Best Romance Books

A black and white circus appears without warning and vanishes just as suddenly — and within it, two young magicians trained from childhood are competing in a contest whose rules neither fully understands.

A melancholy, deeply personal novel set in 1960s Tokyo: Toru Watanabe looks back on his student years, his relationships with two very different women, and the losses that shaped him.

Two contemporary academics discover evidence of a secret love affair between two Victorian poets — the eminent Randolph Henry Ash and the lesser-known Christabel LaMotte — and the double narrative that follows, moving between the Victorian and contemporary stories, is a meditation on love, scholarship, and possession in all its senses.

Istanbul, 1975. Kemal, a wealthy man engaged to a suitable woman, falls obsessively in love with his poor distant cousin Füsun. Their affair ends; she marries another; he spends eight years visiting her family's apartment, collecting objects she has touched. He eventually builds a museum to house these objects. Pamuk has also built the actual museum in Istanbul.

In Leningrad on the eve of the German invasion in 1941, nineteen-year-old Tatiana falls in love with Alexander — a Red Army officer carrying dangerous secrets — as the 872-day siege closes around the city and its inhabitants.

In 1962, a young Italian innkeeper on a remote Ligurian cliff meets a dying American actress, and their brief encounter echoes across fifty years, two continents, and a Hollywood dream factory that chews up everyone who enters it.

Following the events Under the Mountain, Feyre adjusts to life as a High Fae and discovers that the Spring Court is not the safe haven she believed.

As the King's Champion, Celaena Sardothien is supposed to eliminate his enemies — but she has been secretly protecting her targets while uncovering shocking truths about her own identity and the darkness at the heart of Adarlan's power.

Celaena travels to the fae kingdom of Wendlyn to master her powers, while a new threat — the Valg, demonic beings from another world — descends on Adarlan with the King's devastating backing.

The third installment of The Empyrean series follows Violet Sorrengail and Xaden Riorson as they venture beyond the Aretia wards to discover what truly threatens their world.

A caseworker for magical children is sent to evaluate a mysterious orphanage housing the most dangerous magical children in existence, where he finds something unexpected: a home.

Nesta Archeron and Cassian are trapped in a brutal training regimen together, slowly discovering that their mutual antagonism masks something much harder to fight.

Feyre returns to the Spring Court as a spy, and the war against Hybern that has been building since the first book finally arrives in a climax that reshapes Prythian.

A cheerful working-class woman becomes caregiver to a cynical, recently paralyzed man, and the relationship that develops challenges everything both of them believe about a life worth living.

In 1945, a British combat nurse is mysteriously transported to eighteenth-century Scotland, where she becomes entangled with the Jacobite rising and a Highland warrior named Jamie Fraser.

Anthony Bridgerton, London's most notorious rake, decides to marry for convenience — but falls helplessly in love with his intended's sharp-tongued, fiercely protective sister, Kate Sharma.

Half-Fae Bryce Quinlan must team up with a Hunt to solve her best friend's murder in a modern city where ancient magic meets contemporary life.

Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar navigate the aftermath of the Gate explosion while uncovering a rebel network that links their world to Maas's wider universe in a shocking crossover finale.

Florentino Ariza waits fifty-one years, nine months, and four days to tell Fermina Daza he loves her — and the novel asks what love is, what it does to a person, and whether it survives time.

Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew meet on the night of their graduation in 1988, and the novel follows them on the same date — July 15th, St. Swithin's Day — every year for twenty years.

New York lawyer Newland Archer is engaged to the perfectly suitable May Welland when the scandalous Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe — and complicates everything he thought he wanted.