Best Romance Books

Rebecca Ross's debut, a young adult fantasy in which a young woman trained in the art of knowledge becomes embroiled in a dangerous plot to restore a fallen queen to her throne.

Sonia, a British woman, travels to Granada to learn flamenco after her relationship ends. Staying with family friends, she discovers letters and photographs that reveal the story of the Ramirez family during the Spanish Civil War — a story of love, betrayal, and the violence that divided Spain. Alternating between the present day and the 1930s, The Return is Hislop's portrait of Granada and the civil war's lasting trauma.

Addie and Dylan broke up two years ago in devastating fashion — and now they're forced to share a car for a road trip to a Scottish wedding, along with their friends, their baggage, and everything they never said.

Don Tillman, a brilliant but socially rigid genetics professor, designs the Wife Project — a rigorous questionnaire to identify the perfect partner — only to find himself derailed by Rosie, who fails every criterion.

Juliette has escaped the Reestablishment and found safety at Omega Point, a refuge for those with supernatural abilities. But safety has its own demands, and when Warner — the Reestablishment commander she fled — reveals unexpected depths, Juliette's certainties begin to unravel.

Noelle Shepard needs to escape her life after a public humiliation. Her late grandmother's wish was for Noelle to complete a cross-country road trip to scatter her ashes at the Grand Canyon — a trip she must share with Theo Garrett, the grandson of her grandmother's old flame, who happens to be exactly the wrong and right person at exactly the wrong and right time.

Colin Singleton has dated nineteen girls named Katherine and been dumped by all nineteen. A child prodigy now between his last Katherine and his uncertain future, Colin and his best friend Hassan embark on a post-graduation road trip to Gutshot, Tennessee, where Colin tries to derive a mathematical theorem to predict the rise and fall of romantic relationships.

Ellie has always avoided the Elites — the four students who run Elites Academy with brutal authority. Now Aiden King, the most dangerous of them, has decided she is his. She has no idea why. She is not sure she wants to find out.

Maria, a young Brazilian woman, travels to Geneva dreaming of fame and fortune. Instead, she becomes a high-end prostitute, all while searching for — and philosophising about — the nature of love, desire, and the sacred in the profane.

Maelyn Jones has made a wish to the universe to be truly happy — and wakes up the next morning to find herself reliving the same holiday week, over and over, until she can figure out what she actually wants from her life and love.

Hajime, a successful jazz bar owner in Tokyo with a comfortable marriage, is reunited with Shimamoto — his only close childhood friend, with whom he spent hours listening to records. Their reunion opens something he cannot close. A quiet, compressed novel about the specific grief of the road not taken and the women who persist as figures of the unlived life.

In the third Lou Clark novel, Louisa travels to New York City as a personal assistant to a wealthy family, navigating a new world, a complicated love triangle, and the ongoing question of what it means to live the life Will Traynor urged her toward.

The conclusion of the All Souls trilogy — Diana and Matthew return to the present, the mysteries of Ashmole 782 are resolved, and the conflict between creatures and the Congregation reaches its conclusion.

Brown University, early 1980s. Madeleine Hanna is writing her senior thesis on the Victorian marriage plot in literary fiction; Mitchell Grammaticus is having a religious crisis; Leonard Bankhead is brilliant, charismatic, and bipolar. Their triangular relationship unfolds against the backdrop of literary theory and manic depression.

A young woman living in a converted church with her deeply dysfunctional family falls for a boy hiding his own secrets while navigating depression and family dysfunction.

A short Winter Solstice bridge novella set after the war of A Court of Wings and Ruin, following Feyre, Rhysand, and the Night Court's inner circle as they recover from trauma and prepare a Solstice celebration in Velaris.

Brida O'Fern is a young Irish woman driven by a hunger for spiritual knowledge. She seeks out two teachers — a wise man in the forest and a witch who teaches through the Wiccan Tradition of the Sun — in search of magic, purpose, and her soulmate.

American twins inherit a flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery in London from an aunt they never met — and find themselves entangled with a ghost, the aunt's former lover, and a mystery about the family's past.

The sixth and final Shatter Me novel. With Ella weaponized against the people she loves and the Reestablishment closing in, Juliette must reclaim herself for a last stand that ends the saga of touch, power, and identity that began with Shatter Me.

Lexi Ryan's BookTok-favorite faerie romantasy. To free her sister from the Unseelie king, Brie agrees to steal three magical relics from the Seelie court, posing as a potential bride for its prince — and finds herself caught between two dangerous, seductive faerie princes and two treacherous courts.

The fifth Shatter Me novel. Reeling from the events of Restore Me, Juliette — now Ella — confronts shattering revelations about her past, her family, and the Reestablishment, as the perspective widens and the series barrels toward its climax.

A world-famous author — unmistakably Coelho himself — wakes one day to find that his war-correspondent wife Esther has disappeared, seemingly of her own will. His obsessive search for her, and for the meaning behind her departure, takes him from Paris to the steppes of Central Asia.