Colleen Hoover books: Everything you need to know (Complete guide)
American author Colleen Hoover is one of the most popular writers of recent years. She is known for her romance and young adult novels. She became famous with her book It Ends with Us. That's why she is the most searched writer in the US. Many ask these questions: In what order should I read Colleen Hoover's books? What age are Colleen Hoover's books for? What is Colleen Hoover's most romantic book? What is Colleen Hoover's biggest book? Here are answers and everything you need to know about Colleen Hoover's books.
Colleen Hoover books in order
Colleen Hoover recently had a massive rise in popularity. She is widely known for her novel It Ends with Us, a romance novel published in 2016. But since then she published many standalone novels and many books and novellas from different series.
Let's see all her books and series and how to read them.
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Colleen Hoover’s book series
Colleen Hoover has published five book series: Smalled series, Hopeless series, Maybe Someday series, It Ends With Us series, and Never Never series. Here is a list of books in the Colleen Hoover series:
Slammed series books
- Slammed (Book 1)
- Point of Retread (Book 2)
- This Girl (Book 2)
Hopeless series books
- Hopeless (Book 1)
- Losing Hope (Book 2)
- Finding Cinderella (Book 3)
- Finding Perfect (Book 4, novella)
Maybe Someday series
- Maybe Someday (Book 1)
- Maybe Not (Book 2)
- Maybe Now (Book 3)
It Ends with Us series
- It Ends with Us (Book 1)
- It Stars with Us (Book 2)
Never Never series
Published in 2015, Never Never has two writers: Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher. At first, it was published and sold in three parts. Later had a new release and this time as one book. Still according to Colleen Hoover’s website, Never Never is also one of her book series.
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List of standalone books by Colleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover is famous for her book series and standalone novels. Actually, most of her popular books are standalone novels. Here is a list of standalone novels by Colleen Hoover.
- Verity
- Reminders of him
- November 9
- Ugly Love
- Heart Bones
- Regretting You
- All Your Perfects
- Confess
- Without Merit
- Layla
- Too Late
Best books by Colleen Hoovers
Colleen Hoovers is well known for her book It Ends with Us. The author herself describes this book as “the hardest book I've ever written”. It tells the story of Lily who experiences domestic violence at a young age. This book is about domestic violence and advocates for domestic violence victims. It Ends with Us is the best book by Colleen Hoover.
According to Goodreads, the most read and rated book by Colleen Hoover is It Ends with Us. It is also the first book of her It Ends with Us series. The second most read and rated book by Colleen Hoover is Verity, a standalone novel published in 2018. Third best book of Colleen Hoover is Ugly Love, another standalone novel published in 2014.
Top 10 book by Colleen Hoover according to Goodreads
What are the top-rated Colleen Hoover books? To answer this, let's look at Goodreads data. According to Goodread's community of readers and book lovers, the highest-rated and most loved Colleen Hoover's book is It Ends with Us.
Here are the TOP 10 books by Colleen Hoover according to Goodreads ratings:
- It Ends with Us - 4.36 avg rating (1,770,498 ratings)
- Verity - 4.41 avg rating (1,325,540 ratings)
- Ugly Love - 4.20 avg rating (997,662 ratings)
- Reminders of Him - 4.51 avg rating (579,998 ratings)
- November 9 - 4.27 avg rating (579,387 ratings)
- Hopeless - 4.29 avg rating (393,843 ratings)
- Regretting You - 4.21 avg rating (310,748 ratings)
- All Your Perfects - 4.21 avg rating (307,628 ratings)
- Maybe Someday - 4.15 avg rating (310,782 ratings)
- Confess - 4.19 avg rating (291,306 ratings)
What age are Colleen Hoover's books for?
Colleen Hoover's books are most suitable for readers aged 17 and older. Her novels are considered a contemporary romance, young adult, and romance books. Some of them deal with heavy subjects. At the same time, Colleen Hoover's website has 3 age rating categories for her books: +14 for young adults (YA), +17 for mature (MA), and very mature/dark (WHOA) rated books. Here is the list of Colleen Hoover's books according to age rating.
+14 for young adults (YA) Colleen Hoover books
- Without Merit (2017)
- Regretting You (2019)
- Heart Bones (2020)
- Never Never (2015)
- Slammed (2012)
- Point of Retreat (2012)
- This Girl (2013)
+17 mature (MA) Colleen Hoover books
- It Ends with Us (2016)
- Ugly Love (2014)
- Maybe Someday (2014)
- Confess (2015)
- November 9 (2015)
- Hopeless (2013)
- Layla (2020)
- All Your Perfects (2018)
- Reminders of Him (2022)
- Maybe Not (2014)
- Maybe Now (2018)
- It Starts with Us (2022)
- Losing Hope (2013)
- Finding Cinderella (2014)
- Finding Perfect (2019)
Very mature & dark Colleen Hoover books
- Verity (2018)
- Too Late (2016)
Colleen Hoover's books in publication order
Until now Colleen Hoover wrote and published 24 novels and novellas. She also has stories in two anthology books. Here is the complete list of her works in publication order
- Slammed (2012)
- Point of Retreat (2012)
- This Girl (2013)
- Hopeless (2013)
- Losing Hope (2013)
- Finding Cinderella (2014) novella
- Maybe Someday (2014)
- Maybe Not (2014) novella
- Ugly Love (2014)
- Never Never (2015) three-part novella series with Tarryn Fisher
- Confess (2015)
- November 9 (2015)
- Too Late (2016)
- It Ends with Us (2016)
- Without Merit (2017)
- All Your Perfects (2018)
- Verity (2018)
- Maybe Now (2018)
- Finding Perfect (2019) novella
- Regretting You (2019)
- Heart Bones (2020)
- Layla (2020)
- One More Step (2020) An anthology
- Two More Days (2021) An anthology
- Reminders of Him (2022)
- It Starts with Us (2022)
Who is Colleen Hoover?
Colleen Hoover is an American writer. She writes mostly romance and young adult novels. Her best and most known work is the novel It Ends with Us, published in 2016. She started as a self-publishing author. She has more than 20 books and as of October 2022, Colleen Hoover sold more than 20,000,000 copies of her books and book series. It Ends with Us is Colleen Hoover's most popular work and is based on her own life.
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