The tale of Noah Calhoun, a recent veteran of the Second World War from a remote Southern state, is introduced among the stark grandeur of the North Carolina coast. A gorgeous girl Noah met fourteen years ago and fell in love with intensely is haunting him as he works to restore a plantation house to its former splendor. Noah is glad to live with only memories of her because he can’t seem to find her and doesn’t want to forget the summer they lived together. That is until she suddenly makes a surprise visit back to his hometown to see him.
The tale of Noah and Allie is only the first piece of a larger puzzle. As it progresses, their story mysteriously changes into another with considerably larger stakes. The overall effect is a profoundly emotional portrayal of love, with its sweet moments and universally felt changes. It is a tale of miracles and feelings that you will never forget.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
“You are, and always have been, my dream.”
“You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”
“Every great love starts with a great story…”
“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”
Before love gave them everything to lose, they had nothing in common. Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl who has seldom ventured outside of their small community. She has a steady boyfriend and a close-knit family. She accepts a position working for wheelchair-bound former Master of the Universe Will Traynor, which she desperately needs. Will has always led a lavish lifestyle—huge deals, intense sports, and international travel—and he is now very certain he cannot continue to live this way.
Will is sarcastic, temperamental, and domineering, but Lou won’t treat him like a baby, and eventually, his happiness matters more to her than she anticipated. She goes out to prove to Will that life is still worthwhile after learning that he has shocking plans of his own. Me Before You is a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, “What do you do when trying to make the person you cherish happily also means breaking your own heart?” It is a love story for this generation and is ideal for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
“Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
“Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”
“I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”
“I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.”
Hazel has never been other than a terminal, with her final chapter having been written upon diagnosis, despite the cancer medical breakthrough that has given her a few extra years. But Hazel’s tale is about to be completely changed when a handsome plotline named Augustus Waters shows up at Cancer Kid Support Group out of nowhere.
The Fault in Our Stars is the most ambitious and emotional book yet by award-winning novelist John Green. It wonderfully explores the amusing, exhilarating, and heartbreaking business of living and in love. It is insightful, daring, irreverent, and real.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
The first time the unworldly student Anastasia Steele met the ambitious and gorgeous young businessman Christian Grey, a sensuous relationship was born that would forever alter both of their lives. Ana requests a stronger commitment after being shocked, intrigued, and eventually repulsed by Christian’s peculiar sexual preferences. Christian, who is committed to keeping her, consents.
The future is now filled with love, passion, intimacy, prosperity, and endless possibilities for Ana and Christian. But Ana is aware that caring for Fifty Shades will not be simple and that sharing a relationship will present difficulties that neither of them could have predicted. Ana needs to find a way to adopt Christian’s lavish lifestyle without losing her sense of self. Christian must also fight the ghosts of his troubled past while overcoming his urge to manipulate others. When it seems as though their combined strength will overcome any difficulty, bad luck, evil, and fate work together to bring Ana’s worst nightmares to pass.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin’s lamp all rolled into one”
“I want your world to begin and end with me.”
“I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.”
“He makes me graceful, that’s his skill. He makes me sexy, because that’s what he is. He makes me feel loved, because in spite of his fifty shades, he has a wealth of love to give.”
“It’s much easier to wear your pain on the outside…”
Stephenie Meyer published the young adult vampire romance book Twilight in 2005. The seventeen-year-old Isabella “Bella” Swan, who relocates from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington, is introduced in the first novel of the Twilight series.
Edward was formerly a vampire. Second, there was a part of him that yearned for my blood, but I wasn’t sure how dominant that part may be. Third, I had a complete and unbreakable affection for him.
Twilight is an intensely sensual and incredibly suspenseful love story.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”
“I decided as long as I’m going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.”
“Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder”
“Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.”
“Don’t be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I’m not ashamed of it.”
Lara Jean is the protagonist of the novel To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Rather than confessing her crushes out loud, Lara Jean wrote letters to each boy, sealed them, and put them in a box beneath her bed. But one day Lara Jean finds that her hidden box of letters has been delivered, and all of her old crushes approach her about them, including Josh, her sister’s ex-boyfriend, and the subject of her first kiss. Lara Jean realizes that something positive might come from these letters after all as she manages to deal with her former loves directly.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“When someone’s been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it’s like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you’re just clutching air and grit.”
“You’d rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”
“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That’s the part of the risk. I don’t want to be scared anymore.”
“Life doesn’t have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.”
“It’s not like in the movies. It’s better, because it’s real.”
Margo Roth Spiegelman is a gloriously daring woman, and Quentin Jacobsen has spent his entire life admiring her from a distance. He, therefore, follows her when she opens a window and enters his life while dressed as a ninja and calling for him to participate in a cunning mission of vengeance. When a fresh day begins after their all-nighter, Q arrives at school to find Margo, who had always been a mystery, has now become one. Q quickly discovers, however, that the hints are directed against him. Q is led down a confusing path, and the closer he gets, the less he can make out the girl he believes he knows.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
“If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
“I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.”
Every morning, Rachel rides the same commuter train. She is aware that it will consistently wait at the same signal in front of a row of backyard gardens. Even the residents from one of the homes have begun to give her the impression that she knows them. She addresses them as “Jess and Jason.” She believes that their life is ideal. If only Rachel could experience such joy. Then she notices a startling sight. The train won’t move on for another minute, but that’s ample time. Everything has changed now. Now Rachel has the opportunity to actively participate in the lives she has previously merely observed. They will now see that she is so much more than simply the girl on the train.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.”
“There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home.”
“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”
“it’s possible to miss what you’ve never had, to mourn for it.”
“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.”
The country of Panem, with a dazzling Capitol and twelve outlying districts, is located in the ruins of a region that was once known as North America. The annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live television, are held every year as a way for the Capitol, which is harsh and cruel, to keep the districts in line. Each district is obligated to send 1 boy and 1 girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen.
When Katniss Everdeen, 16, steps forward to fill her sister’s place in the Games, her mother and younger sister see it as a death sentence. Katniss Everdeen lives alone with her mother and sister. However, Katniss has already narrowly escaped death once, so for her, surviving comes naturally. She unexpectedly establishes herself as a contender. However, if she wants to succeed, she will be required to start making decisions that prioritize survival above humanity and life over love.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
“Remember, we’re madly in love, so it’s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
Rainbow Rowell’s debut young adult book is titled, Eleanor & Park. The story is told in parallel narratives by Eleanor and Park, two outcasts who lived in Omaha, Nebraska, between 1986 and 1987, and was published in 2012.
“Bono met his wife in high school,” Park says. “So did Jerry Lee Lewis,” Eleanor answers. “I’m not kidding,” he says. “You should be,” she says, “we’re 16.” “What about Romeo and Juliet?” “Shallow, confused, then dead.” “I love you,” Park says. “Wherefore art thou,” Eleanor answers. “I’m not kidding,” he says. “You should be.”
Eleanor & Park is the journey of two star-crossed freaks who are courageous and desperate enough to pursue first love despite knowing it virtually never lasts. It is set over the course of one school year in 1986.
Everything changes in the blink of an eye. Mia, who is now seventeen, has no recollection of the disaster; all she can recall is what happened later when she saw her own wounded body being removed from the wreck. She labors to piece everything together, to understand what she has gained, what she has sacrificed, and the extremely difficult decision she must make. This will alter how you view life, love, and family because it is so exquisitely beautiful and heartbreaking. Mia’s narrative will stick with you for a very, very long time. It is now a big-budget movie starring Chloe Grace Moretz.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
“And that’s just it, isn’t it? That’s how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.”
“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal”
“Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won’t feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.”
In the dystopian Chicago society created by Beatrice Prior, there are five factions: Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the courageous), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the learned) (the intelligent). All sixteen-year-olds must choose the faction to which they’ll dedicate the rest of their lives on a designated day each year. Beatrice must choose between remaining with her family and coming out as who she truly is since she cannot be both. She thus makes a decision that shocks both herself and everyone else.
Beatrice adopts the name Tris during the extremely competitive induction that follows and battles with the other initiates to carry out their decisions. Together, they must endure difficult physical endurance tests and demanding psychological simulations, some of which have grave repercussions. Tris must decide who her true friends are as initiation alters them all and where precisely a romance with an often interesting, sometimes irritating boy fits into the world she has chosen. Tris has a secret, though, and she has kept it a secret from everyone since she has been warned it may be fatal. Additionally, she finds that her secret might either help her save the people she cares about or endanger them as she uncovers unrest and escalating conflict that threaten to tear apart her society’s façade of perfection.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
“Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
“I might be in love with you.” He smiles a little. “I’m waiting until I’m sure to tell you, though.”
“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different.”
“Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up”
A deliciously dishonest book about the most difficult employer in the annals of difficult bosses. Andrea Sachs, a young college graduate from a tiny town, is hired for the position that “millions of ladies would die for.” Andrea uncovers herself in a workplace that roars “Prada! Armani! Versace!” at every move, a world populated by impossibly thin, heart-wrenchingly stylish women and beautiful men dressed in fine-ribbed turtlenecks and strict leather pants that show off their lifelong dedication to the gym. Andrea has been recruited as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, marvelously successful editor of “Runway” magazine. Miranda has the ability to transform every single one of these stylish hipsters into a frightened child, whimpering in pain.
Complaints about “The Boss from Hell” take on a rich and humorous new meaning thanks to THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. It tracks a deep, dark, wicked vision of life at the top that is only glimpsed in gossip magazines and over Cosmopolitans at the hottest cocktail parties, all told in Andrea’s sharp, pleasantly disarming manner. Andrea is put to the test on a daily basis—often late into the night with orders yelled over the phone—doing everything from finding an unnamed antique shop where Miranda had once admired a vintage dresser to finding the newest, not-yet-in-store Harry Potter to send to Miranda’s children in Paris by private jet.
By focusing on the goal—a reference from Miranda that will land Andrea a top position at any publication of her choice—she endures everything. But when things progress from being merely undesirable to outright absurd, Andrea starts to suspect that the career that a million females would die for might actually be killing her. She must also decide whether the work is worth the cost of her soul, even if she lives.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Oh, don’t be silly – EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be *us*.”
“I’ve always expressed my thoughts in color but we remain blind.”
“Mom and Dad were great, but being asked where I was going every time I left the house – or where I’d been every time I returned – got old quickly.”
“She loved anyone and anything that didn’t love her back, so long as it made her feel alive.”
“Insatiable, impatient, impossible.”
Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.
Even though Lily hasn’t always found it easy, she’s never let that stop her from striving to live the life she desires. She had graduated from college, relocated to Boston, and launched her own business. She has traveled a long way from the small Maine hamlet where she was raised. So everything in Lily’s life appears almost too beautiful to be true when she gets a spark with a stunning neurosurgeon called Ryle Kincaid.
Ryle is aggressive, obstinate, and perhaps a little conceited. He is also intelligent, sensitive, and completely infatuated with Lily. And it surely doesn’t hurt that he looks good in scrubs. Lily is unable to shake him from her mind. But Ryle’s utter distaste for partnerships is unsettling. Lily cannot help but wonder what made him such a person in the first place, even as she finds herself breaking his “no dating” rule.
Her first love and a reminder of the past she left behind, Atlas Corrigan, comes to mind as uncertainty about her new relationship overwhelms her. He served as both her ally and defender. Everything Ryle and Lily have created together are in danger when Atlas arrives out of nowhere.
The 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is one of the most beloved works of literature among bookworms and romantics alike. When Elizabeth Bennet’s blunders and hasty decisions enchanted readers, they’ve been on the lookout for similar works of fiction for some time. Finding books like Pride and Prejudice, perhaps Austen’s most famous work isn’t too tough.
Many writers have been influenced by Austen’s writing, and there is a slew of works currently in print that deal with similar subjects and chronological periods. Despite Pride and Prejudice’s reputation as the pinnacle of feminist writing, there is a slew of other works by women authors that helped establish the notion that women might be successful novelists.
It doesn’t matter what your taste in literature is, these 10 works are sure to please you in the same manner as Pride and Prejudice did for me.
So who are you?
What harm have we caused one another?
When Nick Dunne’s wife Amy mysteriously vanishes on the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary, he is left questioning these concerns. Police believe Nick. His fear of Amy led to her keeping secrets from him, according to her friends. He vouches that it is untrue. His computer was examined by police, who discovered odd searches. He claims that he did not create them. The constant calls to his cellphone are another issue.
So what actually happened to Nick’s lovely wife?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“All the stuff I don’t like about myself has been pushed to the back of my brain. Maybe that is what I like best about him, the way he makes me. Not makes me feel, just makes me. I am fun. I am playful. I am game. I feel naturally happy and entirely satisfied.”
“I got it, Go said. Go home, fuck her brains out, then smack her with your penis and scream, There’s some wood for you bitch!”
“One should never marry a man who doesn’t own a decent set of scissors. That would be my advice. It leads to bad things.”
“He has a great smile, a cat’s smile. He should cough out yellow Tweety Bird feathers, the way he smiles at me.”
“I just want to live until I can’t anymore,” she said.”
One unprecedented move is about to be taken by three regular women. Skeeter, who is twenty-two years old, graduated from Ole Miss and has since moved back home. Even though she may have a degree, it is 1962 in Mississippi, and Skeeter’s mother won’t be content until she has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would often seek comfort from the lady who reared her, her loving maid Constantine, but Constantine has vanished, and no one would tell Skeeter where she has fled.
Aibileen is a smart, regal black maid who is parenting her seventeenth child who is white. After losing her beloved son, who passed away while his superiors turned a blind eye, something inside of her changed. Despite knowing that both of their hearts might be crushed, she is dedicated to the young girl she tends after.
Kathryn Stockett invents three exceptional people with pitch-perfect voices, whose will to begin a campaign of their own transforms a community and the way in which mothers, daughters, carers, and friends see one another. The Help is a profoundly touching book that is full of poignancy, comedy, and hope. It is a timeless and enduring tale about the lines we follow and the ones we can’t control.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
“All I’m saying is, kindness don’t have no boundaries.”
“Wasn’t that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I’d thought.”
“Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.”
“Stuart needs “space” and “time,” as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”
Miles “Pudge” Halter has an obsession with famous final words. His entire life has been pretty monotonous, so he heads to boarding school in pursuit of a “Great Perhaps,” François Rabelais’ famous dying words.
Miles meets Alaska Yong there, and his life becomes anything but mundane. Alaska is unpredictable, wild, and self-destructive, as well as the object of Miles’ emotions. Miles and Chip “Colonel” Martin become incredibly good friends and share many fantastic adventures at Culver Creek Boarding School, with Miles anticipating his own “Great Perhaps.”
When tragedy strikes, Miles is pushed to confront mortality, teaching him the value of life and loving completely. Looking for Alaska must be on your reading list if you’re looking for more contemporary novels like The Outsiders. This is a coming-of-age narrative about the meaning of life, grief, and hope, as well as the interactions between teenagers and adults.
This is the remarkable love tale of Clare and Henry, who were married at ages 22 and 30 respectively and met when Clare was six and Henry was 36. It’s impossible, but Henry has a disease that causes his genetic clock to periodically reset, causing him to be unexpectedly transported into the past or the future. Henry and Clare’s battle to conduct regular lives in the face of this force they can neither stop nor control is profoundly affecting and completely unforgettable.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I sit quietly and think about my mom. It’s funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
“Henry loves my hair almost as though it is a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
“Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
“absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
“Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn’t understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
My illness is both infamous and unusual. I have a severe case of mixed immunodeficiency, but basically, I have allergies to everything. I rarely leave my residence and haven’t done so in fifteen years. My mother and Carla, my nurse, are the only ones I ever see.
Then, though, a moving truck shows up one day. new neighbors next door. He is there when I glance out the window. He is tall, slender, and dressed all in black, including a black knit cap that completely conceals his hair, black pants, black sneakers, and a black t-shirt. He turns to face me when he sees me looking at him. I return the gaze. He goes by Olly. I aspire to know everything there is to know about him. I find out that he is fierce and hilarious. He has blue eyes like the Atlantic Ocean, and his vice is thieving cutlery, I discover. I discover that once I speak with him, my entire universe widens and I start to feel different—starting to crave things. to desire to leave my bubble. a desire for all that the world has to offer.
While we may not be able to anticipate the future, there are some things that we can do. For instance, I will undoubtedly become infatuated with Olly. It will almost likely end in disaster.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Everything’s a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It’s up to you.”
“Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.”
“Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.”
“Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it.”
“Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.”