Most Beloved Enemies to Lovers Romances + Quiz!
If you love a good hate to love story, check out my list of Most Beloved Enemies to Lovers Romances! Includes Regency Enemies to Lovers Romance Books, Fantasy and Romantasy Hate to Love Romances, Contemporary Hate to Love romances and more!
Most Beloved Enemies to Lovers Romances from the 2000s to Today!
I’ve divided my list into categories so you can find the perfect book for you! If you’re still not sure, take my quiz at the end!
- Adult Contemporary Hate to Love Romance Books
- Young Adult Contemporary Hate to Love Books
- Regency Enemies to Lovers Books
- Academic Rivals to Romance Books
- Fantasy and Romantasy Enemies to Lovers Romance
- Quiz: Which Enemies to Lovers Trope is Perfect for You
💋 Contemporary Hate to Love Romance Books
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
- Two type-A publishing employees can’t avoid each other in a small town
- An enemies-to-lovers story that readers and book lovers will enjoy
- A Hallmark story in which the city girl comes out on top!
- Buy Book Lovers on Amazon!
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
- Imagine being forced to share a honeymoon suite with the one person you can’t stand
- Hilarious, swoony, and absolutely impossible to put down.
- The book also has a audiobook only SEQUEL – check out my thoughts here!
- Buy The Unhoneymooners on Amazon
Hard Feelings by Jennifer Milliken
- A slow-burn workplace rivalry that turns into something neither of them saw coming…
- Perfect for readers who love tension that simmers for chapters before it finally boils over into steamy heat!
🎀 Young Adult Enemies to Lovers Books
Tweet Cute by Emma Lord
- NYC setting + restaurant rivals + social media war and hijinks
- A spirited Twitter war (run by teenagers who attend the same school) between a slick new fast food chain and an iconic East Village restaurant is also a love story in disguise
- Witty, warm, and perfect for fans of the iconic Y2K Hate to Love movie set in NYC … You’ve Got Mail.
- Buy Tweet Cute on Amazon
Ten Things I Hate About Pinky by Sandhya Menon
- fake boyfriend + opposites attract + forced proximity
- To get her mother off her back, a teenager agree agrees to a fake-dating scheme with a guy she can’t stand two opposites
- Full of banter, feelings, and an adorable South Asian couple you’ll root for the whole way through.
- Buy Ten Things I Hate About Pinky on Amazon
Check out my entire list of Best YA Hate to Love Books!
🪢 Regency Enemies to Lovers Romance Books
In Love With You by Emma Alban
- This Regency f/f enemies-to-lovers book features swoony romance and sharp social satire
- Think Bridgerton but even queerer and even more fun.
- Buy Like in Love With You on Amazon
It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas
- A feisty American heiress vs. a stuffy English earl
- The sexual tension crackles on every page and the payoff is absolutely worth it.
- Buy It Happened One Autumn on Amazon
📚 Academic Rivals to Romance
The Rival by Emma Lord
- college rivals + journalism competition + most fun campus setting ever
- Two formerly competing high school students turn out to be competing “zine” journalists who try to one-up each other…. and then fall hard.
- Smart, swoony, and satisfying
- Buy The Rival on Amazon
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
- rival journalists + war between the Gods + magical letters
- Rival reporters try to carry on while a war rages around them
- Iris is sending secret letters to her brother, but somehow they end up delivered to Roman, her rival
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
- academic rivals + an epic Fae book + Gothic castle vibes
- Dark academia with a gothic twist — a scholarship girl, a legacy rival, each raised in a culture that loathes the other.
- They are rivals trying to solve a mystery of an elusive author, a mystery that blurs the line between magic and scholarly obsession.
Today, Tonight, Tomorrow by Rachel Solomon
- senior class games + 24 hour timeline + school rivals
- The ultimate one-day rivals-to-lovers race — these two have hated each other for all four years of high school, and now they’re stuck together for the night!
- Buy Today, Tonight, Tomorrow on Amazon
Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
- A physicist who’s great at performing emotions meets the man who’s ruining her career prospects — STEM enemies-to-lovers that’s as funny as it is swoon-worthy.
- Buy Love Theoretically on Amazon
⚔️ Fantasy & Romantasy
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
- girl with special powers + hatred of her captor + love triangle
- A girl whose touch is lethal and the captor she loathes with ever fiber of her being
- This series set the standard for romantasy tension and has one of the most iconic villain-love-interests (and the most controversial love triangles) in all of 2000s YA.
- Buy Shatter Me on Amazon
The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski
- rich girl poor boy + royalty + high stakes
- A general’s daughter buys a young man at auction. Except he’s actually a spy. And she’s falling for him.
- Elegant, strategic, and devastating in the very best way.
a court of thorns and roses by Sarah J. Maas
- beauty and the best retelling + Fae + medium spice
- A spicy Beauty and the Beast retelling
- A huntress. A Fae. Hostility turns to lust
- A love triangle
- Buy A Court of Thorns and Roses on Amazon
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- She wants to survive Faerie. He wants to break her.
- Neither of them gets what they expected.
- Jude and Cardan are the gold standard of enemies-to-lovers fantasy.
The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- Dragon riders, a brutal college that trains soldiers for war, and a unique female student with a brooding rival who can’t decide if he wants to kill her or kiss her.
- Addictive and familiar somehow… like Harry Potter but with more dragons and spice.
Legend by Marie Lu
- A Republic’s most wanted criminal and its most celebrated female soldier hunting each other across a dystopian world.
- She hates him for a very personal reason.
- Then they realize they’re on the same side.
- Buy Legend on Amazon
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
- Romeo and Juliet retold in 1920s Shanghai
- The tension between two gang heirs is both lethal and electric. They are supposed to hate each other… but can they?
- Buy These Violent Delights on Amazon
🏒 Sports Hate to Love Romance Books
Icebreaker (UCMH Series) by Hannah Grace Free on Kindle Unlimited
- A competitive figure skater and a hockey team captain are forced to share a rink.
- Readers LOVE the book’s witty banter and the characters’ chemistry
- A VERY spicy read if you’re up for that
Heated Rivalry (Game Changers Series) by Rachel Reid
- The BookTok sensation
- Two rival hockey players spar on the ice but start to melt for each other in private
- Everything you want in an enemies to lovers storyline: sexual tension, playful banter, steamy scenes, and humor
Mile High (Windy City Series) by Liz Tomforde
- A bad boy hockey player vs. the no-nonsense flight attendant on the team jet
- Readers LOVE Evan’s playboy energy and heart of gold
- Stevie, his love interest, is curvy, fierce, and hilarious
- She wants it all and won’t settle for less
- Free on Kindle Unlimited
Wild Card (Vancouver Storm Series) by Stephanie Archer
- A single dad hockey coach vs. the owner’s daughter
- Readers praise this couple’s steamy chemistry and flirty banter
- Great family relationships and an overall warm feel
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