In this booklist these characters say, “I hate you!” but actually mean “I love you!”
For my first booklist, I’m starting off with one of my favorite genres. Young Adult Romance! Within the genre, this is easily the most popular troupe. Enemies-to-lovers. Here is a list of six young adult enemies-to-lovers romance books.
Instant Karma by Marissa Meyer
From the author of The Lunar Chronicles and Renegades, Instant Karma is Marissa Meyer’s first contemporary romance. Prudence Bennet, Pru is a straight A student, so when her lazy slacker partner Quint Erickson gets them a low grade on their final project and a B in the class, she’s looking for an opportunity to redo it. When Pru gains the ability to cast “Instant Karma” on people, she hopes to get Quint back for her bad grade, but only good things happen to him. So, instead she agrees to help at his mother’s marine animal rescue if he agrees to redo their class project. As they work together and get to know each other, they learn that they may have misjudged each other. Instant Karma is a modern Pride and Prejudice, enemies-to-lovers tale with marine animals.
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Tweet Cute by Emma Lord
Emma Lord’s debut novel, Tweet Cute is Romeo and Juliet meets You’ve Got Mail, in an adorable enemies-to-lovers rom-com. Pepper’s an all-around perfectionist. Since she moved with her mom to New York in ninth grade, she’s has had no time for anything not in her five-year plan. Certainly not Wolf, the nice guy she met on her school’s anonymous messaging app. She also doesn’t have time for her mother’s restaurant’s twitter feud with a local deli. Jack is the class clown because his twin brother has the popular, golden boy role taken. He’s fine helping out at the family deli and building apps in secret. He’s finally met someone who understands him, on his secret messaging app. When Pepper’s family’s chain restaurant steals his family’s deli’s signature sandwich, he is caught in a heated twitter war. This enemies-to-lovers story is told in first-person spilt narrative.
Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
Recent high school grad, Ever Wong wanted to spend the summer before college dancing, but her over controlling immigrant Asian parents send her to Chien Tan, a strict study abroad program in Taipei. Once in Taipei, she makes new friends and meets Rick Woo, the most accomplished Asian American of her generation. At least that’s what her parents think. When she tells her new friends about her parents' strict rules, they encourage her to break them while she’s in Taipei. Rule number one, no boys until after med school. Good thing there are plenty of hot boys in Taipei, if only the perfect Rick Woo would leave her alone.
Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston
Rosie Thorne is a book lover in Small Town, America. Vance Reigh is Hollywood’s most notorious bad boy, but when his actions attract too much bad publicity, he’s sent to live with his godfather until his eighteenth birthday. After a really bad day Rosie chases a running dog into what she thought was an abandoned house and meets Vance. Together they destroy a priceless first edition book. To avoid legal consequences, although they cannot stand each other, they have work together to fix up a library.
Bookish and the Beast on Amazon
As If On Cue by Marisa Kanter
Natalie vs. Reid! For High School junior Natalie, that’s how it’s always been. Competing for fun, for first chair clarinet or for her father’s attention. When the school’s arts budget gets cut, she has to compete with Reid (and the school band) for the ability to do theatre as an after-school activity, she and Reid end up in one of their legendary prank wars. When they accidentally destroy a sound system, the principal makes Natalie and Reid work together to put on a musical.
Chasing After Knight by Heather Buchta
Alexa Brooks met scrawny, ninety-pound Carson Knight during summer camp before ninth grade. They were instant best friends before “the incident,” then she moved from Los Angeles to Los Vegas. She’s spent the last three years making every effort to forget him, which is no small feat when he is now famous Hollywood bad boy, Cayden McKnight. A camp craft bracelet and English assignment bring up old memories and new friends encourage her to find Cayden McKnight and profess her love, but Alexa already has a boyfriend and Cayden wants nothing to do with her.
Chasing After Knight on Amazon
In Conclusion
Making this list, I realized that I read a lot of this trope. I love enemies to lovers because I believe in second chances and that forgiveness is more powerful than hate. These stories absolutely embody that people are far more than your first impression of them. From learning the annoying project partner has already given the best hours of his day help others to the perfect person is just as insecure, these characters learn lessons and teach us something about ourselves. I have also read several enemies-to-lovers holiday stories. That could be a possible future list.
Please stay tuned for more.
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