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HE — Happy Ending

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen · 1813 · Classic / Romance

HEClassism

Elizabeth and Darcy move from misunderstanding to mutual respect — a cornerstone of romantic comedy.

Beach Read

by Emily Henry · 2020 · Romance / Contemporary

HEParental lossInfidelity (referenced)

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

HESexual content

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

HEForced outingSexual content

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

HEAnxiety

Poppy and Alex vacation together every summer — until one trip wrecks everything.

The Kiss Quotient

by Helen Hoang · 2018 · Romance / Contemporary

HEExplicit sex

An autistic econometrician hires an escort to practice dating — and falls in love.

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins · 2008 · YA / Dystopia

HEViolenceChild death

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

HEHomophobiaPhysical violence

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

HEExplicit sexViolence

Feyre kills a wolf and is taken into the faerie realm.

The Priory of the Orange Tree

by Samantha Shannon · 2019 · Fantasy / LGBTQ+

HEViolence

Standalone epic with queens, assassins, dragons and an apocalyptic prophecy.

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern · 2011 · Fantasy / Romance

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Two magicians are bound to a duel staged inside a wandering circus.

The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins · 2015 · Thriller

HEAlcoholismDomestic abuse

Alcoholic Rachel watches a couple from her train every day — until the wife vanishes.

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty · 2014 · Thriller / Contemporary

HEDomestic abuseSexual assault

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+

HEViolenceTorture

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+

HEViolenceSelf-harm motif

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+

HEDub-conViolence

A reader transmigrates into the villain of a stallion novel he hated.

Thousand Autumns (Qian Qiu)

by Meng Xi Shi · 2017 · Danmei / Wuxia / LGBTQ+

HEMartial violence

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+

HEWar violenceMajor side character death

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+

HESexual violenceTorture

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

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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

HESocial ostracism

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

HEFamily neglect

Mean-looking Ryuuji and tiny Taiga team up to win their respective crushes.

Your Name

by Makoto Shinkai · 2016 · Light Novel / Fantasy / Romance

HEMass-casualty disaster

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

HEAlcoholism

Francie grows up in an immigrant family in early-1900s Brooklyn.

Book Lovers

by Emily Henry · 2022 · Romance / Publishing

HEFamily illness & lossSexual content

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

HEParental loss (background)Sexual content

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

HEEmotional abuse / gaslighting

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

HEMild stereotyping

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

HESexual harassment (advisor)Sexual content

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

HEWorkplace harassment (side)Sexual content

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

HESexual content

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

HEChronic illnessEx emotional abuse

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

HESexual content

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

HECombat violence

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

HEViolenceSexual content

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

HEExtreme domestic abuse / captivityThreat to child

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+

HEWarTorture

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+

HECombat violenceSide deaths

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+

HEDubious consentSelf-harm

An amnesiac returns and faces the obsessive man who once both loved and broke him.

Guardian

by Priest · 2012 · Danmei / Urban Fantasy / LGBTQ+

HEViolenceSacrificial deaths

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+

HECombat violence

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

HEMild depressive themes

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

HEAuthoritarian backdrop

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

HEPet deathGrief

A dog searches for its purpose across multiple reincarnations, narrating its own story.

Shiloh

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 1991 · Middle Grade / Pet

HEPet death (threatened)Animal cruelty

Young Marty takes in an abused beagle named Shiloh.