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30 books 18+: romance and romantasy

Dragons, fae courts, slow burns and sleepless nights. Romantasy, modern love stories and the classics that were scandalous in their time. For adults only.

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18+. These books contain explicit scenes. Some also touch on hard themes, for example abuse in It Ends with Us. Read what feels right for you.

Romantasy

Dragons, fae and forbidden love.

1
A girl is forced into a deadly war college for dragon riders.
2
The sequel to Fourth Wing: more secrets, more war, more passion.
3
A human huntress is taken into the land of the faeries.
4
The second book, where everything you believed turns upside down.
5
A half-fae woman in a modern magical city hunts her best friend’s killer.
6
The kingdom’s best assassin must win a tournament to earn her freedom.
7
The Chosen Maiden, forbidden almost everything, and a guard she can’t stop looking at.
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A witch hunting her sister’s killer makes a pact with the prince of Wrath.
9
A witch and historian finds a bewitched manuscript and meets a vampire.
10
A nurse just back from the Second World War falls through time into 18th-century Scotland.

Modern love stories

Slow burns, second chances, big feelings.

11
A love story that slowly becomes a story about abuse, and the courage to leave.
12
An agreement: no questions about the past, no hopes for the future. It doesn’t work.
13
A PhD student fakes a relationship with the most notoriously grumpy professor on campus.
14
A Hollywood legend finally tells the truth about her seven marriages, and her great love.
15
The rise and fall of a 1970s rock band, told as interviews.
16
A good girl, a campus bad boy and a bet.
17
A straight-A student and a rebel: a first love that sweeps everything away.
18
A summer romance and a love that lasts a lifetime.
19
A single thirty-something in London: her diary, her calories and her love life.
20
The columns about sex and dating in Manhattan that started it all.

Passion and classics

Scandalous then, still burning now.

21
A literature student and a billionaire with very particular tastes.
22
Two people with painful pasts and an intensely passionate affair.
23
The first Bridgerton book: a fake courtship in Regency London that becomes real.
24
An aristocrat’s wife and the gamekeeper. The book was banned for decades.
25
Elegant erotic stories written in the 1940s and published decades later.
26
Two aristocrats turn seduction into a cruel game.
27
A charming young man climbs Paris society through the women he seduces.
28
A man with a perfect sense of smell hunts for the ultimate scent.
29
Forbidden love between a girl and a priest, lasting decades in Australia.
30
A beautiful, fearless woman in the France of Louis XIV and her great adventures.