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Top 10 Books about Love

By Mark Flanagan, About.com

Love explored through words - why not try reading to each other?

1. Adverbs by Daniel Handler

Adverbs is a novel about love -- a bunch of different people, in and out of different kinds of love.

2. Before, During & After: Poems

With characteristically hilarious dry wit Hal Sirowitz explores his tumultuous (and often nonexistent) sex life.

3. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

The life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he witnesses a tragic accident. This is a novel of love, faith, and suspense, and of how life can change in an instant.
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4. The Game by Neil Strauss

New York Times bestselling author Neil Strauss ventured into a bizarre subculture, traveling around the world and meeting the world's greatest seducers.

5. Love by Toni Morrison

This audacious exploration into the nature of love - its appetite, its sublime possession, its dread - is rich in characters, striking scenes, and a profound understanding of how alive the past can be.
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6. Love Is A Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield

In "Love Is a Mix Tape," Rob Sheffield, a music writer for Rolling Stone, uses the songs on fifteen mix tapes to tell the story of his brief time with his wife Ren�e.

7. Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski

Only Revolutions surrounds a 200 year road journey taken by two teenage lovers, more experimentalist literature from the author of House of Leaves.

8. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
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9. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A story about a woman and two men and their entwined lives. From the author of the legendary One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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10. A Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman

The bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses now explores the allure of adultery, the appeal of aphrodisiacs, and the cult of the kiss.
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