The Best Book Boyfriends Romance Readers Can’t Resist

Hester Wallace married the love of her life, but after only a few years together, she's now a widow and single mother, raising her son Radley in an apartment in the heart of Manhattan. She's sensible and headstrong, and she knows she cannot sit around and mope while Radley needs her. That means no time for herself, even if her gorgeous neighbor, Mitch Dempsey, is becoming hard to avoid. 

The creator of Radley’s favorite comic book superhero, Mitch is as charismatic and confident as the characters he draws. And he clearly adores both Hester and Radley. Is she ready to risk it all for a second chance at true love?

Fernando first sees Marlena across the Piazza San Marco and falls in love with her instantly. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows that it's destiny. It barely matters that she, a divorced American chef traveling through Italy, barely speaks Italian unless it's food-related. The chemistry is undeniable. 

Within months of their first meeting, she has quit her job, sold her house in St. Louis, kissed her two grown sons good-bye, and moved to Venice to marry “the stranger,” as she calls Fernando. In this memoir of love, risk, and the city of love and canals, Marlena de Blasi explores the magic of following your heart.

Conrad Stewart is the charming and popular "big name fan" in the world of tabletop gaming. Alden Roth is his arch nemesis, both driven and guarded. Now, they're stuck together on a cross-country road trip to the biggest fan convention of the year. The last thing they expect is to find common ground beyond the game they play. 

They can't get too close, however, as they're both determined to win the upcoming Odyssey gaming tournament. Neither is willing to let emotion get in the way, but they may not have a choice, as their feelings for one another slowly change from animosity to something truly special. 

Emma Dawson's life is nothing but an endless cycle of leaving, running from one place to another, forever chasing opportunities and never staying long enough to let anyone get close. Now, she's in Toronto to take up a temporary teaching post and find some peace to write her next book. She plans to avoid all attachments, as per usual. But then she meets Max Finnegan, a pro hockey player who is both magnetic and infuriating. 

They keep running into one another, and since Emma needs help researching hockey for her new novel, their lives begin to overlap even more. But Max doesn't want a fling or one-off affair. He thinks Emma is perfect and wants to risk it all on true love. Now Emma must decide if she's brave enough to stop running and risk everything for one place, one life, and one man.

Ryan Shay is the captain of the Chicago Devils, the city's beloved basketball team, but outside of sports, he's seen as an unapproachable loner and workaholic. His team’s General Manager thinks he needs an image revamp or his captain promotion could be re-evaluated. Now's the perfect time for a fake girlfriend. Indy Ivers is his sister's best friend and new acciidental roommate. She agrees to the faux-romance arrangement, if only so she has a new hot boyfriend to rub in her ex's face. She and Ryan are total opposites, but forced proximity and the undeniable heat between them make it easy for a lie to feel real. 

Tiffiny Campanaro had big dreams of being a Broadway leading lady. Now she's dressed as a mini dancing Liberty Bell, acting as the mascot for her brother's Entertainment League Baseball team, the Philly Sillys. It's all a bit embarrassing, and it's only going to get worse now that her brother has recruited her ex to join his team. 

Ender Roche was a hotshot pitcher in high school and Tiffiny's sweetheart, but his ego got in the way and left him single and with career ending injuries. Now, he's putting on a show in the comedy leagues, but at least it's reunited him with the one woman he's never gotten over. He'll do anything to get her back, even if she claims there's no way in hell she'll forgive him.

Liz Buxbaum has been in love with Michael for years, but her forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to snag her as her prom date: she'll even befriend his new friend, the infuriating Wes Bennet. He's been a pain in Liz’s butt since they were kids. Wes agrees to help Liz get Michael's attention, but as they spend time together planning her dream prom moment, she finds herself warming to Wes. What if he's the real love she's been looking for and not the guy she thinks she wants? 

We need one romantasy boyfriend on this list, don't we? There were way too many to choose from, but we settled on one from Carissa Broadbent's hugely popular Crowns of Nyaxia series. 

Mische lost everything when she was forcibly turned into a vampire. She lost her home, her soul, and the love of the sun god to whom she had devoted her life. Now, sentenced to death for murdering the vampire prince who Turned her, she feels that she's also lost hope. But when Mische is saved by Asar, the bastard prince of the House of Shadow. He's a dark, brooding figure, one with a traumatic past and a body covered in scars. He has a mission for Mische: journey to the underworld to resurrect the god of death himself. 

Her sun god offers her a path back to his love: complete the mission, then kill the death god once more, and she'll be allowed to return home. Mische and Asar must travel the treacherous path to the underworld, bound together by mistrust and something far more dangerous. Mische must choose between redemption or damnation, and the latter is lookinig far more enticing

The moment that Jazmyn Payne was done with high school, she fled her hometown and all her fatphobic bullies behind, ready to carve out a new life for herself. She's forced to return home when her beloved Aunt Addison has a health crisis, and Addison is eager for her niece to spice up her life. Jazz doesn't want romance. 

But then Lamar Anderson sits next to her at the local sports bar. He is too good to be true: fun, sexy, successful, and interested in her. Together, they can be themselves and ignore the rest of the world. But reality cannot help but intrude, and soon, Jazz will be forced to decide if she can leave behind her past or if she wants to run away again.