200+ of the Sexiest, Sweetest Books of 2015

Lauren Urasek, once named New York Magazine's most sought-after woman in the city, details the ups and downs of online dating in hilarious and cringeworthy essays compiled in her book Popular, cowritten with Laura Barcella.

Chris Cander's multigenerational story of love, betrayal, and dark secrets, Whisper Hollow, spans 50 years and follows the intertwined lives of three women living in a Southern mining town.

Paris in the 19th century was a passionate and vivid place, and Elizabeth Berg's The Dream Lover captures its essence in a novel about a courageous woman leaving her loveless marriage for a new life in the big city.

Sophie Kinsella, author of the Shopaholic series, is back with a YA novel about friendship, first love, and overcoming personal obstacles. Finding Audrey tells the sweet story of a young girl's struggle with anxiety and the boy she meets who helps her through it.

Peter Nichols's The Rocks is a novel with two love stories that move backward in time, both set in the beautiful Mediterranean and built around a seaside resort and its endearing expatriate community.

Francesca Zappia's highly anticipated novel Made You Up is not your average young adult fiction. The thought-provoking story is told by a schizophrenic (and therefore unreliable) narrator who must fight to discern what is real and what isn't. Are her friends, the boy she is falling in love with, and her new life real, or is it all in her imagination?

Nora Roberts's second installment of Three Sisters Islands, Heaven and Earth, follows a sheriff deputy's rising romance with a researcher who has come to investigate the rumors of witchcraft on the island.

Seventeen-year-old Vanessa fled her hometown years ago, and despite the desperate way she left (pregnant and in love with someone who wasn't the father), she is returning a successful businesswoman. In Shelley Noble's Whisper Beach, old flames are rekindled, and one Summer will test the bonds of friendship, trust, and true love.

Fans of Sarah Dessen will love Katie Cotugno's 99 Days, a Summer love story about a girl caught in a triangle between two brothers.

Nina Findlay has spent her life torn between two Italian brothers. She marries one and stays close with the other, until everything changes and Nina loses them both, then sets off to start over in Greece. In Andrea Gillies's The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay, a woman running from her past discovers a new future in unexpected places.

The New York Daily News calls Wednesday Martin's Primates of Park Avenue — a memoir about marriage and motherhood in New York's prestigious Upper East Side — "juicy, sexy, bawdy stuff."

A woman, born in a brothel in the 18th century and abused growing up, finds an outlet through bare-knuckled fighting in her city's prize rings. She meets another woman with a different cross to bear, and both discover their own strengths together in Anna Freeman's The Fair Fight.

An investigator seeks to uncover the secrets a famous (and smoking hot) entrepreneur is hiding, but in Katy Evans's Manwhore, the tables may get turned regarding who ends up revealing what.

After the War Is Over, a historical fiction by Jennifer Robson, captures a military nurse's experience with life and love in the aftermath of World War I.

Eliza Redgold's Naked is the retelling of the story of Lady Godiva's famous naked ride through her husband's town in order to save the people from starving — but this version has a twist.

In her autobiography A Fine Romance, Candice Bergen shares the most memorable events in her life, like her marriage to a famous French director, having her daughter, her time as Murphy Brown, her husband's death, and then finding love again.

A codebreaker discovers a woman's 300-year-old journal and finds parallels between her life and the author of the diary. In Susanna Kearsley's A Desperate Fortune, the two women's stories collide in "a clash of love and fate."

Moms know everything, something many of us don't fully accept until we are much older. Listen to Your Mother, edited by Ann Imig, is a collection of hilarious, sometimes-raunchy, and always thought-provoking stories about personal experiences with race, gender, and motherhood.

The tragedies of the Dollanganger and Foxworth family are relived by another generation when Christopher's teenage diary falls into the hands of a distant relative. V.C. Andrews's newest novel, Christopher's Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger, is a thrilling follow-up to Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth.

Motorcycles I've Loved by Lily Brooks-Dalton is an empowering memoir about the author's journey to self-discovery and how motorcycles helped her get there.

Barbara the Slut and Other People is a dark, hilarious, and refreshingly honest collection of stories about love, intimacy, family, sex, coming out, and the slut-shaming culture that makes these experiences all the more difficult. Lauren Holmes's genius debut exposes the vulnerabilities of women, as well as their bravery and relatability.

Alison Jean Lester's Lillian on Life takes readers through decades of one woman's life as she looks back on the choices she has made and looks forward to what the future holds.

Take the missing wife premise of Gone Girl, set it in London, throw in a dysfunctional love triangle, give it an alcoholic trainwreck of a narrator, and you've got The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. If you're looking for a creepy mystery that'll turn you off marriage and keep you guessing until the end, this is the novel for you. I couldn't put it down.

We all know that Shakespeare was a genius, but where did he get inspiration? Andrea Chapin's The Tutor is a historical fiction that imagines what a year as Shakespeare's muse would have been like for one woman.

Set against the backdrop of Victorian London, Amanda Quick's Garden of Lies follows the compelling story of a woman and man tracking down a killer and finding romance along the way.

Sofie Callahan left town and Conner Burker two and half years ago without giving any reason for her departure. In Emma Hart's Dirty Past, the heartbroken man has questions for the woman he once loved, and he is demanding answers.

In Susan Crawford's The Pocket Wife, a woman with bipolar disorder can't remember if she murdered her best friend, and now she must put together the pieces to find out if she is in danger herself, or if she's the dangerous one.

Fates and Furies is an electric examination of a complicated and layered marriage over the course of 24 years. Vanity Fair says that "Lauren Groff rips at the seams of an outwardly perfect marriage" in the process of portraying it from two perspectives.

Mindy Kaling never fails to find ways to blend humor and wisdom in a way we can't resist, and her latest collection of essays, Why Not Me?, is no different. The actress and author shares her journey to finding contentment in life, career, love, and coming-of-age.

Growing up is hard enough, but a recently orphaned teenager has it even harder in Jenn Marie Thorne's YA novel, The Wrong Side of Right. She must deal with a new family, first love, and the fact that the father she barely knows is running for president — and she doesn't always agree with his politics.

In Holly LeCraw's The Half Brother, a love triangle evolves between a man, his half brother, and the woman they both have fallen for.

The Bachelor's very own Chris Harrison penned The Perfect Letter, a fictional novel that hopeless romantics and people who believe in happy endings will love.

Holly Black, author of the dark fantasy The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, returns with an action-packed romantic adventure, The Darkest Part of the Forest, about a world of fairies, magic, knights, and unlikely heroes.

The Witch of Painted Sorrows is a gothic novel set in 1890s belle epoque Paris about a young woman's escape from her dangerous husband and her discovery of the underground occult world that comes alive after dark in the city.

A harsh food critic and an aspiring chef find themselves going from fighting to falling in love in Amy E. Reichert's romantic novel The Coincidence of Coconut Cake.

The magic and mortal worlds collide in a London now ruled by a new king in Ryan Graudin's romance novel All That Burns, the fantastical sequel in the All that Glows series.

Suspense, a steamy love story, and a chilling plot — Jayne Ann Krentz's thriller Trust No One has got everything action-loving readers will enjoy.

In Never Sleep Alone, comedian and author Dr. Alex Schiller (not a real doctor) presents an interactive sex and dating guide that will entertain and inform readers.

A woman struggles to fix her past mistakes while trying to also juggle present obstacles in Jane Green's Summer Secret.

Chloe has learned the hard way what happens when you let someone get too close. In Jay McLean's Where the Road Takes Me, her promise to keep people at a distance is challenged when she meets someone who may take her down a road she never thought she'd go back to.

Pretty Little Liars star Shay Mitchell teamed up with her best friend Michaela Blaney to pen Bliss, a sexy and fun story about the lives of three best friends in their early 20s.

The ups and downs of love, trust, ambition, and loyalty are explored when three women cross paths in the south of France in Anita Hughes's French Coast.

In the rainy city of Seattle in the 1920s, a young white boy and African-American girl are kept apart by society, only to rediscover their connection over a shared love of music. The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough tells an intricate story woven by the two powerful external forces of Love and Death.

A couple's fragile love sustains them as they deal with an apocalyptic drought that has changed American society profoundly. Claire Vaye Watkins's Gold Fame Citrus is a glaring speculation into a future that doesn't seem quite so unthinkable, told in a moving and original way.

In a world divided by blood — Red for the lowly and Silver for the elite — Mare Barrow, a Red, must adapt quickly when she is thrown into the royal palace and forced to pretend she is something she isn't. In Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen, power, position, and passion are all part of this world's deadly dance.

A young woman leaves her family in rural Pakistan to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor at a New England college in the United States. When she begins to fall for an American boy, her brother attempts to intervene in order to protect his sister from American customs. In Lucy Ferriss's A Sister to Honor, lines between family, love, tradition, and loyalty become blurred.

Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of the magical Wicked series, is back with After Alice, a novel that puts a new spin on Lewis Carroll's classic.

Out Oct. 27

On her second day of college, Aspen Matis was raped by a fellow student. After struggling through the rest of the semester and feeling completely alone, she fled to the Mexican border, where she began a 2,650-mile walk through the desert, all the way to the mountains of Canada. Her memoir, Girl in the Woods, chronicles her five-month journey that was both dangerous and transformative as she was forced to face and overcome many obstacles from her past.

In Amy Alward's hilariously endearing YA novel The Potion Diaries, a princess accidentally doses herself with her own love potion, falls in love with her reflection, and must go on a magical journey for the cure.

In Colleen Oakley's Before I Go, a woman dying of breast cancer searches for a new wife for her husband before she passes on.

In Juliet Blackwell's The Paris Key, an American woman in Paris begins to uncover details of her family's past as she tries to find freedom from where she came from to determine what her future will be.

Ever been burned by love? Brenda Janowitz's fourth novel, The Lonely Hearts Club, is the story of Jo Waldman, a 22-year-old punk rocker who inadvertently starts an antilove movement that sweeps Manhattan.

If you were able, would you go back in time and do anything differently? One woman is given a chance to do just that in Beth Harbison's heartwarming novel If I Could Turn Back Time, about someone who is transported back to her 18-year-old self.

When her ex-husband moves to town with his new girlfriend, a now-single mother begins blogging about her made-up boyfriend. Problems arise in Amy Sue Nathan's The Good Neighbor when a very real love interest makes having a fake significant other very complicated.

Out Oct. 13

In this tender YA tale of an unlikely friendship between two girls coming of age together, Walking on Trampolines captures the essence of youth and the heartaches of growing pains.

Booklist says that readers will adore author Frances Whiting's "heart wrenchingly honest and utterly earnest tale of female friendship, unbreakable bonds, and learning to let go."

In Elisabeth Egan's A Window Opens, a mostly happy married mother of three is eager to take a chance to fulfill her professional goals — but quickly learns that with every opportunity, there is a price. She discovers that the goal shouldn't be trying to have it all; it should be trying to truly figure out what it is she wants out of life.

Megan experienced something so terrible, she refuses to speak about it — or at all. In Abbie Rushton's YA novel, Unspeakable, a girl torn apart by a secret is befriended by someone who brightens her days and who not only can help her recover, but will love her as she is.

Author D.C. Hallman contemplates "sex, book jackets, an old bed and breakfast, love, Monica Lewinsky, Paris, marriage, more sex, the logistics of libraries" in his novel B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal.

A young woman fleeing a Fascist Italy for America boards a boat to find freedom but also ends up falling in love. Pam Jenoff's historical fiction The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach begins in 1941 and follows a woman's path through war, tragedy, self-discovery, and reuniting with a lost love.

A psychic must delve into the secrets of an old friend and rival in order to fulfill her final request before she was murdered in Simone St. James's The Other Side of Midnight. This romantic suspense novel is a haunting tale of love, passion, friendship, and revenge.

In Debbie Macomber's Last One Home, a woman tries to make amends with her family after running away from home and marrying the wrong man.

In an attempt to heal from her past, Auburn Reed seeks out a job at an art studio where she finds an unexpected attraction between herself and the artist who works there. In Colleen Hoover's Confess, a secret threatens to ruin the relationship she has put her heart on the line for, but could the confession be even worse?

Paige's first boyfriend died in a car accident, and after two years, she's finally ready to return to high school. In Emery Lord's YA novel The Start of Me and You, her plans for a grand return go awry when she begins to fall for someone unexpected.

The Predictions by Bianca Zander is a "magical novel of fate, love, mistakes, and finding your place in the world."

After moving aimlessly around several cities and holding many meaningless jobs, a woman in her late 20s returns home, only to run into an old flame. When the night comes to an end, she has two choices: should she go home or see where the night leads with her ex? In Taylor Jenkins Reid's Maybe in Another Life, Hannah Martin's experience unfolds in two concurrent story lines — one plays out what would have happened if she left that night, and one shows what happens if she stays and potentially rekindles a romance. The book poses the question: is there such a thing as a soul mate?

This month, Scottish comedian Joanna Bolouri debuts her hilarious first novel, The List, about a scorned woman who has given up on love. She instead writes a list of the 10 things in bed she always wanted to try but never has, and she makes a goal to do them all in a year.

When a woman discovers that the man she loved — one she now knows to be a liar and adulterer — never really existed at all, she returns to her hometown for comfort. Nora Roberts's The Liar is a compelling novel full of hidden secrets, betrayal, and mystery.

Dr. Emily Nagoski's Come as You Are is an educated exploration into how a woman's sexuality works, and her research reveals surprising truths about how to maximize female pleasure.

When one woman finds herself in the middle of an intense love triangle, she is haunted by her own decisions and her increasing feelings that something is not quite right. Set against the backdrop of a New York City on high alert for a serial killer murdering young, single women, Sophie Jaff's gothic romance novel Love Is Red will have you on the edge of your seat.

Hannah Beckerman's The Dead Wife's Handbook is a touching novel about a wife and mother who dies unexpectedly and must watch from afar as her husband and daughter move on.

If you're in need of the perfect vacation read, look no further than Mary Kay Andrews's Beach Town. The story follows a frustrated movie scout who discovers the perfect location for her next film, but the formidable (and extremely attractive) town mayor has other plans.

Fantasy writer Anne Rice never disappoints, and the fourth installment in her Sleeping Beauty series promises to bring even more magic. Beauty's Kingdom is an erotic novel full of princes, princesses, lords and ladies, and lots of sex.

In Dennis Mahoney's dark fantasy Bell Weather, a man rescues a mysterious woman from a river only to realize that their fates are more intertwined than he expected.

Finding love today is way more complicated than it was for previous generations. Stand-up comedian Aziz Ansari teamed up with sociologist Eric Klinenberg for a look into the evolution of how we love in the modern age, and with a combination of humor and expert knowledge, Modern Romance is as informative as it is entertaining.

Passion, heart-wrenching affairs, and high-society lifestyles all collide in Charles Dubow's Girl in the Moonlight, a novel about a man in love with an enchanting woman since childhood and their whirlwind romance.

After a plane crash leaves three small children, 19-year-old Avery, and her swim teammate Colin alive, the two older survivors must find a way to get them all to safety. Claire Kells's Girl Underwater is a story of perseverance, survival, and new love.

Mother/daughter duo Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella present a collection of hilarious true confessions that all women can relate to. Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat? is about seizing the day and learning to laugh at yourself and at this crazy world.

An elderly woman finds her mother's long-lost pendant, and in Julia MacDonnell's Mimi Malloy, at Last!, this discovery brings back painful and shocking revelations for a family, forcing them to face the past head-on and find the positives.

In Amy Scheibe's A Fireproof Home For the Bride, a woman escapes the confines of her abusive arranged marriage and her family's questionable morals and, in doing so, gets a job at a local newspaper and falls into a forbidden love affair.

Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood author Alida Nugent is back with her collection of autobiographical essays titled You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism. "From the 'scarlet F' thrust upon you if you declare yourself a feminist at a party to how to handle judgmental store clerks when you buy Plan B," this book will warm your feminist heart.

Out Oct. 20

Anna Todd's successful One Direction-based fan fiction series continues to thrive with the release of its fourth installment, After Ever Happy, which picks up where lovers Tessa and Hardin last left off.

Love, Fortunes, and Other Disasters by Kimberly Karalius is an adventurous magical realism novel about a young girl whose fortune tells her she will never find love and her quest to prove fate wrong.

Margaret Dilloway's Sisters of Heart and Snow deftly weaves the story of two daughters of an American businessman and his passive Japanese wife with that of an ancient female samurai into one epic tale of love, family, and finding the inspiration to be warrior women no matter the age or era.

Nick Hornby — author of High Fidelity and About a Boy — has returned with Funny Girl, a novel about a young woman in the 1960s who deviates from her original path to be a beauty queen in order to pursue a career in comedy.

Tina Seskis's thriller One Step Too Far follows a seemingly happy married woman who hides a dark secret. Publishers Weekly says that Seskis "expertly depicts the new life of a runaway wife, Emily Coleman, in her exciting if not groundbreaking first novel. . . . a diverting read."

If whatever you wrote as your Facebook status became your reality, what kind of changes to your life would you make? Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke's novel The Status of All Things follows a woman as she attempts to thwart fate and win back her ex-fiancé, only to come to the realization that maybe they weren't meant to be after all.

Going Home by James D. Shipman is a Civil War novel about an injured soldier and his nurse finding love in light of tragedy.

This YA novel touches on the sensitive subject of suicide — something that both the male and female protagonists bond over as they plan their own. In My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga, two young people begin to find a reason to live in each other, but is it enough for them?

Author Rachel Hills breaks down social taboos about women and sex in a novel that is "equal parts social commentary, pop culture, and powerful personal anecdotes from people across the English-speaking world." The Sex Myth aims to expose the "invisible norms and unspoken assumptions that shape the way we think about sex today."

Secrets have a way of coming back to haunt us. In Diane Chamberlain's Pretending to Dance, a woman's mysterious past threatens to come to light when she begins the process of adopting a child.

Two love affairs: one in the past and one in the present. William Nicholson's Amherst follows parallel passionate tales occurring in the same city, but at different times.

A dysfunctional family comes together for a Summer at their Cape Cod beach house, and in Wendy Francis's heartfelt novel The Summer of Good Intentions, the loved ones must confront their issues and find common ground for all of their sakes.

In The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah captures the essence of WWII Europe while telling the story of a brave young woman who is betrayed by love, then joins a resistance within France to save the lives of those suffering under the Nazis.

Emmy and Oliver were best friends as children, until Oliver was kidnapped and taken away by his own dad. Robin Benway's YA novel deals with the aftermath of the crime and how both Emmy and Oliver cope with what's happened on their paths back to each other.

Ellen Herrick's debut novel, The Sparrow Sisters, is a haunting fairy-tale-like novel with three sisters, a small town, and magical love.

Arial has kept her psychic powers a secret her whole life, but an enemy begins to threaten her life. In Maya Banks's In His Keeping, one man is employed to protect her from danger — but what began as a job develops into something more.

Two teens plagued by heartbreak reluctantly find solace in one another in Ann Aguirre's YA romance The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things.

Marian Keyes is back with a hilarious book that tells the story of beautician Stella Sweeney, a self-help writer who develops a rare autoimmune disease. The Woman Who Stole My Life is about love, resilience, and finding the positive during difficult times.

Bestselling author Margaret Atwood tackles some seriously heavy topics in her chilling novel The Heart Goes Last. When a couple is down on their luck, they jump at an opportunity to participate in a social experiment offering stable jobs and a home of their own — when all they have to do in return is give up their freedom every second month by staying in a prison cell. Everything seems fine at first, but as the couple becomes obsessed with the two people who occupy their house when they are in prison, the pressure of what they have committed to begins to be too much.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez's collection of stories, Lovers on All Saints' Day, showcases his beautiful prose while exploring themes such as love and memory.

Juliet's perfect life is shattered when her dad moves out and her mom falls apart, and she begins to question all she's ever known. Then, enter Declan — an attractive (and very off-limits) boy. In Melissa Kantor's Better Than Perfect, a young girl must choose between the life she had and one she never ever thought possible.

After losing the man she loved, Louisa Clark struggles to find her footing again. In Jojo Moyes's sequel to Me Before You, After You, one woman navigates life and relationships as she tries to learn to fall in love again.

In her new revealing memoir, Down the Rabbit Hole, famous former Playboy bunny Holly Madison reveals what the mysterious (and sexy) world at the Playboy Mansion was really like.

When a man and woman base their new relationship on a web of white lies, they must work to untangle the mess they've made if they want even the chance at real love. In Patti Callahan Henry's romance novel that takes place in the heart of the South, The Idea of Love, two people have to rediscover their own truths for the sake of each other.

After a chance meeting in a hospital as children, Rachel and Andy think they will never see each other again. But in Jennifer Weiner's warmhearted novel Who Do You Love, the two continue to meet by chance, linked by something inexplicable and destined to change each other's lives.

Get the real — and often dramatic — dish on what sorority life is really like in Taylor Bell's Dirty Rush.

When two girls show up at a man's funeral claiming they are his girlfriend, they both realize they have been deceived. Not believing he is truly dead, the women set out on a thrilling trip in search of what really happened. Anne Heltzel's Charlie, Presumed Dead is a suspenseful mystery that twists and turns all the way to the very last page.

Alexandra Jamieson, a holistic health counselor and costar of Super Size Me, explores women's cravings for food, sleep, and sex in Women, Food, and Desire.

Maria Dahvana Headley's YA fantasy Magonia is about a girl trapped between "two worlds, two races, and two destinies." Suffering from a lung disease her whole life, Aza discovers another world where she can finally breathe, but only one person — her best friend Jason — believes her, until she disappears into that world.

Fans of The Fault in Our Stars and Eleanor & Park will love Jennifer Niven's YA novel All the Bright Places, a story about a girl learning how to live from a boy who wants to die.

Joan Didion is known for both her incredible fiction and screenplays, as well as her honest essays, literary journalism, and non-fiction. Critically acclaimed author Tracy Daugherty delves into the life of the literary great with the first biography ever written about the author. Fans of Didion won't be able put The Last Love Song down.

We've all imagined what it would be like to date prince charming, but Rebecca Porter finds this to be her reality when she falls for Prince Nicholas, Great Britain's fictional future king. In The Royal We, an American girl who is out of her depth in the ritzy royal society must find a way to reconcile the man she loves with "the monarch he's fated to become."

A woman fleeing her abusive husband seeks refuge and serenity far away from the city she was in and finds a job as a home health aide to a man who was in a terrible car accident. In Mary McNear's Moonlight on Butternut Lake, two people marred by tragedy unexpectedly (and rather reluctantly) find comfort in one another.

Krassi Zourkova's enchanting debut novel, Wildalone, weaves fantasy and magic into a modern world where one woman finds herself in the middle of a love triangle between two brothers.

Two sisters — one whose marriage ended in divorce and the other whose marriage is threatening to crumble — look to their parents's perfect marriage to find an example to follow. However, in Kristan Higgins's If You Only Knew, the women learn that not everything is ever as it seems, love can be found where (and when) you least expect it, and the only way to get over the past is to embrace the future.

Love can be challenging no matter who you are, but different personality types can often deal with unique issues. Introverts in Love: The Quiet Way to Happily Ever After is a helpful dating guide for navigating romance from an introvert's perspective.

Bestselling author Marisa de los Santos's The Precious One, told from the alternating perspectives of two estranged sisters, captures the essence of family, friendship, love, and the hope of second chances.

Single mother Ally Hughes has no time for dating — she's too busy teaching, raising her daughter, and dealing with her own mother. Still, the Brown University professor does form a unique bond with one of her students, Jake, who challenges her to open up about life and love. Fast forward ten years, and Ally is still single but her daughter isn't — in fact, she brings home Jake to her mother. Jules Moulin's Ally Hughes Has Sex Sometimes is about a woman's journey toward figuring out that an "independent, 'liberated' woman can still make room in her life for love."

In Abigail Tarttelin's YA fiction Flick, a boy can't wait to get out of his small town and forgettable life . . . until a breath of fresh air in the form of a girl named Rainbow blows in.

How did one woman go from being Mark Twain's beloved secretary who ran his life to a someone he was determined to destroy? In Lynn Cullen's Twain's End, she reimagines the tangled relationships between Twain, Isabel V. Lyon, and Ralph Ashcroft (his former secretary and her husband), as well as the "little-known love triangle" between Helen Keller, her teacher Anne Sullivan Macy, and Anne's husband, John Macy.

Out Oct. 13

Cordelia Jensen's novel Skyscraping is a unique take on LGBTQ fiction, one that explores the dynamics of a girl's family and friendships after finding out that her dad is gay and battling HIV.

Fans of Sarah Dessen will love Lauren Gibaldi's YA novel The Night We Said Yes, about a boy and girl who give their love a second shot on a night when they say "yes" to every crazy or fun thing they can think of doing.

TV host and bestselling author Wendy Williams debuts her sexier side in Hold Me in Contempt, a down-and-dirty romance novel about a couple's passionate affair turning into something much more.

Jen Lancaster wants you to know something important: mistakes are one thing; regrets are something else entirely. In her memoir I Regret Nothing, she shares her hilarious ride after creating and attempting to complete an ambitious bucket list.

In a world where "memory relief" or memory-erasing science not unlike the kind in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind exists, a man who wants to forget his feelings for another man struggles with letting go of his newfound happiness or facing his obstacles head on. Teen Vogue says that Adam Silvera's More Happy Than Not is "poignant . . . so engrossing that once you start it, you won't be able to put it down."

A young detective and a mystery writer team up to uncover the truth about what really happened 10 years before when a baby boy went missing. Kate Morton's The Lake House is a perfect mixture of romance, mystery, and thrill.

Out Oct. 20

Lovers of all things Jane Austen will enjoy A School For Brides by Patrice Kindl, who pens a lighthearted story about Winthrop Hopkins Female Academy, a school women attend with the purpose of getting married off.

Sometimes it's hard to see what's right in front of us, and in Christina Lauren's sexy novel Dark Wild Night, two friends try to ignore their feelings for each other, but it's WAY easier said than done. For a steamy, will-they-won't-they kind of romance, crack this open — and be prepared for blushing and cold showers to ensue.

Fans of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series will be eager to get their hands on Written in My Own Heart's Blood, the most recent installment of the riveting historical fantasy series.

A Master Plan is two love stories — but not told in the typical way. Janis Cooke Newman weaves together the lives of two men who have suffered tragedy and lost loved ones, and through their friendship, the two dream to make the impossible happen and prove that love lives on long after someone is gone.

If the person you loved disappeared without a trace, how far would you go to get them back? In Maya Banks's Safe at Last, a boy believes he has lost the girl he loves, only to find her broken and stripped of her psychic gifts. Realizing she is a target, he vows to earn her trust again and save her from her enemies once and for all.

An FBI agent's world is turned upside down when a sexy Navy SEAL from her past returns to shake up the case she's working on in Beyond Limits, Laura Griffin's eighth installment of the Tracers series.

After a heartbreaking tragedy, Dr. Alison McAdams goes to Napa, CA, to care for her sick dad. While she's there, she hears World War II stories from survivors and becomes determined to discover the truth about one woman's long-lost love — and in the process begins to heal herself, too. Jane Porter's It's You is the perfect poolside Summer story.

I. W. Gregorio's groundbreaking YA book None of the Above is about a young girl who discovers she is intersex and how her friends, family, and peers deal with this revelation.

In Catherine McKenzie's Smoke, a former firefighter — recently divorced and trying to cope — reunites with an ex-friend with her own familial struggles as an encroaching wildfire threatens a town.

Out Oct. 20

Blueprints by Barbara Delinsky is a story about the complicated dynamics of a family, the novelty of love no matter when in life you find it, and the importance of a good home makeover.

Paris is perhaps one of the most romantic cities in the world. Sarah's Key author Tatiana de Rosnay's A Paris Affair is a collection of passionate, humorous, and heartfelt love stories.

Hilarious and poignant, Stephanie Clifford's Everybody Rise is a novel about social class, old money and new money, friendship, family, and the universal desire to fit in somewhere — one that anyone, no matter who they are, can relate to.

Laura Dave's Eight Hundred Grapes is a story about "the messy realities of family, the strength and weaknesses of romantic love, and the importance of finding a place to call home."

A woman's predictable life is altered forever when her husband dies unexpectedly on a family trip. Soon after, she meets a famous country star, who opens his world to her. She has to decide if she is willing to let go of what she knows and seize the moment. Danielle Steel's Country is a perfect Summer romance novel that will leave readers eager to seize the day.

Self-proclaimed introvert Issa Rae navigates work, life, and love in a series of hilarious and often self-deprecating essays that make up her memoir, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl.

Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri's A Field Guide to Awkward Silences is a literary anthem for everyone out there who has ever said or done something hilariously embarrassing, cringeworthy, or just plain awkward. The author's authentic humor will teach us all to embrace the awkward in ourselves, because it definitely makes things more interesting.

Falling For Jillian, the third installment of the Love Under the Big Sky series, follows the romance between a veteran with PTSD and the woman trying to help him recover and find love again.

When a woman is swept off her feet by a mysterious man who marries her and takes her away from her working-class life, everything seems perfect. But in Erica Spindler's The First Wife, things aren't as they seem for the new bride, and her husband's past begins to haunt the present.

Ellen Hopkins's Love Lies Beneath depicts the ups and downs of a woman's love affair — one that may either lift her up or tear her down completely.

Bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries is back with The Art of Sinning, a tantalizing tale of mystery, scandal, and romance.

In Neel Shah and Skye Chatham's charming novel Read Bottom Up, a romance blooms between a recently dumped NYC sous chef on the rise and a cookbook editor looking for love.

Katherine Heiny's debut book Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories is a laugh-out-loud-funny look at the ways that we all are unfaithful to each other — both on purpose and accidentally.

Not That Kind of Girl author and Girls star Lena Dunham says Heiny's work "does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve — and makes you laugh along the way."

Frank and Ava: In Love and War is an eye-opening roller coaster ride through the passionate love affair between famous actress Ava Gardner and musical legend Frank Sinatra.

Out Oct. 13

Alice Clayton's addictive Cocktail series continues with Last Call, another sexy story about Caroline and Simon that has the couple facing a new kind of hurdle in their relationship.

Bachelor fans will love the insights in For the Right Reasons that Sean Lowe, a former contestant on the show and a particular fan favorite, has to offer on love, marriage, and being considered the "nice guy."

In her latest book, Has Anyone Seen My Pants?, New York Times bestselling author and comedian Sarah Colonna honestly and hilariously recounts the challenges she faces when trying to balance a busy professional career with her love life.

In what Booklist calls a "historical fiction with appeal to both romance and adventure fans," Susan Crandall's The Flying Circus tells the tale of two daredevils and a farm boy on a journey full of planes, danger, and love — all set against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties.

Fans of Rainbow Rowell will fall in love with Simon and Baz, two rivals (and roommates) at a school for magic. Carry On is the follow-up to Rowell's heartwarming YA novel Fangirl and is an absolute must read for anyone who is a sucker for sweet love stories.

When Felicity Wright inherits the hotel where she works as a chef, she will do anything to keep it running — including getting mixed up with the former owner's attractive nephew. Gerri Russell's Flirting With Felicity is a sweet story about a romance that's a recipe for disaster.

Gia has a problem: her boyfriend dumped her the night of her prom. Her solution? Ask the cute stranger in the parking lot to pretend to be her boyfriend for the night. Kasie West's The Fill-In Boyfriend is a romantic YA novel about a young girl's quest to find love and the things she learns about herself in the process.

Tamsen Fadal's The New Single: Finding, Fixing, and Falling Back in Love With Yourself After a Breakup or Divorce is the empowering postbreakup survival guide readers need.

A successful account executive juggles her recent divorce, a beautiful (and much younger) new colleague, and a potential romance that seems like the stuff of fantasies rather than real life. Liza Palmer's Girl Before a Mirror tells the story of a woman finding her own happiness while embracing all of the good and bad that life brings.

If the Viscount Falls, the sexy fourth book in the Duke's Men Regency romance series by Sabrina Jeffries, tells a story of adventure and passion in another place in time.

Kate Alcott's novel A Touch of Stardust takes readers behind the scenes of filming Gone With the Wind and delves into detail about the romances of the real-life Rhett Butler, Clark Gable.

Paula McLain's Circling the Sun brings famous female aviator Beryl Markham to life by detailing her record-setting career as a pilot as well as the passionate love triangle between herself, a female writer, and a safari hunter.

Nancy Thayer's The Guest Cottage follows a woman's story after her husband leaves her and she rents a cottage by the beach — but finds that another man has also rented the same cottage.

Booklist says that "Thayer obviously knows her Nantucket, and the strong sense of place makes this the perfect escapist book for the summer."

In Sarah Addison Allen's First Frost, the Waverly women are searching for answers and finding them in the most unexpected places. In this enchanting world filled with magic and set against the backdrop of impending Winter, anything is possible.

A family of women "separated by oceans, generations, and war" is connected by one unique thing: they all have wings. Michele Young-Stone's magical novel Above Us Only Sky is a story of survival, love, and finding your place in the world.

On the surface, Lainie Smith Morris is completely content with her life in a wealthy suburb of New York City, but her picture-perfect world is shattered by betrayal. Susannah Marren's Between the Tides explores the intricacies of marriage, family, and friendship.

From Rachel Joyce, the author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, comes The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, a love story about Queenie Hennessy, the friend who inspired Harold’s cross-country journey in the original bestselling novel.

In 1777 British-occupied New York, an actress secretly writing rebellious plays gets put on the hanging list for her actions, but in Mistress Firebrand by Donna Thorland, a British intelligence officer who has fallen for her might be the only who can save her.

A family's world begins to fall apart when a husband's secrets are unexpectedly discovered. In Julia Pierpont's Among the Ten Thousand Things, the bonds between husband and wife and parents and children are tested in this emotional, honest, and relatable novel.

Two women "at opposite ends of the beauty spectrum" face the same same problem: each fears she won't find someone to love her who can overcome her looks. Amanda Filipacchi's The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty explores the complexities of relationships amid beauty, love, desire, and personal identity.

In Sabaa Tahir's An Ember in the Ashes, a girl and boy both beholden to a corrupt government regime — she as a slave and he as a solider — seek freedom from the tyranny and realize just how connected they really are.

A large part of our 20s are often spent in a cloud of existential angst, and in Karina Halle's Where Sea Meets Sky, a young man's quest to New Zealand to find the woman he loves perfectly captures the essence of that exciting and sometimes tumultuous period of our lives.

After a life of feeling like she didn't fit in with her own family, Sydney meets the Chatham family and finally feels accepted. In bestselling author Sarah Dessen's Saint Anything, one girl meets people who love her for who she is — including a quiet boy who truly sees her first the first time in her life.

From the author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel comes Heartbreak Hotel, a charming story about a retired actor who moves from London to rural Wales and meets a colorful collection of guests.

In J.S. Cooper's second installment of the Swept Away series, Disillusioned, two strangers stranded on a desert island begin to fall in love — but can they trust each other?

The Cherry Harvest by Lucy Sanna is a historical fiction that weaves in the setting of the American Midwest during WWII with numerous plots exploring themes like coming of age, family, romance, and war.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Tyler's latest novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, builds a rich story about four generations of a family going through the ups and downs of life together, all set against the backdrop of a sprawling Baltimore estate.

If your sister is a mermaid, what does that make you? Carrie Anne Noble's magical YA novel The Mermaid's Sister chronicles the adventures of three young girls in their attempt to get a weakening mermaid to water.

In a novel that's "Madame Bovary meets Fifty Shades of Grey," Jill Alexander Essbaum's Hausfrau packs romance, sex, and infidelity into the story about a woman searching for meaning in her life.

The New York Times's bestselling Princess Diaries series is debuting its very first adult installment of Princess Mia's story with Royal Wedding.

In Jill Mansell's Three Amazing Things About You, a woman who is dying must learn to seize the day and the man she loves . . . before it's too late.

In Nicholas Sparks's newest romance novel See Me, a man and woman — both recovering from their difficult pasts — find each other in the process of rebuilding themselves.

Out Oct. 13

A woman in New England rediscovers romance and works to rebuild family ties — all over sweet treats and tea — in Belinda Jones's novel The Traveling Tea Shop.

A real-estate broker thinks her life is perfect — until she discovers her old Someday jar that holds her childhood wishes written on the back of fortune cookies. In Allison Morgan's The Someday Jar, one woman realizes that life is too short for regrets and decides to do something about it.

Bethenny Frankel has built herself a successful career as an author, businesswoman, and TV star but hasn't always had the best of luck in love. In her new book, I Suck at Relationships So You Don't Have To, she lays out 10 rules for not screwing up your relationship so that you can avoid some of the same mistakes she says she's made.

From reclusive painters, to speed-boat racers, to swing dancers, Megan Mayhew Bergman's Almost Famous Women explores the lives of some pretty spectacular females.

After her husband of 55 years passes away, 78-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively embarks upon an Alaskan cruise that he had planned before his death. In Jonathan Evison's This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!, a woman takes a journey to figure out her future but instead is confronted with her past. The novel, which is "part dysfunctional love story, part poignant exploration of the mother-daughter relationship," is ultimately a warmhearted tale of "acceptance, reexamination, and forgiveness."

A fiercely independent American woman finds herself unexpectedly falling in love with a Japanese businessman who doesn't speak English in Tracy Slater's thoughtful novel The Good Shufu.

When Emma is about to walk down the aisle, she begins to have doubts about whether she's making the right decision. In Amy FitzHenry's Cold Feet, a woman ditches her wedding, hops in a car with her best friend, and embarks on a road trip to San Francisco that will lead her to her long-lost father and a path of family issues she'll be forced to confront.

An ordinary housewife has dreamt of the same man every night her whole life — a man who isn't her husband — and then she meets him in person. Bridget Foley's Hugo & Rose is an imaginative novel about what happens when fantasy and reality collide.

Elyssa Friedland's "wickedly funny" debut novel, Love and Miss Communication, is about a lawyer who throws herself into work after a devastating breakup, only to encounter problems with her career as well. Reeling from both, she tosses her computer into a reservoir and vows to remain offline until her 35th birthday — and she is shocked to discover what's she's been missing out while stuck to a screen.

Dear Carolina is a Southern story about strong women, difficult decisions, and what friendship and family really means.

With intensity and "a seamless balance of wit and heartbreak," author Heidi Pitlor explores and exposes the darker and more difficult sides of a marriage in The Daylight Marriage.

What do you do when your cousin says bringing a date to their wedding is mandatory? Well, you turn to Craigslist and go on a countrywide adventure to find a date, of course. At least, that's what Mike and Dave Stangle chronicle in their hilarious book, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates: And a Thousand Cocktails.

A murderous boy king takes a new bride each night, then kills them, but one woman plans to fight back. She enchants and beguiles him in order to survive, but in the process begins to realize that he is not the monster she thought he was. Renée Ahdieh's The Wrath and the Dawn is what Publishers Weekly calls "a potent page-turner of intrigue and romance."

A mother and daughter navigate love — both in the past and present — in Sàntà Montefiore's romantic novel The Beekeeper's Daughter.

Two young women are kidnapped when they are 12 years old and spend two months held captive by a handsome and oddly charismatic stranger. Maggie Mitchell's Pretty Is follows the stories of the two girls as they grow up and deal with the aftermath of their abductions.

Melissa Kite's hilarious memoir, The Art of Not Having It All: True Stories of Men, Sex, and Other Disasters, is a look into her own life as a single woman in her prime who doesn't have it all figured out — and the realization that having it all isn't always what it's cracked up to be.

Danielle Steel is back again with another thrilling novel, this time about a fragile woman's relationship with an undercover DEA agent. Set in Paris, Undercover follows Ariana Gregory as she tries to escape her past with the help of a man determined to keep her safe from the dark forces pursuing her.

When a woman's husband dies tragically and she inherits his family home, she travels south to where he grew up. In Karen White's The Sound of Glass, buried secrets of domestic violence and complicated family relationships are unearthed.

Things We Know by Heart by Jessi Kirby is not quite your average YA romance novel. In the story, a young girl meets the recipient of a heart donation that came from her ex-boyfriend who died in an accident and, despite her reservations, begins to fall for him.

Spouses Lisa Grunwald and Stephen Adler, encouraged both by their own experiences and by love stories from others, created The Marriage Book, an anthology of advice, inspiration, and cautionary tales for married couples.

A young woman moves to Paris and is handed everything she thinks she needs to be happy by a her wealthy lover, but in Paris, He Said, she learns that happiness doesn't always lie where we think it does.

Jason Starr's Savage Lane is a dark domestic thriller that follows one divorced woman living next to a married neighbor who begins showing an obsessive and undesired interest in her. Set in the suburbs, the novel is a riveting look at the deterioration of marriage and obsessive love.

Water For Elephants author Sara Gruen returns with another period piece, At the Water's Edge, a novel set against the backdrop of World War II. In the book, a young woman, her husband, and their friend leave the world they know behind in America in search of the Loch Ness Monster — but they discover something else entirely in the small Scottish village they wind up in.

If you love the drama, magic, and glamour of Old Hollywood, then get your hands on a copy of Adriana Trigiani's All the Stars in the Heavens, a novel about two young women crossing paths in 1930s Tinseltown.

Out Oct. 13