Prompt 34: A book with a love triangle

[Ann]

What books are you reading in this category? What recommendations do you have?

[Hilary]

The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons is good and has a love triangle. I have no idea what I'm going to read though.

[Ann]

I just remembered replying to another post that "Wicked: The Life And Times of The Wicked Witch of the West" has more than one love triangle so anyone wanting to read that could use it for this prompt.

[Heidi]

Ann wrote: "I just remembered replying to another post that "Wicked: The Life And Times of The Wicked Witch of the West" has more than one love triangle so anyone wanting to read that could use it for this pro..."

Thanks Ann! I might use that. This is a tricky category if you haven't read the book before!

[Krissy]

Water for Elephants

[Krissy]

Other options for those still looking:
Gone with the Wind
Thoughtless
The Selection
The Hunger Games
Matched
Taking Chances
Anna and the French Kiss

[Noha]

The Covenant Series by Jennifer L. Armentrout
The Love triangle isn't frustrating as usual, and all of the books i found really really good.

Enjoy reading :)

[Alycia]

Just finished Matched. It was going to be my trilogy, but meh - not really interested in continuing this series.

[Hailey Magstadt]

The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks is a really good one. I may reread for this prompt.

[Ann]

Hailey have you read Water For Elephants? I also highly recommend that one. I loved that book.

[Sandy]

Nothing to do with this discussion, but I did want you to know I can spell Bigfork! I don't know where my mind was that day!

[Alexis]

I finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro a couple of days ago. It is not a book specifically about a love triangle as you would normally find a love triangle in a story. It was a heartbreaking book. I always find it hard to say that I loved a book that is so sad, but I thought it was a really good book and I did love getting to know the characters in the book and seeing them interact together. It is very slow moving in its story-telling, but to me, that was a good thing about it.

[Rakisha]

Gross but unfortunately fitting...Tampa

[Chris]

Ann wrote: "What books are you reading in this category? What recommendations do you have?"

[Chris]

I was thinking about rereading Wuthering Heights for this one but will be on the lookout for others as well.

[Nicole]

I'm reading The Elite by Kiera Cass.

[Jennifer]

My choice for this category is The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult. I generally love her books and this one didn't disappoint though it was a little slower start than usual.

[Juanita]

I purchased "The Princess Bride" this weekend and am thinking of slotting it here. I have already used my "book that became a movie" challenge.

Anyone who has read the book have suggestions / opinions?

Thanks!

[Keri]

I've just finished reading Anna and the French Kiss for this prompt and... I wouldn't recommend it. I severely did not like it. Oh well, onto another prompt!

[Alexis]

I read the Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Greggory for this category. Not a traditional 'love triangle' but it worked.

[Ann]

I finished reading both of these recenty, both containing love triangles:



I absolutely loved The Girl on the Train. I did not like When She Woke but there are quite a few 5 star reviews for it so it might be good for someone else.

[Angie]

I read If the Shoe Fits by Sandra D. Bricker. It's a cute take on Cinderella.

[Shirley J]

I chose . Benjamin Franklin's Bastard: A Novel

The first half of the book, to quote a GR member is a "salacious soap opera." The woman who bore Franklin's son is not known. Her character is entirely fictional.

[Melanie]

Ann wrote: "I finished reading both of these recenty, both containing love triangles:



I absolutely loved The Girl on the Train. ..."

Ann wrote: "I finished reading both of these recenty, both containing love triangles:



I absolutely loved The Girl on the Train. ..."
I didn't know what to read for this (I'm trying to use books I already own) and I do have When She Woke so that's going to be the one. Thanks!

[Athol-mary]

Ethan Frome is an amazing and very short book with a unique love triangle. A classic love story as well.

[MissLemon]

I've just found The End of the Affair listed somewhere else as fitting this prompt and I've wanted to read it for a while - does it count really! ( have been trying to avoid spoilers but assume an affair would be a love triangle?)

[Tatiana]

I'm thinking about (finally!) reading Dangerous Liaisons, or re-reading Vanity Fair.

[Adita ✨The Slumbering Insomniac✨]

I just finished Anna and the French Kiss and Love Me Back by Michelle Lynne, the love triangle includes brothers. :)

[Belinda]

I just got the book Emerge for free on my kindle so I will be reading that.

[Julia]

I read "Animate Me" by Ruth Clampett, it was a cheap buy on ibooks, and although a bit raunchy, was an easy read, and the right guy got the girl.

[Belinda]

Couldn't get into the book I originally picked so I'm using the Great Gatsby for this prompt.

[Melanie]

I read Dirt Music by Tim Winton. Wasn't sure what I would read for this prompt. This book was the next to read in my mountain of books and happened to have a love triangle so worked out great :)

[Uzunma]

I can't find where to get the book " the girl on the train, any help pls

[Mpc]

I read The Selection for this prompt :)

[Ray]

May pick up either "Water for Elephants" or "The Age of Innocence" for this prompt.

[Sara]

I'm thinking of reading A Room with a View. It was on a list of books with love triangles. I have read several of the ones mentioned already (The Bronze Horseman, The Selection series, Water for Elephants), but I'm trying to read books I haven't read before as much as possible.

I am just finishing Gone with the Wind which has the ultimate love triangle, but it is also a classic romance so that's where I'm putting it :)

[Megan]

I've tried to read Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West once before, but did not get into it. I will try it again for this prompt.

[Jazs]

Apparently I've already read something for this without realizing (Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier) as it's on the 'Literary Love Triangles Non YA' list that Brianna posted.

However, The Color Purple by Alice Walker would be a great one for this!

[Juanita]

I read Loving Frank by Nancy Horan.

[Melody]

I generally despise love triangles in literature but I read Never Let Me Go for this challenge and the love triangle in that book was very understated and well done.

Brick Lane, The Great Gatsby, and The Iliad are some other books that have love triangles that are central to the plot but use them to discuss other concepts, instead of being used for drama.

[Guylian]

Just finished Lily King "Euphoria".

[Book Babe]

I read The Selection it was pure trash, but damn it, it was enjoyable. I actually got so hooked on it I made the trilogy fit into two other of the prompts :)

[Michelle]

Matched was decent and interesting...but not worth my time to read the trilogy.

I did like that my teen could read it, as I didnt find much offensive in it.

[Christophe]

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald nicely fit in that category; it's got two clearly distinct love triangle, the second one (Dick/Nicole/Tommy) being a form of resolution of the first one (Nicole/Dick/Rosemary).

I didn't want to use books for this prompt that feature love quadrangles, like Far from the Madding Crowd or Waterland - which I fit in other prompts anyway. Not to mention a love myriagon like The Crazy Green of Second Avenue, which I read immediately after Tender Is the Night and which strangely enough has many references to it - which always feel sort of eerie. Maybe we ought to draw a map of our reading list, with all the connections between the books we've read!

[Michelle]

ha! yeah. I've actually chosen books solely because they were referenced in other books. that's how I came to read Anna Karenina.

[Tara]

I do that too, at least 2 examples from this years challenge were that I read 20,000 leagues under the sea because it was a favourite of a character in All the Light we Cannot See and I read Dantes Inferno because it was so prominent in Dan Brown's Inferno. It was also a major part of Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult which I read awhile ago ago and always meant to read it.

[Melody]

Only kind of related, but my reading list this year has been very heavily influenced by books referenced in the indie video game "Life is Strange". I feel like it's good to read books that are important to other works of literature that you loved. It adds layers, you know?

[Tara]

The only good thing that came out of my reading of twilight was that I read wuthering heights to see what all the fuss was about lol I'm embarrassed that that's why I read it since I read a lot of Victorian lit, but there you go. I loved it and it's now my fave Vic novel.

[Kerryann]

I've just finished Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. Now I was to reread the series

[Angela]

His Other House