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Colleen Hoover books in order · Colleen Hoover reading order · 20 books · 2012 to 2023

Colleen Hoover Books in Order and Reading Order

Thriller and suspenseRomanceLiterary and generalYoung adultPsychological suspenseContemporary romanceFamily and book clubYA romance and contemporary

Colleen Hoover writes emotional contemporary romance and, more recently, psychological thrillers. It Ends with Us, about a young woman in a relationship that turns abusive, became one of the bestselling novels of the decade, and Verity introduced her to thriller readers.

Best estimate, compiled from series guides, publisher descriptions and reviews where available, and from memory otherwise. Book level only, not chapter level. Minor includes cameos and brief references. Each book carries a confidence rating in its tooltip. Novellas and the books written with Tarryn Fisher are left out. Most of her novels are standalones; the linked books are charted by series.

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Colleen Hoover books in order

Where to start: It Ends with Us with It Ends with Us (2016); Slammed with Slammed (2012); Hopeless with Hopeless (2012); Maybe Someday with Maybe Someday (2014). There are 20 books in all, published from 2012 to 2023, across 6 series and groups.

The Colleen Hoover reading order: each series in publication order, with its lead characters. Where the story runs in a different order, switch to Story order. Crossover books are marked and listed under their main series. Use My books to track what you have read.

See the Colleen Hoover reading flowchart: every series side by side, with first appearances and crossovers.

It Ends with Us

2 books · Set in BostonContemporary romanceFamily and book club
  1. 1It Ends with Us2016With Lily BloomBuy on Amazon
  2. 2It Starts with Us2022With Lily Bloom and Atlas CorriganBuy on Amazon

Slammed

3 books · Set in Ypsilanti, MichiganContemporary romanceYA romance and contemporary
  1. 1Slammed2012With Layken Cohen and Will CooperBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Point of Retreat2012With Layken Cohen and Will CooperBuy on Amazon
  3. 3This Girl2013With Layken Cohen and Will CooperBuy on Amazon

Hopeless

2 books · Set in TexasContemporary romanceYA romance and contemporary
  1. 1Hopeless2012With Sky and Dean HolderBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Losing Hope2013With Dean HolderBuy on Amazon

Maybe Someday

2 books · Set in AustinContemporary romance
  1. 1Maybe Someday2014With Sydney Blake and Ridge LawsonBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Maybe Now2018With Sydney Blake and Ridge LawsonBuy on Amazon

Standalone

9 booksContemporary romance
  1. 1Ugly Love2014With Tate Collins and Miles Archer · Set in San FranciscoBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Confess2015With Auburn Reed and Owen Gentry · Set in DallasBuy on Amazon
  3. 3November 92015With Fallon O’Neil and Ben Kessler · Set in Los AngelesBuy on Amazon
  4. 4Without Merit2017With Merit Voss · Set in TexasBuy on Amazon
  5. 5All Your Perfects2018With Quinn and Graham · Set in an American cityBuy on Amazon
  6. 6Regretting You2019With Morgan Grant and Clara Grant · Set in an American townBuy on Amazon
  7. 7Heart Bones2020With Beyah Grim and Samson · Set in the Bolivar Peninsula, TexasBuy on Amazon
  8. 8Layla2020With Leeds Gabriel · Set in TexasBuy on Amazon
  9. 9Reminders of Him2022With Kenna Rowan and Ledger Ward · Set in WyomingBuy on Amazon

Standalone thrillers

2 books · Mostly set in TexasPsychological suspense
  1. 1Verity2018With Lowen Ashleigh · Set in VermontBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Too Late2023With SloanBuy on Amazon

Who appears in which book

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Characters

32 recurring and key characters, with the book each one first appears in.

Boston

Slammed

Hopeless

Maybe Someday

Standalone leads

Thriller leads

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