Christie, Agatha. Death on the Nile.
Young, beautiful, and rich, Linnet Doyle sparks the interest of Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot when she and her new husband take a cruise on the same ship as he, and he senses trouble in paradise.
Dickens, Charles. Tale of Two Cities.
Two men who look alike love Lucie Manette, and during the French Revolution one of them goes to the guillotine in place of the other for Lucie's happiness.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
Jay Gatsby still adores Daisy Buchanan although she has married someone else, and he risks everything to lure her back.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Scarlet Letter.
In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.
James, Henry. Portrait of a Lady.
Tells of the psychological impact of European culture upon an American girl, Isabel Archer, and of her unfortunate marriage.
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind.
Scarlett O'Hara faces and survives the Civil War and Reconstruction and marries Rhett Butler for his money because her true love has married someone else.
Steinbeck, John. Grapes of Wrath.
The Joad family, Okie farmers forced from their dustbowl home during the Depression, try to find work as migrant fruitpickers in California.