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Romance Books
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items I love romance books that make me laugh, cry, swoon, and stay up far too late reading. Here are the stories that captured my heart with unforgettable characters and unforgettable love stories.
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New to Romance
Enemies to Lovers
Second Chances: Romances of Timing
New to Romance
The perfect starting point for new romance readers. Discover essential love stories, popular tropes, and bestselling favorites that define the genre.
A timeless enemies-to-lovers romance with unforgettable characters, wit, and one of literature's greatest love stories.
Pride and Prejudice
A witty enemies-to-lovers office romance packed with sharp banter, sizzling chemistry, and unforgettable tension.
The Hating Game: Spicy Enemies-to-Lovers
A heartfelt romance blending humor, grief, and creative rivalry into an unforgettable slow-burn love story.
Beach Read: Henry, Emily: 9781984806734 - Books
A fun and emotional royal romance featuring irresistible chemistry, clever dialogue, and a modern fairy-tale love story.
RED WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE
A refreshing contemporary romance with smart characters, genuine emotional depth, and a unique love story that challenges expectations.
The Kiss Quotient #1 - Helen Hoang
A gripping romantasy adventure combining fierce battles, powerful dragons, high-stakes danger, and irresistible romantic tension.
Fourth Wing — Rebecca Yarros | #1 NYT Bestselling Author
A powerful story of love and identity featuring unforgettable characters, hidden truths, and a deeply moving emotional journey.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel
An emotional love story that blends romance, heartbreak, and hope while exploring the challenges of difficult life choices.
It Ends with Us: A Novel: Hoover, Colleen
Enemies to Lovers
A timeless romance classic featuring witty dialogue, unforgettable characters, and one of literature’s most beloved enemies-to-lovers stories.
Pride and Prejudice
A smart contemporary romance about two ambitious characters discovering that the person they least expect may be the one they need.
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
A fun and emotional contemporary romance with clever dialogue, unforgettable characters, and a love story that breaks the rules.
RED WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE
A stunning blend of fantasy and romance where rivalry, sacrifice, and heartfelt letters create a powerful story of love and hope.
Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)
A dark fantasy romance featuring a strong heroine, dangerous competition, slow-burn chemistry, and a captivating vampire love story.
The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
A thrilling romantasy filled with dragons, deadly trials, fierce rivals, and an unforgettable slow-burn romance set in a dangerous world of power and secrets.
Fourth Wing — Rebecca Yarros | #1 NYT Bestselling Author
A fun contemporary romance featuring fake dating, workplace rivalry, forced proximity, and irresistible romantic tension.
The Spanish Love Deception
A fun contemporary romance filled with fake honeymoon chaos, family drama, witty rivalry, and a surprisingly sweet love story.
The Unhoneymooners: Lauren, Christina - Books
A witty romance adventure blending mystery, matchmaking, and playful tension between two unlikely partners.
To Have and to Heist (Simi Chopra, #1) by Sara Desai
A mesmerizing fantasy romance featuring forbidden attraction, powerful fae courts, adventure, and a heroine discovering her own strength.
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
A steamy contemporary romance featuring a competitive figure skater, a hockey player, and an unforgettable journey from rivalry to romance.
Icebreaker (UCMH, #1) by Hannah Grace
A heartfelt contemporary romance filled with witty banter, creative rivalry, emotional healing, and a slow-burn love story about finding inspiration and love in unexpected places.
Beach Read: Henry, Emily
A playful paranormal romance filled with witches, magical mishaps, second-chance love, and irresistible chemistry between former flames.
The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
A slow-burn sports romance filled with fierce rivalry, figure skating, witty banter, and a deeply emotional journey from enemies to love.
From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata
A gripping new adult romance filled with secret identities, intense chemistry, enemies-to-lovers tension, and a complicated journey from friendship to desire.
Punk 57 by Penelope Douglas
A dark enemies-to-lovers romance filled with revenge, sharp banter, powerful chemistry, and a complicated relationship between two unforgettable characters.
Vicious (Sinners of Saint, #1) by L.J. Shen
A fiery enemies-to-lovers romance filled with explosive chemistry, sharp banter, intense rivalry, and a passionate journey from hate to love.
Twisted Hate - Huang, Ana: Books
A dark fantasy romance filled with fae intrigue, dangerous bargains, political deception, and a fierce enemies-to-lovers tension in a world of magic and power.
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1) by Holly Black
A hilarious enemies-to-lovers romance featuring a failing marriage, clever sabotage, sharp banter, and a surprising journey back to love.
You Deserve Each Other: Hogle, Sarah
A hilarious enemies-to-lovers romance featuring wedding chaos, workplace rivalry, witty banter, and undeniable chemistry between two determined professionals.
The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa
A steamy enemies-to-lovers office romance filled with fierce competition, explosive chemistry, sharp banter, and undeniable attraction.
Beautiful Bastard (The Beautiful Series) - Books
A heartfelt enemies-to-lovers romance filled with witty banter, unexpected attraction, emotional healing, and a second-chance connection sparked by a mysterious note.
Hate Notes: Keeland, Vi, Ward, Penelope
A beloved slow-burn romance featuring an athlete, a grumpy mentor, workplace tension, and a relationship built on trust and friendship.
Kulti by Mariana Zapata
A captivating fantasy romance filled with secrets, forbidden love, deadly promises, and a slow-burn relationship that transforms vengeance into devotion.
The Wrath & the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh
Second Chances: Romances of Timing
Second Chances: Romances of Timing explores the unforgettable love stories where fate brings two people back together. Discover romances filled with missed opportunities, old flames, unexpected reunions, and the hope that sometimes the right person a...
A heartfelt second-chance romance filled with summer memories, lost love, emotional secrets, and the unforgettable connection between two childhood sweethearts.
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
A beautifully emotional romance about lost love, complicated feelings, and discovering whether a once-perfect relationship can be found again.
Happy Place: Henry, Emily - Books
A charming friends-to-lovers romance filled with unforgettable vacations, witty banter, emotional longing, and the question of whether the perfect person was there all along.
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
A timeless emotional romance about enduring love, unforgettable memories, second chances, and a connection that survives the test of time.
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
A poignant love story about friendship, timing, missed opportunities, and the unexpected ways two lives can remain connected over the years.
One Day by David Nicholls
A timeless second-chance romance filled with regret, devotion, emotional maturity, and the enduring power of a love that was never forgotten.
Persuasion by Jane Austen
A deeply emotional second-chance romance filled with childhood memories, lost love, heartfelt secrets, and a powerful journey back to the person who knew you best.
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
A hopeful continuation of a beloved romance exploring healing, new beginnings, emotional growth, and the courage to choose a healthier future.
It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2) by Colleen Hoover
A magical second-chance romance filled with time-bending moments, emotional healing, unforgettable chemistry, and a love story that defies the boundaries of time.
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
A thought-provoking emotional romance about love, destiny, friendship, and the unexpected ways life can challenge the future we imagine.
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
A timeless and emotional romance exploring love, fate, and the challenges of a relationship shaped by an extraordinary journey through time.
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
A powerful emotional romance exploring marriage, love, forgiveness, and the difficult choices couples make to rediscover each other.
After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A heartfelt emotional romance about love, loss, second chances, and the impossible choices that come when the past and present collide.
One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A deeply emotional romance about first love, timing, unforgettable connections, and the choices that shape a lifetime of love and longing.
The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo
A heartfelt second-chance romance filled with summer nostalgia, unfinished love, emotional healing, and a reunion that proves some connections are impossible to forget.
Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
A deeply emotional second-chance romance about lost love, missed timing, old memories, and two people discovering whether their connection can survive the years apart.
Before We Were Strangers by Renee Carlino
A thoughtful magical romance exploring marriage, love, second chances, and the choices that shape the relationships we fight to keep.
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
A heartfelt second-chance romance about betrayal, forgiveness, lost love, and finding your way back to the person who once captured your heart.
Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren
A sweeping emotional romance about love, longing, lost letters, and the enduring connections that survive across generations and time.
The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes
A heartfelt relationship story about love, marriage, family, and finding your way back to each other when life takes an unexpected turn.
Us by David Nicholls
A deeply emotional romance exploring connection, timing, vulnerability, and the complicated ways two people shape each other’s lives.
Normal People by Sally Rooney
A heartfelt emotional romance about fate, timing, secrets, and a once-a-year connection that changes two lives forever.
November 9: A Novel: Hoover, Colleen - Books
A deeply emotional romance exploring love, marriage, heartbreak, and the challenges of holding on when life doesn’t go as planned.
All Your Perfects (Hopeless, #3) by Colleen Hoover
A magical contemporary romance filled with unexpected connections, found family, slow-burn chemistry, and a love story that transcends time.
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
A thought-provoking romance about fate, choices, and the different paths life can take when one moment changes everything.
Maybe in Another Life: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A witty enemies-to-lovers office romance filled with sharp banter, workplace rivalry, irresistible chemistry, and a slow-burn journey from competition to love.
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne