Swoony rom-coms, sweeping historical romances, heart-wrenching tearjerkers and dragon-filled romantasy. Find the love story that fits your mood.
A love story at the center, and an ending that leaves your heart full.
In a romance novel, the relationship between the leads is the main plot, not a side story. Readers know they can count on an emotionally satisfying ending: a "happily ever after" or at least a "happy for now." That promise is what lets the genre take you through so much heartache, banter and longing along the way.
Romance is one of the best-selling genres in the world, and it comes in every flavor: modern-day rom-coms, Regency ballrooms, small-town love, fae courts and more. This site also includes a few beloved love stories that end with tears instead, marked as tearjerkers.
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Dragons, a deadly war college and danger on every page. It's built for restless energy and is hard to put down.
Time travel, battles and the Scottish Highlands in a huge, sweeping adventure you can live inside for weeks.
A heroine working through grief, a rival next door and lots of laughs. Funny, warm and healing.
For when you want a good cry: a lifelong love story told across the decades.
Two office rivals who can't stand each other, and endless sparring. Perfect when you're in a fighting mood.
Elizabeth Bennet's sharp wit against Mr. Darcy's pride. The original enemies to lovers.
A practice relationship that turns very real, with plenty of swooning and steam. A quick, sweet read.
A slow-burning fae romance with a whole series to fall in love with.
Sweet, funny and easy to finish in an evening. Like a warm hug.
Two strangers share a flat and fall for each other through Post-it notes. Charming and comforting.
Nothing is what it seems, and the secrets keep coming. You'll want to know the truth as soon as possible.
Court politics, hidden alliances and betrayals to work out slowly over a whole series.
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A romance writer and a literary novelist, rivals since college, spend a summer as neighbors and bet on who can write in the other's genre.
Two executive assistants who share an office and despise each other compete for the same promotion.
A brilliant economist with autism hires an escort to help her practice relationships, and their arrangement turns into something real.
To convince her best friend she's dating, a PhD student kisses the first man she sees: a famously difficult young professor.
After a near-death experience, a chronically ill woman makes a list for getting a life and recruits her grumpy, artistic building superintendent to help.
Two strangers share a one-bed flat on opposite schedules, never meeting, and get to know each other through Post-it notes.
Two best friends took a summer trip together every year until a falling-out two years ago. Now she's asking him for one more vacation.
When the whole wedding party gets food poisoning, the bride's unlucky twin and the groom's grumpy brother take the free honeymoon to Maui, pretending to be newlyweds.
Witty Elizabeth Bennet and the proud Mr. Darcy badly misjudge each other in Regency England.
Eight years after being talked out of her engagement, Anne Elliot meets the man she gave up again, now a successful naval captain.
An orphaned governess falls for her brooding employer, Mr. Rochester, at a mansion that hides a dark secret.
In 1946, a former army nurse touches a standing stone in Scotland and falls back to 1743, where she must marry a Highland warrior.
Daphne Bridgerton and a duke who never wants to marry fake a courtship to keep matchmaking mothers away.
A reluctant cadet enters a brutal war college where students bond with dragons or die trying, and her biggest rival may be the most dangerous person there.
A huntress kills a wolf in the woods and is dragged into the faerie lands as payment, where courts, curses and ancient powers await.
A mortal girl raised in the High Court of Faerie schemes for power and survival, clashing with the wicked youngest prince at every turn.
A sheltered Maiden chosen by the gods starts questioning everything she's been told after a mysterious guard is assigned to protect her.
A witch on the run is forced into marriage with a witch hunter sworn to destroy her kind.
A princess trained as a spy weds the king of a rival nation, planning to bring his kingdom down from within.
A village girl is taken to serve a cold wizard who guards the valley against a malevolent, corrupting Wood. Fairy-tale feel, standalone.
A thief with a secret is pursued into a frozen fae realm by a ruthless, infuriating fae warrior.
Lara Jean's secret love letters to every boy she's ever had a crush on are suddenly mailed out, so she starts a fake relationship to cover it up.
Anna is sent to a boarding school in Paris for her senior year and falls for a charming classmate who already has a girlfriend.
Two teenagers who meet at a cancer support group fall in love, full of humor and heartbreak.
Bella moves to rainy Forks, Washington, and falls for Edward Cullen, a classmate who turns out to be a vampire.
Henry has a condition that sends him traveling through time without warning. Clare has known him since she was a child.
An old man reads a love story from a notebook: two young people from different worlds, separated and reunited years later.
A cheerful young woman takes a job caring for a bitter former high-flyer who was paralyzed in an accident.
A few pointers before you dive in. Click a question to open it.
HEA means "happily ever after": the couple ends up together for good. HFN means "happy for now": they're together and hopeful at the end. Genre romance always ends with one of the two. Tearjerkers on this page don't.
Romance ranges from closed-door (sweet, nothing on the page) to very steamy. Look up a book's content and spice rating if that matters to you.
Take the mood quiz above, or try a rom-com like Beach Read or The Hating Game. They're quick, funny and a great taste of the genre.
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