Who does not dream of a book love story? Although real life is more complicated and complex to expect from it a fantasy like the ones we can only imagine, we must not underestimate what happens in the field of imagination. With this list of romance genre books, in fact, you will be able to get drunk every time you need it from a romantic love story. Whether you prefer one that took place in another era or you’re up for something more fun, make you enjoy that touch of humor that goes into every epic relationship. We even have something for you if you are one of those who thinks that nothing is the same after the first love…
The Time Traveler’s WifeAudrey Niffenegger
A moving, unconventional love story that defies the passage of time. Henry is a librarian and suffers from a rare genetic dysfunction that causes him to involuntarily travel through time. With Clare, his wife, he lives a passionate love and they only aspire to lead a normal life. However, Henry’s trips to the past and future, which sometimes produce compromising situations and other times funny, are challenging. The novel invites us to think about the durability of love and the passage of time, as well as the unrepeatable emotion of the first sensations in a relationship and in life.
The Time Traveler’s Wife (Best Seller)
Spanish love farceElena Armas
Four weeks is not too long find someone willing to accompany you to your sister’s wedding on the other side of the Atlantic and, even less, if he has to pretend that he loves you. He sounds ridiculous, yes, but it’s even more ridiculous when Aaron Blackford, the coworker Catalina can’t stand, offers to do it. However, she is so desperate that she must decide which is worse: put up with him, with his smug air and icy eyes, or admit to her family that she has lied and that it is all a fake. As her grandmother would say: may God catch us confessed.
Spanish love farce (2nd ED) (VERA)
All those things I’ll tell you tomorrowElizabeth Benavent
Miranda works as an assistant editor in a fashion magazine and is happy with her partner, Tristán. That’s why she doesn’t understand that she is leaving her. She wishes she could go back and go back to the moment they first met… But what if she really had the chance to change her story? Elísabet Benavent, the queen of erotic and romantic literature in Spanish, narrates a story of leaps in time that reconstructs in a random (and hilarious) way the stellar moments of a couple relationship.
All those things I’ll tell you tomorrow (ADD)
Like water for ChocolateLaura Esquivel
We don’t always have the ingredients of happiness at hand. Tita had learned it since she was little, when she grew up in the kitchen with Nacha and she had been denied any possibility of her own life since she was born. But what she also learned is that the ingredients are not the most important thing to cook a good dish, but all the love with which you are able to do it. Later, Tita would realize that her dishes not only had the power to dazzle with their flavors and textures… His sadness, his joy, his desire or his pain when preparing them were contagious to everyone who tried them.
Like Water for Chocolate (Best Seller)
outsiderDiana Gabaldon
The first installment of the saga Outlander is the novel that cemented the worldwide success of Diana Gabaldon, and on which the well-known television series of the same name has been based. A different love story, in which fortuitous encounters and the mistaken game of time come together in an intriguing ending. Just after World War II, a young couple reunites to spend their holidays in Scotland. Walking alone in the meadow, Claire approaches a circle of ancient stones and falls into a strange trance. Upon coming to she finds that the modern world has disappeared and now the Scotland of 1734 surrounds her…
Outsider (Outlander Saga 1)
Love in the time of choleraGabriel Garcia Marquez
García Márquez traces the history of a love that has not been reciprocated for half a century. Love flows through the novel in a thousand ways: happy, melancholic, enriching, always surprising… It is the one between Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, who appears on the stage of a small Caribbean port town. It might seem like a melodrama about disgruntled lovers, but it is a tropical mixture of plants and clay with which the author fantasizes at his own pleasure to, in the end, end up in the territories of myth and legend. The juices, smells and flavors of the tropics feed a hallucinatory prose that, on this occasion, reaches the oscillating port of the happy ending.
Love in the time of cholera (Contemporary)
Wedding dress, Danielle Steel
This novel by the most widely read author in the world, with 900 million copies sold, is the emotional story of a family and a very special dress, inherited from mothers to daughters over years filled with happiness, loss, tragedy and success. It begins in the twenties, the Deveraux family is one of the most important in San Francisco and the wedding of the daughter, Eleanor, with a wealthy young banker, becomes one of the social events of the year. That day, the young woman wears an exquisite lace dress with embroidered pearls, the creation of a Paris haute couture firm. However, shortly after the nuptials, Wall Street crashes and Eleanor and Alexander’s lives are changed forever…
The Wedding Dress (Female Narrative)
The map of the yearningsAlice Kellen
Imagine that you are destined to save your sister, but in the end, she dies and the reason for your existence vanishes. That’s what happens to Grace Peterson, the girl who has always felt invisible and has never left Nebraska. Until the game of The map of desires and, following the instructions, the first thing she must do is find someone named Will Tucker, who she has never heard of, and who is about to embark with her on a journey straight to the heart, full of vulnerabilities and forgotten dreams, longings and unexpected affections.
The map of longings (Planet)
break the circleColleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover is TikTok’s Most Recommended Author and break the circle it spent over 100 weeks on the best-seller lists. In its pages it tells the story of Lily, who has not always had it easy. That’s why her idyllic relationship with a superb neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid seems too good to be true. When Atlas, her first love, suddenly reappears and Ryle begins to show his true colors, everything Lily has built with him is threatened. A story inspired by the personal experience of the author with toxic relationships and that mixes the past with the present and with which it is impossible not to cry.
Break the circle (International Planet)
The love hypothesisAli Hazelwood
Olive Smith is a PhD student who doesn’t believe in long-lasting love relationships. However, her best friend, Ahn, does and it turns out that she likes Olive’s ex-boyfriend, but she would never make the first move for her because she is a good friend of hers. It is not easy for Olive to convince her that she has moved on and, as proof, she kisses the first man she meets. This is Adam Carlsen, a young professor as renowned for the quality of his work as for his stupidity. So Olive is stunned when agrees to be her fake boyfriend. However, with the touch, his little experiment will come dangerously close to the point of combustion.
The love hypothesis (Backlight)
Red, white and blue bloodCasey McQuiston
Alex Clarademont-Díaz is the millennial son of the President of the United States and a marketing treasure for the White House. And it is that he is characterized by being attractive, charismatic and intelligent. What nobody knows is that he can’t stand Prince Henry, the son of the Queen of England. So when the tabloids get hold of a photograph depicting an altercation between the two, relations between the US and the UK sour. The two countries come up with a plan to mitigate the damage, and what starts as a fake Instagram friendship morphs into something deeper than Alex and Henry could have imagined.
Red, White, and Blue Blood (Young Adult Fiction)
seven days with youBeth Reekles
Overnight, and due to a quarantine, the occupants of the flats of all the apartment buildings in London Lane will have to remain locked up for seven days. Sometimes, with someone they didn’t expect to see again, so this unexpected situation will cause more than one misunderstanding… Reconciliations, breakups, and love will fill a week in which friendships will be put to the test while everyone fights to get out unharmed. Amid all the drama, one thing is clear: life is full of surprises.…
Seven days with you (International Planet)
the summer novelEmily Henry
January Andrews is a writer of romance novels and a hopeless dreamer. By contrast, August Everett writes serious novels and believes that true love is just a tall tale. But January and Gus have a lot more in common than they think.: Both are ruined. Both are blocked. And the two need to write a best-seller before the end of the summer. A worldwide TikTok phenomenon.
The summer novel (Beach Read) (International Planet)
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