LOVE
Find books all written in the language of love, some heartbreaking
and others romantic. Each book includes title, author, call number
(where to find it at Uni!), and a short description from NoveList.
Click on the headings to jump to a particular section.
Emma
Austen, Jane
Fiction Au7e 1995
Emma tries to impose her match making ideas on everyone and finds that
sometimes she should desist.
Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane
Fiction Au7m 1996
Sensible, wise, but impovershed Fanny Price goes to live with her wealthy
cousins, and throughout many trials of their upper-middle-class life, she
remains true to her beliefs.
Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Fiction Au7pe 1996
The story of Anne Elliot and the love she once had for a naval officer. She
had been persuaded by her family that he was not suitable, and regretfully,
she lets him slip away. Years later, they meet again.
Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
Fiction Au7pr 1996
Wealthy Mr. Darcy and spirited Elizabeth Bennett dislike each other at first
sight, and each must contend with their pride and prejudices while
Elizabeth's mother plots economically advantageous marriages for all her daughters.
Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
Fiction Au7s 1997
Two sisters, one practical and conventional and the other emotional and
sentimental, find that only through compromise of their mutual differences
can they get along.
Upstate
Buckhanon, Kalisha
Fiction B8559u
In jail after being charged with his father's murder, seventeen-year-old
Antonio finds his love with sixteen-year-old Natasha tested and engages
in a ten-year correspondence with her from behind bars.
Thwonk
Bauer, Joan
Fiction B344th1995
A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage
photographer suffering from unrequited love.
Dare, Truth, or Promise
Boock, Paula
Fiction B64412d
Louie Angelo, a Woodhaugh High prefect who plans to be a lawyer, falls in
love with a girl who lives in a pub and just wants to get through her exams
so she can become a chef.
Jane Eyre
Bronte, Charlotte
Fiction B78j1997
An orphan girl who accepts employment as a governess finds herself involved
in a family secret and in love with her employer.
Villette
Bronte, Charlotte
Fiction B78v1987
When Lucy Snowe teaches in Brussels, she falls in love with a professor.
Wuthering Heights
Bronte, Emily
Fiction B782w2000
When Mr. Lockwood has an encounter with the spirit of Catherine Linton
at the home of the unsociable Heathcliff, he hears the story of the
tempestuous love affair between Catherine and Heathcliff.
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
Cohn, Rachel and David Levithan
Fiction C661na
Although they have been friends and neighbors all their lives, straight Naomi
and gay Ely find their relationship severely strained during their freshman
year at New York University.
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Cohn, Rachel and David Levithan
Fiction C661ni
High school student Nick O’Leary, member of a rock band, meets
college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five
minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.
Like Water for Chocolate
Esquivel, Laura
Fiction Es692c:E1992
The recipies and wisdom of the author’s great aunt, Tita, are woven into
a poignant, funny story of maternal domination, unrequited love, and
Mexican ranch life in the early twentieth century.
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fiction F57g1995
Jay Gatsby still adores Daisy Buchanan although she has married someone
else, and he risks everything to lure her back.
An Abundance of Katherines
Green, John
Fiction G823a
Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named
Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets
off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life
while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
The End of the Affair
Greene, Graham
Fiction G83en1975
After a man is almost killed in a bombing raid, the married woman with whom
he has been having an affair breaks away from him.
About a Boy
Hornby, Nick
Fiction H7833a1999
An immature, cynical bachelor learns what it means to be a man from a
geeky 12 year-old boy.
The Bermudez Triangle
Johnson, Maureen
Fiction J635b
The friendship of three high school girls and their relationships with their
friends and families are tested when two of them fall in love with each other.
Undercover
Kephart, Beth
Fiction K441u
High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing while going unnoticed
except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, but a teacher's
recognition of her talent, a "client's" desire for her friendship, a love of ice
skating, and her parent's marital problems draw her out of herself.
Blood and Chocolate
Klause, Annette Curtis
Fiction K668b1999
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle
both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she
belongs and with whom.
Boy Meets Boy
Levithan, David
Fiction L57922b
When Paul falls hard for Noah, he thinks he has found his one true love,
but when Noah walks out of his life, Paul has to find a way to get him back
and make everything right once more.
Winter Rose
McKillip, Patricia
Fiction M2122wi1997
Two sisters, one delicate and sensible, one rough-hewn and sensual, fall in
love with an aristocrat who returns to claim his family's abandoned estate,
only to fall victim to the curse of his legendary grandfather.
Beauty
McKinley, Robin
Fiction M2152be
Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay
and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from
a handsome prince into an ugly beast.
Twilight
Meyer, Stephenie
Fiction M575t2006
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks,
Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she
feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
Series:
New Moon Fiction M5758n
Eclipse Fiction M5758e
Breaking Dawn Fiction M5758b
Kissing Kate
Myracle, Lauren
Fiction M996k
Sixteen-year-old Lissa's relationship with her best friend changes after
they kiss at a party and Lissa does not know what to do, until she gets
help from an unexpected new friend.
You & You & You
Nilsson, Per
Fiction N599d:E
Young Anon, who marches to the beat of a different drummer in galoshes
to protect himself from radiation, touches the lives of all around him, resulting
in disillusionment, loss, love, and more than a few surprises.
Archangel
Shinn, Sharon
Fiction Sh631an1996
In order to maintain peace on the Utopian planet of Samaria, the archangel
Gabriel plans to marry a mortal woman, Rachel. She, however, has other ideas.
Summers at Castle Auburn
Shinn, Sharon
Fiction Sh631su2002
Coriel Halsing has spent many summers with her half-sister at Castle Auburn
chasing and falling in love with a handsome prince who can never be hers, but
now that she is grown she begins to understand the dark side of the magical palace.
The Blue Lawn
Taylor, William
Fiction T2192b1999
A fifteen-year-old boy acknowledges his attraction to an older rugby teammate,
as he also begins to break out of the preconceived notions his family and others
have about him.
Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo
Fiction t58Oa:E1980
A beautiful, passionate Russian woman escapes the restrictions and boredom
of her marriage through a love affair with a charming soldier.
Hard Love
Wittlenger, Ellen
Fiction W786ha1999
After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings
about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets
an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality.
If You Come Softly
Woodson, Jacqueline
Fiction W868i
After meeting in their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah,
who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and
whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope
with people's reactions.
Truer Than True Romance: Classic Love Comics Retold
Martinet, Jeanne
GN M385t
Parodies the romance comics of the 1940s to the 1970s and offers irreverent
dating attitudes and romantic advice, updating ten DC Comics romance stories
with new word balloons and captions to accompany the original artwork.
Mars, vol. 1
Soryo, Fuyumi
GN So7141m:E
When popular Rei saves shy Kira from the harassing hands of her sleazy
art teacher, Kira finds herself drawn to Rei and summons up the courage
to let him into her world.
Fables: Storybook Love
Willingham, Bill
GN W678fs
Follows the adventures of storybook and nursery rhyme characters who live
side-by-side with humans.
Under All Silences: Shades of Love
Gordon, Ruth (ed.)
808.819354 UN2
Love is Like the Lion's Tooth: An Anthology of Love Poems
McCullough, Frances
808.819354 L941
A collection of poems about the various stages and effects of love.
grl2grl
Peters, Julie Anne
Fiction P442g
The complexities of love, romance, and dating for gay teenage girls are
explored in this collection of short stories.
All For Love
Tudor, Tasha (ed.)
Q.808.8354 Al51
An anthology of poems, stories, songs, letters, and miscellaneous facts describing various aspects of love.
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