It’s the season of love! Whether you are single, “talking”, in a relationship, or in the “it’s complicated” phase, there are so many great novels that really make you feel the romance and hopefulness of the season!
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
A true classic, Pride and Prejudice is a novel about the search for happiness and self-knowledge. Surviving two centuries and numerous adaptations, the love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy is sure to entrance you. The book illustrates a world of societal rules in which a woman must marry well to survive. As the novel follows Elizabeth's story, she does her best to navigate life, trying to find her place in the world. She struggles with concerns of etiquette, morality, education, and marriage amongst the gentry society. This even involves an enemies to lovers romance, filled with twists and turns at every step.
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Nora Stephens is a workaholic, cutthroat literary agent living in New York. However, she is dragged into a month-long trip to the small town of Sunshine Falls, North Carolina as courtesy of her younger sister. She's heard the trope of "small town transformations" more times than she can count, but she loves her life and job in New York. Or does she? When she runs into Charlie Lastra, a handsome book editor she knows from New York, in Sunshine Falls, she finds herself going through a period of uncertainty, questioning many aspects of the life she thought she enjoyed.
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles is a story set during the Greek Heroic Age. As an adaptation of Homer’s Iliad, it provides the tale from the perspective of Patroclus. The plot revolves around the Trojan War and the many moments before and after in which Patroclus meets and then falls in love with Achilles. This novel shows the striking comfort that love can provide amongst tragedy.
Love & Other Words by Christina Lauren
Described as humble, elegant, and beautiful, this book is a “childhood best friends to lovers” and a “second chance romance” that will enthrall you. Told in alternating timelines between then and now, we get a peek of teenage Elliot and Macy growing as friends to something more as they spend much of their time together. As adults, they have become strangers, reuniting finally through a chance meeting. In order to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade long silence, Elliot will have to overcome the past, and himself, in order to revive her faith in the possibility of all-consuming love.
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