Colleen Hoover's books have grown wildly popular of late, thanks in no small part to the fervent word of mouth recommendations given by her many fans. If you've already read all of her books--or you're on the waitlist for them--here are some other books you might like. Like the works of Colleen Hoover, these books feature strong characters, interesting romances (not always with a happy ending guaranteed), and lots of twists and turns to keep you turning those pages.
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Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams Constantly compared to her white middle-class peers, a young Jamaican-British woman in London makes a series of questionable decisions in the aftermath of a messy breakup before challenging herself to figure out who she wants to be. |
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Emergency contact
by Mary H. K. Choi A chance encounter leads Penny and Sam to become each other's emergency contacts and they soon find themselves falling in love digitally, without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other. |
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In at the deep end
by Kate Davies Enduring a dead-end job and three-year romantic dry spell, Julia accepts an invitation to a trendy warehouse party and rediscovers her sexuality as a lesbian before her new lover reveals a darker nature. |
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Getting his game back
by Gia De Cadenet Feeling like his old self after a rough patch of depression and therapy, barbershop owner Khalil Sarda meets customer Vanessa Noble who thought she was too busy building a multimillion-dollar tech company to be distracted by a relationship. |
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The love hypothesis
by Ali Hazelwood To convince her best friend that she is on her way to a happily ever after, third-year Ph.D. candidate Olive Smith, who doesn’t believe in long-lasting romance, forms a fake relationship with Stanford’s reigning lab tyrant and soon finds their experiment putting her own heart under the microscope. |
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Beach read
by Emily Henry An acclaimed but blocked literary master and a best-selling novelist who has stopped believing in true love agree to a summer-long writing project that challenges them write well in each others’ styles. |
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The kiss quotient
by Helen Hoang A 30-year-old math whiz with Asperger's tries to make her love life as rich as her career by hiring an escort to help her with her lack of knowledge and experience in the dating department. |
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Good girl complex
by Elle Kennedy Intent on earning a degree at Garnet College in the beachside town of Avalon Bay, an internet entrepreneur has her “good girl” abilities tested when she meets the rough and rowdy bad boy Cooper Hartley. |
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Love and other words
by Christina Lauren Macy Sorensen has decided to settle, and is planning her marriage to an older man, until she bumps into Elliot Petropoulos—her first and most intense love, who eventually broke her heart—sending her reeling into reminiscence—and doubt. |
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If the shoe fits
by Julie Murphy A fashion-obsessed plus-size woman fills in for a no-show contestant on her executive producer stepmother’s popular dating reality show and becomes a body-positivity viral sensation overnight and could actually picture herself falling for the eligible suitor. |
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Better than people
by Roan Parrish When a bad fall leaves Jack Matheson with a broken leg, he is forced to ask for help. That the help comes in the form of Simon, the most beautiful man he's ever seen, is a complicated, glorious surprise. |
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The book of two ways
by Jodi Picoult Experiencing memories of a man other than her husband while surviving a plane crash, an end-of-life doula on the brink of a fateful decision envisions two disparate paths that find her staying with her family or reconnecting with the past. |
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Malibu rising
by Taylor Jenkins Reid Four famous siblings throw an epic end-of-summer party that goes dangerously out of control as secrets and loves that shaped this family’s generations come to light, changing their lives forever. |
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Honey girl
by Morgan Rogers After completing her Ph.D. in astronomy, a young, straightlaced, Type A personality black woman goes on a girls’ weekend to Vegas to celebrate and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t even know. |
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Normal people
by Sally Rooney The unconventional secret childhood bond between a popular boy and a lonely, intensely private girl is tested by character reversals in their first year at a Dublin college that render one introspective and the other social, but self-destructive. |
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Holding her breath
by Eimear Ryan A keenly observant and "whip smart" debut novel, following a former competitive swimmer and granddaughter of a famous Irish poet as she comes of age in the shadow of her family's tragic past, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney, Lily King's Writers & Lovers, and Elif Batuman's The Idiot. |
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In five years
by Rebecca Serle A striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever. |
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The hating game
by Sally Thorne Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against cold and efficient nemesis Joshua, a rivalry that is impossibly complicated by her growing attraction to him. |
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After
by Anna Todd Book One of the After series--the Internet sensation with millions of readers. Tessa didn't plan on meeting H. during her freshman year of college. But now that she has, her life will never be the same. |
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Ten tiny breaths
by K. A. Tucker Four years after surviving a car accident that took the lives of her parents, Kacey Cleary adapts to a new life in Miami with her fifteen-year-old sister, while her mysterious neighbor Trent softens her determination to keep people at a distance. |