18 books like Those who love

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Love is eternal Irving Stone · 1954 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate A politically-minded young lady and an awkward lawyer marry and eventually become President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Shares: Presidents' spouses, Presidents, Married people, Domestic fiction

Exclusive Sandra Brown · 1996 · ★ 4.1 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Barrie Travis is not famous: she's just a damn good reporter stuck at a low-budget television station. Then the First Lady calls her...and offers her the story of a lifetime. The president's wife, stunned by grief after the loss of her infant son, hints that her child may have been murdered. Blind to everything but finding the truth, Barrie's fight for an exclusive story will test her ethics, her… Shares: Presidents' spouses, Presidents

The Sacred and Profane Love Machine Iris Murdoch · 1974 · ★ 3.9 · 365p · ≈ 12h · Moderate This is a story of different loves; and of how a man may need two women in such a way that he can be happy with neither. Sacred and profane love are related opposites; the one enjoyed renders the other necessary, so that the ever unsatisfied heart swings constantly to and fro. Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

The Painted Veil William Somerset Maugham · 1925 · ★ 4.0 · 238p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A story of the beautiful but love-starve Kitty Fane who is forced to accompany her husband to the heart of a cholera epidemic. She is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love. Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

Pavilion of Women Pearl S. Buck · 1900 · ★ 4.2 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Challenging A los cuarenta años, Madame Wu, esposa de un miembro de una de las dinastías de terratenientes más consideradas de China, abandona voluntariamente la vida matrimonial y busca una concubina para su marido. Su decisión cambia la vida de todos los que la rodean... A las puertas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la familia se enfrenta a la encrucijada entre tradición, comunismo y pensamiento occidental,… Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

Amelia Henry Fielding · 1751 · 594p · ≈ 19h · Demanding Against her mother's wishes, Amelia marries Captain William Booth, a young army officer, and runs away to London. William is unjustly imprisoned in Newgate, and is subsequently seduced by Miss Matthews. Amelia stays faithful to her husband and forgives his transgression, but William soon draws them into trouble again as he accrues gambling debts trying to lift the couple out of poverty. Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler · 1988 · ★ 3.7 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Moderate While driving to the funeral of a friend, a couple married twenty-eight years examine the expectations and disappointments of their marriage. Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

How to Be Good Nick Hornby · 2000 · ★ 3.2 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Moderate According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor and her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions. Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

He knew he was right Anthony Trollope · 1869 · ★ 3.9 · 938p · ≈ 31h · Demanding Widely regarded as one of Trollope's most successful later novels,He Knew He Was Right is a study of marriage and of sexual relationships cast against a background of agitation for women's rights. Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

Treasure Box Orson Scott Card · 1996 · ★ 3.4 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A reclusive millionaire's hasty marriage leads to chilling revelations in the renowned author's "enthrallingly entertaining" supernatural horror novel (Booklist). Software engineer Quentin Fears was only 10 when his beloved sister died in a car accident. Since then, he withdrew from the world into books and machines. Though he's made millions with his software, he avoids companionship at all… Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst · 2004 · ★ 3.8 · 501p · ≈ 16h · Moderate It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby--whom Nick had idolized at Oxford--and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions, who becomes both a friend to Nick and his uneasy… Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

Breaking the rules Barbara Taylor Bradford · 1843 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Thirty years ago the world was introduced to Emma Harte. Now meet M, a new woman of substance guaranteed to win our hearts all over again. A new era has begun.When those you love are threatened, there's nothing you won't do to protect them... you'll even resort to Breaking the Rules. Following a terrifying encounter in the quiet English countryside, a dark beauty flees to New York in search of a… Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

Tomorrow Graham Swift · 2007 · ★ 2.7 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In his first novel since "The Light of Day," the Booker Prize-winning author brilliantly distills 50 years into one suspenseful night, in an exploration of couples, parenthood, and a unique meditation on the mystery of happiness. Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë · 1847 · ★ 4.0 · 332p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Librarian note: Alternate cover editions for this ISBN are: "Woman in white dress" (with the title on white and black background), "Woman at the easel" on a black and blue background, and "Furniture, easel and window". Anne Brontë's second novel is a passionate and courageous challenge to the conventions supposedly upheld by Victorian society and reflected in circulating-library fiction. The… Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

Heartburn Nora Ephron · 1983 · ★ 3.6 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter. Seven months into her… Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

Postern of Fate Agatha Christie · 1973 · ★ 3.2 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Tommy and Tuppence Beresford return in Christie’s classic Postern of Fate, to investigate a deadly poisoning sixty years after the fact. Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara · 1934 · ★ 3.8 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Challenging O’Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi: surveyed its social life and drew its psychic outlines, but he did it in utterly worldly terms, without Faulkner’s taste for mythic inference or the basso profundo of his prose. Julian English is a man who squanders what fate gave him. He lives on the right side of the tracks, with a country… Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

Up in Honey's Room Elmore Leonard · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The odd thing about Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. They even share the same birthday. Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, doesn't know that Walter is a member of a spy ring that sends U.S. war production data to Germany and gives shelter to escaped German prisoners of war. But she's… Shares: Married people, Domestic fiction

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