Ugly Love
Colleen Hoover, 2014
A nurse restarting her life falls for a man who offers only sex and no past—and discovers how much pain can hide behind a closed door.
Colleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover writes about people whose lives have cracked open — a nurse starting over, a florist facing her own history — and the messy, tender work of deciding whom to trust. The books share a pull toward honest feeling: arguments in kitchens, letters, silences that carry weight, and characters who are often braver than they think. Start with «It Ends with Us» if you want the one that made her name, or «Reminders of Him» if you'd rather begin with something rawer and more recent.
Feels like love, longing and hope.
Start with Ugly Love.
Before becoming a novelist, Colleen Hoover worked as a social worker and teacher; she self-published her first novel, Slammed, in 2012.
What love costs when you stop pretending it is beautiful.
Ugly love becomes you. Consumes you. Makes you hate it all. Makes you realize that all the beautiful parts aren’t even worth it. Without the beautiful, you’ll never risk feeling the ugly. So you give it all up. You give it all up. You never want love again, no matter what kind it is, because no type of love will ever be worth living through the ugly love again. Books by Colleen Hoover
November 9
Colleen Hoover, 2015
A scarred former teen actress and a stranger who poses as her boyfriend make a pact to meet every year on the same date.
Maybe Someday
Colleen Hoover, 2014
A music student who hides her own songwriting listens every night to the guitarist across the courtyard — until he catches her watching.
Confess
Colleen Hoover, 2015
A broke newcomer takes a last-minute job at a Dallas artist's studio, where anonymous confessions painted on canvas make strangers feel less alone.
It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, 2016
A Boston florist falls for a neurosurgeon, then meets the first boy she loved—and must reckon with what she owes her own history.
Verity
Colleen Hoover, 2018
A broke writer takes a job finishing another author's novels and finds a manuscript that was never meant to be read.
It Starts with Us
Colleen Hoover, 2022
Lily and Atlas finally get their second chance: two alternating voices, a new apartment, a small daughter, and a past that keeps knocking.
Reminders of Him
Colleen Hoover, 2022
A woman returns to the town that has already decided what she is, and tries to be let back in. Hoover at her most raw.
Regretting You
Colleen Hoover, 2019
A mother and daughter navigate love and loyalty after the secrets between them begin to surface.
Without Merit
Colleen Hoover, 2017
A girl in a family of secret-keepers stops performing cheerfulness and starts asking what truth would cost them.
All Your Perfects
Colleen Hoover, 2018
A marriage told in two timelines — the ecstatic beginning and the frayed middle — for anyone who has wondered what love costs after the wedding.
Point of Retreat
Colleen Hoover, 2012
A young man raising his little brother falls for the girl across the street, and finds that love is mostly the unglamorous work of proving it.
Heart Bones
Colleen Hoover, 2020
A girl with no safety net and the boy next door spend a coastal summer learning what love can bear.
Hopeless
Colleen Hoover, 2012
A girl who has never been kissed meets a boy who insists her first one should mean something.
Layla
Colleen Hoover, 2020
A couple retreats to the inn where they fell in love, and something there begins to come between them.
Losing Hope
Colleen Hoover, 2013
A raw companion novel about grief, guilt and first love, told in Holder's voice—for readers who want the same story from the other side.
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