If you’re a hopeless romantic looking for your next read, you might want to check out these love at first sight books that will make you believe in love and romance again!
Falling in love at first sight is a common trope in romantic literature, and these books explore the theme in unique and captivating ways. You might already know about classic romances like Pride and Prejudice, so I will not add those books to this list. Instead, you will find books that are popular in the romance genre and should be read by everyone who’s a fan of a romance with something spicy to heat things up!
I am sure I don’t need to explain what “love at first sight” means because it is self-explanatory! Two people see each other and are attracted and develop feelings almost instantly. Sometimes, it may take a little bit of time for feelings to develop, but there’s an instant attraction between the two that changes something in them.
In this article, we will see some of the best love at first sight books that take this concept and create a breathtaking story out of it! Let’s get started, and I hope you’ll love to read these books!
Most Romantic Love At First Sight Books of 2024
1. Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith
Pony just wants to fly under the radar during senior year. Tired from all the attention he got at his old school after coming out as transgender, he’s looking for a fresh start at Hillcrest High. But it’s hard to live your best life when the threat of exposure lurks down every hallway and in every bathroom.
Georgia is beginning to think there’s more to life than cheerleading. She plans on keeping a low profile until graduation… which is why she promised herself that dating was officially a no-go this year.
Then, on the first day of school, the new guy and the cheerleader lock eyes. How is Pony supposed to stay stealthy when he wants to get close to a girl like Georgia? How is Georgia supposed to keep her promise when sparks start flying with a boy like Pony?
2. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
Timing is everything in this romantic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour period, Hadley and Oliver discover that true love can be found in unexpected places.
Today should be one of the worst days of Hadley Sullivan’s life. Having just missed her flight, she’s stuck at the airport and late to her father’s wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley’s never even met. Then, she encounters the perfect boy in the airport’s cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he’s British, and he’s sitting in her row.
A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more?
3. That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming
Cheesemaker Brie has the world’s worst luck in love, which is how she ends up falling for a lactose-intolerant werewolf in this raunchy, laugh-out-loud rom-com fantasy by the genre’s freshest new voice, Kimberly Lemming.
Brie’s never been particularly coordinated… or lucky. Who else would accidentally throw a drink at someone’s head only to miss entirely and hit a stranger behind them? And who else would have that stranger fall madly in love with them because it turns out that the drink she threw was a love potion? Yeah, probably just Brie!
Running her cheese business and dealing with a pirate ship full of demons that just moved into town was hard enough.
On top of it, she has to convince a werewolf that she’s not really his destined mate. Though, even she’s got to admit, having a gorgeous man show up and do all her chores while telling her she’s beautiful isn’t the worst thing to happen to a girl.
4. Rafe: the Buff Male Nanny by Rebekah Witherspoon
All Dr. Sloan Copeland needed was someone to watch her kids. What she found was the man of her dreams!
After a nasty divorce and a thousand-mile move, Dr. Sloan Copeland and her twin daughters are finally getting the hang of their new life in Los Angeles. When their live-in nanny bails without warning, Sloan is left scrambling to find a competent caretaker to wrangle her smart, sensitive girls. Nothing less will do.
Enter Rafe Whitcomb. He’s all those things, not to mention good-natured and a whiz in the kitchen. He’s also tall, handsome, bearded, ripped, and tatted from wrist to neck.
It doesn’t take long for the Copelands to invite Rafe into their home. Just as quickly, Sloan and Rafe succumb to a heady mutual attraction that neither of them wants to deny. With every minute they spend under the same roof, this working mom can’t help but wonder if Rafe can handle all her needs.
5. All the Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani
From the moment Carli and Rex first locked eyes on a Texas high school basketball court, they both knew it was destiny. But can you truly love someone else if you don’t love yourself?
A glance was all it took. That kind of connection, the immediate and raw understanding of another person, just doesn’t come along very often. And as rising stars on their Texas high schools’ respective basketball teams, destined for bright futures in college and beyond, it seems like a match made in heaven.
But Carli and Rex have secrets. As do their families!
The book by Liara Tamani follows two Black teenagers as they discover how first love, heartbreak, betrayal, and family can shape you—for better or worse!
6. The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn’t believe in lasting romantic relationships, but her best friend does, which got her into a unique situation.
Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks – scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.
That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor and a well-known ass, which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford’s reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive’s career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding… six-pack abs.
Suddenly, their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.
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7. What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
Arthur is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it’s that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it.
Ben thinks the universe needs to mind its business. If the universe had his back, he wouldn’t be going to the post office carrying a box of his ex-boyfriend’s things.
But when Arthur and Ben meet-cute at the post office, what exactly does the universe have in store for them?
Maybe nothing. After all, they get separated. Maybe everything. After all, they get reunited.
But what if they can’t quite nail a first date… or a second first date… or a third? What if Arthur tries too hard to make it work… and Ben doesn’t try hard enough?
What if life really isn’t like a Broadway play? But what if it is?
8. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.
It doesn’t help that Stella has Asperger’s, and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by a pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice—with a professional. Which is why she hires an escort, Michael Phan.
The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can’t afford to turn down Stella’s offer and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan—from foreplay to more-than-missionary position.
Before long, Stella learns to appreciate his kisses and crave all the other things he’s making her feel. Soon, their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the emerging pattern will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic.
9. The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to sharing his life online. But when his pilot father is selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, Cal and his family relocate from Brooklyn to Houston and are thrust into a media circus.
Amidst the chaos, Cal meets sensitive and mysterious Leon, another “Astrokid,” and finds himself falling head over heels—fast. As the frenzy around the mission grows, so does their connection.
But when secrets about the program are uncovered, Cal must find a way to reveal the truth without hurting the people who have become most important to him.
10. I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo
Desi Lee believes anything is possible if you have a plan. That’s how she became student body president and varsity soccer star. And it’s how she’ll get into Stanford.
But—she’s never had a boyfriend. In fact, she’s a disaster in romance, a clumsy, stammering humiliation magnet whose botched attempts at flirting have become legendary with her friends.
So when the hottest human specimen to have ever lived walks into her life one day, Desi decides to tackle her flirting failures with the same zest she’s applied to everything else in her life. She finds guidance in the Korean dramas her father has been obsessively watching for years—where the hapless heroine always seems to end up in the arms of her true love by episode ten.
Armed with her “K Drama Steps to True Love,” Desi goes after the moody, elusive artist Luca Drakos—and boat rescues, love triangles, and staged car crashes ensue. But when the fun and games turn to true feelings, Desi discovers that real love is about more than just drama.
11. Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
Three years ago, Tanner Scott’s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one semester of high school to go and no obstacles between him and out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah.
But when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High’s prestigious Seminar—where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester—Tanner can’t resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Four months is an eternity.
It turns out Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. After all, it took only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his seminar novel the year before and now mentors the class. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him!
12. The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story.
Daniel: I’ve always been the good son and the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store—for both of us.
The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true?
13. The Betrothed by Kiera Cass
When King Jameson declares his love for Lady Hollis Brite, Hollis is shocked—and thrilled. After all, she’s grown up at Keresken Castle, vying for the king’s attention alongside other daughters of the nobility. Capturing his heart is a dream come true.
But Hollis soon realizes that falling in love with a king and being crowned queen may not be the happily ever after she thought it would be.
And when she meets a commoner with the mysterious power to see right into her heart, she finds that the future she really wants is one that she never thought to imagine.
Conclusion
That brings us to the end of the article, where I listed some of the best love at first sight books for you to read this year!
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