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Norwegian Wood

by Haruki Murakami · 1987 · Japanese Literature / Coming-of-age

BittersweetSuicideGrief

In late-60s Tokyo, Toru drifts between two women and the shadow of his friend's death.

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.

The Kiss Quotient

by Helen Hoang · 2018 · Romance / Contemporary

HEExplicit sex

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

It Ends with Us

by Colleen Hoover · 2016 · Romance / Contemporary

BittersweetDomestic abuseSexual content

Lily discovers a cycle of domestic violence in her marriage and must choose to end it.

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.

Verity

by Colleen Hoover · 2018 · Thriller / Romance

AmbiguousChild deathSexual content

Lowen ghostwrites for comatose author Verity and finds a hidden autobiographical manuscript.

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 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

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After a wedding food-poisoning wipeout, two enemies inherit the bride's Hawaii honeymoon.

The Soulmate Equation

by Christina Lauren · 2021 · Romance / Sci-Lite

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A statistician single mom is matched 98% by a DNA-based dating app — to the app's reclusive founder.

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.

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