Top Ten Tuesday | Favorite Book Relationships

Posted February 12, 2024 by Haze in Top Ten Tuesday, Weekly Book Memes / 50 Comments

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl that features a different bookish topic every week.

Today’s topic is Love Freebie and I’m doing my Top Ten Favorite Book Relationships

Happy Valentine’s Day! This list will include all kinds of relationships; romantic, platonic, familial, symbiotic… I wanted to feature all the characters I love and their love for each other.

Top Ten Favorite Book Relationships

  1. Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables – I think the books represent the evolution of their relationship a lot better than the mini-series but it was just so sweet to see them grow up and grow older together. They were horrible to each other when they were children, but once they grew up, they were just perfect together.
  2. Jaime Lannister and Brienne of Tarth from A Song of Ice and Fire – An actual enemies to (sort-of) lovers story? I’d say respected comrade, but it’s clear they trauma-bonded in some way and feel deeply for each other. Look, I’m not saying that it’s a healthy relationship, but it was clearly a meaningful one. It was just amazing to see the way they had to trust each other, first out of necessity, then later out of respect and feelings.
  3. Darrow and Sevro from the Red Rising series – Darrow and Sevro are my ride-or-die people. I can’t bear it when they are at odds with each other. I need them to be okay with each other, more than I need Darrow with Virginia. If anything happened to their relationship, I will riot!
  4. Aurianne and Marcus from The Light Bearer – This is a very underrated book that I love with my whole heart. I love Aurianne because she’s one of the strongest, smartest, bravest woman I’ve ever met (read about), and Marcus is an incredibly intelligent strategist. And while they are both amazing as individuals, together they are the most powerful of power couples, and I love them!
  5. Vargo, Ren, and Gray from the Rook and Rose series – This isn’t a throuple, I promise, but a very unique relationship that comes from complete love and trust for each other. I love Vargo especially because of how badass his reputation is to everyone else, but how vulnerable he is with Ren and Gray. I am in love with them all!
  6. Pi and Richard Parker from Life of Pi – This was one of the most intense relationships I loved reading about. I don’t think Richard Parker loved Pi in any way except symbiotically, but they had such a beautiful relationship, nonetheless. I mean, not that it’s anything I’d want to aspire to, but in the context of the story. From fear of each other, to tolerance, to trust. Oh, I don’t know, it’s just such a complex thing to read about and it elicits so many feelings.
  7. Rocky and Ryland Grace from Project Hail Mary – Amaze! I am in love with Rocky, and I love Ryland Grace more because I see him through Rocky’s POV. I love how they bonded. I love how they learned about each other, how they adapted and respected each other’s needs, customs, and more. It’s just such an example for how we should treat people different from us. Do you agree? Fist my bump!
  8. Peter and Bea from The Book of Strange New Things – Full disclosure, it’s been 10 years since I read this book and I don’t remember very much, but I remember thinking that this was one of most interesting books I’ve ever read that showcased what a marriage was like, and this while Peter and his wife, Bea, lived on different planets for pretty much the whole book! You know what, I should probably reread this sometime soon.
  9. Alice and Leonard from This Time Tomorrow – This was one of the more recent books I read, so you can read more about what I thought about the book here. Alice and Leonard are daughter and father, and I loved how they loved each other. I loved how present Leonard was for his daughter. I loved how Alice realized that having more time with her father was what was most important for her. It was just such a wholesome relationship, with all its beauty and bittersweetness.
  10. Katniss and Peeta from The Hunger Games series – I’m sorry if it’s overdone and overrated, but there are so many reasons why I love The Hunger Games, and Peeta with Katniss is just one of the reasons. Peeta accepts Katniss as she is, with all her flaws, and he’s totally willing to die for her. It might have taken Katniss some time to feel her feelings, but that’s part of what I loved about their relationship; that it wasn’t insta-love. They had real reasons for falling for each other, each in their own time.

Who are your favorite book relationships? Why do you like them? Have a Happy Valentine’s Day!

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50 responses to “Top Ten Tuesday | Favorite Book Relationships”

  1. Rissi JC

    It’s been forever since I read some of the Hunger Games books so I don’t really remember their relationship but I know a lot of readers and moviegoers enjoy them together. Also despite growing up on the miniseries, I don’t think I’ve ever read the ‘Anne’ books. They are lovely together though. 🙂

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  15. Bree @1girl2manybooks

    Forever here for Rocky and Ryland! Love their friendship so much. And Anne and Gilbert are my original OTP, love them!!!! Anne was the first time I really saw myself represented in fiction (redheads were often antagonists haha). And her and Gilbert are the true enemies to friends to lovers <3 <3

    I also love the development of Jaime after he meets Brienne, both in the books and in the show (well, you know, until the end of the show…..)

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    • Haze

      I never knew that redheads were often antagonists! I think maybe it’s because I read Anne quite young and have always loved redheads since!

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  17. Kathryn

    Great. approach to the topic, I recognise three of the pairs. I’d add Jamie and Claire from Outlander, O’Roarke and Eve from the In Death series.

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  18. Cheryl

    Nice list! Anne of Green Gables and The Hunger Games are the only ones on the list that I’ve read. It’s great to see Anne and Gil’s relationship unfold; though their married life was far from easy. Thanks for sharing and for visiting my blog.

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    • Haze

      It’s been a while since I read Anne of Green Gables, but I have to admit that my memory of the books and their relationship are tinged with nostalgia and rose-colored glasses.

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  23. Leah @ Leah's Books

    This is such a great list! I love so many of the pairings that you listed, and a lot of the books are favorites of mine too. I can’t believe that I overlooked the bromance between Darrow and Sevro in my list this week, because I also did a deviation from the regular topic and included platonic relationships as well as the non-traditional relationship. Having just finished the Rook & Rose series, I also spent a lot of time raving about the really cool bond that develops between Vargo, Ren, and Gray over the course of the series.

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    • Haze

      Right?! Vargo, Ren, and Gray’s relationship is really something special! And Darrow and Sevro are the most passionate bromance I’ve ever read about! I love that we like so many of the same books and characters! You’re my new best friend!!

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