Books I've read as a teenager that made me want to experience love and made me feel THE butterflies. I mean, who doesn't want to feel that?
It all starts with a typo and an adorable pet pig named Wilbur! A teen movie star accidentally emails a regular girl, and they bond before he covertly moves his entire movie production to her tiny Maine town just to meet her. It is the ultimate sweet...
This Is What Happy Looks Like
Lara Jean and Peter Kavinsky are absolute icons. The whole premise of secret love letters accidentally getting mailed out is brilliant, but it’s their fake-dating contract that turns into real, melting-heart romance that makes this book so addictive....
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Lucy and Owen meet in a stuck elevator during a massive New York City blackout, and the chemistry is instant. But just as they spark, life scatters them to opposite sides of the globe. It’s a beautiful, sweeping story about trying to hold onto love a...
The Geography of You and Me
Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters are an absolute requirement for this list. It is a total tear-jerker, but their love story is so full of life, humor, and deep connection. The way they matched each other's wit and loved each other so fiercely in the t...
The Fault in Our Stars
Maxon and America are the absolute blueprint! I was completely obsessed with them when I was a teenager, and honestly, the tension, the secret glances, and the royal court drama still hold up. If you love the "he falls first" trope mixed with a reali...
The Selection
Jasmine is a fierce solo figure skater who is stubbornly used to doing everything on her own, until she's forced to partner up with Ivan Lukov—the arrogant, insanely talented rival she’s wanted to push in front of a bus for a decade. The tension and ...
From Lukov with Love
Ren Bergman is the ultimate blueprint for a "cinnamon roll" book boyfriend. He’s a massive, cheerful hockey player who has been quietly, fiercely in love with Frankie—the brilliant, blunt, and proudly neurodivergent social media manager for his team—...
Always Only You
If you know, you know! Maxon and America are great, but the side romance between America’s best friend Marlee and Carter (the guard) completely stole my heart. They risked absolutely everything to be together, and the way Maxon and America protected ...
The Favorite
If you love an enemies-to-lovers story with elite-tier banter, Lucy and Josh are the absolute blueprint. They share an office and completely despise each other—until a massive promotion puts them in direct competition and all that passive-aggressive ...