Colleen Hoover Books in Order: The Ultimate Guide

If you’re looking to dive into this New York Times best-selling author’s work, then I have the ultimate guide to all of Colleen Hoover’s books in order for you to get reading!

This book list has all of the Colleen Hoover books in order in the following categories so you can pick what’s right for you:

• All Colleen Hoover Books in Order of Publication
• Standalone Colleen Hoover Books in Order
• Colleen Hoover Books in Order by Series
• Colleen Hoover Books in Order by Goodreads Choice Awards Nominees and Winners
• Colleen Hoover Books in Order by Recommended Reading Age
• All Colleen Hoover Books in Order with Publisher Descriptions

Once you pick your preferred order of reading, at the end of the post you’ll find a list of the most frequently asked questions about Colleen Hoover’s books (and more) so don’t miss them! Plus I have LOTS more Colleen Hoover posts to explore. Happy reading!

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All Colleen Hoover Books in Order of Publication

If you want to dive right into all of the Colleen Hoover books in order, here are all of her books in order of publication:

• Slammed (2012)
• Hopeless (2012)
• This Girl (2013)
• Losing Hope (2013)
• Finding Cinderella (2013)
• Maybe Someday (2014)
• Ugly Love (2014)
• Maybe Not (2014)
• Confess (2015)
• November 9 (2015)
• Too Late (2016)
• Never Never (2016)
• It Ends With Us (2016)
• Without Merit (2017)
• All Your Perfects (2018)
• Maybe Now (2018)
• Verity (2018)
• Finding Perfect (2019)
• Regretting You (2019)
• One More Step (2020)
• Heart Bones (2020)
• Layla (2020)
• Two More Days (2021)
• Reminders of Him (2022)
• It Starts With Us (2022)
• The Official It Ends With Us Coloring Book (TBD)

Standalone Colleen Hoover Books in Order

If you prefer to start with a standalone romance, these are the Colleen Hoover books that can be read as standalone novels:

• Slammed (2012)
• Point of Retreat (2012)
• Hopeless (2012)
• Maybe Someday (2014)
• Ugly Love (2014)
• Confess (2015)
• November 9 (2015)
• Too Late (2016)
• Never Never (2016)
• It Ends With Us (2016)
• Without Merit (2017)
• All Your Perfects (2018)
• Verity (2018)
• Regretting You (2019)
• Heart Bones (2020)
• Layla (2020)
• Reminders of Him (2022)

Colleen Hoover Books in Order by Series

If you love to binge-read romance book series, below you’ll find Colleen Hoover’s books organized by series but you can also check out my post on all the Colleen Hoover book series to learn more.

Slammed Series:

• Slammed (2012)
• Point of Retreat (2012)
• This Girl (2013)

Hopeless Series:

• Hopeless (2012)
• Losing Hope (2013)
• Finding Cinderella (2013)
• Finding Perfect (2019)

Related to Series:

• All Your Perfects (2018)

Maybe Someday Series:

• Maybe Someday (2014)
• Maybe Not (2014)
• Maybe Now (2018)

It Ends With Us Series:

• It Ends With Us (2016)
• It Starts With Us (2022)

Colleen Hoover Books with Co-Authors

• Never Never (2016)

Colleen Hoover Psychological Thrillers

• Verity (2018)

Colleen Hoover Sponsored Anthologies

• One More Step (2020)
• Two More Days (2021)

Colleen Hoover Goodreads Choice Awards Nominees & Winners

Colleen Hoover is no stranger to the Goodreads Choice Awards, the annual book awards where the winners are selected by readers.

If you want to read one of Colleen Hoover’s books that was a Goodreads Choice Awards nominee or winner, you can find them in this list and then check out my list of best Colleen Hoover books ranked!

• Slammed: 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Goodreads Author
• This Girl: 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance
• Losing Hope: 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance
• Maybe Someday: 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance
• Ugly Love: 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance
• Confess: Winner: 2015 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance
• It Ends With Us: Winner: 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance
• Without Merit: Winner: 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance
• All Your Perfects: 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance
• Verity: 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance
• Regretting You: 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance
• Reminders of Him: 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance
• It Starts With Us: 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance

Recommended Age Rating for Colleen Hoover Books:

With Colleen Hoover’s popularity, she attracts a wide range of readers. Given that her books address a variety of mature topics and include a variety of steaminess levels, these are Colleen Hoover’s books organized by recommended age level:

Young Adult 14+

• Slammed (2012)
• Point of Retreat (2012)
• This Girl (2013)
• Never Never (2016)
• Without Merit (2017)
• Regretting You (2019)
• Heart Bones (2020)

Mature 17+

• Hopeless (2012)
• Losing Hope (2013)
• Finding Cinderella (2013)
• Ugly Love (2014)
• Maybe Someday (2014)
• Maybe Not (2014)
• Confess (2015)
• November 9 (2015)
• It Ends With Us (2016)
• Maybe Now (2018)
• All Your Perfects (2018)
• Finding Perfect (2019)
• Layla (2020)
• Reminders of Him (2022)
• It Starts With Us (2022)

Very Mature/Dark

• Too Late (2016)
• Verity (2018)
• One More Step (2020)
• Two More Days (2021)

Complete List of Colleen Hoover Books in Order With Summaries:

Below you will find all of Colleen Hoover’s books in order of publication with their updated, new Kindle covers as of 2022.

Slammed
by Colleen Hoover

2012 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Goodreads Author

Young Adult 14+

Eighteen-year-old Layken has moved to a new town after she lost her father. She’s just trying to keep it all together for herself and her family.

Then she meets her new neighbor Will, a twenty-one-year-old whose mere presence leaves her flustered and whose passion for poetry slams thrills her.

Not long after a heart-stopping first date their new relationship comes to a sudden halt when Layken walks into his classroom.

Daily interactions become impossibly painful and it’s only through the poetry they share are they able to speak the truth that is in their hearts.

Related: Slammed Series by Colleen Hoover: The Ultimate Guide

Point of Retreat
by Colleen Hoover

Young Adult 14+

In the follow-up to Slammed, Layken and Will’s emotion-packed story continues where a stunning and unforeseen revelation about Will’s past leaves them questioning everything that they thought they knew about each other.

With the foundation of their relationship at risk, they must decide whether they are willing to fight for a future together, or to retreat back into solitude and heartache.

How far does Will have to go to prove to Layken his love for her will last forever?

Hopeless
by Colleen Hoover

Mature 17+

Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies. That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder.

He terrifies her and captivates her all in the span of one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past she wishes could just stay buried.

Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he’s nothing but trouble, but Holder insists on learning everything about her.

After finally caving to his unwavering pursuit, Sky soon finds that Holder isn’t at all who he’s been claiming to be.

When the secrets he’s been keeping are finally revealed, every single facet of Sky’s life will change forever.

Check out my review of Hopeless.

Related: Hopeless Series by Colleen Hoover: The Ultimate Guide

This Girl
by Colleen Hoover

2013 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance

Young Adult 14+

Layken and Will’s love has managed to withstand the toughest of circumstances, and the young lovers, now married, are beginning to feel safe and secure in their union.

As much as Layken relishes their new life together, she finds herself wanting to know everything there is to know about her husband, even though Will makes it clear he prefers to keep the painful memories of the past where they belong.

Still, he can’t resist his wife’s pleas, and so he begins to untangle his side of the story, revealing for the first time his most intimate feelings and thoughts, retelling both the good and bad moments, and sharing a few shocking confessions of his own from the time when they first met.

In This Girl, Will tells the story of their complicated relationship from his point of view. Their future rests on how well they deal with the past in this final installment of the beloved Slammed series.

Losing Hope
by Colleen Hoover

2013 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance

Mature 17+

Hopeless was Sky’s story. Now, in Losing Hope, we finally learn the truth about Dean Holder.

Haunted by the little girl he couldn’t save from imminent danger, Holder’s life has been overshadowed by feelings of guilt and remorse.

He has never stopped searching for her, believing that finding her would bring him the peace he needs to move on.

However, Holder could not have anticipated that he would be faced with even greater pain the moment they reconnect.

Finding Cinderella
by Colleen Hoover

Mature 17+

A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other.

But this love has conditions: they agree it will only last one hour and it will only be make-believe.

When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to convince himself that what happened between them only seemed perfect because they were pretending it was perfect.

One year and one bad relationship later, his disbelief in insta-love is stripped away the day he meets Six: a girl with a strange name and an even stranger personality.

But Daniel soon realizes that fairytales don’t exist, and unfortunately for Daniel, finding Cinderella doesn’t guarantee their happily ever after…it only further threatens it.

Maybe Someday
by Colleen Hoover

2014 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance

Mature 17+

At twenty-two years old, Sydney has a great life: She’s in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her best friend, Tori.

But everything changes when she discovers Hunter’s cheating on her–and she is left trying to decide what to do next.

Sydney becomes captivated by Ridge, her mysterious neighbor. 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.

When their inevitable encounter happens, they soon find themselves needing each other in more ways than one.

Related: Maybe Someday Series: The Ultimate Guide

Ugly Love
by Colleen Hoover

2014 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance

Mature 17+

When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn’t think it’s love at first sight. They 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.

Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves one thing.

Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her.

They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.

Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly. My Review of Ugly Love.

Related: The Best Ugly Love Quotes

Maybe Not
by Colleen Hoover

Mature 17+

When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he instantly agrees. It could be an exciting change. Or maybe not.

Especially when that roommate is the cold and seemingly calculating Bridgette. Tensions run high and tempers flare as the two can hardly stand to be in the same room together.

But Warren has a theory about Bridgette: anyone who can hate with that much passion should also have the capability to love with that much passion. And he wants to be the one to test this theory.

Confess
by Colleen Hoover

Winner: 2015 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance

Mature 17+

At age twenty-one, Auburn Reed has already lost everything important to her. In her fight to rebuild her shattered life, she has her goals in sight and there is no room for mistakes.

But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn’t expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry.

For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is keeping a major secret from coming out.

The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important to Auburn, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it.

To save their relationship, all Owen needs to do is confess. But in this case, the confession could be much more destructive than the actual sin.

November 9
by Colleen Hoover

Mature 17+

Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move.

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.

Over time and amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same date every year.

Until one day Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been telling her the truth or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ultimate plot twist.

Can Ben’s relationship with Fallon—and simultaneously his novel—be considered a love story if it ends in heartbreak?

Too Late
by Colleen Hoover

Very Mature/Dark

Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does, every single day.

After finding herself stuck in a relationship with the dangerous and morally corrupt Asa Jackson, Sloan will do whatever it takes to get by until she’s able to find a way out.

Nothing will get in her way. Nothing except Carter.

Sloan is the best thing to ever happen to Asa. And if you ask Asa, he’d say he’s the best thing to ever happen to Sloan.

Despite Sloan’s disapproval of Asa’s sinister lifestyle, he does exactly what he needs to do in order to stay a step ahead in his business. He also does exactly what he needs to do in order to stay a step ahead of Sloan.

Nothing will get in his way. Nothing except Carter.

Never Never
by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher

Young Adult 14+

Charlize Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They’ve been in love since the age of fourteen.

But as of this morning, they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love…every memory has vanished.

Charlize and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why.

But the more they learn about the couple they used to be, the more they question why they were ever together to begin with.

Related: Never Never Series by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher

It Ends With Us
by Colleen Hoover

Winner: 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance

Mature 17+

When Lily feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.
  
Ryle is assertive, stubborn, and maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily, but Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing.
  
As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan – her first love and a link to the past she left behind.

My Review of It Ends With Us

Related: It Ends With Us Series: The Ultimate Guide, Books Like It Ends With Us You’ll Love Just as Much

Without Merit
by Colleen Hoover

Winner: 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance

Young Adult 14+

The Voss family is anything but normal. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there’s Merit.

Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn’t earned and secrets her family forces her to keep.

While browsing the local antique shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan. His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm and spark renewed life into her—until she discovers that he’s completely unavailable.

Merit retreats deeper into herself, watching her family from the sidelines, when she learns a secret that no trophy in the world can fix.

Fed up with the lies, Merit decides to shatter the happy family illusion that she’s never been a part of before leaving them behind for good.

When her escape plan fails, Merit is forced to deal with the staggering consequences of telling the truth and losing the one boy she loves.

All Your Perfects
by Colleen Hoover

2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance

Mature 17+

Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage.

The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart.

The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair.

Maybe Now
by Colleen Hoover

Mature 17+

Ridge and Sydney are thrilled to finally be together guilt-free. But as the two of them navigate this freedom, Warren and Bridgette’s relationship is as tumultuous as ever, and Maggie grapples with her illness.

When she comes across an old list of things she wanted to do “maybe one of these days,” Maggie decides to live life to the fullest and accomplish these dreams.

Maggie keeps Ridge updated on her adventures, but he can’t help but worry, even as Sydney grows more and more suspicious about their friendship.

But if she’s going to move past this jealousy, she’ll need to reconcile how she and Ridge came together with the fact that Maggie will always be in their lives somehow or end up walking away from the man she loves so much.

Verity
by Colleen Hoover

2019 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance

Very Mature/Dark

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime.

Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.
 
Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started.

What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity’s recollection of the night her family was forever altered.
 
Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father.

But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words.

After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.

Finding Perfect
by Colleen Hoover

Mature 17+

Friends Daniel, Six, Holder, Sky, and Breckin are planning to celebrate the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday with a Friendsgiving dinner at Sky’s parents’ house.

But things have been off within the tight-knit group and when Daniel reaches out to Six to ask the hard questions he hasn’t dared to bring up since they last spoke about their shared secret, he’s dismayed to learn that it’s this very secret bringing a cloud over the holiday.

Suddenly, Daniel must do everything he can to find answers for the one person he loves the most in the world, but will this search only lead to despair?

Regretting You
by Colleen Hoover

2020 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance

Young Adult 14+

Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.

Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold.

With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist.

The only person who can bring peace to the household is Chris—Morgan’s husband, Clara’s father, and the family anchor.

But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbreaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara.

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. So far apart, it might be impossible for them to ever fall back together.

One More Step: An Anthology

Very Mature/Dark

Have you ever been curious how a writer’s mind works? The Bookworm Box is proud to present ONE MORE STEP, an exciting and unique reading experience.

Each of the twenty-six authors featured in this anthology were given the same first sentence. Where they took that first sentence was completely up to them.

Every story is different. No story is related. The only thing these stories have in common is their starting point.

All of the authors showcased in this anthology were featured in The Bookworm Box charity during 2019.

The following authors have contributed to this anthology:
A.L. Jackson, Aleatha Romig, Amy Daws, B.B. Easton, Cathlin Shahriary, Colleen Hoover, Debra Anastasia, Devney Perry, Emma Scott, Evan Grace, Gianna Gabriela, Ginger Scott, Jaci Wheeler, J.B. Salsbury, Jessica Sorensen, Julie Solano, Tracy Justice, K.F. Breene, K.L. Grayson, S.M. Soto, Lilly Wilde, L.K. Farlow, M. Lynn, Santana Blair, Tijan, T.K. Rapp

Heart Bones
by Colleen Hoover

Young Adult 14+

With only two short months separating her from the future she’s built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected loss leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim.

Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows.

Beyah’s plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan.

Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege.

But one thing they do have in common is that they’re both drawn to sad things. Which means they’re drawn to each other.

With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson 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.

Layla
by Colleen Hoover

Mature 17+

When Leeds meets Layla, he’s convinced he’ll spend the rest of his life with her until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life.

After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman Leeds fell in love with.

In order to put their relationship back on track, Leeds whisks Layla away to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met. Once they arrive, Layla’s behavior takes a bizarre turn.

Feeling distant from Layla, Leeds soon finds solace in Willow, another guest of the B&B with whom he forms a connection through their shared concerns.

As his curiosity for Willow grows, his decision to help her find answers puts him in direct conflict with Layla’s well-being.

Leeds soon realizes he has to make a choice because he can’t help both of them. But if he makes the wrong choice, it could be detrimental for all of them.

Two More Days: An Anthology

Very Mature/Dark

Two More Days, is the second anthology from The Bookworm Box. Each contributing author was given the same first sentence. Where they took that sentence was completely up to them.

Every story is different. No story is related. The only thing these stories have in common is their starting point.

Each author showcased in this anthology was featured in The Bookworm Box in 2020.

Contributing authors: Aileen Erin, Alessandra Torre, Chanda Hahn, Charleigh Rose, Colleen Hoover, Dominique Laura, Eric R. Asher, Ilsa Madden-Mills, Jennifer Wilson, Jessica Hawkins, Jewel E. Ann, K. Bromberg, Kandi Steiner, Karina Halle, Katie Ashley, Kelsie Stelting, Laurelin Paige, Leia Stone, Lexi Ryan, Lora Richardson, M. Robinson, Marni Mann, Max Monroe, Meagan Brandy, Micalea Smeltzer, Dr. Rebecca Sharp, R.K. Lilley, S.J. West, Tijan, Willow Aster

Reminders of Him
by Colleen Hoover

2022 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance

Mature 17+

After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter.

But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself.

The only person who hasn’t closed the door on her completely 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, both would risk losing the trust of everyone important to them.

The two form a connection despite the pressure surrounding them, but as their romance grows, so does the risk.

Kenna must find a way to absolve the mistakes of her past in order to build a future out of hope and healing. My Reminders of Him Review.

Related: The Best Reminders of Him Quotes

It Starts With Us
by Colleen Hoover

2022 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance

Mature 17+

Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil co-parenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again.

After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date.

But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life, and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life. My Review of It Starts With Us.

Frequently Asked Questions About Colleen Hoover Books:

Who is Colleen Hoover?

Unless you were an avid romance reader, you might not have known the name Colleen Hoover before 2021.

But with the power of #BookTok (videos on Tiktok that offer book recommendations), Colleen Hoover has claimed not one but 5 spots on the bestseller lists for 2022 and I think she’s only getting started.

What’s amazing is that three of these romance bestsellers are backlist titles including, It Ends With Us, which was the #1 selling book on the adult list AND overall book list for the first six months of 2022, according to Publisher’s Weekly.

OMG Colleen – that is amazing!

Not only do I love her success for what it’s doing for the romance genre, but I also just love her story of success.

If ever there is a woman to look up to and find motivation in her story to becoming one of the best-selling romance novelists, Colleen Hoover is it.

Before she self-published her first novel, Slammed, in 2012, Hoover was a social worker living in a mobile home who took up writing because she was bored and always loved to write.

To share her novel with friends and family, she self-published it on Amazon and the rest as they say is history!

Now she’s a millionaire and New York Times bestselling author of over 20 books in the new adult romance, young adult romance, and psychological thriller genres.

Colleen Hoover’s endeavors don’t just stop at publishing novels.

Book Bonanza

Book Bonanza is one of THE events to attend if you are a romance book fan or Colleen Hoover fan.

Created by Hoover and her sisters, it is an annual event where readers have a chance to meet their favorite authors and raise money for charity.

The event has raised over $400,000 for non-profit organizations benefitting women and children.

What Genre Do Colleen Hoover Books Fit In?

Colleen Hoover books attract a wide range of readers because her books don’t just fit into one genre. Though the majority of Colleen Hoover books fit the romance genre, they span adult romance, new adult romance, and young adult romance.

In addition to the romance genre, Colleen Hoover books also fit the psychological thriller, paranormal fiction and suspense genres.

Who Would Like Colleen Hoover Books?

If the bestseller charts of 2022 have anything to say about it, just about every reader loves Colleen Hoover books!

That year alone, she claimed the top THREE bestselling books of the year according to Publishers Weekly. Of the top 25 titles, eight were Colleen Hoover books!

Considering that the bestselling book of the year was a romance (It Ends With Us) and the second bestselling book was a thriller (Verity), Colleen Hoover draws a wide range of readers.

If you love to read a variety of genres, then you will love her books. If you also love books that incorporate tough subject matter and those that tug on your heartstrings, then you’ve found your author.

What’s the Best Order to Read All the Colleen Hoover Books?

Readers new to the author often ask what is the best order to read her books. Honestly, it’s totally a reader’s prerogative as to what order to read Colleen Hoover’s books.

Whether you choose to read them in order of date published, in order by series published, or simply by storyline or reading level, you can find these recommended options above to help you get started.

Which Colleen Hoover Book Should I Read First?

Such a good question! Picking which Colleen Hoover book to read first sort of depends on your favorite storyline and genre.

Of course, her most popular book is It Ends With Us so you could always start there. But if you don’t like the subject matter of that one (it deals with domestic violence) then I’d recommend first reading Maybe Someday or Reminders of Him.

Those two books are great representations of her writing and then you can circle back to her other books based on what sounds interesting to you.

You should also check out my post on the best Colleen Hoover books ranked for recommendations on which Colleen Hoover book to read first.

Are Any Colleen Hoover Books Movies or TV Series?

Fans of Colleen Hoover can also see her books come alive on the big and small screens!

Hoover’s romance, Confess, was created into a TV series by Awestruck and is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video. Katie Leclerc and Ryan Cooper star in the series.

Fans of It Ends With Us will be excited to learn that the book has been optioned for a movie. The It Ends With Us movie will be developed by Justin Baldoni’s company Wayfarer Entertainment.

The project is currently in development so stay tuned!

Thanks for checking out my ultimate guide on all the Colleen Hoover books in order! Which book did you decide to start with or which is your favorite? I’d love to know so share in the comments below.

If you’re looking for even MORE COLLEEN HOOVER, be sure to check out all of my book lists:

More Colleen Hoover Book Lists:

• Colleen Hoover Book Series: The Ultimate Guide
• Best Colleen Hoover Books Ranked
• Authors Like Colleen Hoover
• It Ends With Us Series by Colleen Hoover: The Ultimate Guide
• It Ends With Us Movie: What We Know About this Book to Movie Adaptation
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