Top 100 Romance Books

📘 Fifty Shades of Grey

Literature student Anastasia Steele meets entrepreneur Christian Grey and finds herself drawn into a passionate, power‑shifting romance that tests desire and control.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 It Ends With Us

After growing up in a small town, Lily starts a business in Boston and falls for neurologist Ryle Kincaid—only to confront the return of her first love, Atlas, and the emotional toll of true love.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Twisted Love

A love triangle between ice and fire: a man with a troubled past and a woman with a broken heart. A new romance series with suspense and depth.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 The Love Hypothesis

PhD candidate Olive Smith pretends to be in love with fellow scientist Adam Carlsen, only to find that chemistry might be more than just a lab reaction.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Romantic Comedy

📘 Ugly Love

Tate Collins meets the charming airline pilot Miles Archer at her apartment door and sparks ignite, but both vow to avoid pasts and futures. Their impossible chemistry tests Tate’s resolve—can she say no when the pilot lives next door?

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Shatter Me

In a crumbling dystopia, 17‑year‑old Juliette discovers her touch can kill—yet the totalitarian Reestablishment sees her as a weapon. With disease, scarcity and a divided world, she must choose to fight or be a tool of oppression.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Paranormal Romance

📘 Twisted Games

An elite bodyguard sworn to keep his clients safe is forced to confront his most forbidden desire when he becomes the protector of a rebellious princess who will do anything to escape a political marriage.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Reid’s lush tale follows film legend Evelyn Hugo as she unveils the truth of her glamorous, scandal‑ridden life to an unlikely biographer, revealing the intersecting fates of Hollywood’s biggest star and a struggling reporter.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Twisted Lies

Christian Harper, a cold, morally ambiguous man, is drawn to Stella Alonso, a shy college student with a haunted past. Their fake‑dating pact turns into a dangerous love affair tangled with secrets, betrayal and revenge.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Twisted Hate

A fast-paced romance where Josh Chen's love/hate relationship with Jules Ambrose spirals into a forbidden but satisfying arrangement of enemies with benefits.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Um casamento arranjado

A financially strained family arranges a marriage with a wealthy household, but an unexpected tragedy changes the trajectory of an unlikely romance.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 King of Wrath

When billionaire CEO Dante Russo is forced into an engagement by a blackmailed heir, he intends to end it once the evidence is destroyed. Yet after becoming entwined with jewelry heiress Vivian Lau, he finds himself unable to let her go.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 November 9

When Fallon meets aspiring novelist Ben just before her cross‑country move, an unexpected connection sparks intense attraction and inspires his story. Each November 9 they reunite, but the truth of their romance remains uncertain and heartbreakible.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Me Before You

Louisa Clark, an ordinary young woman, becomes caregiver to the ex‑British billionaire Will Traynor, who has become wheelchair‑bound after an accident. Their unlikely relationship compels Louisa to challenge what it means to live fully and to help Will find a reason to survive.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Hunting Adeline

A dark romance that follows a tortured heroine desperate to escape her abusers and a relentless predator hunting her across a world of sexual abuse and trafficking.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 The Duke and I

By all accounts, Simon Basset is on the verge of proposing to his best friend's sister--the lovely and almost-on-the-shelf--Daphne Bridgerton. But the two of the know the truth--it's all an elaborate ruse to keep Simon free from marriage-minded society mothers.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Historical Romance

📘 The Spanish Love Deception

A spicy contemporary romance where rival lovers fake a relationship in the office, slowly turning tension into affection.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Romantic Comedy

📘 Jane Eyre

Set in north England, Jane Eyre follows an orphaned governess who faces abuse, hardship, and ultimately a complicated love with her employer, Edward Rochester, while contemplating marriage to her austere cousin St. John Rivers.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Historical Romance

📘 The Selection (The Selection #1)

After being chosen to compete for Prince Maxon's heart, 18‑year‑old America Singer must decide whether to give up love and rebellion for royal glory in a world of glittering gowns and violent intrigue.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Romancing Mister Bridgerton

In Regency London, Col. Colin Bridgerton struggles with gossip and romance as he returns home to discover his best friend’s sister, Penelope Featherington, has hidden secrets that could either threaten or secure their future together.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Historical Romance

📘 The Hating Game

Executive assistants Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman battle over a promotion, turning office rivalry into a witty, high‑stakes game of love and humor within Bexley‑Gamin Publishing.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Credence

Tiernan de Haas, a wealthy but lonely 18-year-old, finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the life of a rugged mountain family, where she must choose between her former life and the life she's forced into, all while facing a love triangle that threatens to tear her apart once and for all.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Outlander

A World War II nurse is swept back in time to 1743 Scotland, where she must navigate war, clan politics, and a powerful romance with a young Scots warrior.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Historical Romance

📘 Things We Never Got Over

When a runaway bride crash‑lands in the rough town of Knockemout, Virginia, a lone barber named Knox is forced to step out of his solitary life to help her unexpected situation, only to find that both their lives are in danger.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Norwegian Wood

Toru Watanabe, a thirty‑seven‑year‑old man, remembers late‑1960s Tokyo, the loss of his best friend, the fragile Naoko, and his complicated love life as he confronts questions of love, death and identity.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 The Sweetest Oblivion

Elena "Sweet" Abelli, a mafia heiress, must navigate an arranged marriage to a dangerous made man, Nicolas Russo, as desire and danger collide in New York’s underworld.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Fifty Shades Darker

A forbidden romance between a business executive and a young entrepreneur with dark secrets, continuing the Fifty Shades series

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 It Ends with Us, It Starts with Us

Colleen Hoover’s acclaimed sequel collection follows Lily, Ryle, and Atlas as they navigate love, trauma and redemption, offering a powerful exploration of healing and second chances.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Diary of an Oxygen Thief

An intimate, revelatory tale of how love, ambition, addiction, and abuse shape the lives of two New Yorkers navigating a world of photographers, advertising executives, and hidden traumas.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Hopeless

Sky Saunders, a high‑school senior, is drawn into a dangerous romance with the mysterious Dean Holder, whose secrets force her to confront a buried past and question everything she knows about trust.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 The Viscount Who Loved Me

During a London season in 1814, Anthony Bridgerton, the acclaimed bachelor, falls in love with Kate Sheffield. Her meddling sister threatens their engagement, but temptation and heart collide in Regency romance.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Historical Romance

📘 El amor en los tiempos del cólera

Amor de toda la vida que trasciende los años y la pasión: Florentino Ariza, tras una larga espera y 622 encuentros, reconquista a Fermina Daza cuando todo parece haber cambiado.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Historical Romance

📘 Don Quixote

Edith Grossman's acclaimed English translation of Miguel de Cervantes’ classic "Don Quixote" brings the famed knight-errant and his loyal squire Sancho Panza to life in 16th‑century Spain.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Historical Romance

📘 Confess

AUBURN REED, a twenty‑year‑old artist in Dallas, must rebuild her life while falling for enigmatic painter O. GENTRY, whose hidden past threatens to unravel everything she holds dear. The only cure? Confession, but its truth may be more destructive than the secret itself.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 The Elite (The Selection #2)

Twenty‑seven girls battle to win the prince’s heart and the crown of Illea, but America struggles between love, duty, and looming rebellion.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 The Deal

When college student Hannah Wells offers to tutor hockey captain Garrett Graham in exchange for a fake date, their enemies‑to‑lovers dynamic sparks a slow‑burn romance and steamy chemistry that will have readers swooning.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 King of Pride

Insurance CEO Kai Young meets chaotic, purple‑haired Isabella Valencia—a nightclub bartender with a gift for charm. Their enemies‑to‑lovers clash forces a billionaire heir to confront his rules and the powerful pull of a forbidden romance.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Archer's Voice

In Pelion, Maine, a trauma‑scarred woman meets the silent, enigmatic Archer Hale, and together they confront secrets, pain, and the possibility of healing and love that defies the small‑town walls.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Priest

A thirty‑year‑old priest, Tyler Anselm Bell, confronts his vows of celibacy when he falls for a woman and steps beyond the rules he once upheld.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 The Maddest Obsession

In New York, Gianna masks panic attacks behind a polished façade, while Christian Allister—stoic law‑enforcer and feared underworld figure—finds his rigid world unraveling when their paths collide.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Shades of Grey

A passionate love story between an ambitious college student and a charming business executive, driven by the forbidden passion of sadomasochism and sexual dominance, captivating millions of romance readers worldwide.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Persuasion

A love story set in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, where Anne Elliot finds herself amidst the Regency era as her sister rents Miss Elliot's father's house, leading to an unexpected reunion with Captain Frederick Wentworth and the return of her beloved.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Historical Romance

📘 My Fault

When Noah's mother remarries the wealthy Mr. Leistres, Noah is uprooted to a new city where she learns her stepfather’s son, Nicholas, is far from the ideal he seems. Amid parties, fights, and hidden flaws, Noah finds herself falling in love.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 É assim que começa

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 An Offer from a Gentleman

Julia Quinn’s Regency romance follows Sophie Beckett, a maid who infiltrates the Bridgerton household to attend a masked ball, where she captures the heart of Benedict Bridgerton and entangles herself in a love story that defies class and expectation.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Historical Romance

📘 The Wrong Bride

When her sister’s disappearance forces her into a wedding contract, Raven must navigate life with billionaire media mogul Ares Windsor, hoping to win his heart and break his devotion to her sister.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Bared to You

A tale of passion and power, where a man and woman are drawn together despite their pasts

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Brutal Prince

In Chicago’s criminal underworld, rival families Griffin and Gallo collide when the fierce Aida Gallo crashes a Griffin house party. Forced into marriage with the ruthless Callum Griffin, they unleash a deadly, enemies‑to‑lovers battle for power.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 The Fine Print

In the glittering world of a theme‑park empire, billionaire Rowan Kane hires a rebellious junior designer, Zahra, sparking a forbidden office romance that balances love, power, and the price of a second chance.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Ice breaker

Icebreaker is Hannah Grace's debut romance novel set at the fictional University of California, Maple Hills, where a hockey player and a figure skater find love amidst competitive sports and college life.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 The Kiss Quotient

Stella Lane, a mathematician with Asperger’s, hires an escort to learn the art of love and discovers that emotion can be as logical as numbers.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Beach Read

Amid writer's block and a looming deadline, a skeptical romance novelist and a disenchanted literary author trade their craft: she must write a happy ending, he a Great American Novel, as they race to finish before summer ends.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 King of Greed

When dominant financier Dominick Davenport’s hunger for wealth leaves his wife Alessandra disillusioned, she seizes control of her own destiny—but the powerful man she loves will fight to keep her, turning their marriage into a battle of passion and ambition.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Naledi his love

Naledi His Love, the third book of the Hlomu Series, explores themes of love, betrayal, and redemption within a Zulu cultural setting, and has inspired the Showmax telenovela "The Wife".

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Maybe someday

At 22, college student Sydney discovers her boyfriend's infidelity and must choose her next move while falling for her enigmatic neighbor Ridge.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Half Girlfriend

Half Girlfriend follows the unconventional romance between a quirky Indian student and a reserved girl, exploring friendship, ambition, and cultural expectations in a modern setting.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 The Notebook

The Notebook tells the enduring love story of Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson, set in coastal North Carolina in 1946, following their journey from wartime romance to a second chance to be together.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Historical Romance

📘 Time Traveler's Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife follows art student Clare and her husband Henry, a librarian who randomly jumps through time due to a rare genetic disorder, weaving a bittersweet romance across past, present, and future.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 All He'll Ever Be

A ruthless mafia king, Carter Cross, captures Aria—the daughter of his sworn enemy—turning their bitter rivalry into a dark, forced proximity romance that tests both murder and forgiveness.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Married at first sight

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Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 I Too Had a Love Story

A contemporary young‑adult romance exploring love, loss, and the enduring hope that a story never really ends, set against the backdrop of online dating in modern India.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 After We Collided (After Series, Book 2)

Book two of Anna Todd's wildly popular After series, following freshman Tessa as she grapples with a tumultuous relationship under college life pressures.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 People We Meet On Vacation

Poppy, a free‑spirited New Yorker, and Alex, a quiet book‑lover from their hometown, have shared summer vacations for a decade until a fateful trip tore them apart. Now, desperate to reclaim their friendship, she invites him for one last getaway.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 A Discovery of Witches

A historian uncovers an alchemical manuscript that awakens a hidden world of witches, vampires, and daemons in Oxford, compelling her to confront long‑held fears and a forbidden romance.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Paranormal Romance

📘 Before December

A college freshman finds her heart pulled in unexpected directions as a holiday deadline looms, forcing her to confront love, loyalty and a secret that could change her life.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Crazy Rich Asians

Rachel Chu’s quiet summer in Singapore turns into a whirlwind of affluence, family drama, and love as she meets her boyfriend Nick Young’s wealthy, traditional Chinese household and the expectations that come with it.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Romantic Comedy

📘 Set on You

After a tough breakup, fitness influencer Crystal Chen turns to the gym for power and positivity. When firefighter Scott Ritchie starts stealing her squat rack, sparks fly—leading to a wedding, viral drama, and a test of love.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Romantic Comedy

📘 Terms and Conditions

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Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Hooked

A high‑stakes romance where James seeks vengeance against his enemy but finds himself drawn to Wendy, the daughter of his target. As their forbidden affair deepens, loyalities shift and true motives surface.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Eleven Minutes

Eleven Minutes is a story about a young girl named Maria who discovers the complexity of love and the quest for inner light.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Regretting You

Regretting You follows a mother and daughter whose lives are reshaped by tragedy, forcing them to confront secrets, love, and the choices that define family bonds.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

A provocative retelling of the Sleeping Beauty tale, exploring the depths of sexual desire and bondage in a modern twist on an age-old story.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Paranormal Romance

📘 From Blood and Ash

Chosen as the Maiden, Poppy is destined to ascend the throne of a fallen kingdom, yet she longs for battle over ceremony. When Hawke, a loyal guard, enters her life, duty clashes with desire and the kingdom’s looming vengeance.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Paranormal Romance

📘 Love Theoretically

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 We'll Always Have Summer

When a long‑time friend’s love is tested, Sophie must decide between the familiar comfort of her past and the uncertain promise of a new relationship, all set against the backdrop of a New York summer getaway.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Corrupt

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 American Roommate Experiment

After her apartment collapses, Rosie Graham must crawl into a friend’s loft and fend off a charismatic loggerhead—her cousin Lucas—who offers to help spark her writer’s block through a series of experimental dates. The race is on to save her manuscripts and her sanity.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 When He Was Wicked

When He Was Wicked follows London rake Michael Stirling who falls in love with Francesca Bridgerton amid the glitter of Regency society, only to discover his heart’s desire must wait until after her impending wedding.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Historical Romance

📘 Silent Vows

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Wildfire

Two summer camp counselors, Russ and Aurora, reunite after a one‑night stand at Maple Hills and must navigate forbidden romance, strict camp rules, and personal struggles while working side by side.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 King of Sloth

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Losing hope

A haunting story of unresolved guilt and the search for closure.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 A Touch of Darkness

Persephone, a mortal disguised journalist, attracts Hades, the god of the dead, when she visits a forbidden nightclub. He offers her a perilous wager: create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom, sparking a forbidden romance.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Paranormal Romance

📘 God of Malice

A dark, contemporary romance in which a woman finds herself irresistibly drawn to a charming predator whose concealed malice threatens everything she holds dear.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Bridget Jones's Diary

A humorous, diary‑style look at a thirty‑something Londoner's year, exploring her career, friendships, body image, pleasures, and love life.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Romantic Comedy

📘 Her Soul to Take

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Paranormal Romance

📘 Maybe not

College student Warren, eager for a change, becomes roommates with the aloof Bridgette. Tensions flare, but he believes their intense antipathy could lead to profound romance.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Ritual

A teenage woman thrust into the ruthless world of a secret society of dominant men must decide if freedom is worth the life she must give up as they treat her as their trophy.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Every Summer After

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 The Unhoneymooners

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Romantic Comedy

📘 Painted Scars

Nina is forced into a marriage with a Russian mafia boss, living in fear while longing for freedom. When Roman enters her life, a passionate love story unfolds amid threats and low‑volume violence, ending happily.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 One True Loves

Emma's love life takes a dramatic turn when her husband Jesse disappears, only for her to find love again with Sam. Years later, Jesse reappears, forcing Emma to choose between the one she lost and the one she found.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Slammed

Eighteen‑year‑old Layken wrestles with grief and responsibility after her father’s death, but a sudden romance with neighbor Will—whose passion for poetry slams sparks hope—throws her life into turmoil when their fragile connection is shattered.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 God of Wrath

A virgin college student battles a mafia prince who stalks and threatens her freedom, forcing her into a dangerous, forbidden romance.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 LAYLA

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Paranormal Romance

📘 Black Ties and White Lies

Graphic designer Kate is recruited by billionaire ex‑husband’s brother, Beckham Sinclair, to be his fake fiancée and personal assistant—bringing them closer in a fast‑paced, witty romance that blurs the line between pretense and feeling.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Romantic Comedy

📘 Dance Upon the Air

Nell Channing seeks escape from an abusive husband by settling on Three Sisters Island, where she hides her past while falling for sheriff Zack Todd. But a lingering curse tied to the island’s witch founders forces her to confront secrets and protect her new life.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Paranormal Romance

📘 Without Merit

Five Voss siblings live in a repurposed church where secrets and expectations collide. Merit, craving escape, finds hope in her new friendship with Sagan, only to face the harsh truth that some scars cannot be healed by trophies or forgiveness.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Before we were strangers

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

📘 Daun yang Jatuh Tak Pernah Membenci Angin

A love story that begins with a father's protection and ends with the realization of self-identity.

Genre: Romance Subgenre: Contemporary Romance