Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
1847
Books with the “Forbidden Love” trope
Family, society, or circumstance forbids the relationship, so the lovers have to keep it secret.
Romance and dynamics · Forbidden Love
Books with this trope
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
2017
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
1949
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
1985
The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons
2000
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough
1977
The White Queen
Philippa Gregory
2009
Seduce Me at Sunrise
Lisa Kleypas
2008
One Day in December
Josie Silver
2018
From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout
2020
Serpent & Dove
Shelby Mahurin
2019
Kingdom of the Wicked
Kerri Maniscalco
2020
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Laini Taylor
2011
The Iron King
Julie Kagawa
2010
Blood & Honey
Shelby Mahurin
2020
The Once and Future King
T. H. White
1958
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon
2019
The Mists of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley
1982
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
2005
Dark Lover
J. R. Ward
2005
Fallen
Lauren Kate
2009
Kiss of Midnight
Lara Adrian
2007
Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick
2009
Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris
2001
Corrupt
Penelope Douglas
2015
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
1872
City of Bones
Cassandra Clare
2007
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness
2011
Vampire Academy
Richelle Mead
2007
Delirium
Lauren Oliver
2011
The Postman Always Rings Twice
James M. Cain
1934
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe
1794
The Monk
Matthew Gregory Lewis
1796
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1850
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
1856
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
1830
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2001
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
2015
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
1992
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
1989
World Without End
Ken Follett
2007
Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset
1920
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë
1848
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
1891
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
1920
Angelfall
Susan Ee
2011
Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost
2007
Kushiel's Dart
Jacqueline Carey
2001
A Hunger Like No Other
Kresley Cole
2006
Captive Prince
C.S. Pacat
2013
Certain Dark Things
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2016
Empire of the Vampire
Jay Kristoff
2021
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Seth Dickinson
2015
Flowers from the Storm
Laura Kinsale
1992
The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
Jennifer Ashley
2009
Venetia
Georgette Heyer
1958
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
2015
Katherine
Anya Seton
1954
The Hacienda
Isabel Cañas
2022
These Violent Delights
Chloe Gong
2020
A Touch of Darkness
Scarlett St. Clair
2019
An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson
2017
Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston
2019
The Charm Offensive
Alison Cochrun
2021
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
1924
Verity
Colleen Hoover
2018
Matched
Ally Condie
2010
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard
2015
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
1878
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
1831
Jamaica Inn
Daphne du Maurier
1936
Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan
2013
The Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry
2016
Red Sparrow
Jason Matthews
2013
The Selection
Kiera Cass
2012
The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski
2014
Sky in the Deep
Adrienne Young
2018
This Woven Kingdom
Tahereh Mafi
2022
The Wolf and the Woodsman
Ava Reid
2021
The Sweetest Oblivion
Danielle Lori
2018
The Last Namsara
Kristen Ciccarelli
2017
Twisted Love
Ana Huang
2021
Part of Your World
Abby Jimenez
2022
The Idea of You
Robinne Lee
2017
Birthday Girl
Penelope Douglas
2018
The Space Between Worlds
Micaiah Johnson
2020
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Slow Burn
Star-Crossed Lovers
Morally Grey Character
Enemies to LoversRelated tropes
Enemies to Lovers
Two characters start out hating or fighting each other and slowly fall in love.
Only One Bed
A shortage of rooms forces two characters to share a single bed, turning an awkward night into a turning point.
Slow Burn
The romance develops very slowly, with pages of tension and yearning before the characters finally get together.
Star-Crossed Lovers
Two people love each other, but fate, family, or society stands in the way of their union.