Genre Mash: RTW x Romance

Participating in Read the World this year? Hear are some of our most romantic picks.

Updated April 14, 2026
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This time it's real
Liang, Ann
Paper Book
When seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin's essay about meeting the love of her life unexpectedly goes viral, her entire life changes overnight. Now she has the approval of her classmates at her new international school in Beijing, a career-launching internship opportunity at her favourite magazine ... and...

RTW Asia (China)

The book of everlasting things
Malhotra, Aanchal
Paper Book
FOR FANS OF ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, A LUSH, SWEEPING LOVE STORY ABOUT A HINDU PERFUMER AND A MUSLIM CALLIGRAPHER, SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF PARTITION "Monumental...A far-reaching love story." --NPR (A Best Book of the Year) "Mesmerizing." -...

RTW Asia (India)

Given. Volume 1
Kizu, Natsuki
Paper Book
Sometimes a song can save your life. Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts...

RTW Asia (Japan)

A silent voice
Oima, Yoshitoki
Ebook

RTW Asia (Japan)

Crazy rich Asians
Kwan, Kevin
Paper Book
Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of...

RTW Asia (Singapore)

The love report. 1
Béka
Paper Book
BFFs Grace and Lola try to unravel the mystery of romance with a plan to observe, study, and analyze the ways of love at their middle school in the first book in this addictive graphic novel series. BFFs Grace and Lola talk about everything related to romance--and have lots of...

RTW Europe (France)

Heartstopper. Volume 1
Oseman, Alice
Paper Book
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. A sweet and charming coming-of-age story that explores friendship, love, and coming out. This edition features beautiful two-color artwork. Now streaming on Netflix! Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to...

RTW Europe (U.K.)

Highly suspicious and unfairly cute
Hibbert, Talia
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From the bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud YA novel about a quirky content creator and a clean-cut athlete testing their abilities to survive the great outdoors - and each other. ...

RTW Europe (U.K.)

Sense and sensibility
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Jane Austen x Puffin in Bloom with a gorgeous illustrated cover by Anna Bond, the artist behind the renowned lifestyle brand Rifle Paper Co. Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby, she ignores...

RTW Europe (U.K.)

Anne of the island
Montgomery, L.M
Ebook
A classic for all ages, this official, unabridged edition of Anne of the Island features the unforgettable character of Anne Shirley and special memories, exclusively from L.M. Montgomery's granddaughter. Leaving home for college is never easy. Yet being on her own and making new friends...

RTW North America (Canada)

The divine wind
Disher, Garry
Paper Book
Novel for teenagers, set in Broome during WWII. The son of a pearling master and the daughter of a Japanese diver fall in love, but when Japan enters the war their relationship is threatened. First published in 1998, the book was awarded the 1999 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Young People's...

RTW Oceania (Australia)

The thorn birds
McCullough, Colleen
Paper Book
"Beautiful....Compelling entertainment." --New York Times One of the most beloved novels of all time, The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough's sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback, returns to enthrall a new generation.<...

RTW Oceania (Australia)

The house of the spirits : a novel
Allende, Isabel
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild...

RTW South America (Chile)

Love in the time of cholera
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry...

RTW South America (Colombia)

Atmosphere a love story
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go...

RTW Outer Space


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