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

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy (Dearly Beloathed, #1)
Arcana Academy (Arcana Academy, #1)
Maid for Each Other
Of Flame and Fury
Overruled
The Enchanted Greenhouse (Spellshop, #2)
In the Veins of the Drowning (The Siren Mage, #1)
Totally and Completely Fine
Friends to Lovers
Glorious Rivals (The Grandest Game, #2)
Immortal Consequences (The Souls of Blackwood Academy, #1)
A Theory of Dreaming (A Study in Drowning, #2)
Under the Stars
Tenderly, I Am Devoured
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    Fun at Parties
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    When the Wind is Right (Windswept, #1)
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  • Great Big Beautiful Life
    Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
    Broken Country
    Funny Story
    Powerless (Powerless, #1)
    People We Meet on Vacation
    Beach Read
    Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)
    Reminders of Him
    Lessons in Chemistry
    Happy Place
    Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)
    Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)
    Outlier (Daydreamer, #3)
    Shield of Sparrows (Shield of Sparrows, #1)
    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
    2,165 books — 4,524 voters
    Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesHopeless by Colleen HooverThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenDivergent by Veronica Roth
    Best Book Boyfriends
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    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
    4,681 books — 8,157 voters
    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
    Best Woman-Authored Books
    8,023 books — 5,097 voters

    The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherThe Help by Kathryn StockettLooking for Alaska by John GreenThe Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
    TO DIE FOR 2000 - 2015 STAND-ALONES
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    Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesThoughtless by S.C. StephensBared to You by Sylvia DayFifty Shades Darker by E.L. James
    Intense And "Angsty" Romance
    2,901 books — 7,149 voters

    The Love Hypothesis
    Pride and Prejudice
    It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
    Red, White & Royal Blue
    Book Lovers
    People We Meet on Vacation
    The Fault in Our Stars
    Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
    The Hating Game
    The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1)
    A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
    Happy Place
    The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
    Funny Story

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