Books like The Bridges of Madison County
A National Geographic photographer stops to ask directions at an Iowa farmhouse and begins a four-day affair that defines two lives.
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The Notebook
An old man reads a faded notebook to a woman in a nursing home who has lost her memory, the story of two young people who fell in love one summer in North Carolina.
28 Summers
When Mallory Blessing's son learns she is dying, she asks him to make a phone call that reveals her secret: for twenty-eight years she and Jake McCloud, whose wife is now running for president, have spent one weekend together every summer at her Nantucket cottage.
Slow Dance
Shiloh and Cary were inseparable at their Omaha high school, then lost touch. Fourteen years later, she is a divorced mother of two and he is in the navy, and they meet again at a friend's wedding.
Annie on My Mind
Liza Winthrop, a senior at a private school in Brooklyn Heights, meets Annie Kenyon at the Metropolitan Museum, and the friendship that follows becomes a love neither of them has a name for at first.
Something Borrowed
On the night of her thirtieth birthday, Rachel White, a dutiful Manhattan lawyer, ends up in bed with Dex, her best friend Darcy's fiancé, and spends the summer before their wedding in the Hamptons torn between the friendship and him.
Attachments
In 1999, Lincoln O'Neill is hired to read the flagged emails of a Nebraska newspaper's staff, and instead of reporting Beth and Jennifer, two friends who chat about everything, he finds himself falling for Beth before he has ever seen her.
Game Changer
Scott Hunter, captain of New York's hockey team and deep in the closet, keeps going back to the smoothie shop where Kip Grady works.
Heat and Dust
A young Englishwoman travels to India to find out what happened to her grandfather's first wife, Olivia, who in 1923 left her husband for an Indian prince.
The Bride Test
Khai Diep, who believes he can't feel love, doesn't know that his mother has gone to Vietnam to find him a bride, and brings back My, a cleaner from Ho Chi Minh City.
Every Summer After
Persephone Fraser spent six summers at a lake in Ontario falling for Sam Florek, the boy next door, until one mistake ended everything, and now, years later, a funeral brings her back for a single weekend.
Summer Sisters
In 1977 Caitlin Somers, rich and reckless, chooses Victoria Leonard, quiet and from a struggling family in Santa Fe, to spend the summer with her family on Martha's Vineyard, beginning a friendship that runs through the next two decades.
Conversations with Friends
A young woman begins an affair with an older, married writer while sorting out her own friendships, politics, and the gap between how she feels and what she says.