Publication year 2020
Genre Poem, Fiction
Themes Love, Race, Memory, Perseverance, Conflict, Hope, Justice
Tags Lyric Poem, Race & Racism, Colonialism & Postcolonialism, Gender & Feminism, World History, LGBTQ+
Valentine's Day Reads: The Theme of Love
Our Valentine's Day Reads: The Theme of Love Collection features titles centered on love and all of its complexities. This Collection represents authors who have grappled with romantic, familial, and other forms of love through writing. With titles ranging from contemporary romance picks to works by Shakespeare, this Collection has something to offer any reader who has ever lost or found love.
Postcolonial Love Poem
Powerful
Powerless
Practical Magic
Practice Makes Perfect
Preparation For The Next Life
Priest
Private Lives
Private Peaceful
Problematic Summer Romance
Prodigy
Prometheus Unbound
Promise Me Sunshine
Promises and Pomegranates
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife
PS: I Hate You
P.S. I Still Love You
Pucking Wild
Punk 57
Pyramus and Thisbe
Publication year 2020
Genre Poem, Fiction
Themes Love, Race, Memory, Perseverance, Conflict, Hope, Justice
Tags Lyric Poem, Race & Racism, Colonialism & Postcolonialism, Gender & Feminism, World History, LGBTQ+
Publication year 2024
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Emotions/Behavior: Courage, Hope, Love, Friendship, Social Class, Politics & Government, Equality, Justice, Power & Greed, Safety & Danger
Tags Fantasy, Romance
Publication year 2023
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Fear, Grief, Love, The Past, Family, Self Discovery, Trust & Doubt
Tags Sports, Romance
Publication year 1995
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Family, Love, Community, Coming of Age, Daughters & Sons
Tags Fantasy, Magical Realism, Romance, Science Fiction, Religion & Spirituality
Publication year 2023
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Self Discovery, Love, Sexual Identity
Tags Romance, New Adult, Modern Classic Fiction
Publication year 2014
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Guilt, Hope, Love, Gender Identity, Mental Health, Race, Immigration, Politics & Government, War
Tags US History, Military & War, American Literature, Modern Classic Fiction
Atticus Lish’s novel Preparation for the Next Life tells the stories of Skinner, an Iraq war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and Zou Lei, an undocumented immigrant from Central Asia, and how their unlikely love changes them both forever. Preparation for the Next Life explores the challenges that undocumented immigrants and war veterans face in the United States as well as the complexities of cross-cultural relationships. The novel has been highly praised by critics... Read Preparation For The Next Life Summary
Publication year 2015
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Love, Regret, Gender Identity, Sexual Identity, Self Discovery, Religion & Spirituality
Publication year 1930
Genre Play, Fiction
Themes Conflict, Love, Gender Identity, Sexual Identity, Midlife, Social Class, Loyalty & Betrayal
Tags Humor, Dramatic Literature, Classic Fiction
IntroductionPrivate Lives is a comedy of manners by English playwright, composer, and actor Noël Coward. The play, which opened in London in 1930 and was adapted into a film in 1931, is a social satire on the frailties of marriage and pretensions of high society.Five years after their divorce, Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne have married new spouses; the two couples accidentally book the same hotel in France for their respective second honeymoons. Realizing that... Read Private Lives Summary
Publication year 2003
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Family, Love, Siblings, Death
Tags Historical Fiction, Children`s Literature, Education, Education, World History, Military & War, World War I
Private Peaceful (2003) is a historical fiction novel by English author Michael Morpurgo. The story revolves around the reminiscences of Thomas “Tommo” Peaceful, a young World War I soldier who reflects on his upbringing in rural England. Thomas bridges the past and present while awaiting the execution of his older brother, Charlie, who faces charges of cowardice.Other works by this author include War Horse, The Butterfly Lion, and An Elephant in the Garden.This guide refers to... Read Private Peaceful Summary
Publication year 2025
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Emotions/Behavior: Courage, Perseverance, Guilt, Loneliness, Love, Nostalgia, Regret, Shame & Pride, Gender Identity, Masculinity, Mental Health, Sexual Identity, Marriage, Siblings, Self Discovery, Equality
Tags Romance
Publication year 2013
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Politics & Government, Love, Friendship, Safety & Danger, Trust & Doubt, Perseverance
Tags Science Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Action & Adventure
Prodigy (2013) is the second installment in the Legend trilogy by Marie Lu. In this young adult series set in a dystopian future, the United States is divided into two warring nations, the Republic and the Colonies. Prodigy follows the first-person perspectives of two teen protagonists first introduced in Legend (2011), June and Day, as they join a rebel group called the Patriots in hopes of overthrowing the corrupt government. As they work to take... Read Prodigy Summary
Publication year 1820
Genre Play, Fiction
Themes Conflict, Perseverance, Hope, Love, Future, Environment, Objects & Materials, Space, Art, Equality, Literature, Power & Greed, Religion & Spirituality, Politics & Government
Tags Poetry: Dramatic Poem, Drama, Mythology, Romanticism, British Literature
Prometheus Unbound (1820) is a four-act lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley, a celebrated English Romantic poet best known for his poems like “Ozymandias” (1818) and “Ode to the West Wind” (1819). The work is adapted from the play cycle Prometheus Bound (456 BCE), Prometheus Unbound and Prometheus the Fire-Bearer, traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus. Shelley rewrites the myth of Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods for humans and was severely... Read Prometheus Unbound Summary
Publication year 2025
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Love, Grief, Guilt, Mental Health, Family, Siblings, Self Discovery, Loyalty & Betrayal
Tags Romance, Grief & Death
Publication year 2021
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Conflict, Perseverance, Hate & Anger, Loneliness, Love, Revenge, Sexual Identity, Death, Future, Marriage, Mothers, Self Discovery, Fate, Good & Evil, Loyalty & Betrayal
Tags Romance, Fantasy
Publication year 2012
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Fear, Love, Memory, Death, The Past, Appearance & Reality, Objects & Materials, Place, Space, Family, Teamwork, Self Discovery, Community, Education, Fate, Order & Chaos, Religion & Spirituality, Science & Technology, Truth & Lies
Tags Religion & Spirituality, Health, Science & Nature, Biography
Dr. Eben Alexander’s 2012 memoir, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife, documents his near-death experience (NDE) while in a coma resulting from a rare bacterial infection. As an academic neurosurgeon with a materialist worldview, Alexander did not believe in an afterlife. The book details how his NDE forced him to reconcile his scientific training with what he now considered proof of a reality beyond the physical world. The memoir explores several themes:... Read Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife Summary
Publication year 2024
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Grief, Love, Death, Future, Family, Self Discovery
Publication year 2015
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Childhood & Youth, Love
Tags Korean Literature, Asian Literature, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Modern Classic Fiction
P.S. I Still Love You is a young adult novel by Jenny Han, published by Scholastic in 2015. It is a sequel to To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, published in 2014. The two books share the same main character and narrator, Lara Jean Song Covey, a Korean-American teenaged girl. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before concerns Lara Jean’s habit of writing secret love letters to boys she’s had crushes on, and P.S. I... Read P.S. I Still Love You Summary
Publication year 2024
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Love, Friendship, Marriage, Teamwork, Trust & Doubt
Tags Romance, Sports
Publication year 2016
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Conflict, Love, Friendship, Self Discovery, Truth & Lies
Publication year 8
Genre Poem, Fiction
Themes Love
Tags Classic Fiction, Mythology, Narrative Poem, Love & Sexuality, Classical Period
“Pyramus and Thisbe” is an episode from Book 4 of the Metamorphoses, an epic poem published by the Roman poet Ovid in 8 AD. In contrast to the epics of Ovid’s contemporaries (like Virgil’s Aeneid), the Metamorphoses does not focus on a single, cohesive narrative. Rather, Ovid takes as his theme “bodies changed to other forms” (Book 1, Line 1) and fittingly, his Metamorphoses is a work in constant state of change. Its 15 books... Read Pyramus and Thisbe Summary