Even though Valentine’s Day just passed, love is still in the air! Here are some young adult romance novels to read to keep the spirit of love in the air! 

The Deal by Elle Kennedy 

Hannah Wells is making a deal with the hockey team’s captain. If Garrett Graham wants to stay on the team, he needs to get the best grade possible on his retake midterm. So who will he go to for help? The student who got a great grade. Hannah. After bugging her nonstop, she agrees on one term. He has to help her get with the football team’s star player, Justin. These two start to get closer while fake dating and studying. But we all know what happens when two people fake date. It does not stay fake for long. Hannah and Garrett open up to each other about more than they have ever said out loud before. These two come from completely different atmospheres but they connect very easily. At the end of the study sessions and fake dates, will Hannah still want Justin or will she be going for Garrett? This book is the first book in the in the Off Campus series followed by: The Mistake, The Score and The Goal. There is a spin-off series that comes after this series called the Briar U Series. The order of those four books are: The Chase, The Risk, The Play and The Dare. 

All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover

Quinn and Graham have an imperfect marriage. These two met when their significant others were cheating on them with each other. Years later, Quinn and Graham end up falling in love and getting married. Their story is shown from the past and present, alternating between the two every other chapter. When they got married, they wrote each other a love letter and put it in a wooden box, promising to open it on their 25th anniversary or if everything goes wrong. They dreamed of starting a family together, before they found out that the chances of Quinn getting pregnant were very slim. This story will make you feel every emotion possible and you will not be able to put the book down. 

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

Once Lily moves out of her small hometown in Maine, everything starts to seem too good to be true. She moved to Boston after graduation from college and started her own business. She also started dating Ryle, a gorgeous neurosurgeon. Ryle is stuck in Lily’s head even though he is against dating. But he may just bend that rule for Lily. But when these two get very close someone comes back into the picture: Lily’s first love who she has not seen since he ran away years ago, Atlas Corrigan. With these two men in her life she has one decision to make. Who will she give her heart to? 

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before Trilogy by Jenny Han

Lara Jean has always kept her crushes a secret. Instead of talking about them, she wrote letters and kept them in a box at the top of her closet. She wrote five letters throughout her life. One to her neighbor and sister’s boyfriend, Josh. One to Peter Kavinsky, who is dating her ex best friend. Kenny from camp. John Ambrose McClaren from Model UN and Lucas James. When these five letters get out, one by one the guys get them. When Peter gets his, him and Lara Jean start an agreement so she can make Josh jealous and he can make his ex-girlfriend, Gen, jealous. But, like I said before,  fake dating doesn’t stay fake for long. 

If you have seen the movies, definitely check out the books they are 10x better! This book is also part of a trilogy therefore there are two other books after it: P.S. I Still Love You and Always and Forever, Lara Jean. 

The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy by Jenny Han

Isabel “Belly” Conklin measures her years in summers. She counts down constantly until she can go back to Cousins Beach. Every summer of her life, Belly has gone down to Cousins beach with her mom and older brother Steven staying with her mom’s best friend, Susannah, and her two sons, Jeremiah and Conrad. This summer is the last summer the four will all be together before the boys start to go to college. Belly wants to make this summer the most memorable because it may be the last one at Cousins. Belly has always had a crush on Conrad. But who didn’t? This summer may just be the year she will get to be with the boy she has always dreamed of being with. But you can’t always get what you want. This book travels through Belly’s summer at Cousins beach. It is a short read and has two books after it: It’s Not Summer Without You and We’ll Always Have Summer. This book is also being made into an Amazon Prime TV show within the next two years!

My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Samantha Reed has lived next to the Garretts for the past 10 years. She is from a prim and proper household while the Garretts are always having fun in their loud household of 10. Samantha sat on her rooftop all the time looking down at the Garretts’ home, wishing she was part of that family, until one night when she ends up meeting Jase Garrett and he turns her world upside down. She gets an inside of how his family is and how fun they are. It all is perfect. Except that she has to hide her relationship with Jase from her mom. Why? His mom hates their family. She believes they are too loud and obnoxious for her perfect life. She learns about love, family and friendship through the Garretts and of course she learns what it’s like to be in love. But when Samantha is faced with an impossible decision, she will have to see which perfect family will save her.