Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA) (529 books)

Romance is often complicated in fiction. What are the best books with love triangles? (Please no young adult books. Check out these other lists filled with great YA recommendations.)

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1	Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 4.31 avg rating — 1,254,486 ratings score: 60,245, and 609 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4.29 avg rating — 4,766,716 ratings score: 55,351, and 561 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 3.90 avg rating — 2,028,876 ratings score: 44,695, and 456 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.93 avg rating — 5,873,682 ratings score: 39,379, and 401 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 4.09 avg rating — 1,290,366 ratings score: 27,696, and 286 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 4.10 avg rating — 926,641 ratings score: 25,170, and 260 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 4.16 avg rating — 2,310,616 ratings score: 24,470, and 258 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Little Women (Little Women, #1) by Louisa May Alcott 4.17 avg rating — 2,444,987 ratings score: 21,671, and 226 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Emma by Jane Austen 4.05 avg rating — 977,240 ratings score: 18,216, and 191 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 1,696,117 ratings score: 17,076, and 177 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare 3.94 avg rating — 576,759 ratings score: 16,318, and 172 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 3.88 avg rating — 1,009,467 ratings score: 15,609, and 165 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 4.25 avg rating — 715,674 ratings score: 15,088, and 162 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 4.21 avg rating — 841,105 ratings score: 14,890, and 158 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 3.96 avg rating — 275,848 ratings score: 14,255, and 152 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Notebook (The Notebook, #1) by Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 1,833,190 ratings score: 13,387, and 142 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Persuasion by Jane Austen 4.15 avg rating — 772,502 ratings score: 13,041, and 141 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 3.94 avg rating — 544,973 ratings score: 11,380, and 122 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 4.01 avg rating — 102,676 ratings score: 11,347, and 122 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 847,424 ratings score: 10,572, and 114 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 3.97 avg rating — 194,871 ratings score: 10,229, and 111 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.44 avg rating — 915,888 ratings score: 10,137, and 112 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 3.71 avg rating — 373,146 ratings score: 9,671, and 106 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Atonement by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 561,719 ratings score: 9,594, and 105 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley 4.13 avg rating — 212,619 ratings score: 9,546, and 102 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 3.84 avg rating — 301,877 ratings score: 8,825, and 99 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 3.86 avg rating — 378,531 ratings score: 8,800, and 100 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 1,725,103 ratings score: 8,243, and 90 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) by Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 559,951 ratings score: 8,073, and 86 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 3.50 avg rating — 137,368 ratings score: 7,844, and 88 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 3.96 avg rating — 194,004 ratings score: 7,770, and 86 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 3,005,191 ratings score: 7,761, and 86 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	A Room with a View by E.M. Forster 3.89 avg rating — 201,134 ratings score: 7,660, and 86 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9) by Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 512,332 ratings score: 7,145, and 80 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Cider House Rules by John Irving (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 195,215 ratings score: 7,000, and 79 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 1,148,869 ratings score: 6,984, and 75 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 778,925 ratings score: 6,908, and 78 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1) by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 577,896 ratings score: 6,848, and 74 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 843,508 ratings score: 6,529, and 73 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 3.79 avg rating — 491,994 ratings score: 6,235, and 71 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller 3.72 avg rating — 106,286 ratings score: 5,980, and 69 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 4.16 avg rating — 2,104,412 ratings score: 5,942, and 67 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles 3.88 avg rating — 55,451 ratings score: 5,489, and 64 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 4.05 avg rating — 58,677 ratings score: 5,480, and 62 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 4.15 avg rating — 182,689 ratings score: 5,396, and 61 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 4.11 avg rating — 540,874 ratings score: 5,366, and 61 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 4.54 avg rating — 728,272 ratings score: 5,351, and 61 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 4.32 avg rating — 1,017,779 ratings score: 5,285, and 61 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Hamlet by William Shakespeare 4.03 avg rating — 1,045,038 ratings score: 5,152, and 61 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 4.04 avg rating — 257,697 ratings score: 5,138, and 61 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Color Purple by Alice Walker 4.28 avg rating — 749,684 ratings score: 5,073, and 59 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Fifty Shades Trilogy (Fifty Shades, #1-3) by E.L. James (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 131,761 ratings score: 4,980, and 53 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 4.17 avg rating — 364,364 ratings score: 4,908, and 59 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson 4.18 avg rating — 3,431,951 ratings score: 4,689, and 55 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 3.97 avg rating — 165,769 ratings score: 4,640, and 56 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 3.46 avg rating — 137,415 ratings score: 4,628, and 53 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 4.31 avg rating — 715,801 ratings score: 4,606, and 52 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 4.13 avg rating — 1,860,666 ratings score: 4,502, and 53 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.39 avg rating — 383,598 ratings score: 4,012, and 47 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Something Borrowed (Darcy & Rachel, #1) by Emily Giffin (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 609,471 ratings score: 3,900, and 43 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 148,467 ratings score: 3,666, and 43 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126,230 ratings score: 3,581, and 43 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) by Ken Follett (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 826,453 ratings score: 3,469, and 40 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Middlemarch by George Eliot 4.04 avg rating — 178,617 ratings score: 3,450, and 41 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 140,124 ratings score: 3,438, and 40 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 163,206 ratings score: 3,435, and 40 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Othello by William Shakespeare 3.89 avg rating — 435,287 ratings score: 3,295, and 40 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	As You Like It by William Shakespeare 3.81 avg rating — 88,732 ratings score: 3,077, and 37 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 4.13 avg rating — 50,636 ratings score: 2,832, and 34 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 3.83 avg rating — 75,828 ratings score: 2,745, and 34 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1) by Helen Fielding (Goodreads Author) 3.81 avg rating — 1,020,936 ratings score: 2,660, and 30 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	Bleak House by Charles Dickens 4.02 avg rating — 113,890 ratings score: 2,560, and 33 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 3.87 avg rating — 940,840 ratings score: 2,532, and 30 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 3.74 avg rating — 2,811,006 ratings score: 2,530, and 30 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 3.91 avg rating — 98,611 ratings score: 2,526, and 31 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1) by Jean M. Auel 4.10 avg rating — 282,006 ratings score: 2,478, and 31 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 3.74 avg rating — 191,690 ratings score: 2,328, and 27 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	The Red and the Black by Stendhal 3.86 avg rating — 83,188 ratings score: 2,261, and 27 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	Freedom by Jonathan Franzen 3.79 avg rating — 174,975 ratings score: 2,197, and 26 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 22,085 ratings score: 2,121, and 24 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
81	The Wings of the Dove by Henry James 3.78 avg rating — 17,512 ratings score: 2,058, and 27 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	Love, Carry My Bags by C.R. Everett (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 85 ratings score: 1,997, and 20 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	The Rainmaker by John Grisham (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 207,252 ratings score: 1,934, and 25 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
84	Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 286,491 ratings score: 1,920, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85	World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2) by Ken Follett (Goodreads Author) 4.32 avg rating — 274,761 ratings score: 1,889, and 24 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway 3.70 avg rating — 23,706 ratings score: 1,825, and 24 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87	Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) by Dan Brown (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 3,385,287 ratings score: 1,822, and 22 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 4.09 avg rating — 31,309 ratings score: 1,811, and 24 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë 4.03 avg rating — 130,190 ratings score: 1,714, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4) by Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 266,893 ratings score: 1,714, and 20 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91	The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher 4.20 avg rating — 120,411 ratings score: 1,697, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
92	The End of the Affair by Graham Greene 3.90 avg rating — 70,527 ratings score: 1,633, and 18 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93	Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1) by Agatha Christie 4.04 avg rating — 212,470 ratings score: 1,544, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
94	The Good Wife by Saundra Flame (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings score: 1,515, and 20 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	Ross Poldark (Poldark, #1) by Winston Graham 4.08 avg rating — 35,583 ratings score: 1,471, and 18 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49,781 ratings score: 1,410, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk 3.87 avg rating — 61,159 ratings score: 1,374, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
98	Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola 3.73 avg rating — 38,276 ratings score: 1,343, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99	Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19,603 ratings score: 1,284, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
100	Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 3.75 avg rating — 32,027 ratings score: 1,226, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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message 1: by Jane (new)

Oct 14, 2012 08:12AM

Ravens Deep Ravens Deep is the first book in a dark romantic trilogy. The love triangle unfolds in the second book - Blood & Ashes.

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message 2: by Sarrah (new)

Oct 17, 2012 02:18PM

Just goes to show--love triangles were around for a long time before Twilight. @Jessica: there are a YA title and a biography on here; do you want me to remove them?

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message 3: by Jessica (new)

Oct 17, 2012 02:30PM

Yes, feel free to remove YA titles. Thanks, Sarrah!

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message 4: by Kathy (new)

Oct 28, 2012 05:28PM

There's also a book featuring a tattoo artist's work. Should it be on this list?

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message 5: by Muhamed (new)

Oct 31, 2012 01:30AM

good reading needs clear and good mind

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message 6: by Della (new)

Nov 04, 2012 12:08PM

To me a love triangle is more than an affair outside of a mariage or committed relationship, though it often includes that. It is a case of someone who is truly torn between two loves over a long period of time and for good reasons. That's why I added Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich. I don't remember the names of the characters any more since it was so long ago that I read it, but it was a true traingle.

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message 7: by James (new)

Nov 05, 2012 04:07AM

good reading enlightens the mind and keeps the brain functioning at its best.

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message 8: by Wanda (new)

Nov 06, 2012 05:31PM

Please check #161. I do not believe it belongs on this list.

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message 9: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Nov 07, 2012 02:19AM

Wanda wrote: "Please check #161. I do not believe it belongs on this list."

Plenty of books have recently been added to this list that don't belong here, alas. Nonfiction (essays, philosophy, religion), fiction that doesn't even contain a love story, LET ALONE a love triangle ... Jessica, would you like a librarian to do a bit of clean-up work?

Also, what about biographies of real persons involved in love triangles? (E.g., I see Massie's bio of Catherine the Great has been added and is steadily gaining votes. Stay or go?)

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message 10: by Jessica (new)

Nov 07, 2012 03:24PM

Yes, thank you. Librarians, feel free to remove books that legitimately don't have a love triangle.

But nonfiction involving love triangles feels relevant. It's interesting to see the real-life antecedents.

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message 11: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (last edited Nov 19, 2012 03:30AM) (new)

Nov 08, 2012 07:36AM

Removed, for the time being:
The Art of Happiness
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Book of Honey Tattoo Flash Designs (twice)
A Book of Flowers Flash Sketchbook
8 Minutes in the Morning: A Simple Way to Shed Up to 2 Pounds a Week Guaranteed
Shakespeare's Language
Macbeth
The Old Man and the Sea
I Love You Through and Through
The Meaning of Me
The Last Best Hope: A Civil War Era Alternate History
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel
Paradise Lost
Art Through the Ages
Immediate Family
The Shock of the New

There are plenty of others that I doubt have a legitimate place on this list (especially among the books currently on p. 2 and 3), but that will require a bit more investigation.

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message 12: by Rebecca (new)

Nov 10, 2012 11:56AM

Ella enchanted is YA, also the outsiders is YA and doesn't really have a love triangle of note

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message 13: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (last edited Nov 11, 2012 07:36AM) (new)

Nov 11, 2012 05:29AM

Well, there are 10 people who have voted for Ella, Enchanted and 9 who have voted for The Outsiders. Before a librarian decides whether or not to step in, maybe some of these folks want to speak up and explain why they think these two books fit the criteria for this list?

As for the two Brontë books, I at any rate won't remove those unless Jessica specifically says she doesn't want them here. They may not be the epitome of what we consider a love triangle today, but they very much expressed that situation in Victorian terms. For a woman to leave her husband (abusive or not) was unheard of in Victorian society in the first place, and to even contemplate turning to another man (as happens in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) was as unthinkable as for a woman to reject a "respectable" offer of marriage (like that from St. John Rivers in Jane Eyre: note that "respectability" required only financial security and social standing, NOT love), "just" because the woman in question is in love with another man ... especially if, ostensibly, the "competitor" was unattainable to her anyway. Also, there is another triangle in Jane Eyre -- the one between herself, Rochester and his first wife -- which likewise touches on a taboo, namely, bigamy. And, finally, the marriage being abandoned in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to Helen herself actually WAS a love match initially (or at least, infatuation) ... it only turned sour later on, albeit fairly quickly.

In other words: in Victorian society, the mere notion of a "love" triangle as such was a nonentity, because love simply wasn't a consideration at all when it came to choosing a partner in marriage; and once married, a woman just had to stand by her husband ("for ill or for good, until death do us part") -- for her to do anything else was not just to break social convention but even to break the law. It was precisely this disregard of love as a material factor in marriage -- as well as the notion that it was only "she" who needed to prove that she was worthy of "him", rather than also vice versa -- that the Brontë sisters sought to highlight and criticize in their books (Charlotte incidentally did so again, in as forceful terms, in Emma).

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message 14: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (last edited Dec 01, 2012 07:30AM) (new)

Nov 19, 2012 03:14AM

Alright, upon review, the following strike me as Young Adult:

The Outsiders
Ella Enchanted
After Forever Ends
Thoughtless
Effortless
I Capture the Castle
Son of the Shadows
A Witch in Love
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
A Spy in the House
The Hunger Games
The Last Letter
Girl in Translation
Genesis
Nick of Time
Taking Chances
Bitter Blood
Island Beneath the Sea
Impossible

Before I delete them, is there somebody (maybe some of the folks who voted for these books) who can give a reason why they are within the parameters of a list entitled "Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA)" -- and which contains the added expres caveat "Please no young adult books" -- and why they should NOT be deleted?

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message 15: by Jennifer (new)

Nov 21, 2012 08:17AM

I can understand wanting to vote for a book you have fallen in love with, but... If this is really just about love triangles, in my opinion, there are many books that should be removed.. Books, that I too love, but don't fit the criteria of the vote.. Just my opinion.. :-)

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message 16: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (last edited Dec 14, 2012 12:31PM) (new)

Dec 01, 2012 03:55AM

Themis-Athena wrote: "Alright, upon review, the following strike me as Young Adult:

The Outsiders
Ella Enchanted
After Forever Ends
Thoughtless
Effortless
I Capture the Castle
Son of the Shadows
A Witch in Love
Miss Pe..."

Since in almost 2 weeks nobody has come forward to explain why the books in my above post should not be characterized as "Young Adult," I have now deleted them, as well as the following more recent additions:
The Magicians
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Wonderstruck
The Maude Reed Tale
Forget Me Not,
which are also Young Adult.

Moreover, on investigation, I fail to see love triangles figuring in the following books (not all of which are even fiction or (auto)biographies), and which I have therefore also deleted:
Automaton
How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf
Love in a time of outsourcing
Maligned
The Merchant of Venice
Clotho's Loom: A Novel of Literary Romance and Realism
Much Ado About Nothing
Catch-22
Merminia
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Oz: The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz
Chicken on the Hudson
A Life Worth Living
Fool
الثورة 2.0
The Chronicles of a Crazy Chick
The Winemaker's Dinner: Appetizers
Blue Straggler
Tempted
V for Vendetta
The Mutter Museum: Of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
The Nightlife: New York
Wicked Ties
Imbroglio
Gideon's Sword
Elephant House: Photographs of Edward Gorey's House
A Deconstructed Heart
Hinduism
The Grand Design
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Hark! a Vagrant
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Into the Wilderness
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey"

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message 17: by Kereesa (new)

Jan 03, 2013 05:46PM

Can someone please take Lord of the Flies off the list? (And maybe even Fellowship?) I really doubt there's any kind of love triangle going on in those books....or at least not canon ones....

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message 18: by Gigi (new)

Jan 05, 2013 11:05PM

Harry Potter is young adult and I don't recall a prominent love triangle in the first

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message 19: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Jan 06, 2013 03:39PM

Triv wrote: "Harry Potter is young adult and I don't recall a prominent love triangle in the first"

Removed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (clearly YA).

As for Lord of the Flies and The Fellowship of the Ring; again, maybe those who voted for these books can explain where they see them containing a love triangle?

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message 20: by Angelica (new)

Sep 13, 2013 11:59AM

I think Dracula is definitely missing from this list!

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message 21: by Dave (new)

Aug 14, 2014 03:08PM

I enjoyed this process, some great books involved.
Dave McDonald

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message 22: by Dave (new)

Nov 18, 2014 09:39AM

"The Bridges Of Madison County" is a great love triangle story and some of the best writing ever. Robert Waller can pack an immense amount of feeling in but a few words. I thought the rating was too low on this story. I gave it 5-stars: great story and great writing. A short book, but 45 minutes of pleasure.

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message 23: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (new)

Feb 25, 2017 05:35AM

Where's the love triangle in One for the Money (#35)? I can't remember there being one.

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message 24: by Erika Veloz (new)

Sep 16, 2018 04:44PM

Why Jane Eyre? Saint John wasn't in love with her, she wasn't in love with him. Some marriage talk doesn't mean there's love involved.

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message 25: by Vidushi (new)

Nov 08, 2024 09:01PM

There is no love triangle in a thousand splendid suns. Yes Laila was married but forget love she was abused by her husband and would have choose death rather than bieng with him. pedophile Rashid . I want to know who thinks it is love?

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