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Books like It Ends with Us

It Ends with Us follows Lily Bloom, a florist in Boston who falls for a charming neurosurgeon while a first love from her past re-enters her life. These seven books bring more emotional love stories, from tearful to lighter, and one dark thriller by the same author.

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  • Ugly Love

    Colleen Hoover

    A woman and her airline-pilot neighbor agree to a no-strings arrangement with two rules, in a heavier-than-it-sounds romance with explicit sex scenes.

  • November 9

    Colleen Hoover

    Two people meet the day before she moves away and keep meeting on the same date every year, while he turns their story into a novel.

  • Reminders of Him

    Colleen Hoover

    Five years after a tragic mistake sent her to prison, a young woman goes back to try to meet the four-year-old daughter she has never raised, in a tearful story of grief and forgiveness.

  • Verity

    Colleen Hoover

    A departure from the author's romances: a writer hired to finish a novelist's series stays in her home and finds an unsettling manuscript, in a thriller with explicit sex.

  • Me Before You

    Jojo Moyes

    A woman who needs a job becomes the caregiver of a paralyzed man who is bitter about his life, in a tearful adult romance about disability and end-of-life choices.

  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

    Taylor Jenkins Reid

    An aging Hollywood star picks an unknown journalist to write her life story and tells of her seven marriages, in a glossy, emotional novel that touches on domestic abuse.

  • Beach Read

    Emily Henry

    A romance writer and a literary novelist who live next door make a bet to write in each other's genres, in a funny, warm story with real grief in it.

How to choose

It Ends with Us is a love story that explores domestic abuse, so decide how heavy you want to go. For more from the same author, Ugly Love, November 9 and Reminders of Him are emotional romances, while Verity is a dark thriller. Me Before You and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo are bigger-hearted stories about love and its limits, and Beach Read is the lightest of the group. Content varies a lot. It Ends with Us includes domestic violence and sexual assault, Reminders of Him deals with grief and a death in the past, Verity has explicit sex and very dark events, Me Before You takes up disability and end-of-life choices, and Evelyn Hugo touches on domestic abuse. Please check content notes first.

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