Books about love?

[Anonymous No.23073716]

On this Valentine's day, what books are about love? All kinds of love, platonic, family, passionate, and friendship. Extra points for books on love during war or famine. Books on love during COVID also highly sought after.

[Anonymous No.23073720]

Hogg by Samuel R Delany

[Anonymous No.23073722]

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[Anonymous No.23073751]

>>23073716
I haven't actually read Montherlant, but you could be my testmonkey.

[Anonymous No.23073804]

>>23073716
Symposium

[Anonymous No.23073834]

>>23073751
That "spoiler" shit was the craziest thing I have ever seen on /lit/, how did you do it?!?!?!

[Anonymous No.23073838]

>>23073834
Reddit

[Anonymous No.23073844]

>>23073716
Someone should report that to the police. Valentine's balloons and toys for little girls? Suspicious.

[Anonymous No.23073847]

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[Anonymous No.23075104]

>>23073844
Love, apparently, is not a popular subject on /lit/, especially on Valentine's day!

[Anonymous No.23075230]

>>23075104
Many are probably avoiding the thread because of the various meme threads on related subjects lately. Sure many just hid the thread assuming it would be filled with shit posting.

[Anonymous No.23075249]

>>23075230
Authenticity is scarce these days!

[Anonymous No.23076106]

Spoiler: you will never experience love

[Anonymous No.23076119]

>>23073716
Gabriel Marcel - Man Against Mass Society

[Anonymous No.23076744]

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[Anonymous No.23076877]

>>23076106
wow

[Anonymous No.23076904]

>>23073716
Henderson the Rain King
The House of the Dead
Narcissus and Goldmund

[Anonymous No.23076920]

It's even an Annie Hall kind of romance.

[Anonymous No.23076936]

>>23073716
Daphnis and Chloe

[Anonymous No.23077134]

>>23076119
>Gabriel Marcel - Man Against Mass Society
Been flipping through this one, feeling blackpilled

"Once and for all, it must be said that he is perfectly satisfied with the accumulation of com monplace ideas, of prejudices, of shreds and scraps of other men's notions, or of mere words empty of meaning, which chance has flung pell meii to mix up in his head.' There is a complete agreement between this portrait of the mass-man and that of the French On, the German Man, the English People or They (as in 'They say', or 'People think') as defined by Heidegger in his great work. But we ought to be able .to see more clearly just for what reason the mass-man is so easily turned into a fanatic."

[Anonymous No.23077465]

>>23073720
>Hogg by Samuel R Delany
"The novel deals graphically with themes of murder, child molestation, incest, coprophilia, coprophagia, urolagnia, anal-oral contact, necrophilia and rape."

Very on-brand. /lit/

[Anonymous No.23077535]

>>23073716
The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Women with Men - Richard Ford
Big Bad Love - Larry Brown
The Infatuations - Javier Marias
The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan

[Anonymous No.23077567]

>>23077535
Really, going to drop 6 books without any short summary of each?

[Anonymous No.23077771]

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[Anonymous No.23077786]

>>23077134
same anon, but yeah i read it awhile ago.

[Anonymous No.23077829]

>>23077786
Gab was noooooticing and becoming a schizo

[Anonymous No.23079213]

From Oprah magazine in 2022: The 27 Greatest Romance Novels to Read in Your Lifetime

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen (1813)
>Arguably the greatest romance novel of the classics

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
>her love for her boss

Historical
Shanna, by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss (1977)
Morning Glory, by Lavyrle Spencer (1993)
Lord of Scoundrels, by Loretta Chase (1995)
Indigo. by Beverly Jenkins (1996)
The Viscount Who Loved Me, by Julia Quinn (2000)
An Extraordinary Union, by Alyssa Cole (2017)
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics, by Olivia Waite (2019)
Devil In Winter, by Lisa Kleypas (2006)
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, by Sarah Maclean (2010)
The Duchess War, by Courtney Milan (2012)

Vampire
Dark Lover, by J.R. Ward (2005)
A Hunger Like No Other, by Kresley Cole (2006)

Paranormal
Slave to Sensation, by Nalini Singh (2006)

Famtasy
The Magpie Lord, by KJ Charles (2013)

Contemporary
Delaney’s Desert Sheikh, by Brenda Jackson (2002)
Bet Me, by Jennifer Crusie (2005)
Vision in White, by Nora Roberts (2009)
Tangled, by Emma Chase (2013)
Glitterland, by Alexis Hall (2013)
Ante Up, by Christina C. Jones (2017)
Acting on Impulse, by Mia Sosa (2017)
Hate to Want You, by Alisha Rai (2017)
Long Shot, by Kennedy Ryan (2018)
The Kiss Quotient, by Helen Hoang (2018)
Red, White & Royal Blue, by Casey McQuiston (2019)

[Anonymous No.23080007]

>>23079213
>From Oprah magazine in 2022: The 27 Greatest Romance Novels to Read in Your Lifetime
Now THIS is /lit/!

[Anonymous No.23081161]

Persuasion by Jane Austen (1817)
>This is Jane Austen at her most hopeful and romantic.

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (1996)
>A modern update on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. A modern classic

[Anonymous No.23081176]

This is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

[Anonymous No.23081224]

>>23081161
>Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (1996)
How did it age in the last 20-30 years?

[Anonymous No.23083122]

>>23081176
How is this a love story?

[Anonymous No.23084299]

I like Victorian romance novels

[Anonymous No.23084400]

>>23073716
A Farewell to Arms

[Anonymous No.23084413]

>>23073716
The Lightning Stenography Device has a downright transcendent embrace at the end.

[Anonymous No.23084711]

>>23073716
is that kelowna

[Anonymous No.23084725]

>>23073716
Lolita

Ya ya whoa AH whoa AH ya ya

[Anonymous No.23084967]

>>23084711
Can still go to Canadian Tire and mostly see white people!