What books does Colleen Hoover recommend?

The Colleen Hoover book recommendations here come from a novelist who rose from self-publishing to become one of the world's best-selling authors, propelled by the BookTok community and titles like It Ends with Us and Verity. Sixteen titles are drawn from a Goodreads blog guest post, her personal Goodreads reviews, official Instagram recommendations, and the book blurbs she lends other authors. Fiction and literature overwhelmingly dominate, with strands of psychology and creativity. Her all-time favorite is Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends, and she reserves especially high praise for Tiffanie DeBartolo's God-Shaped Hole, saying it is a rare book that reminds her why she fell in love with the written word. She calls Tarryn Fisher's The Wives a novel that leaves the most sure-footed reader uneasy until the last word. Hoover is also the most prolific author on the platform, with 13 of her own novels here, including It Ends with Us, Verity, and Ugly Love.

Last updated February 2026 · Every recommendation cited to its original source.