YA books for teenage poets and hopeless romantics? Sign us up. Featuring novels about teens looking for romance in all of the right (and wrong) places on an endless search for love and those who get their feelings out through poems (and songs), these are the YA romances that will give you the warm and fuzzies!

Audre & Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams

Audre is the junior class president of Cheshire Prep, Brooklyn’s elite academy and her desire to go to Stanford is jeopardized when her father cancels her summer visit to his Malibu beach house. Now, how is she going to finish writing her self-help book to win over Stanford’s admission board? The only answer is Bash Henry – the tall, hot senior who is the king of fun. Audre enlists Bash’s help as a “fun consultant” in order to give her some inspiration to finish her book. What Audre didn’t expect? The undeniable connection between the two of them.

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Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

In the book that brought you the hit film Love, Simon, this story is about an in-the-closet sixteen year old named Simon Spier. When disaster strikes and an email finds its way into the wrong inbox, Simon’s sexuality is threatened to be exposed. Taking the challenge head on, Simon must step out of his comfort zone for his own sanity, the sake of his friendships, and for a chance to be with someone he’s never met.

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Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon

Sunny has an immediate crush on Cirrus when he meets her. A mistake makes Sunny believe that Cirrus plays the guitar, so he may have lied and told her he’s the frontman for a rock band. In order to play the part, Sunny enlists his friends help to make a fake band so that he can make the girl of his dreams think he’s cool. As Sunny is about to confess about the lie, Cirrus asks when she can see the band play.

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Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett

Simone Garcia-Hampton is starting over at a new school and while her new friends and her position as student director of Rent make the transition easy, Simone is hiding the fact that she’s HIV-positive. While she has a crush on Miles, things begin to heat up between the two of them and she knows she has to tell him she’s positive. Not only is Simone terrified of how Miles will react, but she receives a threatening letter from someone saying they know she’s positive and she has until Thanksgiving to dump Miles or else this mysterious stranger will expose her secret. But Simone is prepared for anything when she realizes that the best way to handle this is to deal with the haters head-on.

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The Accidental Boyfriend by Lori Freeland

Gabe and Jess are quite different. Gabe is a TV heartthrob who is a problem solver and has never met a party he couldn’t rock. Jess writes romance online and has never been kissed and avoids crowds and parties. The two both know what it’s like to lose someone who’s still here. When Jess and Gabe accidentally run into each other and Gabe ends up being Jess’s first (and unexpected) kiss, Gabe asks her to pretend to be his girlfriend for the week to deal with the paparazzi. Jess doesn’t care about playing this part or about Gabe until she realizes she needs him as much as he needs her.

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My Life With the Walter Boys by Ali Novak

Jackie has a goal to be perfect; she wants perfect grades, to look perfect, and to get into the perfect school. Her goal takes a turn when Jackie’s parents unexpectedly die in a car accident and she is sent to live with her new guardians, the Walters….and their eleven sons (and daughter who is one of the boys). While Jackie is initially not impressed with the Walter boys at all, she does find some of them are super hot but they are far from welcoming. To the Walter boys, a city girl doesn’t belong on their ranch. The more time Jackie spends with the Walter boys, the more she realizes maybe her plan for perfection wasn’t the best way to find love after all.

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If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin

Once inseparable, Autumn and Finn now avoid each other at all costs. Autumn has a group of friends, and a boyfriend named Jamie and Finn is the boy at school everyone wants to be around. The more they cross paths, the more Autumn feels that maybe Finn is the one she’s meant to be with. Come August, things will be changed forever and Autumn is forced to confront what her life would have been like if she never let Finn go.

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Kissing in America by Margo Rabb

Eva has found comfort in exactly 118 romance novels since she lost her father two years ago. When Eva meets Will and he can relate to her grief, she feels like she’s in a romance novel herself. Right as Eva falls in love with Will, he moves to California with hardly any warning. In order to win his love, Eva and her best friend plan a trip to the west coast. What Eva didn’t plan on this trip across America was how she and her best friend, Annie, will have to confront the truth about love.

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