
WELCOME TO MY “PICK YOUR GENRE” LIST!!
What are you in the mood to read? In the mood for something particular? If you’re looking for something specific, scroll down the list, and click away!
To make “searching” for something to read easier, I’ve compiled a list of all my blog posts “tagged” with whatever particular genre, or “feel” we’re in the mood for. :D!!!
P.S. If you’re looking for “the best of the best” book recommendations lists, go here ➔ Maryse’s Ultimate List of Book Lists or here ➔ All of our Book Recommendations
(P.P.S. This “categories list” is still a work in progress. I’ve got thousands of my blog posts that I’m properly organizing, so these lists will update automatically, and daily as I categorize ’em). 😀
Books that are (or have)…
- Jaw-Dropping Twists
- Slow Burn
- Second Chance Romance
- Age Gap Romance
- Christmas Romance
- One Night Stands
- Stranded & Survival (deserted island etc..)
- Marital Strife & Divorce
- Love After Loss
- Infidelity and/or The “Other” Woman
- Escaping Abuse
- Strong Heroines
- Sheltered Heroines
- Single Moms
- Amnesia
- Unrequited Love
- Characters with a Disability or
- Characters with a Mental Health Condition
- Characters with amnesia
- Rip-Your-Heart-Out SUPER Angsty
- Low Angst
- Love Triangles
- Tearjerkers
- Pregnancy (oops! Or otherwise)
- Personal Growth
- Neighbors (hot & annoying or otherwise 😉 )
- Roommates (hot & annoying or otherwise 😉 )
- Steamy HOT! (erotica & reverse harem etc…)
- Interracial Romance
- In Love with her Brother’s Best Friend
- Older Man/Younger Woman
- Older Woman/Younger Man
- Crushing on a Nerd?
- Falling For the Boss
- Older Main Characters & Couples
- What to read after…?
DARK & GRITTY READS
- Bad Guys
- Antiheroes
- Criminal Underworld
- Mob & Mafia Romance
- Bullies
- Psychological Thrillers
- Kidnapped and/or Stockholm Syndrome
- Barbarian Warlords
- dark reads
- creepy children
- vigilantes
- Dystopian
- Post Apocalyptic
- Horror
- stalkers & obsessive love
FORBIDDEN LOVE
- Forbidden Love & risqué
- Taboo
- Student-Teacher romance
- Infidelity
- The “Other” Woman
- Love Triangles
- Reverse Harem
- Falling For the Boss
- Falling For the Stepbrother
UNCONVENTIONAL LOVE
- All unconventional love stories
- Reverse Harem
- Age Gap Romance
- Older woman/younger man
- celebrity romance
- Fake Relationship or arranged marriage
- Homeless
- In love with a ghost
- Reincarnation love stories
- Falling For the Stepbrother
SPECIFIC HEROES
- ALL men-in-uniform
- military romance
- Police romance
- doctors
- firefighters
- reclusive heroes
- bikers
- billionaires
- brooding & moody alphas
- broken book boyfriends
- Barbarian Warlords
- bad boys
- single dads
- widowed
- blue-collar guys
- lawyers
- prisoners
- bartenders
- cowboys, ranch hands & bull riders
- falling in love with a celebrity
- famous actors
- sports stars OR —> baseball, soccer, football, hockey, basketball, rugby, fighters
- rock stars
- Royal romance
Paranormal & Otherworldly Romance
- Urban Fantasy
- Paranormal romance
- Everything Twilight
- Angels (including Fallen Angels)
- Fae
- Shifters
- Vampires
- Witches
- Fantasy & Fantasy Romance
- In love with a ghost
- Reincarnation love stories
- Time Travel
- Horror
- Science Fiction & Aliens
What other category should I add? What are you in the mood for? Let me know. 😀
leave a comment:
You should have one for Reverse harem, one female and several men 😀
AGREEEEED!! YES Kristin!
What a great idea!! Thanks Maryse!!
Maryse
This is super fantastic! Thank you so much. Love it. I’m sure will spend lots of time just browsing and finding out that I probably already own many of the books that look good. Really appreciate this. Thanks
Absolutely my pleasure you guys. It helps me find more books too!! When I’m in the mood for something, it’s nice to have a list ready to pull from.
And one for demons! 😀
Demons!! YES!!
Hi! Love, love, LoVE this list!!!! How about second chance HEA? And More Mature (aka Older! Lol) HEAs?
Your blog is the greatest! I have found so many great reads, new authors, new series from you.
Trina YES!!! SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE!! That is an obvious must have on this list. Thank you for reminding me!!
I’m book marking this post! I think you’ve got all my favs covered. The only thing I wouldn’t mind being added is around location. Like stories that take place in Italy, NYC or London. I’m heading to NYC this weekend and would love a story where they go to a lot of the city’s hot spots.
Great idea JR!!! I’m adding those to my “to do list”
I also miss the summer beach reads post and can’t wait for the end of year fav posts.
What a smashing idea! This will be great for rediscovering amazing reads I’ve forgotten about. Thanks, and keep up the brilliant work.
Have you considered a Bully list?
I love the “knew each other as kids and meet again as adults”, like Danika Dark’s Seven Years. I think it’s Danika…..
Hi, i would love it if there are some Hallmark christmas books. I just finished Lauren Layne an ex for christmas. It was great!!! And
I couldend stop reading. 🙂 🙂
P.s I love your list, if I don’t know what i’m in the mood for, i check out your list 🙂
Kim! I just posted your reader recommendation request!! 🙂 Keep an eye on it here https://www.maryse.net/reader-questions/reader-question-looking-for-hallmark-like-christmas-book-recommendations.html
(and I also linked it up a Christmas book recommendations list from a year or so ago)
How about books where they fall via text, email or letters like Dear Aaron or Let’s Get Textual
YAY Jody!!! I love this list idea, so I’ve created a blog post for it, and put in 2 of my own recommendations. I’ll be adding to it as more as recommendations come in.
Here it is for you to check out: https://www.maryse.net/books/book-recommendations/reader-recommendations-our-favorite-books-where-they-fall-in-love-via-text-chat-emails-or-letters.html
People always overlook inter racial romance! Can we please have a bit more representation up in here 🙁
Hi LestaGirl!
Great idea. I’m on it. 🙂 I’ll make us a list!! Do you have any favorites you’d like to recommend? I have a few of my own already that I’m going to add in.
And here it is!! 🙂
https://www.maryse.net/tag/interracial-romance
Men who are artists!!!
Books on Maid/housekeeper and rich jerk
I wonder if there’s a romance book where the handsome hero makes fun of the ugly/shy/virgin heroine at first but then falls in love with her later? A sweet/sensual read with little or no sex, actually? I like to read books with quiet and not-so-smart heroines and handsome (could be bullies & assholes at first) heroes that take interest in them and fall in love with them and take care of them.
I hate the sex god heroes and witty-smart-strong slut type of heroines please don’t mention them 🙁 I don’t like Fifty Shades kind of thing at all.
Hi River!!
Here’s a list that might have exactly what you’re looking for:
https://www.maryse.net/books/book-recommendations/reader-recommendations-our-favorite-plain-jane-or-ugly-duckling-romance-books.html
🙂
You should include groveling heroes! 🙂
Great idea Mica!! I have one list already (hero trying to repent), but it’s time to update and give it a real name!!! I like yours. Have any favorites for me to add?
Hey Maryse ! Could you do a MMF list ? I don’t even know if you read them. Just a suggestion. I LOVE your blog .
Great IDEA Leah!! I have a few favorites that I LOVED so I will get started on building us a list!! 🙂
Okay here it is!! 🙂
https://www.maryse.net/books/book-recommendations/reader-recommendations-our-favorite-mmf-romance-books.html
Rekindled/reunited
Small town
LGBT
arrange marriage
Are there any book recommendations for two people who are in love and they can’t make it work out, don’t end up together.
Thanks!
Do you have any recommendations on books with a similar feel to the After series by Anna Todd? I loved that series which led me to the 50 Shades series and I’ve been reading similar books for 6 months now. I’ve yet to come across a New Adult series though that gives me the same feeling and reaction as the After series though. I’m afraid I’m running out of great series to read. I’m finding that I really prefer series over standalone books for the most part. I also am not fond of companion series that are a different couple for each book.
I love that you have so many recommendations and have yet to make it through all of your lists, but will keep going!
Category:books that makes you laugh, like Kristen Ashley the rock chick serie
Insta love when it’s done right! Or like stalker/love from afar when it works out. If there’s a list that covers this that I missed let me know!
Oh I love the stalker/love from afar trope! I’ll see what we can come up with on both of your requests. 🙂
Awesome! Thank you! I look forward to that list!
Here it is!!! And I will continue to add to it as we find more. 🙂 https://www.maryse.net/books/book-recommendations/reader-recommendations-our-favorite-stalker-love-from-afar-books-where-it-actually-works-out.html
H is slave and h falls in love with him – historical or modern but not “American confederate” slavery
Hi Gin!! I just started a post for you right here: https://www.maryse.net/books/book-recommendations/reader-recommendations-books-where-the-hero-is-a-slave-and-the-heroine-falls-in-love-with-him.html
Let me know if YOU know of any that should also be on this list. 🙂
What about security company/ ex-military heroes?
Missing this after reading all Kristen Ashley books, Heller Series (I miss JD Nixon😭), Alpha One Security Series, etc. Etc…
Hi I’m looking for books where heroine see hero on a date with other women. Heroine is jealous.
Any books with jealous heroine.
I’m on it, Iqra! I love this genre too!
Thank you so much I found your blog two years ago and I LOVE THE BOOKS YOU RECOMMEND. 😊
YAY!! Thank you Iqra. That just made my day. 😀
Alien scifi romances?
Love the blog. Maybe you can also add a genre with specific heroines.
Hi Mohau!!
That is a GREAT idea. Any specific kind of heroine’s you’re looking for? I’ll get it going. 🙂
Maybe like artist, damaged, escort, nanny, single mom, teacher, ceo, billionaire, actress rockstar just to name a few😅
Oh I have most of those for you!! Some of them are above in the links, but here they are again:
Single mom: https://www.maryse.net/tag/single-mom
Escort: https://www.maryse.net/tag/escorts
Damaged: https://www.maryse.net/tag/broken
Rock Star: https://www.maryse.net/tag/rock-stars
Actors: https://www.maryse.net/tag/famous-actor
Billionaires: https://www.maryse.net/tag/billionaires
I need to expand on a category for artists, nanny, teacher (I have lots of teacher-student in it’s own category)… and CEOs (I usually lump them into Billionaires category).
I forgot a book name. Can you please help me by reading the story below.
Hero and his family will kill the heroin father, brother, uncles because she was promised to him but the heroin loves another man in her family side. Heroin mother persuade her to go to hero house and live there. And when the time is right her mother ask her to kill the hero. But heroin fall in love with hero. And got pregnant. So she refuse to kill hero but her mother made a pact with other mafia to kill the hero.
Hi Bhargavi!
I posted your reader question, and we already have a guess!! 🙂 Take a look and let me know what you think:
https://www.maryse.net/reader-questions/reader-question-the-mafia-book-about-the-heroine-that-was-supposed-to-kill-the-hero-because-of-her-mothers-pact-with-the-mafia.html
*safe hug*
I’d love to see a virgin heroes genre
Her Valentine Surprise by Ayla Asher has a virgin hero
Do you have a list for girls that are sick or have some kind of condition and the guy is super protective and takes care of her. For example deviant king by Rena Kent and welcome to the dark side by giana Darling and Dr dan by k webster
Hi Maryse. I’m obsessed with your blog. It’s amazing. Please help me recommend books I can read that are like Mr. President by Katy Evans.
And also The Idea of You by Robinnee Lee.
These are my all time favorite but I’ve failed to find other books of that nature and with that kind of content. Thank you so much.
Anti-heroines please.
Sugar Carey in Ain’t She Sweet by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Am I overlooking the F/F romances?
Hi Sunny! I shall start a list!! 😀 Thank you for that suggestion.
Thank you!!!🤍
Hi Sunny! Real quick… do you have any favorites that you can recommend for the list?
Maryse I love your blog, thanks for the updates with the books.
Okay please I’m looking for a novel where the Female Heroine Is the villainess and she can’t love because she has a mental problem.
Also a love relationship that doesn’t have a happily ever after. It ends on heart break
A paranormal novels where the Female Heroine is wicked, ruthless,cold and powerful then falls in love with a prince charming.
Thanks 😌
HI, neeed help the plot of the series, the girl is black and middle class, falls in love with white boy who is rich and connect to mafia. he leaves her to keep her safe. however after 5 years he is back for her and his daughter. The author name begin with M
HELP!
I can’t remember a title of one book I really want to reread. It’s about a forbidden love between a d.a.’s daughter and a mob boss’ son. They meet the night his older brother dies so the next time they see each other is a year or two later. Her dad wants to put his dad in jail.
I hope somebody knows which book I’m talking about…
I love the movie I do, I do, I do (starring Autumn Reeser) and I’m wondering if anyone knows some good time loop (groundhog day) romances. One book I’ve read is A Week of Mondays (Jessica Brody)
Also, I always watch the movies A Family for Christmas (Lacey Chabert) and Kristin’s Christmas Past (Shiri Appelby) and the books I’ve enjoyed are The DoOver (Elizabeth Roberts), The Year We Turned 40 (Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke, and If I Could Turn Back Time by Beth Harbison.
Basically, I’m looking for waking up in your younger body, time loop, and seeing life if you’d made a different choice type books. Holiday or not isn’t necessary.
Books that me you laugh out loud