Romance for people who don't read romance

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Romance with a second engine — a structure, a mystery, a voice — pulling you through the pages. For readers who bounce off the genre, not off love.

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The 9 books on this stack

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  • Curtis Sittenfeld 2023

    Why it's on the stack

    A love story that makes you laugh · a love that builds slowly

    It shares this with 4 more books on this stack

    With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she’s long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to…

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  • Robinne Lee 2017 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    A love story that hurts · love in the middle of danger

    It shares this with 5 more books on this stack

    Included on The Skimm's 2020 list of Eight Books Both You and Mom Will Love "The sleeper hit of the pandemic .

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  • Gabriel García Márquez 1997 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    A love story that makes you laugh · a love that builds slowly

    It shares this with 4 more books on this stack

    While she became the model wife to a wealthy doctor, poor Florentino pined for her, and has done so ever since, never finding love or peace as he yearns for the day he can woo her again.

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  • A. S. Byatt 1890

    Why it's on the stack

    It changes how you see things · it messes with your head

    It shares this with 1 more book on this stack

    'Byatt has contrived a masterly ending to a fine work; intelligent, ingenious and humane, Possession bids fair to be looked back upon as one of the most memorable novels of the 1990s' Times Literary…

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  • Graeme Simsion 2013 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    A love story that makes you laugh · it restores your faith in people

    It shares this with 4 more books on this stack

    Don Tillman sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife.

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  • Sally Rooney 2018 2 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    A love story that hurts · a small, intimate story

    It shares this with 5 more books on this stack

    Teenagers Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other.

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  • David Nicholls 2009 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    A tender love story · a love that builds slowly

    It shares this with 4 more books on this stack

    'I can imagine you at forty,' she said, with malice in her voice.

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  • Audrey Niffenegger 2003 2 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    Love hurts sometimes · it makes you cry, in a good way

    It shares this with 5 more books on this stack

    Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the…

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