Romance

According to the Romance Writers of America, "Two basic elements comprise every romance novel: a central love story and an emotionally-satisfying and optimistic ending." Both the conflict and the climax of the novel should be directly related to that core theme of developing a romantic relationship, although the novel can also contain subplots that do not specifically relate to the main characters' romantic love. Other definitions of a romance novel may be broader, including other plots and endings or more than two people, or narrower, restricting the types of romances or conflicts. ...more

The Someday Garden
Harvest Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #2)
The Shampoo Effect
The Missed Connection
Tropesick
The Secret World of Briar Rose
This Immortal Heart
A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam (Six of Crows, #2.5)
Shattered Gods (Dark Olympus, #10)
All We Hunger For
The River She Became
White Lights (White Lights, #1)
When You Loved Me
Romantic Hero
The Very Definition of Love
  • Fireworks by Bonnie Woods
    Fireworks (Scottish Spice #2)

    Release date: Aug 18, 2026
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    By Her Own Hand
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    Release date: Dec 16, 2025
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    In a war of shadows, passion is her refuge and her most dangerous vulnerability.
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    Tethered Love (Silver Saddle Ranch #3)
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  • Our Perfect Storm
    The Love Hypothesis
    The Night We Met (Say You'll Remember Me, #2)
    People We Meet on Vacation
    Heartstopper: Volume 6 (Heartstopper, #6)
    Atmosphere
    Dolly All the Time
    Heart the Lover
    Reminders of Him
    Fever Dream (Emerald Lake, #1)
    The Five-Star Weekend (Sommer in Nantucket, #1)
    Into the Fading Twilight (Starlight Grove, #2)
    Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)
    Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
    It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2)
    Bet Me by Jennifer CrusieCan You Keep a Secret? by Sophie KinsellaIt Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth PhillipsMatch Me If You Can by Susan Elizabeth PhillipsNobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    Best Ever Contemporary Romance Books
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    Best Book Boyfriends
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    Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireHopeless by Colleen HooverEasy by Tammara WebberThe Edge of Never by J.A. RedmerskiSlammed by Colleen Hoover
    Best YA/New Adult Contemporary Romance
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    Una historia de ayer by Sergio CoboA Shade of Vampire by Bella ForrestThe Wronged Sons by John MarrsIsle of Winds by James FahyDrowned Tomb by James Fahy
    Best of Little-Known Authors
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    Una historia de ayer by Sergio CoboAccidental Leigh by Melanie  JamesNobody's Perfect by Kallypso MastersNobody's Hero by Kallypso MastersThe Darkest Frost, Vol. 1 by Tanya Holmes
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    Beach Read
    Book Lovers
    Pride and Prejudice
    People We Meet on Vacation
    Red, White & Royal Blue (Red, White & Royal Blue, #1)
    It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
    The Fault in Our Stars
    A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
    Twilight (Twilight Saga, #1)
    Happy Place
    The Hating Game
    The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1)
    Funny Story
    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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