13 Literary Love Stories for Valentine's Day: Beyond Happy Endings

• Explore 13 literary love stories for Valentine's Day, focusing on intense, complex, and often challenging relationships.
• Sheena Patel's 'I’m a Fan' delves into obsession, stalking, and class differences in a brutal portrayal of love.
• Thomas Hardy's 'Tess of the D’Urbervilles' is a devastating tale of Tess Durbeyfield's tragic encounters with love and men.
• Sally Rooney's 'Normal People' captures the intimate, often awkward, and deeply emotional bond between Marianne and Connell.
• Colleen McCullough's 'The Thorn Birds' presents a grand, forbidden romance set against the dramatic Australian landscape.