Real Life Love Stories (History, Biographies, Autobiographies and Memoirs)
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Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope
by:
Patrick Dylan
4.46 avg rating — 370 ratings 
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The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
by:
Greg King
4.04 avg rating — 1,652 ratings 
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Royal Romances: Titillating Tales of Passion and Power in the Palaces of Europe
by:
Leslie Carroll
3.78 avg rating — 410 ratings 7. 
My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage
by:
Ingrid Seward
3.85 avg rating — 989 ratings 8. 
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Katharina and Martin Luther: The Radical Marriage of a Runaway Nun and a Renegade Monk
by:
Michelle DeRusha
4.11 avg rating — 813 ratings 10. 
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
by:
Antonia Fraser
3.87 avg rating — 7,980 ratings 10. 
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
by:
Robert K. Massie
4.23 avg rating — 29,465 ratings 12. 
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
by:
Gillian Gill
3.85 avg rating — 8,726 ratings 13. 
Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind
by:
Sarah Wildman
3.85 avg rating — 1,585 ratings 13. 
My Life and Times: A Family Man's Journey from Rawalpindi to New York, and Many Places in Between 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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My Dearest Diary: Five Years in the Life of Cathy Cornellia
by:
Cathy Cornellia
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 13. 
The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
by:
Jack Kelly
4.09 avg rating — 417 ratings 13. 
Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Affair -- On-Screen and Off -- Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
by:
Sharon Rich
4.05 avg rating — 134 ratings 
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What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
by:
Carole Radziwill
4.20 avg rating — 22,041 ratings 25. 
A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
by:
Jen Waite
3.52 avg rating — 14,742 ratings 
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Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
by:
Nigel Nicolson
4.06 avg rating — 4,410 ratings 30. 
Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.82 avg rating — 1,363 ratings 32. 
Roses in a Forbidden Garden: A Holocaust Love Story
by:
Elise Garibaldi
4.42 avg rating — 415 ratings 
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Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
by:
Shrabani Basu
3.41 avg rating — 2,388 ratings 
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Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age
by:
Donna M. Lucey
3.46 avg rating — 715 ratings 36. 
Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors
by:
David Baldwin
3.50 avg rating — 113 ratings 
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It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History
by:
Jennifer Wright
3.71 avg rating — 6,901 ratings 40. 
The Other Man: John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette, and Me
by:
Michael Bergin
3.47 avg rating — 538 ratings 
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The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York
by:
Anne de Courcy
3.63 avg rating — 3,677 ratings 
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The Little Book of Heartbreak: Love Gone Wrong Through the Ages
by:
Meghan Laslocky
3.59 avg rating — 165 ratings 
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Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President 3.97 avg rating — 586 ratings
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Stormy Weather: Middle-Class African American Marriages between the Two World Wars 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
by:
Susan Quinn
3.81 avg rating — 4,727 ratings 56. 
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The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau; Husband Hunting in the Gilded Age: How American Heiresses Conquered the Aristocracy
by:
Julie Ferry
3.73 avg rating — 323 ratings 
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Roses And Chocolates: A True Love Story in World War II
by:
Maria Johnsen
4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings 64. 
A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story
by:
Sergei Mironenko
4.21 avg rating — 1,312 ratings 
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Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples 3.67 avg rating — 763 ratings
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Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage (Western Literature and Fiction Series) 3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings
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To Marry an English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got Started
by:
Gail MacColl
3.59 avg rating — 5,752 ratings 70. 
Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality
by:
Debbie Cenziper
4.43 avg rating — 1,222 ratings 71. 
Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away
by:
Lisa Napoli
3.68 avg rating — 761 ratings 72. 
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
by:
Abigail Adams
4.19 avg rating — 2,388 ratings 73. 
The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
by:
Abigail Adams
4.13 avg rating — 156 ratings 74. 
GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love
by:
Duncan Barrett
3.90 avg rating — 3,571 ratings 75. 
A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France
by:
Katie Whitaker
3.78 avg rating — 400 ratings 76. 
Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
by:
Nura Maznavi
3.84 avg rating — 1,810 ratings 
81. 
Love Him Madly: An Intimate Memoir of Jim Morrison
by:
Judy Huddleston
3.36 avg rating — 220 ratings 82. 
Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance
by:
Jack Sutin
4.27 avg rating — 1,680 ratings 
84. 
No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions
by:
Ryan Berg
4.14 avg rating — 387 ratings 
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James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement
by:
Sara Rzeszutek
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 87. 
Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
by:
Leslie Maitland
3.99 avg rating — 2,102 ratings 88. 
The Washingtons: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love"
by:
Flora Fraser
3.62 avg rating — 186 ratings 89. 
Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
by:
Anaïs Nin
3.93 avg rating — 13,249 ratings 90. 
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
by:
Thomas Maier
3.63 avg rating — 2,563 ratings 91. 
Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
by:
Andrew Morton
3.56 avg rating — 2,560 ratings 92. 
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
by:
Mary Gabriel
4.27 avg rating — 808 ratings 
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Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and their Epic Escape Across the Pacific
by:
Bill Lascher
3.85 avg rating — 798 ratings 
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Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger
by:
Stephen H. Grant
3.73 avg rating — 62 ratings