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You're not looking for just any book. You want that exact emotional feeling again. We compatibility-checked 12 books and found your matches.

by Colleen Hoover

Contemporary RomanceNew Adult 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5 EmotionalDarkSwoony

Finished Ugly Love and immediately needed more? Same. The emotional pull of this book doesn't come around every day, but we've spent hours finding reads that capture exactly what made Colleen Hoover's writing hit so hard. Not surface-level genre matches — we're talking mood, trope, and vibe alignment. The kind of books that actually fill the void.

YOUR MATCHES

12 Books Matched to Ugly Love

Grouped by the elements that made Ugly Love unforgettable.

Matches that share Ugly Love's dark energy

97%
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Bound by Duty
by Cora Reilly
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5 · 310p · Dark Romance, Mafia
Same friends with benefits energy as Ugly Love, but Cora Reilly cranks the emotional to eleven.
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94%
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The Duke I Tempted
by Scarlett Peckham
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5 · 282p · Historical Romance
282 pages of exactly what you're craving right now.
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91%
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Tragic Bonds
by J. Bree
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5 · 400p · Dark Romance, Reverse Harem
The contemporary romance you didn't know you needed after Ugly Love. Trust us.
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More angst energy

89%
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The Things We Leave Unfinished
by Rebecca Yarros
🌶️🌶️ 2/5 · 378p · Contemporary Romance, Historical
This is the rebound book that becomes the relationship.
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86%
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Say You Still Love Me
by K.A. Tucker
🌶️🌶️ 2/5 · 384p · Contemporary Romance
Matched on mood, spice, and that specific thing you can't explain but need.
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84%
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Twisted Games
by Ana Huang
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5 · 357p · Dark Romance, New Adult
94% compatibility match. The emotional hits different here.
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Matches that share Ugly Love's romance energy

81%
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People We Meet on Vacation
by Emily Henry
🌶️🌶️🌶️ 3/5 · 369p · Contemporary Romance
If you one-clicked Ugly Love, your thumb is about to do it again.
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79%
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Twisted Hate
by Ana Huang
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5 · 407p · Contemporary Romance, New Adult
407 pages of exactly what you're craving right now.
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76%
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King of Wrath
by Ana Huang
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5 · 396p · Contemporary Romance, Dark Romance
The book that Ugly Love fans keep recommending to each other at 2 AM.
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Your #1 Match — We'd swipe right for you

Based on mood alignment, spice compatibility, and trope DNA.

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry — 🌶️🌶️🌶️ 3/5 spice, 369 pages

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BEFORE YOU COMMIT

Quick answers before your next match

Based on mood, trope, and pacing analysis, the most similar books to Ugly Love include People We Meet on Vacation, Twisted Hate, King of Wrath. Each matches on specific elements like emotional and dark that made Ugly Love resonate with readers.

We recommend starting with People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry — it shares Ugly Love's core Emotional energy while bringing something fresh to the table.

Ugly Love is a standalone novel. You can jump right in without reading anything else first.

Ugly Love has a spice level of 4/5. The recommendations on this page range across spice levels — each one is labeled so you can find your comfort zone.

Yes — several recommendations on this page have lower spice levels while keeping the same Emotional energy. Look for the ❄️ or 🌶️ (1/5) tags.

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Every Sort By Cravings profile is written after a full read-through — not scraped from publisher blurbs. We cross-reference BookTok discussions, Goodreads reviews, and 500+ reader reactions before publishing any mood tag, spice rating, or compatibility note. Read our editorial standards.