It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Bookish Things (That Aren’t Books), which I’m not going to do. Instead I’m going to high-jack this week’s Top Ten Tuesday and give you a list of novels with a decent love triangle within them.
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy — Alyosha Vronsky, Alexei and Anna Karenin
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton — Zeena, Ethan, and Mattie
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov — Clare, Dolores, and Humbert Humbert
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro — Ruth, Tommy, and Kathy
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood — Oryx, Crake, and Snowman
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen — Wickham (or Mr Collins), Mr Darcy, and Elizabeth Bennet
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald — Tom, Daisy, and Jay Gatsby
- The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides — Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell
- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Albert, Lotte, and Werther
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte — Linton, Catherine, and Heathcliff
Love it 🙂 I hadn’t realized how many novels really do have love triangles.
Love triangles are as old as literature; I just think newer books give it a bad name.
Point in fact: Sarah, Hagar, Abraham. (Genesis 16) 🙂
Plenty of examples in the bible for sure
I love hijacking Top Ten Tuesday – it makes it so much more interesting. 🙂
I do like being set a topic but sometimes breaking the rules is much more fun
I didn’t even know there was a third person in Wuthering Heights.
Catherine was in love with Heathcliff but her desire to advance socially caused her to marry Linton.
spoiler alert