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HE — Happy EndingPride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen · 1813 · Classic / Romance
Elizabeth and Darcy move from misunderstanding to mutual respect — a cornerstone of romantic comedy.
Beach Read
by Emily Henry · 2020 · Romance / Contemporary
Two rival authors with opposite styles spend a summer next door and swap genres — and slowly fall.
The Hating Game
by Sally Thorne · 2016 · Romance / Workplace Comedy
Two publishing-house enemies-across-the-desk grind it out — and discover they were wrong about each other.
Red, White & Royal Blue
by Casey McQuiston · 2019 · Romance / LGBTQ+ / Political
The First Son of the US and a British prince go from rivals to lovers across an ocean.
People We Meet on Vacation
by Emily Henry · 2021 · Romance / Travel
Poppy and Alex vacation together every summer — until one trip wrecks everything.
The Kiss Quotient
by Helen Hoang · 2018 · Romance / Contemporary
An autistic econometrician hires an escort to practice dating — and falls in love.
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins · 2008 · YA / Dystopia
Katniss volunteers to take her sister's place in the deadly Games.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz · 2012 · YA / LGBTQ+ / Coming-of-age
Two Mexican-American teens in the late 80s form a friendship that becomes love.
A Court of Thorns and Roses
by Sarah J. Maas · 2015 · Fantasy / Romance
Feyre kills a wolf and is taken into the faerie realm.
The Priory of the Orange Tree
by Samantha Shannon · 2019 · Fantasy / LGBTQ+
Standalone epic with queens, assassins, dragons and an apocalyptic prophecy.
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern · 2011 · Fantasy / Romance
Two magicians are bound to a duel staged inside a wandering circus.
The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins · 2015 · Thriller
Alcoholic Rachel watches a couple from her train every day — until the wife vanishes.
Big Little Lies
by Liane Moriarty · 2014 · Thriller / Contemporary
Three mothers in a primary-school parent circle become tangled in a death.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (Mo Dao Zu Shi)
by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu · 2015 · Danmei / Xianxia / LGBTQ+
Wei Wuxian is reborn 13 years after being driven to his death.
Heaven Official's Blessing (Tian Guan Ci Fu)
by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu · 2017 · Danmei / Xianxia / LGBTQ+
Xie Lian, ascended thrice, meets ghost king Hua Cheng — bound across 800 years.
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu · 2014 · Danmei / Transmigration / LGBTQ+
A reader transmigrates into the villain of a stallion novel he hated.
Thousand Autumns (Qian Qiu)
by Meng Xi Shi · 2017 · Danmei / Wuxia / LGBTQ+
A Daoist sect leader and a young demonic-sect heir cross paths in the Northern-Southern dynasties wuxia world.
Stars of Chaos (Sha Po Lang)
by Priest · 2015 · Danmei / Steampunk / LGBTQ+
In a steampunk Da Liang empire, a general and a prince fight to save the realm together.
The Husky and His White Cat Shizun (2ha)
by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou · 2017 · Danmei / Xianxia / LGBTQ+
Mo Ran is reborn into his youth — back when his master was still alive.
Spice and Wolf
by Isuna Hasekura · 2006 · Light Novel / Fantasy / Mercantile
Medieval traveling merchant Lawrence and the wise wolf Holo journey together.
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
by Hajime Kamoshida · 2014 · Light Novel / School / Supernatural
High-schooler Sakuta meets an upperclassman in a bunny-girl outfit whom no one else can see.
Toradora!
by Yuyuko Takemiya · 2006 · Light Novel / School / Romance
Mean-looking Ryuuji and tiny Taiga team up to win their respective crushes.
Your Name
by Makoto Shinkai · 2016 · Light Novel / Fantasy / Romance
A city boy and a country girl swap bodies and try to stop a comet disaster.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith · 1943 · Classic / Coming-of-age
Francie grows up in an immigrant family in early-1900s Brooklyn.
Book Lovers
by Emily Henry · 2022 · Romance / Publishing
A sharp-edged literary agent keeps colliding with her editor-nemesis on a small-town vacation, and finds the softness behind both their armors.
Happy Place
by Emily Henry · 2023 · Romance / Fake Dating
A secretly broken-up couple fakes still-engaged through one last Maine vacation to spare their friend group.
The Flatshare
by Beth O'Leary · 2019 · Romance / Contemporary
Two strangers sharing one bed on opposite shifts fall for each other through Post-it notes.
The Rosie Project
by Graeme Simsion · 2013 · Romance / Comedy
A highly structured genetics professor designs a wife-finding questionnaire and meets the woman who breaks every rule on it.
The Love Hypothesis
by Ali Hazelwood · 2021 · Romance / Academia / STEM
A PhD student fake-kisses the department's grumpiest professor and accidentally launches a fake-dating arc.
The Spanish Love Deception
by Elena Armas · 2021 · Romance / Fake Dating
To survive her sister's wedding alongside her ex, an engineer drags her American coworker to Spain as a fake boyfriend.
The Unhoneymooners
by Christina Lauren · 2019 · Romance / Fake Dating
After a wedding food-poisoning wipeout, two enemies inherit the bride's Hawaii honeymoon.
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
by Talia Hibbert · 2019 · Romance / Chronic Illness
A woman with fibromyalgia writes a 'get a life' list and recruits her tattooed superintendent as her partner-in-crime.
The Soulmate Equation
by Christina Lauren · 2021 · Romance / Sci-Lite
A statistician single mom is matched 98% by a DNA-based dating app — to the app's reclusive founder.
Shadow and Bone
by Leigh Bardugo · 2012 · YA / Fantasy
Orphan Alina discovers she's a rare Sun Summoner and is pulled into Ravka's factional politics.
Uprooted
by Naomi Novik · 2015 · Fantasy / Fairy-tale
Every decade, the village must give a girl to the wizard called the Dragon — this time it's clumsy Agnieszka.
Behind Closed Doors
by B. A. Paris · 2016 · Thriller / Domestic Abuse
The perfect couple from the outside — and a wife held hostage on the inside.
Qiang Jin Jiu
by Tang Jiuqing · 2019 · Danmei / Historical Politics / LGBTQ+
A frontier general and a fallen noble use — and shelter — each other through court intrigue.
Dinghai Fusheng Records
by Fei Tian Ye Xiang · 2017 · Danmei / Xuanhuan / LGBTQ+
Late-Song China; demons rise. A young swordsman and an amnesiac demon king set out to subdue them.
Case File Compendium
by Shui Qian Cheng · 2017 · Danmei / Contemporary / LGBTQ+
An amnesiac returns and faces the obsessive man who once both loved and broke him.
Guardian
by Priest · 2012 · Danmei / Urban Fantasy / LGBTQ+
A special-investigations chief and an envoy of the underworld span lifetimes together.
Liu Yao: The Ravages of Time
by Priest · 2015 · Danmei / Xianxia / LGBTQ+
In a fading-magic era, a young sect leader and four disciples solve cosmic puzzles.
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (Oregairu)
by Wataru Watari · 2011 · Light Novel / School
A loner is dragged into the Service Club, dissecting the falseness of high-school youth one request at a time.
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles · 2016 · Literary / Historical
After the Russian Revolution, Count Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in Moscow's Metropol Hotel and rebuilds a life within four walls.
A Dog's Purpose
by W. Bruce Cameron · 2010 · Contemporary / Pet
A dog searches for its purpose across multiple reincarnations, narrating its own story.
Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 1991 · Middle Grade / Pet
Young Marty takes in an abused beagle named Shiloh.