Best Romance Books

The fourth Blood and Ash novel. With Casteel captured by the Blood Queen, Poppy unleashes her full power as the Primal-blooded chosen one, marshaling allies for war while the lovers fight to reunite across a fracturing kingdom.

The conclusion of the Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy. Two years on, Belly is with Jeremiah — until a betrayal and a sudden engagement force her to finally confront which brother she truly loves, and what Cousins Beach has meant all along.

The fifth Blood and Ash novel, retelling the saga's beginning from Hawke's point of view. As Poppy lies in stasis, Casteel recounts how their story truly started — revealing the secrets, doubts, and devotion he hid when he first came to her as a guard.

As Bella prepares to choose between Edward and Jacob, a mysterious series of vampire killings in Seattle and the return of a vengeful enemy raises the stakes for everyone she loves.

When seventeen-year-old Bella Swan moves to rainy Forks, Washington, she falls in love with the mysteriously compelling Edward Cullen — who turns out to be a vampire.

Bella and Edward's wedding triggers a chain of consequences — including an impossible pregnancy — that will draw the entire vampire and werewolf worlds into an explosive confrontation.

After Edward leaves Forks to protect Bella, she descends into depression — and finds unexpected comfort in Jacob Black, whose own supernatural secret will complicate everything.

A witch-historian at Oxford's Bodleian Library unearths an enchanted alchemical manuscript and finds herself at the center of a centuries-old conflict between vampires, witches, and daemons — and falling for a 1,500-year-old vampire geneticist.

In a future America where love has been classified as a disease called amor deliria nervosa, eighteen-year-old Lena counts the days until her cure — until she meets Alex.

In the Society where every choice is made by Officials — including who you will marry — seventeen-year-old Cassia is Matched with her best friend Xander but briefly sees the face of another boy, setting off a chain of doubt she cannot suppress.

Juliette Ferrars has been locked in isolation for 264 days because her touch is lethal. When the dystopian Reestablishment decides to weaponize her, she must navigate a world of power, control, and an unexpected connection with someone who can survive her touch.

Anna Karenina abandons her respectable life for a passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky — and both are destroyed by the collision between private desire and social convention. Tolstoy's great novel of passion and consequence contains the most famous opening sentence in fiction.

Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy clash on every point of pride and principle — and fall irrevocably in love. Austen's most beloved novel is a razor-sharp comedy of manners and one of the great love stories in the English language.

Jane Eyre — orphaned, plain, passionate, and morally unyielding — survives a punishing childhood to become governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with the fierce, sardonic Mr Rochester, whose dark secret haunts the upper floors. Brontë's first-person novel, with its direct, confrontational address to the reader and its heroine's ferocious insistence on her own inner worth, fundamentally changed what heroines in fiction were permitted to be.

Anne Elliot, at 27, is considered past her prime — but the man she loved and lost eight years ago has returned. Austen's final completed novel is her most emotionally mature, trading wit for a quieter, more aching register.

Set across London and Paris during the French Revolution, Dickens's most dramatic novel is a tale of sacrifice, resurrection, and the violence of revolutionary change. At its centre is Sydney Carton, a dissolute barrister whose unrequited love drives him to history's most selfless act.

Twenty years after the events of Outlander, Claire returns to Scotland with her adult daughter Brianna to tell her the truth. The novel unfolds in a complex dual timeline, beginning at the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden and working backward through the Jacobite Rising to reveal how everything ended — and what it cost.

Emma Woodhouse is handsome, clever, and rich — and catastrophically wrong about almost everyone's romantic situation. Austen's most technically accomplished novel features an unreliable protagonist and one of literature's great comic ironies.

Twenty years have passed since Culloden. Jamie Fraser survived. Claire travels back through the stones to find him — and does, in Edinburgh in 1766. Their reunion after two decades apart is the emotional centrepiece of the entire Outlander series, before the narrative expands into a dangerous voyage to the Caribbean and Jamaica.

As the American Revolution approaches, Fraser's Ridge faces violence from all sides — Regulators, Loyalists, Patriot militias — and a letter arrives that warns of events to come. The sixth Outlander novel follows Jamie and Claire through the years 1772–1776, building toward the war that will define the new nation and test their family's loyalties.

The Revolutionary War has begun, and Jamie and Claire are caught between the British and American sides — with Jamie serving as a British officer while believing in American independence. Their son William navigates his own loyalties. Meanwhile, Roger and Brianna in the twentieth century face their own crisis involving the past they've left behind.

Jamie and Claire make their new home in the American colonies, building Fraser's Ridge in the North Carolina backcountry as the rumblings of revolution grow around them. Meanwhile, their daughter Brianna in the twentieth century discovers a letter predicting her parents' fate — and must decide whether to use the stones to change it.

Bathsheba Everdene, an independent and beautiful woman, inherits a farm and finds herself courted by three very different men: the steady shepherd Gabriel Oak, the wealthy neighbouring farmer William Boldwood, and the reckless soldier Sergeant Troy. Hardy's first major success is his most pastoral novel — a celebration of Dorset's agricultural world that he would spend his career elegising.

The ninth Outlander novel brings Brianna and Roger back to the eighteenth century and to Fraser's Ridge, reuniting the family across time as the Revolutionary War reaches the Carolinas. Gabaldon navigates the complexities of a divided family during a divided war, with Jamie and Claire at the centre of a community trying to survive history.