Best Romance Books

Hyacinth Bridgerton recruits the roguish Gareth St. Clair to translate his grandmother's Italian diaries — and discovers that the diaries contain a secret that changes both their lives.

Emma and Justin have a theory: the person they date before each of their subsequent relationships always goes on to find their perfect match. They agree to date each other for the summer — just to break the curse — with a strict expiration date.

Leeds and Layla fall in love, but after a violent incident at a bed and breakfast leaves Layla with a changed personality, Leeds returns to the B&B alone. There he meets a ghost named Willow — and the situation becomes stranger and more morally complicated than he anticipated. Hoover's most genre-defying novel.

Vanessa lives fully and chaotically, making impulsive decisions and oversharing her life online as a social media personality. Adrian is a serious lawyer who has just moved in next door and is unimpressed by either her lifestyle or her volume. A forced-proximity romance about what happens when two philosophies of life collide in a hallway.

Lara Jean and Peter are officially together now — but an unexpected letter from another recipient of her love notes introduces John Ambrose McClaren back into her life. A genuine love triangle unfolds as Lara Jean navigates first relationship pressures, family dynamics, and competing versions of herself.

After her father's death forces a move to a new town, eighteen-year-old Layken Cohen falls for her neighbour Will — until she discovers they can never be together. He is her teacher. Slam poetry becomes the language of both their grief and their impossible longing in Colleen Hoover's debut novel.

Three veterans of the First World War try to build ordinary lives in the Weimar Republic while Nazi violence rises around them, and one of them falls in love with a woman dying of tuberculosis. Remarque's most romantic novel is also his most political — the personal tenderness and the historical catastrophe are inseparable, and the love story is written with the knowledge of what is coming.

Jules and Josh have hated each other for years. When they end up in a fake relationship to serve their own purposes — Jules needs a date for a family event; Josh needs the same — the animosity becomes something more complicated. An enemies-to-lovers romance with more bite than the previous Twisted books.

Lucy Snowe, a young Englishwoman of obscure circumstances, travels alone to the fictional city of Villette in Belgium, where she takes a teaching position at a girls' school and navigates love, professional ambition, and a psychological interior life of extraordinary intensity.

A rebellious teenager falls for the quiet minister's daughter in a small North Carolina town — and discovers what it truly means to love someone, and what it costs.

A Regency Cinderella: Benedict Bridgerton dances with a mysterious masked woman at a masquerade ball and cannot forget her — but Sophie Beckett is a servant who knows their worlds can never meet.

Newly married, Anne and Gilbert settle in their dream home by the sea in Four Winds Harbour, where Anne befriends the tragic and beautiful Leslie Moore and the loveable ship's captain Jim Boyd.

It's 1999 and Lincoln works the night shift reading flagged emails at a newspaper — intercepting private conversations between two friends, Beth and Jennifer, who have no idea anyone is reading. As Lincoln falls in love with Beth through her emails without ever meeting her, Rowell's debut raises uncomfortable questions about connection, voyeurism, and what it means to know someone.

John Tyree is a soldier on leave when he meets Savannah Curtis during a summer on the Carolina coast. Their brief romance deepens through years of letters — until the world changes and the letters stop coming. A love story about what happens when duty and desire pull in opposite directions.

Set against the upheavals of the Russian Revolution, World War I, and the ensuing Civil War, Doctor Zhivago follows the poet-physician Yuri Zhivago and his consuming love for Larissa Antipova across years of revolution, separation, and survival in a Russia being remade against its own will.

Curmudgeonly Cambridge faerie scholar Emily Wilde travels to a remote Norwegian village to research hidden faeries for her encyclopaedia, accompanied by her brilliant, insufferable colleague Wendell Bambleby — who has secrets of his own about the world she's studying.

Bee Königswasser, a neuroengineer, is forced to collaborate with Levi Ward — her academic nemesis and the man she is convinced hates her — on a NASA-funded brain-helmet project. Two STEM rivals in close proximity with too many sleepless nights and a deadline that won't move.

Gregory Bridgerton falls for a woman who loves someone else — and must stop a wedding to claim his own happy ending in the final chapter of Julia Quinn's beloved Regency series.

August moves to New York and meets Jane on the Q train — a punk girl stuck in 1977 who should not exist in 2020. Impossible and inexplicable, Jane is somehow trapped in a moment in time, and August is the only one who can see her. A queer love story about memory, identity, and what we're willing to change to keep something worth keeping.

A standalone novella set in the Crowns of Nyaxia world, in which a dying woman strikes a desperate bargain with a reclusive vampire to save her plague-stricken village — and finds far more than a cure.

Poppy learns the truth about her origins and what she truly is — a revelation that shifts the entire Blood and Ash series into a larger, more mythological conflict. The third book takes the story from personal stakes to civilisational ones.

Two love stories set forty years apart — Jennifer Stirling in 1960s London, trapped in a loveless marriage, and journalist Ellie Haworth in the present day — are connected by a cache of passionate letters discovered in a newspaper archive.

A grieving, difficult bookshop owner on a small island finds his life transformed when a toddler is left among his stacks — a sentimental, intelligent novel about books, community, and the surprising arcs of human lives.

Hart and Mercy are rival undertakers in a world of gods and demi-gods — they hate each other in person, but their alter egos have been falling in love by letter for months, neither knowing who the other really is.