There is a Nicholas Sparks film for every type of lover out there. From the fighters, to the yearners, to the sobbing through a tragic ending with a tub of ice cream enjoyers, romance lovers can all find a home in a Sparks film adaptation. However, with his newest title and collaboration with M. Night Shyamalan Remain soon arriving to shelves, we thought it was time to list out our current faves while we wait to see which of our heart strings will be plucked next.

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Our Top Ten Nicholas Sparks Film Adaptations

10. The Choice (2016)

The Choice hits the list for the undeniable chemistry between leads Travis (Benjamin Walker) and Gabby (Teresa Palmer) that will have you cheering them on throughout the messy ups and downs of their budding relationship. When involved in a car accident, Gabby is left in a coma and Travis does not lose faith in her return. A story of true love and patience, The Choice makes you believe that the right people will always find their way back to one another and is sure to appeal to those who don’t mind a little mess with their romance.

9. The Longest Ride (2015)

Love is a verb. To choose to love, over and over again, is what makes a relationship stand the test of time. In The Longest Ride, we are treated to two love stories that parallel each other. The first is between Ruth (Oona Chaplin) and Ira (Jack Huston and Alan Alda), told from Ira’s perspective after being rescued by bull rider Luke (Scott Eastwood) and artist Sophia (Britt Robertson). Both couples find that their passions pull them in different directions away from their relationships, but neither couple are able to stand the longing and emptiness left behind and find their way back to each other. Lovers of the true happy ending are sure to eat this film right up along with a bulk-box of tissues.

8. Nights in Rodanthe (2008)

Adrienne (Diane Lane) and Paul (Richard Gere) share one very important thing in common. They have run away from their own personal tragedies to try and find some peace in a tiny inn in Rodanthe. The two are almost instantly stricken with each other, a near-record as far as Sparks’ films are concerned. Despite the quickness of their affair, their love is deep and abiding, and it encourages Paul to face the past he had been hiding from. However, as is all too common in Sparks stories, their love is cut short by a storm, and Adrienne is forced to carry a love that changed her for as long as she lives.

7. The Best of Me (2014)

Nicholas Sparks is never one to shy away from tragedy in his stories, but that does not mean love is ever wasted. In The Best of Me, we follow Dawson (James Marsden) through his unfortunately tragic life, raised in a crime family where he eventually ends up in prison for a crime he did not commit, separating him from his love Amanda (Michelle Monaghan). Years later, after the death of his surrogate father figure, Dawson returns to his home town and reconnects with Amanda, who has since moved on into a strained marriage. Their feelings return in full force, but not before Dawson’s past catches up to him for a final time. His heart lives on with Amanda, though, in more ways than one.

6. Message in a Bottle (1999)

Message in a Bottle is a film that stands to remind us never to make love wait, because fate is not patient. Theresa (Robin Wright) is a journalist who discovers beautiful letters of love and is tasked by her newspaper to discover the author. Once she does, she and Garrett (Kevin Costner) cannot deny their new and growing feelings for each other, but Theresa knows Garrett’s lost love still stands in the way. She leaves, hoping Garrett will be able to move on and find her one day. When she reads his final letter to Catherine, she learns the truth of his feelings too late, and the potential lovers become ships passing in the night.

5. A Walk to Remember (2002)

Bittersweet endings are the bread and butter of any romance fan, and A Walk to Remember takes us to the extremes of both bitter and sweet. A story of redemption to its core, we follow where the wind blows as teenage delinquent Landon (Shane West) finds himself in a play to avoid being expelled. When Jamie (Mandy Moore) offers to help him with his lines, it comes with one condition: he must not fall in love with her. Landon believes her request to be a result of Jamie’s religious upbringing, but he soon learns that Jamie has leukemia, and is not going to make it. Jamie is freed from living the rest of her life in isolation, and Landon is able to turn himself into a kinder person through loving Jamie. He takes this love with him all the way through medical school, where he becomes a doctor to help save more people than he’s lost.

4. Dear John (2010)

One of the more unique story structures from a Sparks film adaptation, Dear John reminds us that true, enduring love can persist for a lifetime, and that someone can have more than one great love. John (Channing Tatum) and Savannah (Amanda Seyfried) meet while John is on leave from the Army Special Forces, but after growing close and falling in love, they vow to continue their relationship long-distance and write each other letters. After some time and discovering that her life is following a different path than she had expected, Savannah decides to end things with John after falling in love with Tim (Henry Thomas). Savannah’s relationship with Tim is cut tragically short when lymphoma takes his life, but not before Tim is able to tell John that Savannah still loves him. John and Savannah spend much of the film apart, but their love is palpable and true when they reunite in the very end.

3. The Lucky One (2012)

The Lucky One is a testament to pursuing a life after loss. In the throes of survivors guilt and PTSD, U.S. Marine Logan (Zac Efron) walks across the country from Colorado to Louisiana hoping to find his guardian angel: a photo of an anonymous woman he believes to have saved his life in Iraq when many of his comrades had died. When he finds her, his connection with Beth (Taylor Schilling) turns out to be far deeper than simply finding a memento on the ground. The Lucky One is near the top of our list as it reminds us that happy endings are possible, even if the light at the end of the tunnel seems just out of reach.

2. Safe Haven (2013)

There’s always a little magic in each Sparks film, but we mean it very literally in this sense. This film is for the lovers who believe that the universe (or something a little stranger) will bring soul mates together in the end. Safe Haven follows Katie (Julianne Hough) as she escapes her abusive, dangerous husband Kevin (David Hughes) and finds herself a veritable outsider in a tiny town in North Carolina, with a new friend in Jo (Cobie Smulders) to aid her as she opens “The New Beginnings Cafe.” Once her and widowed father Alex (Josh Duhamel) fall in love and begin to heal one another, Katie’s peace is threatened once again. True love and Katie’s solace, however, are protected by forces beyond anyone living’s control.

Honorable Mention: Deliverance Creek (2014)

Not technically an adaptation of any Nicholas Sparks novel, but his first foray into the world of television is still worthy of turning heads. In his collaboration with writer Melissa Carter, the two develop a historical drama about the power of women facing adversity. During the Civil War, Belle Gatlin Barlowe (Laura Bell Bundy) and Kessie (Yaani King) must do whatever they can to protect their families as the violence of war and slavery ravages both families.

1. The Notebook (2004)

We never claimed to be going for a plot twist on this list despite the iconic one at the end of this generational love story. Starring the iconic Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling as the main pair, Allie and Noah, The Notebook is a story about being willing to fight about the type of love that lasts a lifetime. The story is told to us through (spoilers!) an aging Noah recanting the tale to Allie, as she suffers from Alzheimer’s. Through the thick, the thin, and the forbidden, Allie and Noah’s love continues to make audiences swoon over twenty years after its original theatrical release.