The most popular marriage books

Books about marriage look at what happens after the wedding. Daily life together, compromise, boredom, loyalty, crisis and repair are their material, in novels that follow a couple over decades and in honest memoirs. Read them for portraits of partnership that feel true, whether the marriage holds or not.

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1984
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1984

George Orwell

1971 · 2002 edition

72 pages

Verity
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Verity

Colleen Hoover, コリーン・フーヴァー

2013 · 2018 edition

154 pages

Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare, David Wardle

1871 · 2022 edition

164 pages

Little Women
Cover of Little Women

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

1884 · 1989 edition

176 pages

Caraval
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Caraval

Stephanie Garber, ステファニー・ガーバー

2000 · 2020 edition

448 pages

Behind Closed Doors
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Behind Closed Doors

B. A. Paris, B.A. パリス

2013 · 2017 edition

352 pages

The One
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The One

Kiera Cass

Published 2014

323 pages

The Duke and I
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The Duke and I

Julia Quinn

2000 · 2021 edition

464 pages

The Vegetarian
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The Vegetarian

Han Kang, Jiang Han

2007 · 2016 edition

208 pages

The Wife Between Us
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The Wife Between Us

Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

2017 · 2018 edition

432 pages