Love and Heartbreak: A Journey Through Romantic Novels

Mr. Darcy is the wealthy and eligible bachelor who initially despises Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice".

Heathcliff is the passionate and brooding antihero in Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights".

Jay Gatsby is the wealthy and mysterious millionaire who throws lavish parties in an attempt to win back his lost love in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby".

Scarlett O'Hara is the strong-willed and independent heroine who survives the Civil War and its aftermath in Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind".

Noah Calhoun is the elderly man who reads a love story from his notebook to a woman with Alzheimer's disease in Nicholas Sparks' "The Notebook".

Louisa Clark is the young woman who becomes a caregiver for a wealthy quadriplegic man in Jojo Moyes' "Me Before You".

Lily Bloom is the woman who is caught in a love triangle between her abusive husband and a new love interest in Colleen Hoover's "It Ends with Us".

Daisy Jones & The Six is the rock band that rises to fame in the 1970s in Taylor Jenkins Reid's "Daisy Jones & The Six".

January Andrews is the romance novelist who is forced to work with a literary fiction writer on a joint book project in Emily Henry's "Beach Read".

Olive Torres is the PhD student who fakes a relationship with her professor in order to secure funding for her research in Ali Hazelwood's "The Love Hypothesis".

Tiffy Moore is the woman who agrees to share an apartment with a stranger in order to save money in Beth O'Leary's "The Flatshare".

Marianne Sheridan is the young woman who falls in love with a popular and enigmatic classmate in Sally Rooney's "Normal People".

Hailsham is the boarding school where clones are raised to donate their organs in Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go".

Anna Fitzgerald is the young girl who sues her parents for the right to make medical decisions about her own body in Jodi Picoult's "My Sister's Keeper".

Hazel Grace Lancaster is the cancer-stricken teenager who falls in love with another cancer patient in John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars".