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21 Addictive Romance Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down
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items Looking for your next romance obsession? 💕 This list has 21 addictive romance books packed with everything we love: enemies to lovers, fake dating, forbidden romance, sports romance, second chances, slow burns, marriage of convenience, morally grey ...
Tropes: Fake Dating • Academia • He Falls First • Grumpy × Sunshine
A fake relationship between two scientists starts becoming suspiciously real. This is a great pick if you love awkward heroines, seemingly intimidating men who are secretly soft for...
The Love Hypothesis — Ali Hazelwood
Tropes: Brother's Best Friend • Grumpy × Sunshine • Forced Proximity • Billionaire Romance
Alex Volkov isn't exactly boyfriend material—and that's part of the appeal. When circumstances bring him closer to his best friend's sister, Ava, their very d...
Twisted Love — Ana Huang
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Fake Dating • Workplace Romance • Slow Burn
Catalina needs a date to her sister's wedding in Spain. Unfortunately, the man offering to help is Aaron Blackford—the coworker she can barely stand.
Why read it: The fake-dati...
The Spanish Love Deception — Elena Armas
Tropes: Sports Romance • Hockey Player × Figure Skater • Forced Proximity • Found Family
A competitive figure skater and the captain of a college hockey team are forced to share the ice—and eventually a lot more than that.
Why read it: A fun choice...
Icebreaker — Hannah Grace
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Workplace Romance • Office Rivals
Lucy and Joshua work opposite each other and have turned hating one another into practically a competitive sport. Then they're both up for the same promotion.
Why read it: If your favori...
The Hating Game — Sally Thorne
Tropes: Childhood Enemies • Fake Dating • Boy Next Door • YA Romance
Liz is determined to get her perfect romantic-comedy ending with her longtime crush. To make it happen, she reluctantly teams up with Wes—the annoying boy next door.
Why read it: ...
Better Than the Movies — Lynn Painter
Tropes: Billionaire Romance • Boss × Employee • Grumpy × Sunshine • Workplace Romance
Rowan is wealthy, powerful and emotionally closed off. Zahra works at his family's theme park and isn't particularly interested in letting her intimidating boss ge...
The Fine Print — Lauren Asher
Tropes: Rivals to Lovers • Small Town • Publishing • Forced Proximity
A literary agent heads to a small town for a break only to repeatedly run into a book editor she already knows—and doesn't particularly like.
Why read it: Clever dialogue, bookis...
Book Lovers — Emily Henry
Tropes: Sports Romance • Hockey • Fake Dating • College Romance
Hannah agrees to tutor hockey star Garrett in exchange for his help getting another guy's attention. Their arrangement inevitably becomes much more complicated.
Why read it: One of tho...
The Deal — Elle Kennedy
Tropes: Second Chance • Childhood Friends to Lovers • Dual Timeline
Macy unexpectedly encounters Elliot—the first and perhaps most important love of her life. Their story moves between the friendship that turned into young love and the adults they'v...
Love and Other Words — Christina Lauren
Tropes: Small Town • Emotional Romance • Slow Burn • Healing
Bree arrives in a quiet town hoping to escape her past and meets Archer, an isolated man carrying painful secrets of his own.
Why read it: Tender and emotional, with two wounded character...
Archer's Voice — Mia Sheridan
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Forced Proximity • Fake Honeymoon • One Bed
After almost everyone at a wedding gets sick, Olive ends up taking her twin sister's honeymoon. The problem? She has to go with the best man—her sworn enemy.
Why read it: Tropi...
The Unhoneymooners — Christina Lauren
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Best Friend's Brother • Doctor Romance • Hate-to-Love
Josh and Jules genuinely do not get along, which makes their attraction considerably more inconvenient.
Why read it: This is for readers who want the enemies part of ...
Twisted Hate — Ana Huang
Tropes: Marriage of Convenience • Sports Romance • Slow Burn • Forced Proximity
After quitting her job as assistant to a famous football player, Vanessa expects to move on with her life. Then he shows up with a proposition she definitely wasn't expe...
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me — Mariana Zapata
Tropes: Age Gap • Forbidden Romance • Forced Proximity
Jordan moves into her boyfriend's father's house—and develops a connection with the one man she absolutely should not want.
Why read it: Go here when you're looking for something taboo, complic...
Birthday Girl — Penelope Douglas
Tropes: Small Town • Grumpy × Sunshine • Found Family • Forced Proximity
Naomi arrives in a small town after running away from her wedding and very quickly finds herself dealing with family chaos, an unexpected child and an extremely grumpy local ma...
Things We Never Got Over — Lucy Score
Tropes: Hockey Romance • College Romance • Friends with Benefits • He Falls First
Gigi Graham has serious hockey ambitions and needs help improving her game. Ryder can help—but he wants something in return.
Why read it: Another strong pick for anyo...
The Graham Effect — Elle Kennedy
Tropes: Opposites Attract • Age Gap • Small Town • Forbidden-ish Romance
Alexis comes from a prestigious medical family with very specific expectations for her future. Daniel belongs to a completely different world—and falling for him forces her to ...
Part of Your World — Abby Jimenez
Tropes: Second Chance • Childhood Friends to Lovers • Summer Romance • Dual Timeline
Percy returns to the lake town where she spent her childhood summers—and where she left behind Sam, the boy she once thought would be part of her life forever.
Why...
Every Summer After — Carley Fortune
Tropes: Sports Romance • Roommates • Fake Dating • Grumpy × Sunshine • He Falls First
Indy needs somewhere to live and ends up sharing an apartment with professional basketball player Ryan Shay. Neither intends for the arrangement to become romantic...
The Right Move — Liz Tomforde
Tropes: Rugby Romance • Slow Burn • High School Romance • Friends to Lovers • Found Family
Shannon starts at a new school after experiencing severe bullying and meets Johnny, a talented rugby player with enormous ambitions of his own. What begins as...
Binding 13 — Chloe Walsh
If you want enemies to lovers, start with The Hating Game, Twisted Hate or The Spanish Love Deception.
If you're craving sports romance, try Icebreaker, The Deal, The Graham Effect or The Right Move.
For second-chance heartbreak, pick Love and Othe...
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