favorite romance books

First-Time Caller

B.K. Borison · 2025

The Dead Romantics

Ashley Poston · 2022

The Seven Year Slip

Ashley Poston · 2023

One Golden Summer

Carley Fortune · 2025

Beach Read

Emily Henry · 2020

<b><b>FROM THE #1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF <i>FUNNY STORY</i>!<br><br>A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.<br><br>As featured in <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> ∙ <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> ∙ <i>Oprah Magazine</i> ∙ Betches ∙ Shondaland ∙ Good Morning America ∙ <i>The New York Post</i> ∙ <i>Good Housekeeping</i> ∙ CNN ∙ and more!</b></b><br><br>Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. <br><br>They’re polar opposites. <br><br>In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.<br><br>Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

Funny Story

Emily Henry · 2024

Hook, Line, and Sinker

Tessa Bailey · 2022

It Happened One Summer

Tessa Bailey · 2021

Rewind It Back

Liz Tomforde

<p><b>IT'S TIME FOR THE FINAL INSTALMENT IN THE WINDY CITY SERIES, AND READERS ARE ALREADY OBSESSED...<br> <br></b> 'Feeling too emotional to write a review so check back in 24 hours once I've stopped dry heaving over the fact that this is over' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br> '10/10, infinity stars, 100% flawless. Surpassed all my wildest dreams, broke me in a hundred ways and re-made me every single time' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br> 'Everything I never knew I needed' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br> 'All the freaking stars!!!! I'm so emotional right now thinking about the fact that this is the final book in the Windy City series . . . absolute perfection' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br> 'HOLY MOLY THIS BOOK OWNS ME... Could not have ended this series more perfectly' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br> 'It's currently 3am and I'm crying because this series is over. Nothing will ever compare. Nothing' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br> 'The easiest 5 stars I've ever given' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br> 'I am utterly wrecked in the best way and will be thinking about this book for months' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br> <b><br> HALLIE</b><br> <br> When I was eleven, my family moved next door to his.<br> When I was thirteen, he was my first crush.<br> When I was sixteen, we fell for each other.<br> <br> And when I was nineteen, we broke each other's hearts.<br> <br> Six years later, I've landed an internship with a big-name interior designer in a new city. Unfortunately, that city just so happens to be the one <i>he</i> plays hockey for.<br> <br> I thought Chicago was big enough to avoid him, until I get the surprise of a lifetime and unknowingly move in right next door. Even worse? The renovation project I'm assigned to in hopes of turning that internship into my full-time dream job...<br> <br> It's <i>his</i> house.<br> <br> But how am I supposed to update his bachelor pad into a family home when we can't even stand to be in the same room?<br> <br> I may have loved Rio DeLuca once, but I'm not that same girl anymore.<br> <br> <b>RIO</b><br> <br> I never thought I'd be the only single one left in my friend group. But after years of trying to find love, I've concluded it may not exist for me anymore.<br> <br> That is, until I accidentally hire Hallie Hart to renovate my house and our jaded history has me rewinding memories I've kept secret for years.<br> <br> You see, there's something that my friends don't know.<br> <br> That connection I've been looking for since I moved to Chicago, that one person some search their entire lives to find . . . I had already found her when I was twelve years old.<br> <br> And now the only girl I've ever loved is moving into the house next door.<br> <br> Again.<br> <br> <b><i>Rewind It Back</i></b> <b>is the fifth and FINAL book in the sensational Windy City series which has gripped over a million readers across the world. But don't worry if you're new round here, you'll still love it as a standalone!</b><br> <br> <b>🌶️</b> **<b>ONLY IN THE PAPERBACK:</b> Includes an exclusive SNEAK PEEK of Liz Tomforde's new sports romance, featuring Emmett (Monty) Montgomery and Reese Remington** <b>🌶️</b></p>

Play Along

Liz Tomforde · 2024

Caught Up

Liz Tomforde · 2023

Kai<br/>I'm a single dad and starting pitcher for Chicago's MLB team.I'm stretched too thin, but I don't want help raising my son.<br/>Each of his previous nannies only lasted a few weeks before I let them go.Now, my coach is putting his foot down by hiring the one person I can't fire-his daughter.<br/>Miller Montgomery is the last woman I should fall for. Too wild, too young, and too unattached.<br/>Chicago is just a quick stop for her. I thought I'd be counting down the days until she left, but summer feels too short when I start thinking about forever.<br/>Miller<br/>As a high-end pastry chef who recently won the most prestigious award in my industry, I'm desperate to prove I deserve it. But with a new title comes new pressure, and I can't create a fresh and inspiring dessert to save my life.<br/>With only two months to get back on track, I should be focusing in the kitchen, but instead, I let my dad talk me into using my time off to nanny for his star player's kid.<br/>Kai Rhodes forgot how to have fun, and I'm eager to jog his memory. But when he and his son start to feel like home, I have to remind us both that my time in Chicago ends with the summer.<br/>Besides, I've always been a runner, and the last thing I want is to get caught.

The Right Move

Liz Tomforde · 2023

Mile High

Liz Tomforde · 2023

Just for the Summer

Abby Jimenez · 2024

Yours Truly

Abby Jimenez · 2023

Part of Your World

Abby Jimenez · 2022

Book Lovers

Emily Henry · 2022

An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Funny Story. “One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen Hoover One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

Happy Place

Emily Henry · 2023

People We Meet on Vacation

Emily Henry · 2021

<b>From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Funny Story </i>comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.</b><br><b><br></b><i>Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.<br></i><br>Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. <br><br>Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since. <br><br>Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. <br><br>Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?