10 Best Modern Romance Books Depicting Love-related Worries
There's no doubting the universal appeal of a good love story. From palpitating first encounters to heart-wrenching separations, each tale holds a relatable essence that often resonates with our own experiences of love and heartache. If you're looking for the most captivating modern romance books that perfectly illustrate love-related worries, you're in the right place. Whether it's the thrilling anticipation of a new relationship, those old butterflies in your stomach, the uncertainty of unreturned feelings, or the despair that tags along with breakups, these books leave no stone unturned. They don't shy away from showing that love isn't always rainbows and butterflies — it can also be a tumultuous journey filled with fear, anxiety, and trouble. Romantic? Absolutely. But also raw and real, just the way we like it. Each one of these masterfully crafted stories will grip you from the very first page, make your heart ache, and perhaps even shed a tear or two. Dive right in and let these tales remind you that even though love comes with its fair share of worries, it's a ride worth taking. Buckle up, you're in for an emotional journey.
『The Notebook』
'The Notebook' begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner recently returned from WWII. He is restoring a plantation home, and he's haunted by images of the girl he met 14 years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Noah is content to live with memories - until she returns to see him.
Author | Nicholas Sparks |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | |
Release Date | Jan 01, 1997 |
Source | Google Books |
『A Walk to Remember』
A high school rebel and a minister's daughter find strength in each other in this star-crossed tale of "young but everlasting love" (Chicago Sun-Times). There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister....Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart-and the joy and pain of living. The inspiration for this novel came from Nicholas Sparks's sister: her life and her courage. From the internationally bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, comes his most moving story yet....
Author | Nicholas Sparks |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Release Date | Nov 05, 2019 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Fault in Our Stars』
From John Green, the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down "The greatest romance story of this decade." --Entertainment Weekly -Millions of copies sold- #1 New York Times Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller #1 USA Today Bestseller #1 International Bestseller TIME Magazine's #1 Fiction Book of 2012 TODAY Book Club pick Now a Major Motion Picture Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars brilliantly explores the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
Author | John Green |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Penguin Books |
Release Date | Apr 08, 2014 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Time Traveler's Wife』
The beloved, mega bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger, "a soaring celebration of the victory of love over time" (Chicago Tribune). A MOST UNTRADITIONAL LOVE STORY, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love.
Author | Audrey Niffenegger |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Release Date | May 06, 2014 |
Source | Google Books |
『Me Before You』
Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun teashop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick.What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane.Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that.What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.
Author | Jojo Moyes |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Penguin Books |
Release Date | Jan 01, 2016 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Poetics of Passion』
A secret identity means secret desires . . . and not-so-secret scandals. London 1870: Musa Bartham has a secret. To support her destitute family after her father's disappearance, she's been publishing erotic poetry under the pen name of Felicity Vita. As Felicity Vita, Musa's scandalous books has won legions of devoted fans-including an anonymous gentleman pen pal whose letters spark unruly desires she would never ever succumb to in her orderly daily life. But when Musa's cherished younger sister, Angela, is offered sponsorship by their aristocratic great-aunt for an advantageous marriage, Musa realizes her dangerous double life as Felicity must come to an end. Instead, she'll write children's books.Sebastian Atkinson is a passionate artist reduced to working nights as a printer. Though Seb is infuriated by the prim yet alluring young woman who corners him into illustrating her insipid children's book, he can't turn Musa away: he suspects she may be Felicity Vita, the seductive poetess with whom he's been exchanging love letters for the past year. Egged on by his best friend, an ambitious journalist desperate for a break, Seb seeks to unmask Musa's secret identity. But the closer Seb comes to the truth, the more Musa entices him-and the more Musa finds Seb curiously attractive and even more curiously familiar. Could he have anything to do with her gentleman pen pal? Unable to resist each other, the two shift from enemies to lovers just as their love letters are stolen, setting Angela's future at stake. As Seb and Musa frantically come together to contain the damage before it's too late, it's uncertain whose hearts and lives will be broken amid the most sensational scandal of all.
Author | Delphine Ross |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | |
Release Date | Jul 25, 2023 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Viscount Who Loved Me』
# 1 New York Times Bestseller The inspiration for season two of BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn: the story of Anthony Bridgerton in the second of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family. ANTHONY’S STORY This time the gossip columnists have it wrong. London’s most elusive bachelor Anthony Bridgerton hasn’t just decided to marry—he’s even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended’s older sister, Kate Sheffield—the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom. The spirited schemer is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal, but when he closes his eyes at night, Kate’s the woman haunting his increasingly erotic dreams... Contrary to popular belief, Kate is quite sure that reformed rakes do not make the best husbands—and Anthony Bridgerton is the most wicked rogue of them all. Kate’s determined to protect her sister—but she fears her own heart is vulnerable. And when Anthony’s lips touch hers, she’s suddenly afraid she might not be able to resist the reprehensible rake herself...
Author | Julia Quinn |
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Price | $7.99 |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Release Date | Apr 28, 2015 |
Source | Google Books |
『Outlander』
Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another... In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon—when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an "outlander"—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life...and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Author | Diana Gabaldon |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Doubleday Canada |
Release Date | Dec 22, 2010 |
Source | Google Books |
『It Ends with Us』
In this “brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn’t let go, long after you’ve finished it” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Your Perfects, a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance can’t stop thinking about her first love. Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan—her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened. An honest, evocative, and tender novel, It Ends with Us is “a glorious and touching read, a forever keeper. The kind of book that gets handed down” (USA TODAY).
Author | Colleen Hoover |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Pocket Books |
Release Date | Jul 28, 2020 |
Source | Google Books |
『Landline』
From the bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and Fangirl, comes a moving and hilarous tale of a marriage on the brink, and one woman's chance to either save it or make sure it never happens.
Author | Rainbow Rowell |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Release Date | Jul 08, 2014 |
Source | Google Books |
We hope this comprehensive list has given you delight and perhaps a bit of solace in knowing that love-related worries are a universal sentiment, crossing the boundaries of time, space, and culture. Each work delivers unique perspectives and wraps us in the profound complexities of modern love - the uncertainty, pain, joy, and anticipation that are so real and relatable. They remind us that love in this day and age goes beyond the starry-eyed romance of yesteryears – that it's messy, but beautiful in its own right. These books are not just about falling in love, but also the trials and triumphs that come afterwards – some things that we may have felt or worried about ourselves at some point in our lives. As you grab a cup of coffee and nestle into your reading spot, may these stories inspire you, comfort you, or at least provide an exciting escape on those slow afternoons. Get ready to laugh, smile, perhaps even cry, and above all, fall in love, just like our characters in their pursuit of modern romance. Happy Reading!
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