Love is in the air
Published on 14th February 2025
Get into the mood this Valentines Day with the most romantic picks from our library catalogue.
Spend this Valentine's Day with a great love story! We've picked a selection for you to enjoy including poetry, YA fiction, comedy, classics, folklore and audiobooks. Something for everyone!
Classic Love Poems edited by Max Morris
Revisit some of your favourite love poems in this beautiful anthology edited by Max Morris. Featuring well-known poets like Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Shakespeare and Shelley, this is a collection that you can dip into and enjoy anytime.
Love in Colour by Bolu Bababola
A glorious celebration of love stories from mythology and folklore around the world. In this debut collection, Bababola has rewritten ancient love stories and brought them to a modern audience.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
There is good reason that Jane Austen's books are still read and enjoyed over 200 years after their publication. In this, her most beloved novel, readers can enjoy the verbal sparring between the proud and conceited Mr. Darcy and the lively and opinionated Elizabeth Bennett. The more they declare their dislike of each other, the more their attraction grows. A classic comedy of class, manners and romantic blunders.
Lou Clark is living a very settled, safe life with a long-term boyfriend and job in her hometown. A new job working with Will Traynor, a young man who has been left paralysed after an accident, turns her world upside down. This is a beautiful love story which will have you reaching for your tissues.
Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding
As Bridget documents her struggles through the social minefield of her thirties and tries to weigh up the eternal question (Daniel Cleaver or Mark Darcy?), she turns for support to four indispensable friends: Shazzer, Jude, Tom, and a bottle of chardonnay.
Welcome to Bridget's first diary: mercilessly funny, endlessly touching and utterly addictive.
Letters of Note: Love compiled by Shaun Evans
A gorgeous recording of some of the most poignant love letters, read by acclaimed actors including Jude Law, Miriam Margoyles, Benedict Cumberbatch and Sanjeev Bhaskar. Listen on Borrowbox.
Mr. Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo
Barrington is a 74 year old man from Antigua who has been living in Hackney, London since the 1960s. A dapper, lively, intelligent man whose wife thinks he's having an affair with another woman, Barrington has been living a double life. He has been in love with his best friend Morris for sixty years. When his marriage breaks down, can Barry find the strength to show his love for Morris and live as an openly gay man? This book is hilarious, heart breaking and life affirming. Evaristo at the top of her game.
To all the boys I've loved before by Jenny Han
Voted the Times best YA novel of all time (2021), this book is the first in a trilogy. All three books have been made into feature length movies for Netflix. Lara Jean Yong keeps a hatbox with all the love letters she has written for boys she likes. She is free to write down all her feelings without anyone knowing...until one day, the letters are posted! Find out what happens next in this sweet romantic YA novel.
All of these books are available either on Borrowbox or on our library catalogue. Looking for more inspiration? Check out our Valentines Day reading list here.