Books for Romantics

If love romance, you'll love these books about young love by modern writers!

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

by Jenny Han

Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent.

The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

Hazel, a teen cancer patient, has accepted her diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

The Selection

by Kiera Cass

America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens

by Becky Albertalli

Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed.

When Dimple met Rishi

by Sandhya Menon

When Dimple and Rishi meet at a summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting him.

The Geography of You and Me

by Jennifer E. Smith

Sparks fly when Lucy and Owen meet on an elevator. Soon after, the two teenagers leave the city, but as they travel farther away from each other, they stay connected.

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