You’ll Either Love Them or Hate Them—Here’s Where to Start if You Want to Read Colleen Hoover Books

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she gets the offer of a lifetime: to ghostwrite the final books of best-selling author Verity Crawford’s most famous series. Jeremy, Verity’s husband, hired Lowen after Verity was severely injured in an accident. He invites her to their home and encourages her to go through Verity’s office and notes for ideas for the rest of the series—and while she’s there, she finds dangerous truths daring her to expose them.

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants and opening her dream business away from home. Amid her new journey, she meets Ryle. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant, but also sensitive and brilliant. Alarmingly, Ryle has a complete aversion to relationships. But Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas—her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.

This double-perspective narrative continues the story of It Ends With Us from Atlas’s point of view. Lily has separated from Ryle, and they have finally come to a civil agreement on co-parenting their daughter. Lily feels as though life has given her another chance when she runs into Atlas after her split from Ryle. She agrees to go on a date with Atlas but is quickly haunted by the memory of Ryle’s dislike for her first love. Even after the separation, Ryle is still a large part of her and her daughter’s lives. Lily is haunted by the thought of his reaction to the return of Atlas.

Kenna Rowan returns to the town where everything went wrong after serving five years in prison. Upon her return, Kenna hopes to rekindle her relationship with her 4-year-old daughter, but it seems everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut her out. Kenna is at a loss and feels as though it will be impossible to rebuild her life post-incarceration. The only person who hasn’t closed the door on her is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the few remaining links to Kenna’s daughter. But if anyone were to discover how Ledger is slowly becoming an important part of Kenna’s life and their budding romance, both would risk losing the trust of everyone important to them. Kenna must find a way to absolve the mistakes of her past to build a future out of hope and healing.

When Tate Collins meets the attractive airline pilot Miles Archer, love at first sight isn’t what comes to mind. She wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction, which turns into the perfect set-up, or so they think. He doesn’t want love, and she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her—never ask about the past and don’t expect a future. They think they can handle it, but after countless rules are broken, promises gone awry, and hearts exposed. Love gets ugly.

Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before she is set to move across the country. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon’s last day in Los Angeles together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. They agree to continue meeting every year on the same day of their first sighting, and it becomes a sort of tradition. One day, Fallon becomes wary of Ben’s integrity when she begins to believe everything he has told her has been to formulate the perfect plot for his secret motives. Can Fallon’s relationship with Ben—and simultaneously his novel—be considered a love story if it ends in turmoil?

Morgan Grant and her 16-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike. Morgan made many mistakes in her young age that she feels have held her back in life and only wishes her daughter to not follow suit, but their clashing personalities make it increasingly hard to coexist. The only person who can bring peace is Chris—Morgan’s husband, Clara’s father, and the family anchor. That peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic accident. While struggling to rebuild everything that crashed around them, Morgan finds comfort in the last person she expects to, and Clara turns to the one boy she’s been forbidden to see. With each passing day, new secrets, resentment, and misunderstandings make mother and daughter fall further apart.

Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. From their very first encounter, he terrifies and captivates her. Something about him sparks memories of a time she’s tried so hard to bury and forget. Though Sky is determined to stay far away from him, his unwavering pursuit breaks down her defenses, and the intensity of the bond between them grows. But the mysterious Holder has been keeping secrets of his own, and once they are revealed, Sky is changed forever. Sky and Holder hope to heal their emotional scars and find a way to live and love without boundaries.

With only two months separating her from the future she’s built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go. Her only option is to spend the remainder of her summer in Texas with her father and his family, whom she barely knows. Then she meets Samson, who seems to be her exact opposite and changes the course of her summer. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. They soon bond over the unexpected and have an immediate connection. They agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn’t realize is that a rip current is coming, and it’s about to drag her heart out to sea.

At 22 years old, Sydney is enjoying a great life: She’s in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her best friend. But everything changes when she discovers that Hunter is cheating on her. It’s not long after, Sydney finds herself captivated by her mysterious and attractive neighbor, Ridge. She can’t take her eyes off him or stop listening to the passionate way he plays his guitar every evening out on his balcony. And there’s something about Sydney that Ridge can’t ignore, either. They soon find themselves needing each other in more ways than one.