Essential Romance Books for Your Fall Reading List

Every December, Josie posts a letter from her home in London to the parents she lost on Christmas night many years ago. But this year, her annual trip to the postbox is knocked off course by a bicycle collision with Max, a handsome stranger—a stranger who will change the course of Josie’s life. A devastating, romantic, life-affirming story, Always, in December will stay with readers long after they’ve finished the last page.

A smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about ex-boyfriends, imperfect parents, friends with kids, and a man who disappears the moment he says “I love you.”

When a woman travels to Nigeria to attend the funeral of the father she never knew, she meets her extravagant family for the first time, a new and inspiring love interest, and discovers parts of herself she didn’t know were missing.

A family long divided, a mysterious trunk, and a desperate journey across the ocean—all in the name of love. The epic saga of the McAlisters continues in this riveting sequel to No Ocean Too Wide.

Emmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one—in part because she hasn’t been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. But when a spellcasting tournament approaches, the pull of tradition is strong enough to bring Emmy back. On her first night home, Emmy runs into Talia and Linden, both fresh off a bad breakup with the same man who was secretly dating them both. Talia and Linden want revenge. Only one question stands: Is Emmy in?

Moving between modern-day London and revolutionary Iran, The Mismatch is a gorgeously written coming-of-age story that follows a young woman as she finds love in a most unexpected place, and a path in life amid two different cultures.

This impressive debut novel is a uniquely imaginative sequence of ten interconnecting episodes—each from a different character’s perspective—inspired by some of the best-known thought experiments in philosophy. Together they form a sparkling philosophical tale of love lost and found across the universe.

Going toe-to-toe with a brooding Scotsman is rather bold for a respectable suffragist, but when he happens to be one’s unexpected husband, what else is an unwilling bride to do?

A special holiday wish list brings about hope, love, and second chances in this nostalgic novel from the queen of Christmas stories, bestselling author Debbie Macomber.

When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman’s carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. She discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.