [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.]
by Leo Tolstoy
212 members, 1 review
4.41 stars (4.41 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (32)

Score: 1.68

59
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
12,296 members, 427 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (35)

Score: 1.65

60
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
5,035 members, 166 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (37)

Score: 1.62

61
Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
26,775 members, 1,142 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (39)

Score: 1.6

62
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
21,179 members, 413 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (39)

Score: 1.6

63
Difficult Loves
by Italo Calvino
1,495 members, 17 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (40)

Score: 1.59

64
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
7,509 members, 222 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (41)

Score: 1.58

65
Eugene Onegin
by Alexander Pushkin
3,995 members, 59 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (41)

Score: 1.58

66
Longbourn
by Jo Baker
2,397 members, 185 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (43)

Score: 1.56

67
The Rosie Project
by Graeme Simsion
6,619 members, 503 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (44)

Score: 1.55

68
A Town Like Alice
by Nevil Shute
3,383 members, 132 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (45)

Score: 1.54

69
Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
20,817 members, 925 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (46)

Score: 1.54

70
The Devil in the Flesh
by Raymond Radiguet
984 members, 19 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (49)

Score: 1.51

71
Lisey's Story
by Stephen King
7,541 members, 187 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Score: 0

72
How to Be Good
by Nick Hornby
7,401 members, 109 reviews
3.15 stars (3.15 stars)

Score: 0

73
Lavinia
by Ursula K. Le Guin
1,856 members, 88 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Score: 0

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