We all love love. These are the books—most of them unexpected—that make you feel it all over again, from the first delirious thrill to the ache of separation.
Love Story
The Classic to Come Back To (Alternates Include Wuthering Heights, Gone with the Wind, Brideshead Revisited, Romeo and Juliet and Jane Austen: The Complete Novels)
We're not sure what's more embarrassing: the number of times we've read Love Story or the fact that we weep like a heartbroken teenager every time we finish it. Most famous for spawning the 1970 film starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw (as well as for the eye-roll-worthy line "Love means never having to say you're sorry"), Erich Segal's slender novel begins when preppy Harvard jock Oliver and working-class Radcliffe brain Jenny meet in a library, then blossoms from sweet courtship into epic romance complete with—spoiler alert—tragic ending. If you ever needed proof that young love never gets old, this is it.
— Ruth Baron
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