The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925
Books with the “Love Triangle” trope
Two people want the same person, who must choose between them while everyone gets hurt along the way.
Romance and dynamics · Love Triangle
Books with this trope
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
2008
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
1991
The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons
2000
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough
1977
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
1936
The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory
2001
One Day in December
Josie Silver
2018
It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover
2016
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas
2012
The Once and Future King
T. H. White
1958
The Mists of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley
1982
Fallen
Lauren Kate
2009
Unbreakable
Kami Garcia
2013
City of Bones
Cassandra Clare
2007
Vampire Academy
Richelle Mead
2007
Legendborn
Tracy Deonn
2020
The School for Good and Evil
Soman Chainani
2013
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
2011
Uglies
Scott Westerfeld
2005
Clockwork Angel
Cassandra Clare
2010
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
2005
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
1830
Looking for Alaska
John Green
2005
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
2015
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Jenny Han
2014
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
1874
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
1920
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Sue Lynn Tan
2022
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
2023
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
2003
Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi
2011
Matched
Ally Condie
2010
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard
2015
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
1878
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov
1840
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
1948
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
1869
The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
2020
The Selection
Kiera Cass
2012
Wicked Lovely
Melissa Marr
2007
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Coming of Age
Star-Crossed Lovers
Slow BurnRelated 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.