“What are the best books about Young Love?” We looked at 125 of the top Young Love books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 16 titles, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Young Love” book lists, are ranked below by how many lists they appear on. The remaining 100+ titles, as well as the lists we used are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.
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Three years ago, Tanner Scott’s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah. But when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High’s prestigious Seminar—where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester—Tanner can’t resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Four months is an eternity. It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the year before and who now mentors the class. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him.
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Blaire Wynn left her small farmhouse in Alabama, after her mother passed away, to move in with her father and his new wife in their sprawling beach house along the Florida gulf coast. She isn’t prepared for the lifestyle change and she knows she’ll never fit into this world. Then there is her sexy stepbrother who her father leaves her with for the summer while he runs off to Paris with his wife. Rush is as spoiled as he is gorgeous. He is also getting under her skin. She knows he is anything but good for her and that he’ll never be faithful to anyone. He is jaded and has secrets Blaire knows she may never uncover but even knowing all of that…
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Geek girl Elle Wittimer lives and breathes Starfield, the classic science-fiction series she grew up watching with her late father. So when she sees a cosplay contest for a new Starfield movie, she has to enter. The prize? An invitation to the ExcelsiCon Cosplay Ball and a meet-and-greet with the actor slated to play Federation Prince Carmindor in the reboot. With savings from her gig at the Magic Pumpkin food truck and her dad’s old costume, Elle’s determined to win – unless her stepsisters get there first. Teen actor Darien Freeman used to live for cons – before he was famous. Now they’re nothing but autographs and awkward meet-and-greets. Playing Carmindor is all he has ever wanted, but Starfield fandom has written him off as just another dumb heartthrob. As ExcelsiCon draws near, Darien feels more and more like a fake – until he meets a girl who shows him otherwise. But when she disappears at midnight, will he ever be able to find her again? Part-romance, part-love letter to nerd culture, and all totally adorbs, Geekerella is a fairy tale for anyone who believes in the magic of fandom.
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Alice had her whole summer planned. Non-stop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows (best friends totally included) with the smallest dash of adulting–working at the library to pay her share of the rent. The only thing missing from her perfect plan? Her girlfriend (who ended things when Alice confessed she’s asexual). Alice is done with dating–no thank you, do not pass go, stick a fork in her, done. But then Alice meets Takumi and she can’t stop thinking about him or the rom com-grade romance feels she did not ask for (uncertainty, butterflies, and swoons, oh my!). When her blissful summer takes an unexpected turn, and Takumi becomes her knight with a shiny library employee badge (close enough), Alice has to decide if she’s willing to risk their friendship for a love that might not be reciprocated—or understood.
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“One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time.” The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, messy, affectionate. And every day from her rooftop perch, Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them . . . until one summer evening, Jase Garrett climbs up next to her and changes everything. As the two fall fiercely for each other, stumbling through the awkwardness and awesomeness of first love, Jase’s family embraces Samantha – even as she keeps him a secret from her own. Then something unthinkable happens, and the bottom drops out of Samantha’s world. She’s suddenly faced with an impossible decision. Which perfect family will save her? Or is it time she saved herself? A transporting debut about family, friendship, first romance, and how to be true to one person you love without betraying another.
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A fresh, urban twist on the classic tale of star-crossed lovers. When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created ‘perfect’ life is about to unravel before her eyes. She’s forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she’s worked so hard for: her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more. In a passionate story about looking beneath the surface, Simone Elkeles breaks through the stereotypes and barriers that threaten to keep Brittany and Alex apart.
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Meet Daisy Winters. She’s an offbeat sixteen-year-old Floridian with mermaid-red hair; a part time job at a bootleg Walmart, and a perfect older sister who’s nearly engaged to the Crown Prince of Scotland. Daisy has no desire to live in the spotlight, but relentless tabloid attention forces her to join Ellie at the relative seclusion of the castle across the pond. While the dashing young Miles has been appointed to teach Daisy the ropes of being regal, the prince’s roguish younger brother kicks up scandal wherever he goes, and tries his best to take Daisy along for the ride. The crown–and the intriguing Miles–might be trying to make Daisy into a lady . . . but Daisy may just rewrite the royal rulebook to suit herself.
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Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story. Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store—for both of us. The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true?
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Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love—she’s lived through it twenty-six times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can’t stomach the idea of rejection. So she’s careful. Fat girls always have to be careful. Then a cute new girl enters Cassie’s orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly’s cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Meanwhile, Molly’s totally not dying of loneliness—except for the part where she is. Luckily, Cassie’s new girlfriend comes with a cute hipster-boy sidekick. Will is funny and flirtatious and just might be perfect crush material. Maybe more than crush material. And if Molly can win him over, she’ll get her first kiss and she’ll get her twin back. There’s only one problem: Molly’s coworker Reid. He’s an awkward Tolkien superfan with a season pass to the Ren Faire, and there’s absolutely no way Molly could fall for him. Right?
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From the author of I Believe in a Thing Called Love, a laugh-out-loud story of love, new friendships, and one unique food truck. Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn’t so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara actually feels invested in her dad’s business. What if taking this summer seriously means that Clara has to leave her old self behind? With Maurene Goo’s signature warmth and humor, The Way You Make Me Feel is a relatable story of falling in love and finding yourself in the places you’d never thought to look.
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Two misfits. One extraordinary love. Eleanor… Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough…Eleanor. Park… He knows she’ll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There’s a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises…Park. Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.
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Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan’s life. Having missed her flight, she’s stuck at JFK airport and late to her father’s second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley’s never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport’s cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he’s British, and he’s sitting in her row. A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more? Quirks of timing play out in this romantic and cinematic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver’s story will make you believe that true love finds you when you’re least expecting it.
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When it comes to relationships, Remy doesn’t mess around. After all, she’s learned all there is to know from her mother, who’s currently working on husband number five. But there’s something about Dexter that seems to defy all of Remy’s rules. He certainly doesn’t seem like Mr. Right. For some reason, however, Remy just can’t seem to shake him. Could it be that Remy’s starting to understand what those love songs are all about?
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Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right? Rishi Patel is a hopeless romantic. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program as him—wherein he’ll have to woo her—he’s totally on board. Because as silly as it sounds to most people in his life, Rishi wants to be arranged, believes in the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself. The Shahs and Patels didn’t mean to start turning the wheels on this “suggested arrangement” so early in their children’s lives, but when they noticed them both gravitate toward the same summer program, they figured, Why not? Dimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out. But when opposites clash, love works hard to prove itself in the most unexpected ways.
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Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris–until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Étienne has it all…including a serious girlfriend. But in the City of Light, wishes have a way of coming true. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with their long-awaited French kiss?
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To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even her sister’s ex-boyfriend, Josh. As she learns to deal with her past loves face to face, Lara Jean discovers that something good may come out of these letters after all.
| # | Books | Author | Lists |
| 17 | 9 Days & 9 Nights | Katie Cotugno | Epic Reads 2 |
| 18 | 99 days | Katie Cotugno | Bookriot |
| 19 | A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles, Book 4 | Flashlight Worthy Books | |
| 20 | Along for the Ride | Sarah Dessen | Goodreads |
| 21 | Always Never Yours | Emily Wibberly and Austin Siegemund-Broka | Refinery 29 |
| 22 | American Panda | Gloria Chao | Bookriot |
| 23 | Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour | Morgan Matson | Bookriot |
| 24 | Barely Breathing | Rebecca Donovan | Goodreads |
| 25 | Beautiful Creatures | Flashlight Worthy Books | |
| 26 | Beautiful Disaster | Jamie McGuire | Goodreads |
| 27 | Boy Meets Boy | David Levithan | Bookriot |
| 28 | Breaking Dawn | Stephenie Meyer | Goodreads |
| 29 | Breathe | Abbi Glines | Goodreads |
| 30 | Breathe, Annie, Breathe | Miranda Kenneally | Bookriot |
| 31 | Bully | Penelope Douglas | Goodreads |
| 32 | City of Bones | Cassandra Clare | Goodreads |
| 33 | Crash | Nicole Williams | Goodreads |
| 34 | Crossing the Line | Simone Elkeles | Epic Reads 2 |
| 35 | Crown Duel | Flashlight Worthy Books | |
| 36 | Divergent | Veronica Roth | Goodreads |
| 37 | Dumplin’ | Epic Reads | |
| 38 | Easy | Tammara Webber | Goodreads |
| 39 | Eclipse | Stephenie Meyer | Goodreads |
| 40 | Emergency Contact | Mary H K Choi | Bookriot |
| 41 | Every Day | David Levithan | Refinery 29 |
| 42 | Everything Leads to You | Nina LaCour | Bookriot |
| 43 | Fallen Crest High | Tijan | Goodreads |
| 44 | Fangirl | Rainbow Rowell | Goodreads |
| 45 | Foolish Hearts | Emma Mills | Bookriot |
| 46 | Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit | Jaye Robin Brown | Bookriot |
| 47 | Going Too Far | Flashlight Worthy Books | |
| 48 | Graceling | Flashlight Worthy Books | |
| 49 | Hopeless | Colleen Hoover | Goodreads |
| 50 | I Believe in a Thing Called Love | Maurene Goo | Bookriot |
| 51 | I See London, I See France | Epic Reads | |
| 52 | I’ll Give You the Sun | Epic Reads | |
| 53 | If I Stay | Gayle Forman | Goodreads |
| 54 | If I was Your Girl | Meredith Russo | Bookriot |
| 55 | Invisible Ghosts | Robyn Schneider | Epic Reads 2 |
| 56 | Jellicoe Road | Flashlight Worthy Books | |
| 57 | Just One Day | Gayle Forman | Bookriot |
| 58 | Keep Me in Mind | Jaime Reed | Bookriot |
| 59 | Leah on the Offbeat | Becky Albertalli | Epic Reads 2 |
| 60 | Letters to the Lost | Brigid Kemmerer | Bookriot |
| 61 | Living Violet (The Cambion Chronicles #1) | Jaime Reed | Bookriot |
| 62 | Looking for Alaska | John Green | Goodreads |
| 63 | Losing Hope | Colleen Hoover | Goodreads |
| 64 | Love & Luck | Jenna Evans Welch | Epic Reads 2 |
| 65 | Love and Gelato | Jenna Evans Welch | Bookriot |
| 66 | Love and Other Train Wrecks | Epic Reads | |
| 67 | Love, Life, and the List | Epic Reads | |
| 68 | Making Faces | Amy Harmon | Goodreads |
| 69 | Maybe Someday | Colleen Hoover | Goodreads |
| 70 | Missing at 17 | Christine Conradt | Epic Reads 2 |
| 71 | More Than This | Jay McLean | Goodreads |
| 72 | My So-Called Bollywood Life | Nisha Sharma | Bookriot |
| 73 | Never Never | Colleen Hoover | Goodreads |
| 74 | New Moon | Stephenie Meyer | Goodreads |
| 75 | Night of Cake & Puppets | Epic Reads | |
| 76 | Nowhere but Here | Katie McGarry | Bookriot |
| 77 | P.S. I Like You | Kasie West | Bookriot |
| 78 | Paper Princess | Erin Watt | Goodreads |
| 79 | Plain Vanilla | Ines Bautista-Yao | Bookriot |
| 80 | Point of Retreat | Colleen Hoover | Goodreads |
| 81 | Pushing the Limits | Katie McGarry | Goodreads |
| 82 | Queens of Geek | Jen Wilde | Bookriot |
| 83 | Reason to Breathe | Rebecca Donovan | Goodreads |
| 84 | Rule | Jay Crownover | Goodreads |
| 85 | Save the Date | Morgan Matson | Epic Reads 2 |
| 86 | Sempre | J.M. Darhower | Goodreads |
| 87 | Simon Vs. the Homo Sapien’s Agenda | Epic Reads | |
| 88 | Slammed | Colleen Hoover | Goodreads |
| 89 | Sloppy Firsts: A Jessica Darling Novel | Flashlight Worthy Books | |
| 90 | Something in Between | Melissa de la Cruz | Bookriot |
| 91 | Stay Sweet | Siobhan Vivian | Bookriot |
| 92 | Stepbrother Dearest | Penelope Ward | Goodreads |
| 93 | Summer of Salt | Katrina Leno | Epic Reads 2 |
| 94 | Tell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel | Sara Farizan | Bookriot |
| 95 | The Anatomical Shape of a Heart | Jenn Bennett | Bookriot |
| 96 | The Bird and the Blade | Megan Bannen | Epic Reads 2 |
| 97 | The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window | Kirsty Moseley | Goodreads |
| 98 | The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden | Jessica Sorensen | Goodreads |
| 99 | The Deal | Elle Kennedy | Goodreads |
| 100 | The Distance from A to Z | Natalie Blitt | Bookriot |
| 101 | The Edge of Never | J.A. Redmerski | Goodreads |
| 102 | The Emerald Sea | Richelle Mead | Epic Reads 2 |
| 103 | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | Goodreads |
| 104 | The Heartbreakers | Ali Novak | Bookriot |
| 105 | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | Goodreads |
| 106 | The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls | Jessica Spotswood | Bookriot |
| 107 | The Only Thing Worse than Me is You | Lily Anderson | Bookriot |
| 108 | The Problem with Forever | Jennifer L. Armentrout | Bookriot |
| 109 | The Road Home | Flashlight Worthy Books | |
| 110 | The Secret of Ella and Micha | Jessica Sorensen | Goodreads |
| 111 | The Selection | Kiera Cass | Goodreads |
| 112 | The Start of Me and You | Epic Reads | |
| 113 | The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles) | Amy Spalding | Bookriot |
| 114 | The Summer of Sloane | Erin L. Schneider | Bookriot |
| 115 | The Summer of Us | Cecilia Vinesse | Bookriot |
| 116 | The Truth About Forever | Sarah Dessen | Goodreads |
| 117 | The Victoria in My Head | Janelle Milanes | Bookriot |
| 118 | The Vincent Brothers | Abbi Glines | Goodreads |
| 119 | The Weight of Feathers | Anne-Marie McLemore | Bookriot |
| 120 | Twilight | Stephenie Meyer | Goodreads |
| 121 | Upstate | Flashlight Worthy Books | |
| 122 | Wait for You | J. Lynn | Goodreads |
| 123 | Walking Disaster | Jamie McGuire | Goodreads |
| 124 | Wanderlost | Jen Malone | Bookriot |
| 125 | While It Lasts | Abbi Glines | Goodreads |
| Source | Article |
| Bookriot | 50 Must-Read Young Adult Romance Books |
| Epic Reads | 14 Young Adult Romances So Sweet They’ll Give You Cavities |
| Epic Reads 2 | 15 Young Adult Romance Books to Fall in Love With This Summer |
| Flashlight Worthy Books | The Most Romantic Young Adult Books Of All Time |
| Goodreads | Popular Young Love Books |
| Refinery 29 | Best Young Adult Romance Books |
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