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Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us is a romance about recognizing and breaking cycles of domestic violence, emotionally devastating and unflinching about how love and danger can coexist. These eight books share that emotional honesty about difficult relationships, the complexity of loving someone harmful, and the strength it takes to leave.
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It Starts with Us
by Colleen Hoover
The direct sequel — Lily builds a new relationship with Atlas while navigating co-parenting with Ryle; required reading if It Ends with Us left you devastated and needing to know what happened next
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Verity
by Colleen Hoover
Hoover's darkest book — a struggling writer, a disturbing manuscript, and a romantic entanglement with a deeply complicated man; if you want to see how dark Hoover can go, this is the answer
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Ugly Love
by Colleen Hoover
A no-strings arrangement between two people who can't help wanting more — emotionally devastating in the way Hoover does best, with alternating timelines that reveal why Miles Archer is the way he is
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November 9
by Colleen Hoover
A novelist who meets a girl on November 9 and decides to write her into his book — one of Hoover's most structurally inventive novels, with the emotional gut-punch her readers expect
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A woman who survived multiple difficult marriages tells the truth about what she did to survive — romantic and devastating, with the same willingness as Hoover to hold beauty and damage in the same hand
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Big Little Lies
by Liane Moriarty
Three women whose seemingly perfect lives conceal domestic violence and a crime — same pleasure of the behind-the-scenes story and the same interest in what women endure
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Normal People
by Sally Rooney
A love story where both people damage each other in ways neither can fully articulate — quiet, devastating, and focused on the same questions Hoover asks about why people stay in relationships that hurt them
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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
A young woman raped and murdered watches from heaven as her family and killer move through the world without her — devastating, beautiful, and interested in the same questions about harm and healing
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