All the Best Romance Books in 2023 That You’ll Totally Fall in Love With

‘Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute’ by Talia Hibbert

In her YA debut, Talia Hibbert reunites two ex-BFFs who have to work together to come out on top in a survival course. The woods are not the only thing bringing them back together, but will they be able to work through their past, or will it all be too much?

Release date: January 3, 2023

‘Midnight Duet’ by Jen Comfort

While the Phantom of the Opera might be closing on Broadway this year, this gender-bending modern retelling will make saying goodbye to the show a little bit easier thanks to all the fire between former diva Erika and rockstar Christof.

Release date: January 10, 2023

‘The Rom-Com Agenda’ by Jayne Denker

You know that iconic rom-com trope where someone gets a makeover and suddenly their best friend falls in love with them? If you love that, then you’d better pick this book up because you’ll be obsessed with every page.

Release date: January 10, 2023

Amy Lea ‘Exes and O’s’ by Amy Lea

Hopeless romantic Tara wants to be in love, but everything she’s done until now hasn’t worked out. She enlists the help of her roommate, hot firefighter Trevor, to help her reconnect with her exes in order to see if a second-chance romance is what she’s been missing. With Tara and Trevor spending more time together than ever, well, let’s just say that love might actually have been closer than Tara thought.

Release date: January 10, 2023

Meghan Quinn ‘A Long Time Coming’ by Meghan Quinn

Meghan Quinn continues to be one of the best (and spiciest!) writers in the game with this brand new My Best Friend’s Wedding retelling that will have you reaching for some water…and maybe some other things as you read.

Release date: January 10, 2023

‘Lunar Love’ by Lauren Kung Jessen

Olivia Huang Christenson is ready to take over her family’s matchmaking business, which uses the Chinese zodiac to find a person’s perfect match. But when an app comes out using the system for all the wrong reasons, she makes a deal with its creator to help each other find a match. The first to fall in love loses. No one said what would happen if they happen to fall for each other though….

Release date: January 10, 2023

‘A Love by Design’ by Elizabeth Everett

Margaret Gault wants to start the first women-owned engineering firm in London. But being a female scientist in the 1800s is very difficult, especially when the men of London are the ones she needs to ask for money to get her started. And one of them is none other than George Willis, the one man she can’t forgive. When his nemesis is the person who seems to give Margaret the chance she’s been looking for, George has to find some way to charm the woman he’s always been in love with, even if she doesn’t want anything to do with him.

Release date: January 17, 2023

Kayla Olson ‘The Reunion’ by Kayla Olson

Twenty years after her show ended, Liv is ready to reunite with her fellow cast members in a reunion special. When she meets up again with her former co-star/ex-BFF Ransom Joel, it feels like all the puzzle pieces are falling back into place. As the cameras turn on and old memories come out, this reunion might not stay as sweet as they thought.

Release date: January 17, 2023

‘Sorry, Bro’ by Taleen Voskuni

Taleen Voskuni’s queer rom-com debut features Ner, an Armenian-American woman who turns down a proposal and signs up for a month-long experience in San Francisco to meet someone in her culture. While her mom has a few ideas of who she should end up with, it’s her new best friend, Erebuni, who ultimately catches her eye.

Release date: January 31, 2023

‘The Davenports’ by Krystal Marquis

Inspired by the real-life Patterson family, meet the Davenports, one of the few wealthy Black families in the United States in the early 1900s. Davenport siblings Olivia, John, and Helen are ready to fall in love, but it’s not that easy when your family and society have certain expectations about your future…and your heart has others.

Release date: January 31, 2023

‘Secretly Yours’ by Tessa Bailey

Who wouldn’t want to reconnect with a lost love at a vineyard, but while that may not be happening to us any time soon (or maybe it will?!), at least we can live vicariously through Hallie and Julien’s “opposites attract” story.

Release date: February 7, 2023

‘Not the Plan’ by Gia de Cadenet

Isadora and Karim work for rival senators, but little do they know they actually have a lot in common, especially when Isadora finds out that Karim actually doesn’t entirely agree with his boss’ policies. But there’s more than just their hearts on the line, there’s also an entire political campaign. Can they focus on their jobs or will romance complicate matters?

Release date: February 7, 2023

‘Radiant Sin’ by Katee Robert

The Dark Olympus series continues to mesmerize us with another Greek mythology retelling, this time featuring Apollo and Cassandra. For one week, they decide to start a fake relationship as Apollo goes undercover at a party with some of Olympus’ most powerful legends.

Release date: February 7, 2023

‘Just My Type’ by Falon Ballard

Lana Parker is the perfect girlfriend and dating writer. But after another breakup with a long-term BF, Lana decides to stay single for once and write about it. When one of her exes gets a job at the site she works at, they are pitted against each other for a dream opportunity. She needs to stay single in order to get it, but there are unresolved feelings between her and her new co-worker…what happens when love and your job go against each other?

Release date: February 7, 2023

‘Take the Lead’ by Alexis Daria

Alexis’s beloved debut novel gets an exciting update in this re-release that features updated text and the very spicy story of a dance coach and her partner in a Dancing With the Stars-like competition.

Release date: February 14, 2023

‘The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen’ by KJ Charles

Two anonymous lovers suddenly find themselves to be neighbors and reconnect with one another in the middle of the biggest shifts of their lives. And while their re-meeting allows them to really get to know each other, they have to figure out if there’s something more going on between them despite society telling them they are worlds apart.

Release date: March 7, 2023

‘Romantic Comedy’ by Curtis Sittenfeld

This is for all the SNL stans who want to know what it’s like behind the scenes of this wild show, but with some romance involved. A writer for a famous late-night sketch show feels some chemistry with the guest of the week: a famous pop musician. Sometimes, life truly is like a rom-com.

Release date: April 4, 2023

‘Happy Place’ by Emily Henry

If you want it to be summer forever, then better put Emily Henry’s latest on the top of your list. Two exes are still hiding their new relationship status from their BFFs. But with the final trip to the Maine cottage they’ve been going to for years comes up, they have to maintain their cover one last time. Will being in close corners again change things up?

Release date: April 25, 2023

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‘Queen Charlotte’ by Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes

Obsessed with the show and looking for more? Get ready to relive and go even deeper into this Bridgerton tale that will hit you just as hard as those 6 episodes did.

Release date: May 9, 2023

‘The True Love Experiment’ by Christina Lauren