Best Love Stories
Novels with memorable love stories.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen   4.22 avg rating — 558,785 ratings
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Twilight (Twilight, #1) by Stephenie Meyer   3.67 avg rating — 841,310 ratings
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 4.03 avg rating — 384,465 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 404,597 ratings
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 3.73 avg rating — 629,845 ratings
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The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks 3.84 avg rating — 328,329 ratings
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 3.71 avg rating — 181,627 ratings
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Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 4.16 avg rating — 266,817 ratings
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The Princess Bride by William Goldman 4.19 avg rating — 204,845 ratings
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Persuasion by Jane Austen 4.12 avg rating — 83,674 ratings
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A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks 3.95 avg rating — 83,022 ratings
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Eclipse (Twilight, #3) by Stephenie Meyer 3.83 avg rating — 442,918 ratings
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Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4) by Stephenie Meyer 3.77 avg rating — 413,137 ratings
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New Moon (Twilight, #2) by Stephenie Meyer 3.64 avg rating — 462,462 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 115,420 ratings
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Emma by Jane Austen 3.96 avg rating — 108,387 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1) by Stephenie Meyer 3.87 avg rating — 150,790 ratings
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Little Women (Little Women, #1) by Louisa May Alcott 3.93 avg rating — 473,573 ratings
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 4.02 avg rating — 281,046 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 3.95 avg rating — 477,778 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) by L.M. Montgomery 4.21 avg rating — 117,525 ratings
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Atonement by Ian McEwan 3.74 avg rating — 100,885 ratings
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Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 3.99 avg rating — 73,985 ratings
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The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein 4.36 avg rating — 212,643 ratings
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Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3) by Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 53,365 ratings
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Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt 3.78 avg rating — 49,321 ratings
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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 4.11 avg rating — 13,348 ratings
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Midnight Sun (Twilight, #1.5) by Stephenie Meyer 4.17 avg rating — 59,374 ratings
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Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 4.06 avg rating — 307,793 ratings
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 4.11 avg rating — 70,135 ratings
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 3.96 avg rating — 78,771 ratings
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Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1) by Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 66,418 ratings
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The Bronze Horseman (Tatiana and Alexander, #1) by Paullina Simons 4.40 avg rating — 5,393 ratings
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1) by Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 66,124 ratings
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The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 38,521 ratings
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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 3.92 avg rating — 208,614 ratings
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Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare 4.03 avg rating — 41,068 ratings
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Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 37,540 ratings
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The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 4.05 avg rating — 45,567 ratings
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Stardust by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 62,722 ratings
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Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx 3.88 avg rating — 6,716 ratings
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The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller 3.14 avg rating — 23,719 ratings
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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 3.77 avg rating — 94,912 ratings
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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 4.19 avg rating — 136,835 ratings
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This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 31,259 ratings
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Dear John by Nicholas Sparks 3.83 avg rating — 70,789 ratings
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Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2) by Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 50,619 ratings
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Truly, Madly, Deeply. by Faraaz Kazi (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 528 ratings
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Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding 3.60 avg rating — 237,494 ratings
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.70 avg rating — 665,354 ratings
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The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 3.78 avg rating — 26,080 ratings
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Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3) by L.M. Montgomery 4.16 avg rating — 23,324 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 4.28 avg rating — 195,677 ratings
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Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 99,202 ratings
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Dragonfly In Amber (Outlander, #2) by Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 38,291 ratings
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Lover Awakened (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #3) by J.R. Ward 4.48 avg rating — 32,234 ratings
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Perfect Chemistry (Perfect Chemistry, #1) by Simone Elkeles (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 22,943 ratings
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Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 3.98 avg rating — 12,197 ratings
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 3.69 avg rating — 52,204 ratings
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The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 3.86 avg rating — 26,149 ratings
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Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan 4.06 avg rating — 79,317 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 3.65 avg rating — 292,104 ratings
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Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers 4.46 avg rating — 23,931 ratings
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The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy 4.05 avg rating — 23,957 ratings
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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 4.14 avg rating — 43,721 ratings
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Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1) by Becca Fitzpatrick (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 60,046 ratings
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 3.89 avg rating — 28,436 ratings
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Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely, #1) by Melissa Marr (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 41,590 ratings
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Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn 3.76 avg rating — 15,108 ratings
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Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel 3.83 avg rating — 133,819 ratings
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Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1) by Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 10,208 ratings
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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 3.74 avg rating — 59,435 ratings
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Possession by A.S. Byatt 3.82 avg rating — 18,961 ratings
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A Room with a View by E.M. Forster 3.87 avg rating — 26,947 ratings
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Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 3.45 avg rating — 21,503 ratings
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Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #2) by J.R. Ward 4.38 avg rating — 29,892 ratings
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Love Story by Erich Segal 3.46 avg rating — 12,303 ratings
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Pretties (Uglies, #2) by Scott Westerfeld 3.84 avg rating — 54,257 ratings
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 3.98 avg rating — 66,309 ratings
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The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 3.76 avg rating — 240,689 ratings
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The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks 4.11 avg rating — 57,359 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3) by Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 33,953 ratings
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A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson 3.82 avg rating — 5,964 ratings
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These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder 4.07 avg rating — 14,123 ratings
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Graceling (The Seven Kingdoms, #1) by Kristin Cashore 4.13 avg rating — 47,383 ratings
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Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 3.92 avg rating — 15,258 ratings
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Beauty and the Beast: And Other Classic French Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes 4.25 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 3.78 avg rating — 203,362 ratings
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 3.71 avg rating — 539,052 ratings
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The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare 3.79 avg rating — 34,805 ratings
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I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith 3.98 avg rating — 20,087 ratings
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Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1) by J.R. Ward 4.26 avg rating — 40,008 ratings
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The Far Pavillions by M.M. Kaye 4.10 avg rating — 6,085 ratings
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières 3.85 avg rating — 14,515 ratings
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The Witch Of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare 3.86 avg rating — 34,868 ratings
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The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo 3.96 avg rating — 34,293 ratings
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As You Like It by William Shakespeare 3.75 avg rating — 14,762 ratings
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P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern 3.85 avg rating — 39,195 ratings
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Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson 3.61 avg rating — 40,404 ratings
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Summer of My German Soldier (Summer of My German Soldier, #1) by Bette Greene (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 6,005 ratings
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Comments (showing 1-50 of 61) (61 new)
Readers who love historical romances (or historicals with romantic elements) should try author Anya Seton (mid-20th C. British). She must have done years of historical research for each novel because the details are so vivid, the reader can almost believe she's living in that period. Some of her best novels include Katherine (14th C. England), Green Darkness (16th C. England) and The Winthrop Woman (Puritan America).
Love is Eternal is also a great book on love. It's about Abe Lincoln and his wife, from his wife's perspective. Sorry, forgot the author's name and the name of Abe's wife.
Wow, I'd forgotten about some of these books. Now I want to go back and read them again. I haven't done that with The Far Pavilions in years. Too bad Sense and Sensibilities didn't make the cut.
The fact that Twilight is anywhere near Pride and Prejudice, and above Romeo and Juliet makes me want to cry and shame as humanity has fallen.
Kody wrote: "The fact that Twilight is anywhere near Pride and Prejudice, and above Romeo and Juliet makes me want to cry and shame as humanity has fallen. "I second that feeling.
Near "Pride and Prejudice," above "Romeo and Juliet," "Much Ado About Nothing," "As You Like It," "Anna Karenina," AND above just about every 19th century BritLit classic, come to that ...
Vicki wrote: "I find it really sad that "Twilight" managed to beat out "Jane Eyre." Has the world gone mad?!"Indeed it has Vicki, indeed it has...
S wrote: "Love is Eternal is also a great book on love. It's about Abe Lincoln and his wife, from his wife's perspective. Sorry, forgot the author's name and the name of Abe's wife. "Irving Stone, and you are correct: a great love story. Also John Adams as per McCullough's bio--the exchange of letters alone tells the story.
Themis-Athena wrote: "Kody wrote: "The fact that Twilight is anywhere near Pride and Prejudice, and above Romeo and Juliet makes me want to cry and shame as humanity has fallen. "I second that feeling.
Near "Pride an..."
Isabella Swan, American Girl: Wears rags most of the time, dresses up in blue, likes one particular vampire despite, survives hellish childbirth. Likes to ride rehabbed motorcycles with her werewolf friend Jacob. Clean, rough-n-ready gal. Her spunk reminds some readers of Sarah Palin (gaggh). Last line of Breaking Dawn was to be "Reader, I married him" but editors nixxed it.
---Stay strong, Tommy Tortoise
Wuthering Heights is one of the best love stories ever. I like Twilight too and I do think it deserves to be on the list. Some people seem to disagree but I've read it so many times and found something new each time. I cried when Edward proposed. I think a really good love story should make you cry.
i guess i would like to point out that midnight sun is not a book! Even though it would be the best of the twilight books if it is finished ever. It really shouldn't be on this list. :) sorry!
Oh man, why is Twilight on this list? It's horrid, it's teaching young women that it's okay to let the man be your life, to never be your own person. It's so anti-feminist. It's not a love story, it's a possession story.
Michaela wrote: "Wuthering Heights is one of the best love stories ever. I like Twilight too and I do think it deserves to be on the list. Some people seem to disagree but I've read it so many times and found somet..."
That is true every good love story has made me cry, but i think that The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks should have been included... And any Twilight Fans or any fan of love stories will enjoy the book Fallen by Lauren Kate and Hush Hush by becca Fitzpatrick
Ashley wrote: "Oh man, why is Twilight on this list? It's horrid, it's teaching young women that it's okay to let the man be your life, to never be your own person. It's so anti-feminist. It's not a love story, i..."
I diasgree because when you meet someone that special their life becomes yours and yours is theirs. Its like they traded, they are so absorbed of being together and it is a great love story... Not the best but it is an extrodinary series
Kody wrote: "The fact that Twilight is anywhere near Pride and Prejudice, and above Romeo and Juliet makes me want to cry and shame as humanity has fallen. "As do I....and above Jane Eyre...and Wuthering Heights. I am sorry, but Edward is no Heathcliff. Twilight has left a horrible scar across literature.
Susanna wrote: "The form to add books to the list is at the right-hand side of the page."
I totally agree! Twilight, and different books like Ella Enchanted are good, but I don't really think they're all about the love story, and they just don't have that feeling that moves you like Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and even A Walk to Remember. Bringing such a touching story with someones faith in God makes it so amazing. Not to mention, no one, not even Edward, can compare with Mr. Darcy!
My faves:Jane Eyre: Jane & Mr. Rochester *sighs* My fav book! Love them!!
Pride & Prejudice: Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth one of THE best love stories EVER!
Outlander: Claire & Jamie I love them and their unique love story set in Scottland, it just melts you!
Wuthering Heights: Catherine & Heathcliff His love for Catherine drove him evil and yet that fierce undying love that is still holding on even after she has died *sighs*
Romeo & Juliet: Classic love story of star crossed lovers doomed from the beginning. A love that couldn't be stopped even by death
Persuasion: Cpt. Wentworth & Anne: I was rooting for them to get back together through out the novel & when he writes the letter to her professing that he is still in love with her....I love it!
Twilight: Edward & Bella hott Vampire love, you cant go wrong lol
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Victoria wrote: "Kody wrote: "The fact that Twilight is anywhere near Pride and Prejudice, and above Romeo and Juliet makes me want to cry and shame as humanity has fallen. "
As do I....and above Jane Eyre...and W..."
Ugh!!! I know!! its pathetic!
Cissy wrote: "what 'The Little Prince' as love story???"Exactly what I was thinking. It's one of my favorites, but I didn't vote for it, because I don't see a love story... =/
Kody wrote: "The fact that Twilight is anywhere near Pride and Prejudice, and above Romeo and Juliet makes me want to cry and shame as humanity has fallen. "
I agree with you. The classics are much better and I think it is an joke modern day books.
I just can't believe that Twilight is above Wuthering Heights and all those incredible books. I think that many of the people that voted for Twilight hasn't read any of the classics, because it is impossible not to hate Twilight once you have read Romeo and Juliet.
Ok, if you don't like Twilight then why are you even waisting your time to tell the world you hate it? I love Twilight and the classics so does it matter? It's projected towards teens anyway you really think a teen is going to read Withering Heights over Twilight? Some will yes, but those books are just toold fashion for some people, at least they're reading something. So stop hating.
Sarah,It's not "Withering Heights", it's "Wuthering Heights".
And, please don't make any more generalisations -- which are nonsense.
All I'm saying is some teens or anyone else will like either one, I'm not trying to say no teen will like Wuthering Heights and to just accept some people like something you don't. That's all I'm trying to say.
Alright. I have many things to say. First of all, it would surprise you how many teens would read the classics if Robert Pattinson starred in the movies. They don't know about the classics and the read what the media sells them. But I am a teenager, and I can clearly recognize the difference in the quality of the writing. Stephenie Mayer has a great imagination, but, in my opinion, her books don't deserve to be so close to Jane Austen's or Charlotte Brontë's in this list. Just think of it. Twilight is above Romeo and Juliet, a book that many people came to refer as the greatest love story of all times, a girl, a vampire and a wolf can't beat that. And I waste my time to tell the world I hate Twilight because I can voice my opinions, just like you said (:
Sorry if my English is not good, I'm from Argentina.
"The teens" could go on and vote for whatever cheap book they choose, but no list will change the fact that the classics are the true, worthy form of literature. And, just because Twilight is extremely popular right now, thanks to the entertainment industry, it does not mean that people'll remember it, bother reading and discussing it with their friends after 50 years. Will it survive that long, anyway?
Yet, true literary classics, such as; Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre will probably be read by our grandchildren. I claim that, because they survived, and will survive by the help of mature readers -- who have a higher taste in art.
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