Hearts for All – A Romance Booklist

Love is in the air!

A booklist on romance, relationships, and friendship! Recommended for 6th – 12th graders. 

Non-Fiction:
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Chapman, Gary. Teen’s Guide to the 5 Love Languages. Includes a straightforward guide on the 5 love languages and practical tips for how to apply each language in a teen’s context.

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Eastham, Chad. The Truth about Breaking Up, Making Up, & Moving On. Explains why some people find happiness and others heartache, when to break up and when to make up. A Christian faith-based relationship guide.

Fiction:

Albertalli, Becky. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical but when his secret is at risk of being exposed, Simon must decide what to do about a cute guy and his friends.

Cass, Kiera. The Siren. Forced to work as a Siren and lure strangers to their deaths after being rescued from drowning by the Ocean, Kahlen falls in love with a human and defies the rules of her service in order to follow her heart.

Nakano, Hitori. Train Man: The Novel or Densha Otoko. An instant bestseller when it was first published in Japan, Train Man became a multimedia sensation, generating a smash-hit TV series, a blockbuster film, and multiple manga series. Now here’s the novel that started it all.

Niven, Jennifer. Holding Up the Universe. A boy with face blindness and a girl who struggles with weight fall in love.

Silvera, Adam. History Is All You Left Me. Secrets are revealed as OCD-afflicted Griffin grieves for his first love, Theo, who died in a drowning accident.

Yoon, Nicola. Everything Everything. A girl confined to her house by rare and profound allergies falls hopelessly in love with her new neighbor, in a story told through vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists and illustrations.

Popular YA Romance Series:

• Anna and the French Kiss series by Stephanie Perkins
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before series by Jenny Han
• A Bride’s Story by Kaoru Mori (Graphic Novel)
• The Glittering Court series by Richelle Mead
• Honey So Sweet series by Amu Meguro (Graphic Novel)
• If I Stay series by Gayle Forman
• Kamisama Kiss by Julietta Suzuki (Graphic Novel)
• The Selection series by Kiera Cass
• The Summer I Turned Pretty series by Jenny Han

Popular YA Romance Authors:

• Jenny Han
• Rachel Cohn
• Maurene Goo
• Rainbow Rowell
• Sarah Dessen
• Kami Garcia
• Deb Caletti
• Kiera Cass
• Aylson Noel
• Stephanie Perkins
• David Leviathan
• Richelle Mead
• Nicola Yoon

Compiled from Novelist and Amazon.