Romance
Looking for romance? Fall in love with one of these great books! Also check out the Paranormal Romance list if you're looking for some supernatural relationships. |
Abbott, Hailey. Summer Boys (series). YA F Abb Cousins Ella, Beth, and Jamie are gearing up for the wildest time of their lives, but nothing can prepare them for the crazy ups and downs of love. #1: Summer Boys #2: Next Summer #3: After Summer #4: Last Summer |
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Baratz-Logsted, Lauren. Crazy Beautiful. YA F Bar In this contemporary retelling of "Beauty and the Beast," a teenaged boy whose hands were amputated in an explosion and a gorgeous girl whose mother has recently died form an instant connection when they meet on their first day as new students. |
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Bloss, Josie. Band Geek Love. YA F Blo The marching band is high school senior Ellie Snow's all-consuming passion until she finds herself in a secret romance with a handsome sophomore. The story continues in Band Geeked Out. |
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Blume, Judy. Forever. YA F Blu Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever. |
 | Bradley, Alex. 24 Girls in 7 Days. YA F Bra Jack Grammar, average American senior, has no date to the prom. Or so he thinks. Percy and Natalie, Jack’s so-called best friends, post an ad in the classified section of the online version of the school newspaper. They figure it couldn’t hurt. After all, there’s not much in this world sadder than Jack’s love life. Soon Percy and Natalie have assembled a list of girls eager to go to the prom with Jack, including one mysterious girl known only as FancyPants. He has just seven days to meet and date them before he will ask one special girl to the prom. |
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Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. YA F Bro Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff, and the windswept moors that are the setting of their mythic love are as immediately stirring to the reader of today as they have been for every generation of readers since the novel was first published in 1847. |
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Caletti, Deb. Honey, Baby, Sweetheart. YA F Cal In the summer of her junior year, sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen and her mother, both nursing broken hearts, set out on a journey to reunite an elderly woman with her long-lost love and in the process learn many things about “the real ties that bind” people to one another. |
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Clark, Catherine. Truth or Dairy. YA F Cla This is the journal of Courtney Von Dragen Smith: middle child, product of divorce, would-be vegetarian. She writes the first mega-negative page the day after her boyfriend, “such a Dave,” breaks up with her because he’s heading off to college. Angry and humiliated, Courtney vows to survive senior year on the anti-guy plan. But can she really give up guys and focus on friends, school, and her job at the hip cafe Truth or Dairy? Or will a stint in student government, an epileptic dog, and a guy named Grant (“like the lake”) Superior turn her world upside down and prove her journal right? |
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Cohn, Rachel & David Levithan. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. YA F Coh High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart. |
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Dessen, Sarah. Someone Like You. YA F Des Halley’s junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett’s boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley’s own first serious relationship. |
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Draper, Sharon. Romiette and Julio. YA F Dra Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating. |
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Godbersen, Anna. The Luxe. YA F God In Manhattan in 1899, five teens of different social classes lead dangerously scandalous lives, despite the strict rules of society and the best-laid plans of parents and others. The story continues in Rumors, Envy, and Spendor. |
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Green, John. An Abundance of Katherines. YA F Gre Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships. |
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Korman, Gordon. Son of the Mob. YA F Kor Seventeen-year-old Vince’s life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent. The story continues in Hollywood Hustle. |
 | Krovatin, Christopher. Heavy Metal and You. YA F Kro High schooler Sam begins losing himself when he falls for a preppy girl who wants him to give up getting wasted with his best friends and even his passion for heavy metal music in order to become a better person. |  |
Laurens, Jennifer. Heavenly. YA F Lau Zo’s sister darts in front of cars. Her brother’s a pothead. Her parents are so overwhelmed; they don’t see Zo lost in her broken life. Zo escapes the only way she knows how: partying. Matthias, a guardian sent from Heaven, watches over Zo’s autistic sister. After Zo is convinced he’s legit, angel and lost girl come together in a love that changes destiny. But Heaven on Earth can’t last forever. |
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Leavitt, Martine. Keturah and Lord Death. YA F Lea When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King’s Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love. |
 | McCafferty, Megan. Sloppy Firsts. YA F McC When her best friend, Hope Weaver, moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, hyper-observant sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated. A fish out of water at school and a stranger at home, Jessica feels more lost than ever now that the only person with whom she could really communicate has gone. How is she supposed to deal with the boy- and shopping-crazy girls at school, her dad’s obsession with her track meets, her mother salivating over big sister Bethany’s lavish wedding, and her nonexistent love life? Other books in the series are: Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, and Perfect Fifths. |
 | Morgan, Melissa. Summer Confidential (series). YA F Mor To regain her confidence following a near-death encounter with a shark, sixteen-year-old Cassie’s surfing coach sends her to Camp Ohana for the summer to become a C.I.T. (Counselor In Training). #1: Sunrise #2: Sunset #3: Twilight |
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Ockler, Sarah. Twenty Boy Summer. YA F Ock While on vacation in California, sixteen-year-old best friends Anna and Frankie conspire to find a boy for Anna's first kiss, but Anna harbors a painful secret that threatens their lighthearted plan and their friendship. |
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Rennison, Louise. Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (series). YA F Ren The humorous journal of a year in the life of a British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie. #1: Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging #2: On the Bright Side I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God #3: Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas #4: Dancing in My Nuddy Pants #5: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel #6: Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers #7: Startled By His Furry Shorts #8: Love Is a Many Trousered Thing #9: Stop in the Name of Pants! #10: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? |
 | Scott, Elizabeth. Something, Maybe. YA F Sco Seventeen-year-old high school student Hannah is trying to lead a normal life, despite the fact that both her parents are famous for their wild lifestyles, which means getting her secret crush to notice her. |
 | Shakespeare, William. Romeo & Juliet. YA F Sha The classic love story! YA 822.33 Sha Or the manga version! |
 | Sones, Sonya. What My Mother Doesn’t Know. YA F Son Sophie describes her relationships with a series of boys as she searches for Mr. Right. The story continues in What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know. |
 | Vail, Rachel. If We Kiss. YA F Vai Fourteen-year-old Charlie feels guilty because she has a crush on her best friend's boyfriend, and her loyalties become even more confused when she discovers that her mother is dating the boyfriend's father. |
 | Wilson, Jacqueline. Girls in Love. YA F Wil Ellie is starting ninth grade and she’s dead set on finding herself a boyfriend. Her two best friends seem to have all the luck in the love department, but our heroine will stop at nothing to join the ranks. Even if it means pretending her 12-year-old pen pal is her gorgeous, head-over-heels-in-love beau. Naturally, chaos ensues, as it always does when one tries to live a lie, but with Ellie's dry, self-deprecating wit and the antics of her boy-crazy buddies, this is sure to be a year to remember. |
 | Wittlinger, Ellen. Hard Love. YA F Wit After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents’ divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality. The story continues in Love and Lies: Marisol's Story. |
 | Zevin, Gabrielle. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. YA F Zev After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life. |
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 | Block, Francesca Lia. Pretty Dead. YA F Blo Beautiful vampire Charlotte finds herself slowly changing back into a human after the mysterious death of her best friend. |
 | Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood and Chocolate. YA F Kla Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom. |
 | Marr, Melissa. Wicked Lovely. YA F Marr Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance. The story continues in Fragile Eternity. |
 | Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight. YA F Mey When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human. The saga continues in New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. |
 | Noel, Alyson. Immortals series. YA F Noe Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries. #1: Evermore. #2: Blue Moon. #3: Shadowland. |
 | Showalter, Gena. Intertwined. YA F Sho Most sixteen-year-olds have friends. Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him: one can time travel, one can raise the dead, one can tell the future, and one can possess another human...and then he meets a girl who quiets the voices... |
 | Stiefvater, Maggie. Shiver. YA F Sti In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity. |