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Book recommendations? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 23 hours ago by sinewyshadow@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hi! Im looking for book recommendations where the boy likes a girl but shes with someone else and the boy and girl end up together in the end. Thank you!

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[–] GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

Some books that could partially fit:

In Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert a boy loves a woman who is already married
In Anna Karenina by Levy Tolstoy a married woman falls in love with a young man
In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne a man loves a married woman
In The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding, a poor boy likes a rich girl, but the father of the girl does not agree, but they end up together
In The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, the boy wants to marry the girl, but a very rich and powerful man is in love with the girl and want to marry her too
In The End of the Affair by Graham Green, both the man and the woman are with someone else and they end up together
In Twilight by Stephenie Meyer there is a teenage love triangle with warewolves and vampires