Colleen Hoover

Colleen Hoover Books

19 books·~190 min total read

Colleen Hoover is an American author born in Sulphur Springs, Texas, in 1979. She is known for her bestselling romance and contemporary fiction novels, including It Ends with Us, Verity, and Ugly Love.

Known for: It Ends with Us, Verity, Ugly Love, November 9, Finding Cinderella, All Your Perfects, Confess, Heart Bones, Hopeless, It Starts With Us, Losing Hope, Maybe Now, Maybe Someday, Point Of Retreat: A Novel, Regretting You, Reminders of Him, Slammed, This Girl: A Novel, Without Merit

Books by Colleen Hoover

It Ends with Us

It Ends with Us

romance · 10 min

What makes someone stay in a relationship that is clearly causing pain? That question sits at the heart of It Ends with Us, one of Colleen Hoover’s most widely discussed contemporary romance novels. O...

Verity

Verity

romance · 10 min

What makes *Verity* so unforgettable is that it refuses to stay in one lane. It begins like a career rescue story, slips into a darkly charged romance, and then tightens into psychological suspense th...

Ugly Love

Ugly Love

romance · 10 min

Some love stories are sweet, uplifting, and easy to root for from the very first page. *Ugly Love* is not that kind of romance — and that is exactly why it hits so hard. Colleen Hoover’s novel dives i...

November 9

November 9

romance · 10 min

Colleen Hoover’s November 9 is a contemporary romance built on a deceptively simple premise: two young people meet on one day each year and agree not to contact each other in between. What begins as a...

Finding Cinderella

Finding Cinderella

· 10 min

Finding Cinderella by Colleen Hoover is a sharp, witty, and emotionally charged novella that revisits the world of the Hopeless series through the unexpected romance of Daniel Wesley and Six. What beg...

All Your Perfects

All Your Perfects

romantic_relationships · 10 min

All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover is a deeply emotional novel about what happens after the love story, when vows meet disappointment, intimacy gives way to silence, and two people must decide whethe...

Confess

Confess

romantic_relationships · 10 min

Confess by Colleen Hoover is a contemporary romance that turns secrecy into both a wound and a bridge. The novel follows Auburn Reed, a young woman trying to keep her life under control after devastat...

Heart Bones

Heart Bones

romantic_relationships · 10 min

What happens when someone raised on instability is suddenly placed in a world that looks safe, beautiful, and full of possibility? In Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover tells the story of Beyah Grim, a young...

Hopeless

Hopeless

romantic_relationships · 10 min

Hopeless by Colleen Hoover is a contemporary romance that begins like a story about first love and quickly deepens into something far more unsettling, tender, and unforgettable. At its center is Sky D...

It Starts With Us

It Starts With Us

romantic_relationships · 10 min

Before love can become a safe place, it must survive the past that once made safety feel impossible. In It Starts With Us, Colleen Hoover returns to Lily Bloom and Atlas Corrigan, picking up after the...

Losing Hope

Losing Hope

romantic_relationships · 10 min

Losing Hope is Colleen Hoover’s emotionally intense companion novel to Hopeless, but it is far more than a retelling from a different angle. By shifting the story into Dean Holder’s perspective, Hoove...

Maybe Now

Maybe Now

romantic_relationships · 10 min

In this sequel to 'Maybe Someday', Colleen Hoover continues the emotional journey of Sydney, Ridge, and Maggie as they navigate love, friendship, and the complexities of moving forward after heartbrea...

Maybe Someday

Maybe Someday

romantic_relationships · 10 min

Maybe Someday is a contemporary romance about what happens when heartbreak clears space for an unexpected, deeply complicated connection. Sydney’s orderly college life collapses in a single night when...

Point Of Retreat: A Novel

Point Of Retreat: A Novel

romantic_relationships · 10 min

What happens after the grand declaration of love is often more difficult than the moment that brings two people together. Point Of Retreat, Colleen Hoover’s sequel to Slammed, explores exactly that fr...

Regretting You

Regretting You

bestsellers · 10 min

Regretting You is a deeply emotional contemporary novel about love, motherhood, grief, betrayal, and the painful work of rebuilding trust after life shatters without warning. At the center of the stor...

Reminders of Him

Reminders of Him

romantic_relationships · 10 min

What happens after the worst mistake of your life becomes the only thing people can see? In Reminders of Him, Colleen Hoover tells the story of Kenna Rowan, a young mother returning to her hometown af...

Slammed

Slammed

romantic_relationships · 10 min

Slammed by Colleen Hoover is a contemporary romance that begins with a familiar wound and turns it into something raw, tender, and unexpectedly profound. After the death of her father, eighteen-year-o...

This Girl: A Novel

This Girl: A Novel

romantic_relationships · 10 min

Some love stories do not end when the couple finally gets together; they deepen when both people dare to revisit what nearly tore them apart. In This Girl, Colleen Hoover returns to the world of Slamm...

Without Merit

Without Merit

bestsellers · 10 min

Without Merit is a contemporary novel about a girl trapped inside a family built on silence. At the center is Merit Voss, a sharp, observant teenager living in a converted church with a family that ap...

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The Roots Beneath the Bloom: Lily’s Beginnings and the Shadow of Abuse

Lily Bloom’s story begins long before Boston, the flower shop, or her relationship with Ryle. It begins in a home where violence quietly reshaped what love looked like. Her father’s abuse of her mother leaves Lily carrying a painful contradiction: she understands that what happened was wrong, yet sh...

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Ryle Kincaid and the Allure of Control

Ryle Kincaid is compelling because he is not written as an obvious villain from the start. He is intelligent, successful, charismatic, and emotionally intense. His first rooftop conversation with Lily is memorable precisely because it feels raw and electric. He is honest about his reluctance toward ...

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The Ghost in the Journal: Atlas Corrigan and the Memory of Compassion

Atlas Corrigan represents more than Lily’s first love; he represents a memory of what kindness feels like when it asks for nothing in return. Through Lily’s journal entries addressed to Ellen DeGeneres, readers are taken back to her teenage years, where Atlas appears at a moment when she is lonely, ...

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Cracks in Perfection: The Unfolding of Violence

One of the most unsettling strengths of It Ends with Us is how carefully it depicts the escalation of abuse. Violence does not arrive all at once; it emerges through denial, rationalization, apologies, and the desperate hope that an incident is an exception rather than a pattern. Lily wants to belie...

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Breaking the Cycle: Courage and Resilience

The emotional climax of It Ends with Us lies in Lily’s decision to break a pattern that has shaped generations before her. This is not a dramatic act of revenge or triumph in the traditional romantic sense. It is quieter, harder, and more realistic: she chooses to protect herself and her child, even...

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Lowen’s Arrival and the Offer That Changes Everything

The opening of *Verity* works because Lowen Ashleigh is vulnerable before she ever steps into the Crawford house. She is not entering the story from a place of stability or confidence. She is grieving, financially strained, and professionally stuck, which makes Jeremy Crawford’s offer feel less like...

From Verity

About Colleen Hoover

Colleen Hoover is an American author born in Sulphur Springs, Texas, in 1979. She is known for her bestselling romance and contemporary fiction novels, including It Ends with Us, Verity, and Ugly Love. Her emotionally intense storytelling has earned her a massive global readership, and she has been ...

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Colleen Hoover is an American author born in Sulphur Springs, Texas, in 1979. She is known for her bestselling romance and contemporary fiction novels, including It Ends with Us, Verity, and Ugly Love. Her emotionally intense storytelling has earned her a massive global readership, and she has been named one of the most influential authors in modern popular fiction.

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Colleen Hoover is an American author born in Sulphur Springs, Texas, in 1979. She is known for her bestselling romance and contemporary fiction novels, including It Ends with Us, Verity, and Ugly Love.

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