Wuthering Heights

I didn't expect to like this as much as I did. From everything I heard, I expected it to be a really sappy romance with really sappy characters and and a really sappy happy ending. It turned out that the characters who experience the central romance were actually very strong-willed and often very cruel. There are very romantic speeches, but the book is anything but smushy love. I found the story to be very well-written and interesting and it is certainly one of my favorite books.