To ask your favourite romantic pairings in fiction?

[Theundertaker]

I'd really like some ideas for something new to read or watch with some element of romance.

Have previously loved:
Elizabeth and Darcy
Jane and Rochester
Harriet Vane and Peter Wimsey
Robin and Strike
Linden and Holder
Mulder and Scully
Margaret Hale and Mr Thornton
Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister

Please give me your favourites.

From my youth:
Rhett butler and scarlett o'hara (gone with the wind)
The thorn birds
Dirty dancing (Johnny and baby)
Lost in translation with scarlett Johansson

Patrick Merrick & Lawrie Marlow, eventually...(Nicola always had far too much brisk common sense to put up with him).

Sandy and Kirsten from the OC

Sawyer and Juliet and Desmond and Penny in Lost.

God yes but I'm so jealous of Claire!

Came to say Peter W and Harriet V. Nobody else comes close.

You beat me to it. Best one ever.

But also Jo and the professor in Little Women.

Jack and Rose

Yes! Brilliant choice. Jean is one of my favourite heroines of 20th-century literature. I love the fact that she's so ordinary and unprepossessing to begin with, but then makes two amazing journeys in her life, both of which result in her becoming someone else's saviour. Not least, her endeavours result in the burgeoning of a village and then a town. What a woman!

I also find her relationship with the older Neville Strachan very moving.

Most of mine have already been mentioned. Bobby and Pam Ewing.

Stephen and Isabelle in Birdsong
Caroline and Mac in Green Wing
Sookie and Bill in True Blood
Howl and Sophie in Howl's Moving Castle

Jack Bristow and Irina Derevko in Alias
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (fictional and factual)
Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickock (")
Helen Graham and Gilbert Markham
Star and Michael
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and Kate Miskin (unrequited)
Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda (also unrequited)
And from Enid Blyton: Allie Mannering and Bill Cunningham, AKA Smugs!

Jamie and Claire
Also though not romantic but I think Lord John Grey and Brianna have good chemistry.

Meredith Grey & Derek Shepherd ❤

Clarence and Alabama for me!

When did he get with Lawrie? He was friends with Nicola first but lusted after Ginty but then got friendly with Nicola again after the disgrace of the o level maths exam.

I still get mad every time Fanny Price won't marry Henry Crawford. Yes, he's the morally compromised rake and whatever, but Edward is SO FUCKING BORING.

Also when Lily Bart won't marry Sim Rosedale and grind Bertha into dust under her heel.

Vivien and Cay - from the book Desert Hearts. Probably the best lesbian love story I've read! (film also very good).

Nick and Charlie
Carl and Ellie Fredrickson
Daniel and Viktor

Dawn and Pete Sutcliffe from Gavin & Stacey. For all the wrong reasons! 😄

@MarieIVanArkleStinks love the Bill Smugs match with Allie! Also Olivia Brooke and Admiral Twiss in The Diddakoi, Rumer Godden.

@AquaticSewingMachine god I haven't read that for so long! I need to revisit it I really do.

Mine have mostly been covered. Spike/Buffy, Wentworth/Anne and Strike/Robin being favourites.

Tragically there is a couple in some Harry Potter fanfic which I love but it has to be AU with a different ending or else it is highly problematic! I set my filters very strictly! There is no part of that sentence I'm not embarrassed by btw.

DH says Fred and Daphne.

Cathy and Heathcliffe- surely!

Strike and Robin in the Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowing) novels.
Milhouse and Lisa Simpson (never gonna happen)
I was rooting for Eloise Bridgestone and Theo Sharpe.

Sadie and Jake (11/22/63)
CJ and Simon (The West Wing)
Heathcliff and Cathy
Scarlett and Rhett