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Return to Reading: Romance

This romance fiction collection is perfect for those returning to reading. With heartfelt stories and relatable characters, these books explore love, relationships, and self-discovery. Engaging yet accessible, they offer an emotional escape while reflecting modern romantic experiences, making them ideal for readers looking to reconnect with the magic of love stories.

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  • Poppy and Alex are wildly different, Alex likes to stick to his routine while Poppy is a hyperactive adventurer, but they have been best mates since college and vacation together every year. Except last year things went badly wrong and they haven't…
    Book, 2021New York : Jove, 2021. — ROMANCE
  • The classic set-up of two people who hate each other, who are then forced together in a hilarious situation and end up falling in love—you know the drill. When everyone at the wedding gets food poisoning except the best man and the maid of honour,…
    Book, 2019London : Piatkus Books, 2019. — ROMANCE
  • Book one of the hilarious Rosie Trilogy introduces Don Tillman, a socially awkward professor who sets out on a quest to find the perfect wife. Barmaid and free spirit Rosie Jarmon doesn’t meet any of the criteria on Don’s detailed 16-page…
    Book, 2013Melbourne : The Text Pub. Co., 2013. — FICTION
  • this charming and humorous romance has everything you need for a sweet easy read. When Olive; PHD candidate and love cynic, needs to convince her best friend that she is happily dating, she grabs the first man she can see; fellow academic and…
    Book, 2021London : Sphere, 2021. — ROMANCE
  • A funny slow burn romance with all the ingredients for a great rom-com. Catalina has lied about having an American boyfriend, and with the wedding of her sister looming, she needs someone, ANYONE to play along with her fib... anyone except of…
    Book, 2021[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2021] — ROMANCE
  • Not a light romance, rather a deeper exploration of love and obsession between three damaged people and how to move forward away from an abused past, this is the bold and heart-wrenching story of Lily, who has a troubled history of family trauma and…
    Book, 2016London : Simon & Schuster, 2016. — ROMANCE
  • Full of characters in impossible situations and with a tongue-in-cheek nod to current celeb obsession, this madcap rom-com cleverly touches on some pretty weighty topics, for example bisexuality, media profiles and international relations, in a…
    Book, 2019New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2019. — ROMANCE
  • A woman tells the story of her life to a journalist, framed by her numerous marriages but Evelyn Hugo is no ordinary woman. Imagine Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Hayworth and Greta Garbo all rolled into one. Highly readable, romantic, and tragic.
    Book, 2018New York : Washington Square Press, 2018. — FICTION
  • This witty regency romance is all about falling for the one person you believed it impossible to fall for. Daphne Bridgerton, after two seasons in London, has quickly grown cynical about actually finding the right man for her. Meanwhile Her…
    Book, 2010London : Piatkus, 2010. — ROMANCE
  • The first Adult fiction title from the Writer of the ACOTAR series. This has all the hallmarks of a great romantasy. Feisty Fae, treacherous humans, level Five Spice! All set in a richly built world. This is one to lose yourself in.
    Book, 2021London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. — FANTASY
  • Do you need a spicy Ted Lasso lesbian romance? Then 'Cleat Cute' is for you. Grace Henderson is everything an elite US football/soccer star should be tactical, disciplined and dedicated. That is until she suffers a devastating injury that puts her…
    Book, 2023London : Piatkus, 2023. — ROMANCE
  • Set in North Carolina, 'The Notebook' is a sweet love story about two people who meet as teenagers and fall in love over the course of a summer. Although they separate, they end up rekindling their love again many years later, and Ally must decide…
    Book, 1996Sydney : Bantam Books, 1996. — FICTION
  • The book that became a pop culture icon! An arrangement between a millionaire playboy with a passion for BDSM and a younger woman that alternates between the pain and pleasure of BDSM and the two falling in love. It's actually on the tamer end of…
    Book, 2012Arrow, 2012. — ROMANCE
  • A beautifully written story about sexual and personal discovery, finding love, and passionate obsession. Elio lives in his parent's mansion on a cliffside of the Italian Riviera, where he meets a guest of his parents'. The story follows these two…
    Book, 2017London : Atlantic Books, [2017] — FICTION
  • Delve into the lore of the Scottish land, full of wonder, magic, sex, and violence. Set in Scotland in both 1945 and 1745, we follow the headstrong Claire Randall, an ex-army WWII nurse. Clare steps into a stone circle and is thrown back in time,…
    Book, 1991New York : Delacorte Press, 1991. — HISTORICAL