Read these ten classics to instill warm and fuzzy feelings in your heart!

1. FOR THE
ROMANTIC
IN YOU
By: Katerina Zissouli
10 CLASSICS

2. 1) JANE EYRE
Talk about a journey. This novel by Charlotte
Bronte has all of the makings of a great
melodrama. With themes of forgiveness,
perseverance, and devotion, this story follows
Jane as she takes on a governess role and falls
in love with her new estate’s owner, Mr.
Rochester. As Jane’s discovery of love grows,
she finds herself engulfed in a mystery that
changes her and Mr. Rochester’s lives forever.

3. 2) PRIDE &
PREJUDICE
Jane Austen expertly creates a palpable tension
between this novel’s leading lovers, Elizabeth
Bennet and Mr. Darcy. It’s this relentless uphill
climb to true love that keeps readers coming
back to this novel time and time again. Pride &
Prejudice is a story of finding what the heart
wants, even if what the heart wants is
unexpected.

4. 3) ROMEO & JULIET
Although you might think you know this classic
tale of tragic love, Romeo & Juliet will surprise
you. With layered themes of love, war, violence,
power, and stature, this heartbreaking story of
young love is rarely overlooked when
considering the greatest romance novels of all
time.

5. 4) WUTHERING
HEIGHTS
Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is a
complicated story that delves into themes of
love and revenge. This page turner details the
painful journey that love can lead you on, if
that love is not believed to be returned.

6. 5) THE NOTEBOOK
Not to be chuckled at, The Notebook
reimagines the classic themes of love’s
tragedies and triumphs in a more modern
setting. Nicholas Sparks’ novel is perfect for a
true romantic, showing that love can survive
whatever it faces, albeit time, a stubborn
mother, and societal pressures.

7. 6) DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
Boris Pasternik channels his alter-ego, Dr. Yury
Zhivago, in this complicated telling of love
reaching across party lines. As Dr. Zhivago, a
poet, finds himself falling for the wife of a
revolutionary, the reader is taken on a wild ride
showing the effects of love’s struggle during a
time of chaos and fear.

8. 7) THE GREAT
GATSBY
Parties, intrigue, a bachelor, and the roaring
twenties - what more could you ask for? F. Scott
Fitzgerald’s telling of love between Jay Gatsby
and Daisy Buchanan will have you wondering
what the price of love is actually worth.

9. 8) GONE WITH THE
WIND
Although the movie adaptation of Gone With
the Wind is so iconic, this Pulitzer Prize winning
novel deserves a read. Following Scarlett
O’Hara and Rhett Butler as they make sense of
life during and after the Civil War, this historic
read reveals the pain and suffering that can
accompany love.

10. 9) THE TIME
TRAVELER’S WIFE
This untraditional love story penned by Audrey
Niffenegger discovers what love is like when
the concept of time is taken away. Doomed
from the start, Clare Abshire and Henry
DeTamble stay devoted to each other even as
Henry unwillingly crosses dimensions of time
and space, leaving Clare stuck in the present
without him.

11. 10) LITTLE WOMEN
Perhaps the greatest “sisterhood” novel of all
time, Little Women is a story that tackles the
difficulties and wonders in many different
types of love. Although this novel revolves
around a family of women and the journey that
sisterhood can lead you on, the heartbreaking
evolutions of each sister’s path to love cultivate
in a beautiful coming of age story that will
touch the heart of any reader.

12. By:
Katerina Zissouli
THANK
YOU!