We love love stories. Sometimes we live them, other times we imagine them and other times we listen to them. But our favorites are, without a doubt, those that we find between the pages of a book. Literature is a fertile field for love stories, which can be sad, storybook, princes and princesses, toxic love, heartbreak or particular love. We present you with a list of the 10 best love stories in books. They will become your best friends at any time of the day. 
The best 10 books with the most romantic love stories
A good love story makes you want to be its protagonist, despite the hardships that its characters go through: it is exciting, it is sensual, it captivates you, it has a touch of passion, there is no lack of tension, and obstacles make life difficult for others. The protagonists, destiny is written, there are surprises, the ending is overflowing… A good romantic story is revived a thousand and one times, even when the book is already asleep on the shelf.
And, the best thing about books is that you can devour them over and over again. We propose 10 books in whose universe you will want to immerse yourself constantly. You won’t know which title to start with.
1 Like water for Chocolate
In this novel by Laura Esquivel the impossible love of Tita and Pedro is narrated. And it is that Tita is not destined for marriage because she is her youngest daughter. She must stay at home without a life of her own to take care of her mother among typical recipes cooked in magical realism. This title, which provides the right dose of fantasy and reality, has established itself as one of the jewels of 20th century Mexican literature. If it has been translated into more than 30 languages, it must be for a reason, right?
2 Love in the time of cholera
The unforgettable Gabriel García Márquez tells us in this novel the greatness of eternal love, although forbidden, between Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza. Perseverance, persistence and the promise to never forget are present in this essential book. It is one of those love stories that, once you live while reading, you cannot forget. Gabo’s way of counting is impregnated in each of his lines and accompanies you wherever you go.
3 The Turkish Passion
Nobody like Antonio Gala to make us read the impulsive and passionate love story of Desideria Oliván, a woman who leaves everything before the new and passionate love story that arises on a trip to Turkey. Both the novel and the subsequent film adaptation are fundamental to understanding outbursts of love. It is completely impossible not to be captivated by a book like this that is suggestive before you even start reading it. And the end…
4 The queen who gave pumpkins to the knight in rusty armor
In this book by Rosetta Forner we find a concrete love story, but in reality it is a treatise on how to manage the disappointment that women feel when they discover that their knight’s armor is rusty. A novel that could well be a self-help book and that all women should read before entering the world of romantic relationships. This book will make you reflect on your perception of love and on the danger of toxic relationships.
5 Silk
This short novel by Alessandro Baricco has become the paradigm of subtle romanticism. The trips to Japan of the protagonist, Hervé Joncour contain a story of platonic and delicate love wrapped in a role of emotions rarely equaled. But despite the few pages that this story occupies, which could be considered a long story, the plot has suspense, love, passion, adventure… When you finish it, you will want to read a little more.
6 Madame Bovary
A literary classic like this novel by Gustave Flauvert could not leave us indifferent to those of us who are in search of the best love story. Emma Bovary does not have a single love story, she has several, all of them intense and captivating, although all of them have a very sad ending. We are not exaggerating when we tell you that everyone should read this book at least once in their life, even if it is only an excerpt. Without a doubt, it will stir something inside of you that will make you start to see human relationships with different eyes.
7 Romeo and Juliet
And, how could it be otherwise, this list of books with the most beautiful love stories could not miss Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare presents us in this play the tragic love story par excellence. Two young lovers, family’s at odds, poisonous potions, tricks, accomplices but, above all, lack of communication between the lovers, are the ingredients of this love tragedy that continues to be read and performed today with the same dedication as in its beginnings. This classic of universal literature will make your hair stand on end with each of its pages.
8 Hopscotch
If you’re looking for a book that’s easy to read and gets out of your head as fast as it came in, Hopscotch isn’t what you need. This title is not a typical novel, so we cannot expect a typical love story in this masterpiece by Julio Cortázar. But between the pages of this Hopscotch we find the feelings of Horacio who tirelessly searches for La Maga and who has left us some of the best love phrases in history. This is a beautiful book that requires an active and playful reading, in which the author flirts with what until now you have understood as ‘normal’ from the first paragraphs.
9 Anna Karenina
Although it belongs to the genre of the psychological novel, this work by Leo Tolstoy is a reference in terms of stories of forbidden love, irrepressible passions, withering crushes and risky bets for love, all in the figure of a woman who faced the society of his time and that ended as all these illegitimate loves end. This book presents you with a tangled love story in which you will not be able to avoid falling.
10 50 shades of gray
It is not the best love story, much less the best erotic novel, but it is the most successful. So we have no choice but to surrender to the evidence of the popular clamor that this erotic love story written by EL James has aroused as the banner of the housewife’s sexual liberation. Despite the controversy that has always surrounded this book saga and its subsequent films, they have something that manages to catch everyone who dares to peek into their universe of handcuffs, leather and lingerie.