 | Passing On by Penelope Lively
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 A sister and brother, both damaged, try to find happiness after their witch of a mother dies.
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 | The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.66 Lady Brett and Jake. Watching from the sidelines as the woman he loves but can't have hooks up with a series of other lovers.
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 | The Map of Love: A Novel by Ahdaf Soueif
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 Worth reading if only to gain some insight into the history of Egypt and Palestine. A heartbreaking interracial love story.
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $2.24 Chasing himself and love through time.
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 | Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Buy used from: $8.11 Hard to describe. Fascinating and exhilerating and maddening and sad in turn.
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 | First Love (Penguin Great Loves) by Ivan Turgenev
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $3.95 This story and also a story called "Asya" are unlike anything else I've ever read.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy used from: $0.01 Heathcliff and Cathy.
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 | Three Junes by Julia Glass
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 The Fenno & Mal storyline is poignant--the if only of it.
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 | Democracy by Joan Didion
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $1.65 About a love that lasts, through geographical separation, war and marriage to other people.
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 | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 Both love stories end sadly.
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 | Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa by Francesca Marciano
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 Fascinating look at the white ex-pat community in Kenya.
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 | Anna Karenina (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $1.55 The scene between Anna's husband and Vronsky after the birth of Anna and Vronsky's child, when they both think she is dying--absolutely heartbreaking.
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 | I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Buy used from: $3.25 Comic but wrenching story of first love and the pain of being too young for what you crave.
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 | The Lost Garden: A Novel by Helen Humphreys
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 Set in England during WWII, a plain woman desperate for beauty and love, falls in love with a handsome gay army officer who has befriended her.
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 | Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $6.00 / Used from: $0.93 All that time gone to waste when they could have been together...
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 | The Country Life: A Novel by Rachel Cusk
Buy new: $13.50 / Used from: $0.01 Stella, a runaway from her new marriage and her management-level job, hides out in the country as a paid companion to a wheelchair-bound teenage boy (who is nobody's victim--he's a nasty but appealing piece of work). Quirky and sad, but in the end oddly comforting.
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