Taking Relationships to Heart

Fiction about finding and keeping that special someone

The Garden of Eden, Eve Adams

House of Meetings, Martin Amis

The Pretend Wife, Bridget Asher

Waveland, Frederick Barthelme

Five Days Apart, Chris Binchy

Klondike Wedding, Kate Bridges

The Fugitive Wife, Peter C. Brown

All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost, Lan Samantha Chang

Screen Play, Chris Coppernoll

The Stuff That Never Happened, Maddie Dawson

Bliss, Remembered, Frank Deford

Chasing Destiny, Eric Jerome Dickey

The Sealed Letter, Emma Donoghue

The Yellow House, Patricia Falvey

The Reavers, George MacDonald Fraser

Thief, Maureen Gibbon

The Heart of the Matter, Emily Giffin

A Girl’s Guide to Modern European Philosophy, Charlotte Greig

The Master Bedroom, Tessa Hadley

Laura Rider’s Masterpiece, Jane Hamilton

The Blue Bistro, Elin Hilderbrand

The Silent Places, James Patrick Hunt

The Icing on the Cake, Alison Kent

The Other Side of the Story, Marian Keyes

Table Manners, Mia King

Shopaholic & Baby, Sophie Kinsella

Love Drugged, James Klise

Glover’s Mistake, Nick Laird

Lost Hearts in Italy, Andrea Lee

The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money, Thomas Leveritt

Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang, Katie MacAlister

Hannah’s List, Debbie Macomber

Molly Fox’s Birthday, Deirdre Madden

The Quiet Adjustment, Benjamin Markovits

The Christmas Clock, Kat Martin

Confessions of Edward Day, Valerie Martin

A Man of No Moon, Jenny McPhee

Aftermath of Dreaming, DeLauné Michel

Ruby and the Stone Age Diet, Martin Millar

Spinning Tropics, Aska Mochizuki

Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel, Walter Mosley

Mistress, Anita Nair

The Romantics, Galt Niederhoffer

The American Painter Emma Dial, Samantha Peale

Twilight’s Serenade, Tracie Peterson

Goldengrove, Francine Prose

Crossing Washington Square, Joanne Rendell

A Case of Puppy Love, Lois Schwartz

A Killer Stitch, Maggie Sefton

Georgie on His Mind, Jennifer Shirk

Fireworks Over Toccoa, Jeffrey Stepakoff

Long Shadows, Rowena Summers

Blood Pressure: A Vampire Testament, Terence Taylor

Certainty, Madeleine Thien

Brava, Valentine, Adriana Trigiani

The Three Kings, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Becca by the Book, Laura Jensen Walker

Truly, Madly, Heather Webber

Last Night at Chateau Marmont, Lauren Weisberger

The House at Midnight, Lucie Whitehouse

Rose’s Hope, Sandra Wilkins

The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai, Ruiyan Xu

This list was prepared by the St. Charles Public Library

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Rev. 12/10 JHL