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.
Romance: books to read
These novels turn on the gap between what people say and what they carry: a nurse who agrees to a lover's terms in Ugly Love, two friends who keep taking trips together in People We Meet on Vacation. You come to them for the ache and the slow work of getting closer to someone.
A page that shows it
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. -
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People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry, 2021
Two best friends who vacation together every summer have one last trip to fix what went wrong between them—and decide what they are.
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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.
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2017
A reclusive screen legend picks an unknown journalist to write her life story, and starts with the seven husbands.
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Beach Read
Emily Henry, 2020
A romance novelist who has stopped believing in love inherits a lakeside cottage, a literary rival next door, and one summer to write a book she doesn't want to.
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The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks, 1996
An old man's devotion to the woman he loves, told in plain, unguarded prose for anyone who has ever measured a life by whom they loved.
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Me Before You
Jojo Moyes, 2012
A wry, underemployed Englishwoman takes a care job in a grand house and finds her ordinary life opened up by the most difficult person in it.
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The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger, 2003
A marriage lived out of order: Henry vanishes into his own past without warning, and Clare spends a life waiting for him to come back.
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Funny Story
Emily Henry, 2024
When her fiancé leaves her for his childhood best friend, a librarian moves in with the other person left behind and tries to rebuild.
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Happy Place
Emily Henry, 2023
Three college friends, one Maine cottage, and a narrator carrying a secret through the happiest week of the year.
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Book Lovers
Emily Henry, 43
A sharp literary agent, cast as the city girlfriend in everyone else’s love story, meets a grumpy editor who might be her equal—and her rival.
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The Wedding People
Alison Espach, 2024
A newly divorced professor checks into a Newport hotel with a secret plan and is mistaken for a wedding guest; the weekend becomes a witty, tender study of starting over.
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Dear John
Nicholas Sparks, 2006
One summer, a soldier and a college student fall in love; the years apart ask whether love can survive distance and duty.
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Corrupt
Penelope Douglas, 2015
A girl leaves the money and protection she has always known for a city where the one person who scares her already lives.
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The Rescue
Nicholas Sparks, 2000
A single mother and a volunteer firefighter fall in love while a secret from his past tests the trust they are building.
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Northern Lights
Nora Roberts, 2004
A burned-out Baltimore cop takes a job as police chief in a tiny Alaskan town and finds a place where everyone knows everyone—and something is badly wrong.
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The House on Hope Street
Danielle Steel, 2000
A married law team fights a wealthy husband's hidden assets for a frightened client, while their own home life quietly sets the stakes.
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Chesapeake Blue
Nora Roberts, 2002
A painter comes home to the Chesapeake, to four brothers, a porch rocker and a florist who has sworn off being charmed.
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Tribute
Nora Roberts, 2008
A former child star trades Hollywood for a ruined Virginia farmhouse — her grandmother's — and the small town that remembers the screen legend better than she does.
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Accident
Danielle Steel, 1994
A perfect California family, a sunny Saturday, and the ordinary choices that leave one mother wondering what she gave up.
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Scruples
Judith Krantz, 1978
A Beverly Hills luxury empire, a film producer's Oscar campaign, and a woman with two hundred million dollars and no patience for the help.
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The Wedding
Danielle Steel, 2000
A Hollywood lawyer with a full life and a boyfriend who is still married watches her parents' glittering awards season — and starts to wonder what she is waiting for.
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Special Delivery
Danielle Steel, 1997
A fifty-nine-year-old boutique owner who has charmed Los Angeles for decades, his son's careful marriage, and the widowed movie star who has never once been charmed.
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Princess Daisy
Judith Krantz, 1980
A Brooklyn Dodgers jacket, a princess’s blood, and a talent for turning charm into a deal—Daisy Valensky takes on the glamour business.
A taste of the feed
The oldest child who learned to keep everything buttoned up.
Alex Nilsen is a study in control. In that tall, broad, permanently slouched and/or pretzel-folded body of his, there’s a surplus of stoicism (the result of being the oldest child of a widower with the most vocal anxiety of anyone I’ve ever met) and a stockpile of repression (the result of a strict religious upbringing in direct opposition to most of his passions; namely, academia), alongside the most truly strange, secretly silly, and intensely softhearted goofball I’ve had the pleasure to know.
People We Meet on Vacation · Emily Henry
A daughter hears what her father is really mourning.
I was one of the fastest up-and-coming teen actresses just two years ago, and the moment the fire burned away my looks, the studio pulled my contract. I think he mourns the idea that he’s not the father of an actress more than he mourns almost losing his daughter to a fire that was caused by his carelessness.
November 9 · Colleen Hoover
Watch how quickly a life gets summarised when someone else is writing.
Hugo has weathered her share of Hollywood scandals, not the least of which being her seven marriages, including her decades-long relationship with film producer Harry Cameron. The two Hollywood insiders shared a daughter, Connor Cameron, who is no doubt the influence for the auction. Ms. Cameron passed away last year from breast cancer soon after turning 41.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo · Taylor Jenkins Reid
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