Hi!
I'm looking for your favorite books that are romantic without necessarily being romance novels. I'm talking I'll-find-you-in-every-universe, we're-together-in-the-stars, I-will-love-you-until-my-dying-day soulmate shit. Doomed and star crossed are fine, fantasy, magical realism, and queer love extra appreciated. I'm not really interested in spice as a major component of a book, but a little is fine.
Some examples of my own would be Stardust, Golden Compass, The Little Prince, and, though not books, Moulin Rouge and The Last Centurion from Doctor Who (and Bad Wolf Bay and River Song and the singing towers, for that matter).
Thanks! ❤️❤️❤️
by jess_scribbles
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Within the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginsberg. Memoir of a woman in the Soviet Gulag system and her marriage to a German fellow inmate. Almost no romance per se but if you don’t cry when you read the blizzard scene, you need an emergency heart transplant.
Archivist Wasp and the sequel Latchkey feature characters that have deep friendships that feel as important and influential as romantic relationships. Hundreds of years in the future, society has been destroyed. A young woman fights for her position among a religious cult. She is tasked with dispatching ghosts from their world. Except one day she runs into a ghost that is more powerful than all the others and a real threat to her. He needs her help to find his partner in the underworld. It’s a unique and fascinating story.
If you enjoy these two, then there are two books that are prequels –Firebreak and Flight & Anchor–that delve into the ghost (whose code name is 06) and his partner (22) from before society collapsed.
This is how you lose the time war was surprisingly super romantic to me. Very good sci-fi read
THE ICE PEOPLE by Rene Barjavel. THE JEWEL OF SEVEN STARS by Bram Stoker. WHAT DREAMS MAY COME by Richard Matheson. PARADISE by Koji Suzuki.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern checks most of your boxes!