Happy Tuesday y’all! This week, Jana over at That Artsy Reader Girl set today’s topic as a Love freebie in honor of Valentine’s Day tomorrow. I decided to keep with my 2023 highlights and share my ten favorite romances read in 2023. Some of the books may have been released in 2023, but several are older than that.
I’ll share these in the order I read them. All were at least a 4-star read for me. All titles are linked to Goodreads.
Without further ado, here are my favorite romances I read in 2023!
The Do-Over by Lynn Painter
- Genre: YA, Romance, Contemporary
- Release Date: November 2022
- Tropes: School Romance, Grumpy-Sunshine, Enemies-to-Dating
Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
- Genre: Romance, Contemporary
- Release Date: January 2022
- Tropes: Workplace Romance, Friends-to-Lovers
Famous for a Living by Melissa Ferguson
- Genre: Romance, Contemporary
- Release Date: May 2023
- Tropes: Grumpy-Sunshine, Social Media, Enemies-to-Lovers
Miss Matched by Wendy Million
- Genre: Romance, Contemporary
- Release Date: June 2023
- Tropes: Second Chance Romance, Enemies-to-Lovers
The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
- Genre: Romance, Contemporary
- Release Date: January 2018
- Tropes: Strangers-to-Lovers
Someone Just Like You by Meredith Schorr
- Genre: Romance, Contemporary
- Release Date: July 2023
- Tropes: Childhood Enemies-to-Lovers, Grumpy-Sunshine
The Trouble with Hating You by Sanjni Patel
- Genre: Romance, Contemporary
- Release Date: May 2020
- Tropes: Enemies-to-Lovers, Workplace Romance, Grumpy-Sunshine
The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar
- Genre: YA, Romance, Contemporary, LGBTQ
- Release Date: June 2023
- Tropes: Reality TV, Friends-to-Dating
Heartstopper series by Alice Oseman
- Genre: YA, Contemporary, Romance, LGBTQ
- Release Date: October 2018
- Tropes: Friends-to-Lovers, School Romance
On the Plus Side by Jenny L. Howe
- Genre: Romance, Contemporary
- Release Date: December 2023
- Tropes: Grumpy-Sunshine, Workplace Romance, Reality TV, Body Positivity
And that’s my ten favorite romances read in 2023. Have you read any of these? What were some of your favorite romances you read in 2023?
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These all look cute.
Here is my Top Ten Tuesday post.
Great list! I’ve heard of all of these, have only read (and loooved) one of them but have a couple others on my TBR. The Do’s and Donuts of Love sounds so cute and I’m keen to finally read something by Rachel Lynn Solomon this year 🙂
I hope you enjoy them when you get around to read them.
I love how organized your post is, with the genre and tropes!
I decided to organize my Top Ten Tuesday post around my favorite romance tropes, but I forgot Grumpy/Sunshine, which is a good one!
https://thissideofstoryland.blogspot.com/2024/02/top-ten-tuesday-my-favorite-romance.html
love the mix of books, Dos & Donuts is on my tbr!
I haven’t read any of these yet, but some of them sound like books I would really enjoy! My favorite kind of enemies-to-lovers, for example, is when it’s a childhood relationship and they meet again as adults. (So I’ll be looking into Someone Just Like You for sure.)
Here’s my TTT this week: https://bookwyrmknits.com/2024/02/13/top-ten-tuesday-quotes-for-galentines-day/
I loved The Do-Over and The Wedding List. It was fun to see them make your favorites.
These look beautiful! I still need to read Heartstopper! So many of these are new to me but look lovely!
Several of these sound like a lot of fun! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
I really enjoyed The Do Over!
These books look like stories I’d enjoy! I’ll have to check them out, thank you!
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I rarely read romance novels. Every once in a while I do pick one up for a quick read, though. Thanks for some good ideas.
I really enjoyed Weather Girl when I read it, a favourite of mine as well! Happy TTT 🙂
I have Meredith’s on my shelf (hoping to enjoy) and Lynn’s (just read a couple chapters today!), and I’m always curious about Melissa’s (but never read any). So what I’m getting from your list is lots I still have to read and (hopefully) enjoy. 🙂 Thanks so much for visiting my website today!
I need to check out The Wedding Date. Glad these ones were so enjoyable!
What a wonderful list! I loved On the Plus side by Jenny Howe ❤️
I love this list and see so many favorites on it!
I haven’t read any of these. I have Famous For a Living but didn’t get a chance to read it last year!
Happy Valentine’s Day!!
I hope you enjoy it when you get the chance to read it.
I like the cover of miss matched.
I really enjoyed The Dos and Donuts of Love, and aim definitely interested in On the Plus Side.
I want to read all of these!!
Have a great week!
I hope you enjoy them when you get to read them!
Thank you 😊
Cute picks! These are all new to me ones but glad you found some great reads last year!
Thanks for visiting my TTT!
Heartstopper is so good!! Several of these are on my TBR! Great list!
The Do-Over and Weather Girl were two of my favorites too, so excited for more stories by the authors
Same!
What a great list! Such fun covers. Thanks for sharing.
Heartstopper is one I want to read. I love the TV show.
The Heartstopper series is wonderful! I haven’t had a chance to watch the show yet.
What a wonderful list! I loved quite a few of the books you listed, and I’m a total sucker for anything by Rachel Lynn Solomon and Meredith Schorr, and I was surprised at how much I ended up enjoying Famous for a Living! I’ve had Heartstopper on my TBR for an embarrassingly long time.
I hope you get around to reading Heartstopper soon.
I haven’t read any of these books, but the covers make me want to check them all out! 😀
If you do, I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
Thank you! 😊
I absolutely LOVE Heartstopper! Great to see it on your list. 🙂 I haven’t heard of The Dos and Donuts of Love, but it looks so cute and I’m going to have to add it to my list.
The Dos and Donuts of Love is a fun YA read! And there’s a cooking show involved, how can it be a bad read?
I also adored The Do-Over and Heartstopper! Weather Girl is on my tbr. Great topic choice!