Top 10 Readers’ Choice Romance Novels
Here at little infinite we have gone through PLENTY of books – to say the least! We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, and we’ve loved. Romance knows no boundaries when it comes to genres and we’ve enjoyed all different types of love stories.You’ve allowed us to share 100 BOOKS with you since little infinite’s origin. To celebrate, we’ve discovered which books most likely ended up on your bookshelf.
This list of top 10 romance novels comes directly from you, #liSquad.
Let the countdown begin!
10- My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan
Ella Durran, an up-and-coming political consultant, has dreamed of going to Oxford University since she read an article about it in Seventeen magazine at age 13. Her aspirations come true when she earns a Rhodes Scholarship and finds herself on the campus of her dreams to study (to many’s surprise) Victorian Literature. Preview The Book
9- Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams
If someone wrote a mashup of The Great Gatsby, with its wealthy, glittering angst-ridden characters, and Wuthering Heights with Heathcliff brooding and waves crashing against the cliffs, you’d get something close to The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams. Preview The Book
8- The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
A lot is radical about the marriage plot, a concept which arose in the late 18th and early 19th century from authors like Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters.
It’s the early 1980s. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes—the charismatic and intense Leonard Bankhead, and her old friend the mystically inclined Mitchell Grammaticus.
7- Blackout by Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, & Nic Stone
Blackout delivers not only big love stories for Black girls, but it is also a love story to New York City. Set during a single evening, Blackout chronicles six pairs of teenagers as they navigate a darkened city and their feelings for each other. Written by not one, not two, but six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors. Preview The Book
6- The Uptown Collection by Ruby Lang
Each novella in The Uptown Collection is its own complete romance and can be read in any order. The link between the three books is a neighborhood in Harlem in which each story takes place. Lang’s characters are relatable and fully formed. Their relationships are tested by believable circumstances rather than with romance’s favorite trope – the horrible misunderstanding. Preview The Books
5- Beach Read by Emily Henry
Beach Read is the story of January Andrews, a successful romance author who finds herself mired in grief and writer’s block following the loss of her father and the revelation that her parent’s marriage was not the fairy tale she’d always believed it to be. January heads to the beach to escape and unwind where she meets Augustus Everett, an acclaimed author of literary fiction. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block. If you loved this book you will also love People We Meet On Vacation.
It’s to no one’s surprise this next book landed on the Top 10 Readers’ Choice For Romance Novels!
4- It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
Lily Bloom meets handsome neurosurgeon Ryle at a low point in her life. Just her luck that Ryle is attracted to her but not into relationships. Although Lily meets Ryle first, his sister Alyssa becomes her best friend. Just as Lily and Ryle’s relationship begins to take off, Lily’s first love, Atlas, returns to her life.
3- The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn’t believe in lasting romantic relationships–but her best friend does, and that’s what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.
2- Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. But Pheby had plans for her life; freedom at eighteen and marrying her true love, Essex Henry. But, instead, she will be sent to the Devil’s Half Acre, where the jailer will force her to be his wife and bear his children.
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The #1 Book Most Likely On Your Bookshelf:
1-Must Love Books by Shauna Robertson
How fitting the title of this book to be placed in the number one spot!?
Nora Hughes is five years into a job as an editorial assistant at Parsons, a publishing house specializing in business books. After a round of layoffs and the departure of her best work-friend, she is overworked, underpaid, lonely, and uninspired. Then, as though things aren’t bad enough, she receives a pay cut as part of a belt-tightening effort.
Already struggling to pay her rent and student loans, Nora takes a second job with a competing publishing house. Early into her days as a publishing double-agent, she meets Andrew, an author whose star is rising.
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