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The 45 best romance novels to read and fall in love with

If you like to enjoy great love stories while reading a good book. Here we propose a list of 45 romantic novels, ordered from best to worst.

It is a selection that contains classic love books and also contemporary novels of the genre in which, in addition, we indicate why we recommend them.

1. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice book cover

Year: 1813
Pages: 500
Why we recommend it: love and marriage constitute the main themes of the plot. The protagonist does not attend to social conventions about marriage and is carried away by her own desire to find love.

Pride and prejudice is a key novel of the early nineteenth century. The work caused a sensation at the time as a plea against the marriage of convenience in the bourgeois society of the time.

Elizabeth Bennet is a young woman who, like her five sisters, must marry so that she can receive her family inheritance when her father dies. However, the girl is determined to marry for love and not for imposition. Soon Darcy, Mr. Bingley's friend, appears in her path, a wealthy man who has just arrived in the region and establishes himself as a neighbor of the Bennet family.

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2. The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah

The nightingale book cover

Year: 2016
Pages: 592
Why we recommend it: presents a very emotional story that deals with themes such as love, survival and freedom, through the gaze of two women who fought against Nazism.

This novel is set in France, during World War II. Vianne lives with her family and her husband has to leave to fight at the front. When the Nazis invade France, Vienne will be forced to risk everything, even living with the enemy, to protect her daughter.

Meanwhile, Isabelle, Vianne's sister, falls in love with Gaëton, a partisan for whom she joins the resistance to fight the war.

3. Edenbrooke, by Julianne Donaldson

Edenbrooke book cover

Year: 2010
Pages: 448
Why we recommend it: This book contains a beautiful love story that manages to capture the reader thanks to the first-person narration.

Edenbrooke centers on the character of Marianne Daventry, a young woman who is tired of her boring life in Bath and is dying to lose sight of a suitor in whom she has no interest. He soon receives an invitation from her sister, from whom she was separated as a child when they were orphaned, to spend time with her at the Edenbrooke estate. There the young woman will be involved in a romantic love story.

4. We in the Moon, by Alice Kellen

Book Cover We on the Moon

Year: 477
Pages: 2020
Why we recommend it: presents a love story that arises from a fleeting encounter and that manages to trap the reader to the point of not being able to overcome it.

The protagonists of this story, Rhys and Ginger, have a fleeting encounter in Paris. Although their paths immediately part. She lives in London and he does not stop seeing the world. Since then they have not stopped sending emails, through which a story of love and friendship between them has grown.

5. The Bronze Horseman, by Paullina Simons

Book cover The Bronze Horseman

Year: 2000
Pages: 784
Why we recommend it: amid the disaster of war, this novel contains a beautiful love story that has the task of overcoming adversity.

It is the first book of the homonymous romantic trilogy and is set in Leningrad in 1941. When Hitler's army is about to invade the city, young Tatiana falls in love with Alexander, a lieutenant in the Red Army. However, the couple have to deal with the tensions of a warlike environment and Desha, Tatiana's sister, who is interested in young Alexander.

6. Call me by your name, by James Ivory

Cover of the book Call me by your name

Year: 2007
Pages: 280
Why we recommend it: This novel recalls the first love, the ephemeral summer romances that always remain in the memory.

In an Italian town, during the eighties, Elio's family welcomed Oliver, aged 23, into their home. years, an American writer who is doing an exchange program there in the months of summer. During the writer's stay, the young Elio feels attracted to him and wonders if he will be reciprocated.

The novel also features an Oscar-winning film adaptation of the same name for best adapted screenplay.

7. Outsider (Outlander Saga), by Diana Gabaldon

La Forastera book cover

Year: 1991
Pages: 704
Why we recommend it: offers a romantic love story capable of overcoming space-time barriers.

It is the first book that makes up the well-known saga Outlander. The novel is contextualized in 1945, at the end of World War II, and focuses on Claire Randall, a nurse who participated in the contest, who is going on a honeymoon with her husband to Scotland.

During an excursion, the young woman approaches some stones that make up a circle. This serves as a portal to travel to another era and is transported to Scotland in 1743. Soon, the girl meets a man she falls in love with and she will have to decide whether to stay there or go back to her time.

8. Hopscotch, by Julio Cortázar

Hopscotch book cover

Year: 1963
Pages: 752
Why we recommend it: is a novel that explores the theme of frustrated love between two very different personalities.

This classic of contemporary literature tells the story of turbulent love between Horacio Oliveira and La Maga (Lucía). It is a work that breaks with the traditional narrative and its structure allows different readings, giving rise to different interpretations by the reader.

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9. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

Book Cover Gone with the Wind

Year: 1936
Pages: 1037
Why we recommend it: Obsession and ambition are present in this novel that presents an atypical and fascinating love story that teaches us that not all endings are happy.

It is an epic story set in 1861, in the middle of the Civil War. Scarlett O'Hara is a capricious young woman who is in love with Ashley Wilkes, her cousin Melania's fiancé. For his part, Rhett Butler is interested in Scarlett. But the girl accepts her commitment to Melania's brother, in whom they have no interest.

When the war ends, Scarlett has to face adversity and deal with hunger, pain, and the loss of her property.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novel in 1937. It is a work that has generated controversy in recent times as well as its homonymous film adaptation, so it is important to understand it in its context.

10. Under the Fame Star, by John Green

Cover of the book Under the Same Star

Year: 2012
Pages: 302
Why we recommend it: presents an emotional story about the first love and shows that, despite adversity, dreams come true.

Under the same star is a youth novel tells the life of a young adolescent named Hazel, who deals with a disease since she was little.

Despite this, the girl tries to enjoy life and tries to fulfill her dream: to meet her favorite writer. She does all this with Gus, a young man she meets in group therapy and with whom she begins a beautiful love story.

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11. The Day the Sky Falls, by Megan Maxwell

Book Cover The Day the Sky Falls

Year: 2016
Pages: 464
Why we recommend it: It is a beautiful story of friendship and improvement that teaches us that love can appear at the worst moment of our life.

Alba and Nacho are two good friends since childhood. Due to life circumstances, both grow apart in adulthood. Nacho goes to London, where he lives with his partner and Alba stays in her hometown and gets married there. This fact makes friends live without contact for a time.

When Alba decides to divorce her, the girl goes to her friend Nacho with whom, despite the years, it seems that her friendship is intact. Everything goes wrong the moment Alba discovers that Nacho is sick and that he is not going to be cured. In the middle of the disaster, Victor appears in the life of the protagonist with whom an unconditional love will emerge.

12. A Walk to Remember, by Nicholas Sparks

Cover of the book A walk to remember

Year: 1999
Pages: 171
Why we recommend it: It is a tender story that points to the memory of those people who leave their mark on our youth, help us to mature, and who always remain in the memory.

Every April, Landon Carter looks back fondly on his last year in high school. In 1958 she experienced her first love approaches. The man remembers with special attention Jamie, a shy girl who carried the bible everywhere, with whom he fell deeply in love and taught him the value of first love and friendship.

13. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre book cover

Year: 1847
Pages: 600
Why we recommend it: It contains the elements of a great romantic novel: a story of excessive love and, at the same time, impossible, condemned by the difference in social classes.

This novel by Charlote Brontë tells the story of Jane, a young woman who had a difficult childhood due to her orphanhood. Fact that led her to be taken care of by her aunt, from whom she did not receive a pleasant treatment and afterwards she was admitted to Lowood School.

Soon, Jane begins working as a governess at the Thornfield mansion to take care of the house owner's daughter, Mr. Rochester, with whom her love arises. However, there is a secret in the mansion that Jane will soon discover.

14. The time between seams, by María Dueñas

Cover of the book The time between seams

Year: 2009
Pages: 638
Why we recommend it: exposes the consequences that can occur when you risk everything for love.

This book tells the story of a young dressmaker named Sira Quiroga. The young woman leaves Madrid with a man, whom she has just met and for whom she leaves her boyfriend of her whole life, to settle with him in Tangier. There her life takes a turn when her lover leaves her, and she has to go alone to Tetouan, where she illegally founded a sewing workshop.

This successful novel by María Dueñas has a homonymous adaptation on the small screen, starring actress Adriana Ugarte.

15. To all the boys I fell in love with, by Jenny Han

Book Cover To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Year: 2014
Pages: 384
Why we recommend it: contains a deep and complicated love story told from the perspective of a teenage girl.

This youth novel, which has a homonymous film, tells the story of Lara Jean, a young man who keeps the love letters she has written to each of the boys she has left falling in love. In them, the girl has been able to express everything she feels, without fear that no one will be able to read them. Until, one day, everything changes and her love life ceases to be a secret.

16. The notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Noah's notebook book cover

Year: 2000
Pages: 224
Why we recommend it: is a love story that shows that, although relationships can be difficult, the feelings of the protagonists are so strong that they overcome time and distance.

Also known in Spanish as Noah's notebook. This is the story of two young men, Noah and Allie, who meet after the Second World War. Together they live an unforgettable summer and, over the years, Noah has not been able to forget the moments lived with Allie. One day they meet again, but there is an obstacle: the young woman is engaged. Despite the difficulties, Allie is willing to confront them so that her relationship with Noah takes place.

Meanwhile, an elderly man (Noah) tells this love story day after day to a woman in a nursing home (Allie). Although she can barely remember, but he does not lose hope.

The novel features a homonymous film adaptation starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams.

17. Words That Fall Like Rain, by Caroline March

Book cover words that fall like rain

Year: 2019
Pages: 448
Why we recommend it: is a story that teaches us how it is possible to start from scratch, learn to know oneself and try to give love a new chance.

Words that fall like rain tells the story of a young surfer who believed she had it all: a promising future as an athlete and the love of her life, her coach. One day, due to a family situation, her world falls apart and she decides to leave everything.

Six years later, she returns to the scene to prepare for a test and begins to share a house with a man who generates mixed emotions and helps her face herself.

18. When I find you again, Mar Carrión

Book cover when i find you again

Year: 2019
Pages: 416
Why we recommend it: contains a beautiful love story full of feelings between the protagonists. It is also a novel that speaks of self-respect since the protagonist decides to challenge the family tradition to pursue her own dreams as an artist.

Alice belongs to a wealthy family in Chicago, her father has imposed her professional future as a lawyer on him. When Alice finishes college, she moves to New York to do an internship at the law firm of her father's friend.

Far from home, the young woman decides to change her life and dedicate herself to the arts, her true illusion, for this she moves to the Brooklyn neighborhood. There she meets Jake Mancini, her roommate, a long-haired boy from a rock band with whom, despite their differences, she begins a love story.

19. You and other natural disasters, by María Martinez

Cover of the book You and other natural disasters

Year: 2019
Pages: 456
Why we recommend it: contains a story of love and improvement that shows that the people we least expect can cross our path to teach us to grow and accept ourselves as we are.

You and other natural disasters presents the story of Harper, a 22-year-old girl who studies at the University of Toronto and has her future planned in the field of literature.

One day, his grandmother passes away and suddenly her life is reeling. Harper returns to her house to receive the inheritance from her grandmother, who has left her home and her bookstore to him. With this fact, the young woman must decide what to do with her future. Soon, Tray appears again in his life, an old friend of his sister who holds a grudge from the past and who will change his fate.

20. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor and Park book cover

Year: 2013
Pages: 325
Why we recommend it: manages to transport the reader to the illusion of the first kiss, to the memory of the first dates during adolescence. It is a love story between two young people who are able to overcome the hostile environment that surrounds them.

It is a novel of young people's literature that tells the story of Eleanor, a teenager who arrives new to the institute, and whose way of dressing draws attention for being extravagant, also for its hair color Red.

Park is an introverted young man who delves into his comics and music continually. One day, the young people meet on the school bus and, since then, through late-night conversations and the exchange of some of their hobbies, love has emerged between them.

21. Ana Karenina, by León Tolstoy

Ana Karenina book cover

Year: 1877
Pages: 868
Why we recommend it: shows the story of a passionate love that leads the protagonist to confront the social customs of the time and that soon directs her towards a tragic destiny.

This masterpiece of literary realism contains one of the most memorable female characters in world literature. Ana is a woman belonging to Russian high society, she is married to Karenin, but she is not happy. When she falls in love with Count Vronsky at first sight in a train station, and her love is reciprocated, the woman will have to deal with social conventions and leave everything for love.

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22. Of love and other demons, by Gabriel García Márquez

Book Cover Of Love And Other Demons

Year: 1994
Pages: 201
Why we recommend it: is a story inspired by a legend where love arises due to supposed demonic possessions in a decadent society.

Sierva María is a young girl with long red hair, she is the daughter of the Marqués de Casaduero. One day she is the victim of an attack by a mad dog, and she receives a bite on her ankle.

After presenting symptoms, the father turns to the bishop, who determines that the young woman is possessed and they have to resort to exorcism. In the convent of Santa Clara, Father Cayetano, in charge of the case, realizes that nothing happens to the young woman and ends up falling in love with her. Her love is reciprocated. When the bishop finds out, he removes the man from his position and María and Cayetano have to separate.

23. Postscript: I love you, by Cecilia Ahern

PostScript book cover: I love you

Year: 2001
Pages: 501
Why we recommend it: is an emotional novel that reminds us that it is possible to overcome a tragedy if we follow the path of hope.

Holly is happily married to her husband Gerry, with whom she has a strong complicity.

One day Gerry dies of illness and Holly is devastated and she believes that she is unable to compose herself. However, her husband left several love letters written for her that, little by little, help her find meaning in her life and overcome her fears.

24. Marfil (Faced 1), by Mercedes Ron

Ivory book cover

Year: 2019
Pages: 448
Why we recommend it: is a youth book that contains the essential components of the romantic genre and introduces the reader to a story of forbidden love.

This youth literature book is the first in the series Faced and focuses on the life of Marfil, a 20-year-old girl who is kidnapped. When she is released, she feels that her life has completely changed. From that moment on, she is always accompanied by a bodyguard everywhere. Sebastián is a cold man who hides a mysterious past, soon Marfil begins to take an interest in him.

25. The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger

Cover of the book The Woman of the Traveler in Time

Year: 2003
Pages: 601
Why we recommend it: This book shows that true love is capable of transcending time and space. It offers between its pages a relationship of love and friendship between two people that lasts a lifetime.

This novel explores the marriage formed between Clare and Henry, a seemingly normal couple with the peculiarity that Henry suffers from a genetic disease that causes time travel in a way involuntary.

This fact allows the protagonist to meet his wife when she was a child and leads him to face compromising situations that challenge the couple's relationship.

26. Message in a Bottle, by Nicholas Sparks

Book Cover Message in a Bottle

Year: 1998
Pages: 304
Why we recommend it: It is a story that talks about coincidences and how a mysterious message in a bottle serves as an opportunity to find love again even for those who have no reason to believe in it.

This novel tells the story of Teresa, a journalist who, after having a bad experience with her ex-husband, no longer believes in relationships.

Soon, the woman finds a bottle that contains a message of love inside it. Intrigued, Teresa decides to go on a journey in search of the author of the letter, which is addressed to a certain Catherine. What the protagonist does not know is that this adventure will bring her new hope to believe in love when she meets Garret.

27. Like water for chocolate, by Laura Esquivel

Cover of the book Like water for chocolate

Year: 1989
Pages: 256
Why we recommend it: this story discovers the love and repressed desire of the protagonist through delicious traditional recipes of Mexican gastronomy, making the reading experience very sensory.

This successful novel by Laura Esquivel has managed to win over thousands of readers generation after generation, so much so that it has a film adaptation.

It tells the story of Tita, a woman condemned, by the tradition of her family, to remain single to take care of her mother during her old age. The girl has been in love with Pedro since she was a child, but now he is married to Rosaura, one of his older sisters.

Tita has the kitchen as a refuge, since she was little she has lived among the stoves. Through her dishes, the protagonist manages to convey what she does not express in words, resulting in the transformation of the emotions of those who taste them.

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28. One Day in December by Josie Silver

Cover of the book One day in December

Year: 2018
Pages: 416
Why we recommend it: presents a story that hides the topic of romantic love based on the existence of a soul mate.

The protagonist of this book, Laurie, is a young woman who finds it hard to believe in love at first sight, she believes that it is something that only happens in fiction. One day she runs into a stranger on the bus and falls in love with him. A year after the meeting, Laurie discovers that the young man on the bus is the new boyfriend of her best friend.

Although she intends to forget him so as not to hurt her friend, it seems that fate has other plans for the couple.

29. The Great Gatsby by Scott Fizgerald

The Great Gatsby book cover

Year: 1925
Pages: 218
Why we recommend it: This story shows idealized love and the tragic consequences of wanting to give everything for the person you love.

This novel is a reflection of the 20s of the 20th century, of the years before the great depression. The young Nick Carraway, the narrator of this story, arrives in New York, where he begins to live in a house next to the mansion of Jay Gatsby, a millionaire about whom little is known.

Among Gatsby's obsessions is that of recovering the love of Daisy, a young married woman with whom he had a relationship in the past.

30. Love in the time of cholera, Gabriel García Márquez

Cover of the book Love in the time of cholera

Year: 1985
Pages: 461
Why we recommend it: is a novel inspired by the love story of the García Márquez parents. It is a story that speaks of true love and without limits.

In a Caribbean town, two young people, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza, fall in love. The girl finally marries a well-to-do doctor. It is a love story that is destined to remain in time. It is not until the death of Fermina's husband, more than fifty years after declaring her love for him, that Florentino tries once more.

31. Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote

Cover of the book Breakfast at Tiffany's

Year: 1958
Pages: 158
Why we recommend it: It is a love story that emerged between the lights and the shadows of each of the protagonists.

Holly is a young woman who has rejected an acting career in Hollywood, she lives a life based on luxury, she attends the most emblematic places in the city. She lives love affairs with the most diverse men in the city. Everything seems to change when she meets a young writer.

The novel was successfully made into a movie with the film, now a classic of 1960s cinema, starring Audrey Hepburn.

32. Seda, by Alessandro Baricco

Silk book cover

Year: 1996
Pages: 128
Why we recommend it: It is a short but intense and moving story in which love, heartbreak, happiness and sadness are present.

It is a play set in 1861, when a young man named Hervé Jancour, dedicated to trading silkworms, travels from a small French town to Japan to purchase quality eggs. There, he falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be the lover of Hara Kei, the powerful producer of worm eggs.

33. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights book cover

Year:1847
Pages: 352
Why we recommend it: is a different story about love where themes such as resentment, jealousy, hatred and human evil are explored.

Wuthering Heights It is one of those titles that was ahead of its time. It is one of the best romance novels of all time and features a matryoshka doll structure, an innovative fact for the moment.

It tells a love story, that unlike others, turbulent and dramatic between Heathcliff and Catalina that begins since they were children and that continues even beyond death.

Hate, love and revenge are some of the ingredients of this Emily Brontë classic, which was published a year before her death and under a pseudonym.

34. The way to get to me, Jenny Colgan

Cover of the book The way to get to me

Year: 2016
Pages: 416
Why we recommend it: is an exciting novel about returning to the place of origin and reconciling with the past. It is loaded with humor and romance, and has the perfect fusion between a story of friendship, love and family.

Flora is a young Scottish-born lawyer who works in a London law firm. One day she has to return to the island where she was born and spent her childhood to serve a client who requires her presence there. The protagonist is surprised to have to return to her previous life with her father and her brothers. But now, she has a chance to make amends for some past mistakes and plan for her future.

35. The Light We Lost, by Jill Santopolo

Cover of the book The Light We Lost

Year: 2017
Pages: 400
Why we recommend it: is an emotional story that explores the emergence of a relationship that is affected by the distance and that shows that in romantic novels their protagonists do not always end up eating partridges.

This novel introduces us to the story of Lucy and Gabe, who meet during the last year of college and begin a beautiful love story. One day, it is time to pursue their respective professional dreams, and this fact causes them to have to break their relationship. Gabe goes to work as a photographer in the Middle East and Lucy decides to stay in New York.

36. Normal People by Sally Rooney

Normal People book cover

Year: 2018
Pages: 273
Why we recommend it: This story talks about how two people can be connected over time despite being physically separated.

Connell and Marianne meet at high school. Although at first they are not related, Connell is part of a popular group and Marianne is always alone.

Connell's mother works as a cleaner at Marianne's luxurious home. One afternoon the young people meet personally and enter into a relationship that they hide from the rest of their peers. Although it breaks the moment they enter the University of Dublin.

There Marianne has managed to have friends, but Connell is practically alone. Over the years, young people coincide and intertwine with other people, but their connection is perishable. They are always there for each other.

37. The Ballroom, by Anna Hope

Book Cover The Ballroom

Year: 2016
Pages: 400
Why we recommend it: It is a tender story that discovers the saving power of love.

The ballroom presents a love story contextualized in 1911. In a psychiatric hospital, inmates have the opportunity to meet once a week to dance in a dance hall and enjoy the pieces performed by an Orchestra. One day Ella and John meet and dance. Since then, a beautiful story begins to emerge between them that makes their stay in the place change forever.

38. Always the Same Day, by David Nicholls

Cover of the book Always the same day

Year: 2009
Pages: 478
Why we recommend it: contemplate the transformation of a beautiful friendship relationship into a great love story.

Always the same day presents a love story that spans over 20 years. Emma and Dexter begin a relationship on July 15, 1988, at college graduation. Each one has their differences, but everything ends when the young man sets out on a journey through different countries and she stays in her hometown.

The reader knows how her love story has evolved the same day they met, July 15, along a journey of 20 years.

39. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary book cover

Year: 1857
Pages: 357
Why we recommend it: This realistic novel reveals the idealization of romantic love through a woman who seeks to have the love experiences that she reads in her novels.

This Flaubert novel introduces us to a young Emma Bovary, whose love expectations are always nourished by the sentimental novels she reads.

The woman is married to a doctor and she seeks in her marriage the sentimentality and passion of the stories she reads, so she is never satisfied. Emma seeks them out of wedlock committing adultery, however her extramarital affairs never fulfill her wishes.

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40. Goethe's Young Werther's Misadventures

Young Werther's Misadventures

Year: 1774
Pages: 192
Why we recommend it: is a work of literary romanticism that presents the impossible and unrequited love that leads the protagonist to decadence and reflection on his own existence.

This work of romanticism narrates the adventures of Werther in the first person and with epistolary style.

When the protagonist moves from his hometown to Wahlheim he falls in love with young Charlotte. Little by little they meet and become inseparable friends, Werther is in love with Charlotte, but she is engaged to a man who is far from the city. When Albert returns to the city, the protagonist feels devastated and distressed when he sees that the woman he loves is going to marry her fiancé.

41. Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet book cover

Year: 1597
Pages: 192
Why we recommend it: This timeless work of Shakespeare is not a novel, but it deserved space on this list because it is one of the greatest love stories in Western literature.

This story revolves around the two oldest and most important families in the city of Verona, the Capulets and the Montagues, whose enmity is evident.

The hatred between them cannot prevent the heirs of each of the families, Romeo and Juliet, from falling in love and having to rebel against their parents until the ultimate consequence: death.

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42. The Villa of Fabrics, by Anne Jacobs

Cover of the book La villa de las telas

Year: 2014
Pages: 624
Why we recommend it: contemplate the typical impossible love story between two young people from different social classes.

It is the first book of the homonymous saga composed of three novels. It is a play set in Augsburg at the beginning of the 20th century and narrates the life of Marie, a young woman who she starts working as a cook in the house of an important family dedicated to the industry textile. Soon Paul, the young heir of the family, appears and he meets Marie, with whom he falls in love. But, the love story between young people is unacceptable for the Melzer family.

43. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Bridget Jones Diary Book Cover

Year: 1996
Pages: 320
Why we recommend it: It contains the funny adventures and love misadventures of the protagonist narrated in a humorous way.

Bidget Jones is a woman in her thirties who is single and she downloads all of her problems in her personal diary. His life is a mess and he has very unhealthy habits. She continually tries to fight her weight and wishes to fulfill a number of purposes to change her routine to, she claims, become a grown woman.

Although she tries to change, the girl remains the same naive and messy girl as ever. She will soon find herself in a love triangle with her boss, a crazy head, and Mark Darcy, the son-in-law that every mother would love to have.

44. Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert

Cover of the book Eat, pray, love

Year: 2006
Pages: 350
Why we recommend it: presents a story that proves that love can arise again even when you try to escape from it.

Elizabeth decides to start a new path after a love disappointment that has led to an emotional crisis. Her journey begins in Italy and continues through India and Indonesia, where she intends to carry out an inner search. In this journey she meets a man who will make her wonder if she should give love a new chance.

This story is a spiritual journey, not only for the protagonist, but also for the reader.

45. Beats of a bullet, by Alexandra Roma

Book Cover Beats of a Bullet

Year: 2016
Pages: 442
Why we recommend it: She has an intense love story that is destined to dodge obstacles and survive the violent environment that surrounds her protagonists.

This youth love novel revolves around Berta, a girl who travels to Naples to practice Italian, and Romeo Leone, a young man from the area whose life is dominated by crime. Soon their lives intersect and, although the two have very opposite personalities and ways of life, love will emerge between them.

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