Are you a hopeless romantic who believes in love at first sight? Maybe you’re an “I can’t stand them but I’m also slightly infatuated by them” kind of person. Or perhaps you have a tougher exterior, and it takes a lot for you to come around to the idea of a potential romance. 

Whatever your romantic personality, there’s a romance trope for you! Take this quiz to see which matches your personality! And of course, we’ll give you a book to read! 

Ready? Pick the answers that sound most like you. Then, keep reading for book recommendations based on your trope!

 

#1. Your ideal first date is…

A cozy coffee shop where we can talk for hours

Something competitive, like mini golf or bowling

A spontaneous walk or hike

A nice dinner where I can dress up

We can hang out, but don’t call it a date

Going to a party or concert with mutual friends

#2. What is your love language?

Words of affirmation

Physical touch

Gift giving

Acts of service

Quality time

All of them!

#3. What makes you fall for someone?

They can always make me laugh

There has to be chemistry and tension

They challenge me to think differently

They make me feel safe and comfortable

We have a shared history

They know me better than anyone

#4. It’s Saturday morning. Where are you?

In my bed sleeping in, probably recovering from the night before

Out doing something spontaneous

At brunch with friends

Getting ready for a busy day of errands and projects

On the couch with a coffee and a book

Somewhere nostalgic that reminds me of home

#5. What is your biggest relationship green flag?

They remember the little things

They are nice to waitstaff

They can keep up with my sarcasm

They’re ambitious

They communicate openly

They have a close circle of friends

#6. You’re stuck with your crush for an entire day. What’s your reaction?

“Yes! Finally some alone time!”

“Ugh. Let’s just get this over with.”

“Why does this feel so familiar?”

“Okay… maybe this won’t be so bad.”

“I hope I don’t screw this up!”

“Time to shoot my shot!”

#7. Which quality most describes you?

Independent

Loyal

Competitive

Chaotic

Sentimental

Easygoing

#8. Your crush texts “We need to talk.” What’s your response?

Call my best friend immediately before responding.

“How did you even get my number?”

Text back, “Okay,” and prepare for battle.

Assume they’re going to confess their love for me.

Overthink every interaction I’ve ever had with them.

It’s probably nothing bad. I’ll respond later.

#9. Which ending interests you the most?

The longtime best friends finally realize they're in love

The fake relationship becomes very real

Exes finding love again after years apart

Two people falling in love after being forced to spend time together

Coworkers realizing their office rivalry might be something more

The two star-crossed lovers defying the odds and ending up together

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Results

Friends to Lovers

Personality: The Hopeless Romantic

You believe the best relationships start with a genuine connection. You’re loyal, sentimental, and probably have a soft spot for someone who’s been there all along. All it takes is a slow burn, years of pining, and two best friends who are completely oblivious to their feelings, and you’re hooked.

Enemies to Lovers

Personality: The Firecracker

You like a little tension. Actually… you like a lot of tension. You’re competitive, confident, and probably enjoy a good argument. Your ideal read most likely involves two people who can’t stand each other, but have undeniable chemistry.

Fake Dating

Personality: The Chaos Agent

You don’t mind a complicated situation. In fact, you might secretly thrive on one. You’re spontaneous, playful, and always willing to see where a questionable decision takes you. Why have a normal relationship when you could pretend to be dating someone and accidentally fall in love?

Forced Proximity

Personality: The Cozy Romantic

It takes you a while to warm up to people, but once you do, you love fiercely and with your whole heart. You are insightful and appreciate the little things. Watching two people slowly become comfortable with each other? Perfect. If the book involves a road trip, a vacation rental, or, better yet, one bed, you’re ready to read.

Second Chance Romance

Personality: The Sentimental Romantic

You believe some people are worth finding your way back to. You’re optimistic but also deeply introspective and thoughtful. You’re nostalgic, emotional, and probably a sucker for a story about two people who never quite stopped loving each other.

Workplace Romance

Personality: The Ambitious Romantic

You know what you want, and you’re not afraid to go after it. You have always been a goal-oriented person. You’re driven, independent, and probably appreciate a love interest who can match your ambition. You also don’t mind a little professional rivalry along the way.

Found your trope? Now it’s time to find your perfect read! Take a look at our book recommendations inspired by each trope.

Friends to Lovers

You’re a sucker for a good plate of emotional intimacy with a side of secret yearning! Here are some picks for those of you who have a soft spot for someone who’s been there all along.

The Second Death of Locke

V.L. Bovalino

Grey Flynn has dedicated her life to her mage, Kier. She will be his blade on the battlefield, his healer and protector. The deep well of raw power inside her is Kier’s to use. Grey would do anything for Kier – be anything for him – if he would only ask. When a quest to protect the child of an enemy kingdom pulls them into the dangerous heart of their nation’s war, Grey and Kier will need to decide what they are willing to sacrifice to protect their secret. For Grey is no ordinary magical well, but heir to the lost island of Locke, the root of all power. If she dies, all magic dies with her.

Full of medieval magic and plenty of pining. A perfect choice if you love lady-knights and childhood friends turned lovers!

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Brighter Than Before

Courtney Walsh

Claire did not plan to end up mid-forties with a daughter studying in London and the unfortunate discovery that her husband is not the man she thought he was. After a year of wallowing and accepting the divorce, Claire realizes she needs to finally answer the question her therapist asked her all those months “What do you really want?” It was a question she couldn’t answer then, but now she knows it’s time to figure it out. It’s the turning point that leads Claire to change her life. And not just a little, a lot. She sells her house in Denver and moves to the city that’s always had her heart: Chicago. With the help of nosy neighbors, new friends, and a daughter who sets her up on a dating site from across the ocean, Claire begins to answer that big, important question by figuring out what she wants and how to live life on her own terms.

Sweet and heartwarming, Claire illustrates that it’s never too late to find yourself!

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Enemies to Lovers

You love some good banter, nothing wrong with that! There is something so gratifying about a rivalry riddled with spicy tension. What is more exciting than falling for the person you’re supposed to hate?

This Monster of Mine

Shalini Abeysekara

Sarai doesn’t know why someone tried to kill her four years ago, but she does know that her case was closed without justice. Hellbent on vengeance, she returns to the scene of the crime as a Petitor, a prosecutor who can magically detect lies, and is assigned to work with Tetrarch Kadra. Ice-cold and sadistic, Kadra is the most vicious of the four judges who rule the land, and the prime suspect in a string of deaths identical to Sarai’s attempted murder. Certain of his guilt, Sarai begins a double life: solving cases with Kadra by day and plotting his ruin by night. But Kadra is charming and oddly alluring. So when the evidence she finds embroils her in a deadly political battle, Sarai must also fight against her attraction to Kadra, because despite his growing hold on her heart, his voice matches the only memory she has of her assailant.

Perfect for readers who like their romance dark and dangerously complicated!

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Ready to Score

Jodie Slaughter

Jade Dunn has spent years working her way up the southern high school football ranks, but small-town politics stand between her and her dream of becoming a head coach. When she gets an invite to a coveted monthly poker game, she sees the perfect networking opportunity, until she meets Francesca Lim, an infuriatingly sexy art teacher who seems determined to get in her way. Francesca never expected to stay in a small town after leaving behind her coaching career in Texas. But after a failed relationship, she finally has a chance to reclaim the life she left behind in Houston. The only problem? The prickly assistant coach she can’t seem to stay away from. With both women determined to protect their careers, Jade and Francesca try to ignore the undeniable attraction between them. But it seems like their hearts have other plans.

A small-town sports romance filled with loads of tension!

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Fake Dating

If this trope matches your personality, you might be the kind of person who likes a little chaos. If someone told you a fake relationship would solve all your problems, you’d probably say, “Sure, why not?” And we all know how that ends…

Honey & Spice

Bolu Babalola

Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar, she’s made it her mission to make sure the women of the African-Caribbean Society at Whitewell University do not fall into the mess of “situationships.” But when she kisses Malakai Korede, the guy she just publicly denounced as “The Wastemen of Whitewell,” in front of everyone on campus, she finds her show on the brink. They’re soon embroiled in a fake relationship to try and salvage their reputations and save their futures. Kiki has never surrendered her heart before, and a player like Malakai won’t be the one to change that, no matter how charming he is. But surprisingly entertaining study sessions and intimate, late-night talks force Kiki to look beyond her own presumptions. Is she ready to open herself up to something deeper?

Full of humor and heart, see what happens when Kiki finds herself in a “relationship” with the guy she warned all her friends about!

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Maid for Each Other

Lynn Painter

When professional cleaner Abi Mariano suddenly needs somewhere to stay for a week, she realizes she doesn’t have many options. Then the solution presents itself: the owner of the penthouse she cleans is out of town for the week. She normally wouldn’t consider it, but he’s literally never around (she hasn’t even met him). It goes great…until one morning she finds two strangers in the kitchen. They’re the parents of the penthouse owner, and they seem to think they’ve heard all about Abi, not as their son’s maid, but as his girlfriend. Declan Powell has always put his career first, working his way up to become an executive at his company. When his parents mention that they met his girlfriend, he all but chokes on his escargot. As wonderful as it sounds that she was just darling, he doesn’t actually have a girlfriend. He made her up to get everyone off his back. When Dex finds out who Abi really is, he makes her a proposition: pretend to date him, and he’ll provide everything she needs during their little arrangement. What harm would it do? It’s purely business, no pleasure…right?

Such a bubbly and delightful rom-com!

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Forced Proximity

You’re a sucker for a slow-burn! You’re all about watching two people slowly let their guard down. For you, the best romances happen in the little moments, like sharing a meal, staying up too late talking, and realizing the person you’re stuck with might be exactly who you want to be stuck with.

You Should Be So Lucky

Cat Sebastian

The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O’Leary’s life. He can’t manage to hit the ball, his new teammates hate him, he’s living out of a suitcase, and he’s homesick. When the team’s owner orders him to give a bunch of interviews to some snobby reporter, he’s ready to call it quits, but reluctantly agrees. Mark Bailey is not a sports reporter. He writes for the arts page, and these days he’s barely even managing to do that much. The last thing he needs is to spend a season writing about New York’s obnoxious new shortstop in a stunt to get the struggling newspaper more readers. Isolated together within the crush of an anonymous city, these two lonely souls orbit each other as they slowly give in to the inevitable gravity of their attraction. But Mark has vowed that he’ll never be someone’s secret ever again, and Eddie can’t be out as a professional athlete. It’s just them against the world, and they’ll both have to decide if that’s enough.

A lovely queer, mid-century romance about two people who don’t realize how much they need each other!

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The Roommate Rule

Georgia Stone

Dylan is the kind of person who is always fifteen minutes early and never leaves things to chance, so she can’t believe she’s about to spend six weeks on a last-minute trip to Wales that she didn’t plan, living in a cabin with a man she’s only met once. Max always goes with the flow, and after his plus-one drops out of his all-expenses-paid trip, he’s happy for his sister’s friend to take the spot. After all, Dylan is the kind of woman he’d be more than happy to spend some alone time with. Not that anything is going to happen between them, because Dylan knows getting involved with this reckless, irrepressible flirt is the last thing she needs. So she makes a house rule: they are roommates only, and under no circumstances can anything untoward happen between them. But as the days go by, Max starts to realize how much he enjoys chipping away at the walls Dylan hides behind, while Dylan begins to admit to herself that there may be more to Max than she first assumed. And before she knows it, she finds herself wondering if their “roommate rule” might be one rule she actually wants to break…

A forced proximity, slow-burn romance set against the lush landscape of Wales!

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Second Chance Romance

Do you believe in “right person, wrong time?” If so, the second-chance romance trope is just your style! After all, sometimes the most romantic thing is getting the chance to choose each other twice.

Before I Let Go

Kennedy Ryan

Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn’t solve or save everything. It couldn’t save their marriage. Yasmen wasn’t prepared for how her life fell apart, but she is finally starting to find joy again. She and Josiah have found a new rhythm, co-parenting their two kids and running a thriving business together. Yet like magnets, they’re always drawn back to each other, and now they’re beginning to wonder if they’re truly ready to let go of everything they once had. Soon, one stolen kiss leads to another. It’s hot. It’s illicit. It’s all good, until old wounds reopen. Is it too late for them to find forever? Or could they even be better the second time around?

A steamy, swoony, spicy, slow-burning second chance romance!

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Love You More

Emily Griffin

Billie has built the perfect life. Her practice as a doctor in New York City is thriving, and she’s finally found the right partner in Dean after years spent trying to move on from her high-school sweetheart, Mick. Their young love had been intense and true, but distance and ambition pulled them apart when she left Wisconsin for medical school. Then one morning, just after accepting Dean’s marriage proposal, Billie’s phone rings. It’s Mick, calling for the first time in nearly a decade. His news is urgent, and in a moment, everything changes. As Billie boards a plane back to Wisconsin, the past comes rushing in—her friendships from home, the love she shared with Mick, and the choices that shaped them. What awaits her is a reckoning with what she’s lost, what she’s built, and what she still wants.

Sweet NYC-meets-small-town Midwest vibes!

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Workplace Romance

Who says you can’t mix business and pleasure?! From office rivalries to unexpected work crushes, if you love a little professional tension in your romance books, these titles are for you!

Not Safe for Work

Nisha J. Tuli

Engineer Trishara Malik once dreamed of being the first woman of color to smash the glass ceiling at WMC Purcell, but after years of dealing with white male privilege and blatant nepotism, she watches her hard-earned promotion go to her nemesis and boss’s son, Rafe Gallagher. Teetering on the edge of burnout, Tris is stunned when she’s picked to attend WMC’s corporate leadership retreat in Hawaii. It’s a chance to revive her stalled career and compete for a coveted spot in an executive training program. Plus, three weeks in paradise! The only downside? Rafe is her co-attendee. Tris plans to avoid him entirely, but when she arrives in Maui, a booking error has them stuck sharing the honeymoon suite. Sure, it’s not all torture. Rafe is a smoldering ten, but after years of competition, they can barely stand being in the same time zone. As they vie against each other during aptitude tests and team-building exercises, Tris begins to realize Rafe might not be the villain after all. With her dreams at stake, can she learn to trust the man who might have been standing in her corner all along?

A workplace rivalry with a tropical twist!

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Something to Talk About

Meryl Wilsner

Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple. The so-called scandal couldn’t come at a worse time, threatening Emma’s promotion and Jo’s new movie. As the gossip spreads, it starts to affect all areas of their lives. Paparazzi are following them outside the office, coworkers are treating them differently, and a “source” is feeding information to the media. But their only comment is “no comment”. With the launch of Jo’s film project fast approaching, the two women begin to spend even more time together. Emma seems to have a sixth sense for knowing what Jo needs. And Jo, known for being aloof and outwardly cold, opens up to Emma in a way neither of them expects. They begin to realize the rumor might not be so off base after all…but is acting on the spark between them worth fanning the gossip flames?

The rumor might be fake, but the feelings are not!

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Of course, we know people are a little more complex than just nine romance personality questions. At the end of the day, love the way you want to and read the way you want to. Whether you’re a hopeless romantic, an enemies-to-lovers enthusiast, or somewhere in between, there’s always a story waiting for you. Happy reading!