We all want to find love -- and looking in the pages of a book is a great place to find it. But be careful not to go looking for love in all the wrong places! Let Bookclubs be your guide to the best romances to read with your book club.
Veteran book club members know that choosing the right book is crucial. When picking a love story, you want one that balances swoon-worthy romance with enough substance to fuel a meaningful discussion. The best book club romances offer complex characters, compelling themes, and plot elements that go beyond the central love story – while still delivering those heart-fluttering moments that make the genre so beloved.
The following books are all beloved by the thousands of book clubs that use Bookclubs to stay organized. They've been discussed at hundreds of meetings and have top ratings from club members. They're a mix of contemporary romances and romantasy, pure escapism and tense drama, and hot new 2024 and 2025 releases along with some tried and true titles by genre favorites.
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Romance Book Club Books
Funny Story by Emily Henry
The release of a new Emily Henry novel is a highly anticipated date for many book clubs! Her latest funny yet heartfelt novel is about a pair of opposites who are thrust together after their exes get together. Also watch for her April 2025 release, Great Big Beautiful Life, one of our most anticipated book club books of 2025.
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
Kennedy Ryan proves that love isn't about perfection, but about staying through life's messiest moments. A deeply emotional journey that redefines what it means to truly love someone as Yasmen and Josiah Wade find their way back to one another.
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate...only to discover he lives seven years in the past. This magical romance will make you believe in destiny as it proves love knows no boundaries – not even temporal ones.
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
When a big-city professional and a younger small-town guy collide, expect a romance that breaks all the rules. A heartwarming modern fairy tale about finding love exactly where you least expect it.
The Favorites by Layne Fargo
The epic romance that's currently climbing the ranks of Bookclubs' most popular titles! Inspired by Wuthering Heights and set in the sparkling, savage sphere of elite figure skating, The Favorites follows Katarina and Heath as they follow their dreams and their passion to the Olympic Games.
The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
Christina Lauren returns with a romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex as they attempt to convincingly play a perfect couple at a high-stakes family event in order to secure his inheritance.
Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
In this dark romance, Sloane and Rowan are murderers who find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul. But as their friendship develops into something more, the restless ghosts left in their wake are only a few steps behind, ready to claim more than just their newfound love.
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
Two writers with an explosive past and a reconnection that'll make your heart race. Seven Days in June is a hilarious, romantic, and sexy story of second chance love that also touches on creative life in America today, as well as the joys and complications of being a mother and a daughter.
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
This year's release of Onyx Storm, the 3rd book in Rebecca Yarros' Empyrean series, is set to be one of the biggest book club books of the year. If your book club has somehow missed out on the hype, why not start with the book that started it out, the sexy and entertaining Fourth Wing, which follows Violet Sorrengail as she attempts to become a dragon rider at the deadly Basgiath War College.
Quicksilver by Callie Hart
As romantasy (romance + fantasy) continues to dominate best seller lists, book clubs hungry for more are turning to this resurging 2006 release by Callie Hart that follows 24-year-old Saeris as she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a fae land in the middle of a centuries-long conflict.
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Helen Hoang flips the script on romance in this celebration of human connection that sees a neurodivergent woman hire an escort to help her explore intimacy, leading to an unexpected and tender connection.
Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
Take a cynical pilot who doesn't do relationships and a nurse who thinks she can handle casual, throw them together, and watch the sparks fly. Colleen Hoover, the bestselling author of Verity and It Ends with Us, delivers a gut-wrenching exploration of how past trauma shapes love, told through dual timelines that slowly reveal why someone who swore off romance might be worth the risk of heartbreak.
The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros
While Yarros is best known for her blockbuster romantasy series, she's also authored several other romances, including this multigenerational story that weaves together two love stories across different time periods, as a woman battles with an arrogant novelist to finish her great-grandmother's unfinished manuscript -- based on her own doomed romance with a WWII pilot.
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Book club fave Kristin Hannah (The Women) delivers this stirring love story set against the heartpounding backdrop of the Alaskan wilderness. While not a traditional romance it still a testament to the resiliance of love.