Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
1813
Books with the “Slow Burn” trope
The romance develops very slowly, with pages of tension and yearning before the characters finally get together.
Romance and dynamics · Slow Burn
Books with this trope
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
1847
Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
2015
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas
2015
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
2011
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
2017
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab
2020
Uprooted
Naomi Novik
2015
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
1991
The Viscount Who Loved Me
Julia Quinn
2000
The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons
2000
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough
1977
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
1936
Persuasion
Jane Austen
1817
Seduce Me at Sunrise
Lisa Kleypas
2008
The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood
2021
The Hating Game
Sally Thorne
2016
The Flatshare
Beth O'Leary
2019
People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry
2021
One Day in December
Josie Silver
2018
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Mariana Zapata
2016
From Lukov with Love
Mariana Zapata
2018
From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout
2020
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas
2012
The Bridge Kingdom
Danielle L. Jensen
2019
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon
2019
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
2005
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
2011
Howl's Moving Castle
Diana Wynne Jones
1986
Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine
1997
The Wrath and the Dawn
Renée Ahdieh
2015
Beauty
Robin McKinley
1978
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
Axie Oh
2022
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
1868
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell
2012
Fangirl
Rainbow Rowell
2013
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë
1848
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
1855
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
1874
Normal People
Sally Rooney
2018
The Cruel Prince
Holly Black
2018
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent
2022
Angelfall
Susan Ee
2011
Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost
2007
Darkfever
Karen Marie Moning
2006
Kushiel's Dart
Jacqueline Carey
2001
Captive Prince
C.S. Pacat
2013
Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree
2022
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna
2022
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Heather Fawcett
2023
The Spellshop
Sarah Beth Durst
2024
Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik
2018
A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Brigid Kemmerer
2019
The Goose Girl
Shannon Hale
2003
The Blue Sword
Robin McKinley
1982
The Jasmine Throne
Tasha Suri
2021
Lord of Scoundrels
Loretta Chase
1995
Flowers from the Storm
Laura Kinsale
1992
The Duchess Deal
Tessa Dare
2017
When a Scot Ties the Knot
Tessa Dare
2015
The Ugly Duchess
Eloisa James
2012
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
Sarah MacLean
2010
The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
Jennifer Ashley
2009
A Lady's Code of Misconduct
Meredith Duran
2017
The Highwayman
Kerrigan Byrne
2015
Venetia
Georgette Heyer
1958
Slightly Married
Mary Balogh
2003
The Bride
Julie Garwood
1989
Katherine
Anya Seton
1954
The Hacienda
Isabel Cañas
2022
The Wicked King
Holly Black
2019
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
2023
Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross
2023
A River Enchanted
Rebecca Ross
2022
To Kill a Kingdom
Alexandra Christo
2018
The Shadows Between Us
Tricia Levenseller
2020
A Deal with the Elf King
Elise Kova
2020
An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson
2017
Radiance
Grace Draven
2015
Heartless Hunter
Kristen Ciccarelli
2024
The Unhoneymooners
Christina Lauren
2019
Beach Read
Emily Henry
2020
The Spanish Love Deception
Elena Armas
2021
Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston
2019
Boyfriend Material
Alexis Hall
2020
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Talia Hibbert
2019
Every Summer After
Carley Fortune
2022
The Cheat Sheet
Sarah Adams
2021
Funny Feelings
Tarah DeWitt
2022
Caraval
Stephanie Garber
2017
Six Crimson Cranes
Elizabeth Lim
2021
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
2012
The Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry
2016
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
1948
Assistant to the Villain
Hannah Nicole Maehrer
2023
Rebel of the Sands
Alwyn Hamilton
2016
Once Upon a Broken Heart
Stephanie Garber
2021
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Megan Bannen
2022
A Promise of Fire
Amanda Bouchet
2016
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
Gild
Raven Kennedy
2020
Rhapsodic
Laura Thalassa
2016
The Sweetest Oblivion
Danielle Lori
2018
The Last Namsara
Kristen Ciccarelli
2017
Poison Study
Maria V. Snyder
2005
Book Lovers
Emily Henry
2022
Things We Never Got Over
Lucy Score
2022
The Simple Wild
K.A. Tucker
2018
Birthday Girl
Penelope Douglas
2018
Twice Shy
Sarah Hogle
2021
Bet Me
Jennifer Crusie
2004
Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren
2018
Vision in White
Nora Roberts
2009
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Enemies to Lovers
Forced ProximityRelated 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.
Star-Crossed Lovers
Two people love each other, but fate, family, or society stands in the way of their union.
Love Triangle
Two people want the same person, who must choose between them while everyone gets hurt along the way.