Recs if you like Like Lovers Do...

Every year we pick 10 books that we think rise above the rest. These are the 70 we've picked since 2019.

Updated to include our Best of 2025 picks.

Sixty-nine (that’s right, 69, by pure unplanned luck!) recommendations for you — everything from bonkers to bloody to blazing hot…naughty bits that we believe deliver the whole banana (and sometimes no banana at all, if you know what we mean). If you're looking for something specific (or trying to avoid it), you can find this list with subcategories on our site.

There are 3 questions an author must address for each character in order to make the fake dating plot work:

• Why is this happening/why is a fake relationship the only option?
• Why this person and not some other person?
• What happens if it all goes south?