Recommendations based on "The 100 Best Romance Novels: From Pride and Prejudice to Twilight, Books to Fall in Love - and Lust - With"

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar™ Nominee James IvoryThe Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted ScreenplayA New York Times BestsellerA USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times BestsellerA Vulture Book Club Pick \nAn Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our TimeAndre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.\nWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for Ficition\nA New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Magazine "Future Canon" Selection • A Chicago Tribune and Seattle Times (Michael Upchurch's) Favorite Favorite Book of the Year

In the irresistibly sexy series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout, two free spirits find their lives changed by a one-night stand… Some things you just believe in, even if you've never experienced them. For Stephanie, that list includes love. It's out there. Somewhere. Eventually. Meanwhile she's got her job at the mixed martial arts training center and hot flings with gorgeous, temporary guys like Nick. Then a secret brings them closer, opening Steph's eyes to a future she never knew she wanted—until tragedy rips it away. Nick's self-assured surface shields a past no one needs to know about. His mind-blowing connection with Steph changes all that. As fast as he's knocking down the walls that have kept him commitment-free, she's building them up again, determined to keep the hurt—and Nick—out. But he can't walk away. Not when she's the only one who's ever made him wish for forever . . .

There's nothing more amazing than creating that special bond with your first love. However, there's nothing more gut-wrenching than your first heartbreak. Cheyanne Charles experienced both in a blink of an eye. Taping the pieces of her broken heart together, Cheyanne moved through life only focusing on her career. Love had no place in her world after suffering the ultimate betrayal. But the funny thing about tape... that adhesive wears off after a while. Shemel Jennings, an up-and-coming Neo Soul singer, wants desperately to put the broken pieces of Cheyanne's heart back together. Only, he's the one responsible for her heartbreak to begin with. He's on a quest to seek forgiveness and right his wrongs, but finding love, and keeping it, is never as easy as it seems. Thrown together after years apart, Cheyanne and Shemel have to figure out how to work with one another. But as tempers flare, and emotions get involved, the close proximity cause volcanic eruptions.

A man picks up a very special notebook and begins reading to his beloved wife, his voice recalling the story of their poignant and bittersweet journey to happiness...so begins THE NOTEBOOK, a touching novel that is a dual tale of love lost and found, and of a couple's gentle efforts to retrieve the most cherished moments of their lives. THE NOTEBOOK is irrepressibly romantic and has become a classic.

An R&B singer and a corporate executive find love that hits the right notes in this romance by Kristina Forest, USA Today bestselling author of The Partner Plot.Iris Greene used to be a woman with a plan. But all of that changed after she met the love of her life at twenty-five, got pregnant and married…and then became a widow and a single mother all in alittle over two years. Now, after years of hustling, Iris is the director of partnerships at a beauty company and raising sweet six-year-old Calla by herself. Despite her busy life, she still can’t help but feel lonely. She just needs to catch her breath—and one night, at her sister’s wedding, when she steps outside to do just that, she sees a certain singer who takes her breath away. . . .By all accounts, pop R&B singer Angel Hughes has it made. He’s a successful musician and has just scored a brand ambassador deal with an emerging beauty company. But he’s still not fulfilled; he’s not producing songs he’s passionate about, and there’s a gaping hole in his love life. When he visits the Save Face Beauty office to kickstart his campaign, he’s delighted to see Iris, his stylist’s sister—the beautiful woman he’s secretly had a crush on for years.Despite their obvious attraction to each other, they must stay professional throughout the campaign tour—a goal that doesn’t quite pan out. But when it becomes clear their lives aren’t in sync, can they fall back in step to the same rhythm and beat?

The first book in Marissa Howard's vivid trilogy about a gray world, forgotten love, and the fight to find it again.Eighteen-year-old Laney spent the last thirteen years of her life in gray. Gray walls, gray clothes, gray napkins sitting next to gray plates and forks and knives. And gray air - air so thin, so far underground, that even the lights seem to be choking.Ever since the ban on love in the world went terribly wrong and Laney and 96 others took refuge in an old underground bunker they call the Dome, that's how life is.Gray. Cold. Silent.The rules inside the Dome are law: Don't speak to one another. Don't touch one another. Always walk in a line. Every vote must be unanimous. And don't ever, ever speak of love.Silence is the way to peace. Gray is the color of peace. Love is the opposite of peace.Laney believes every word. After all, she saw it: the world destroyed because of love.But then the perfect gray world cracks.The leaders suddenly announce that they are holding a competition where eight people will be chosen to leave the Dome and go above ground for the first time in thirteen years. The winners will get to see the world again - to breathe air, to see color. If any of it still exists.When the boy in Laney's studies - the tall one, with brown hair - illegally takes her hand during the competition and holds it up for everyone to see, Laney is stunned.And when Laney discovers the real reason behind the competition - to search for love in a world where it doesn't exist anymore - she realizes one simple, terrifying thing:The thing they all know nothing about - the thing they destroyed - might be the thing they need to keep them alive.Look for the sequel, Fearless, and the epic series finale, Pointless!

A page-turning, irresistible novel of class, ambition, and bisexuality, this is the breathtaking story of a woman risking everything for a second chance at her first love.Emily has, by all appearances, a beautiful life: a townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, two healthy children, and a husband who showers her with attention. But the truth is more complicated: Emily’s marriage is in trouble, her relationship with her parents is fraught, and she is still nursing a heartbreak from long ago. When Emily runs into her high school best friend, Gen, at a cocktail party, that heartbreak comes roaring back. But Gen Hall is no longer the lanky, hungry kid with holes in her shoes who Emily loved in her youth. Instead, Gen is now a prominent Olympic athlete with sponsorship deals and a string of high-profile ex-girlfriends. Emily and Gen circle one another cautiously, both drawn together by a magnetic attraction and scarred by their shared history. Once upon a time, Gen knew everything about Emily. And yet, she still abandoned her. Can Emily trust Gen again? Can they forgive each other for mistakes they made in their youth? Can Emily risk her children, her privacy, and the fragile peace she has found with her family just to be with a woman she loved long ago?A sweeping queer romance, Ordinary Love is the beautiful, wrenching, completely seductive story of two people trying to forge a path through fear, bound by a love they discovered when they were too young to understand its power.

Inspired by Victor Hugo's classic, Les Miserables, A Little in Love beautifully conveys the heartbreaking story of street girl Eponine.Paris, 1832A girl lies alone in the darkness, clutching a letter to her heart. Eponine remembers being a child: her swing and the peach tree, and the baby brother she loved. But mostly she remembers being miserable. Taught to lie and cheat, and to hate the one girl, Cosette, who might have been her friend. Now, at sixteen, the two girls meet again, and Eponine has one more chance. But what is the price of friendship--the love of a boy?

“With her newest book, Fortesa Latifi acts as a sort of time travel guide for her readers, inviting them to bear witness to the beauty, tragedy, and legacy of some of the greatest love stories history has to offer. Throughout No Matter the Time, her poems offer an intimate glimpse of how love grows and sustains and, sometimes, burns out. It is a book that will surely offer hope for the lovers and comfort for the heartbroken, which is to say it does its job wonderfully.” – Claire Biggs, Editor + Writer at To Write Love on Her Arms“Latifi has crafted a beautifully tender, eye-opening collection that feels like the most intimate history lesson you’ve ever received. Her understanding of human relationships and the vulnerabilities within them is so sharp, you’ll wish she had written the story of your last great love. Brilliant in concept, No Matter The Time is the kind of book you can read multiple times and find something new and meaningful in it each time.” – Ari Eastman, author of Bloodline & writer at Thought Catalog“Fortesa Latifi writes of drunken, star-crossed lovers who damage themselves, each other, and everyone around them. She writes of desire and loss, crime scenes and broken doors disguised as love, affairs so grandiose and breathtaking that at first read we mistake them for, in her own words, romance instead of survival. “Dying for love is still death./there is no beauty to be found here,” Latifi claims in “From Anne Boleyn to Henry VIII”. Throughout this collection of letters, the reader dies a thousand different ways for a thousand different loves, but, contradictory to Boleyn’s words, there is beauty to be found here. And it’s everywhere. In every page.” – Meggie Royer, Writer + Founder & Editor-in-Chief at Persephone’s Daughters

There are two sides to every love story—and every breakup. Get ready for an emotional roller coaster of family, marriage, and divorce that will have you both laughing and crying, from the bestselling author of Before We Were Strangers.“Hilarious, unnervingly relatable, romantic, and heartbreaking in the best way.”—Julia Stiles“This book is a gut-punch to the feels.”—Karina Halle, New York Times bestselling authorAfter twenty-two years together, Danielle and Alex are getting a divorce. Once fiercely in love, they can barely stand the sound of each other’s voice. Instead of shuttling the kids between two broken homes, Alex and Dani decide to share a nesting apartment while swapping days with their two teenage boys at the family home.In the apartment, Dani and Alex, on their own, begin to reflect on the last two decades—why they fell in love and why the marriage fell, spectacularly, apart. With the newfound space and time, they are given a chance to rediscover their autonomous selves again. They both get back in the dating pool. Dani finds major success at work as a showrunner on her own TV project, while Alex faces the challenges of a new relationship.Still, they find that they just can’t stay away from each other, and somehow, the distance allows them to remember (for the first time in years) what each used to love about the other. When a family crisis draws them back into each other’s orbit, Dani and Alex are once again put to the test, which leads to a dramatic conclusion that will have readers weeping.