Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-three novels, including It Ends with Us, All Your Perfects, Ugly Love, and Verity. She has become known for her mastery of the romance, young adult, and thriller genres, usually merging the three to create un-put-downable titles that get everyone talking.
She has won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance in 2015 for Confess, in 2016 for It Ends With Us, and in 2017 for Without Merit. It Ends With Us has even been made into a film featuring A-lister Blake Lively.
Meet Colleen Hoover
Often known to her fans as ‘CoHo’, Hoover studied a degree in social work and spent some years in these roles before starting her writing career.
However, she never truly planned to become an author. She was inspired to write her first book by a song lyric, then published the work so her mother would have something to read on her new ereader.
Her rare talent of combining several genres in one book is said to be not just a major part of her success, but also thanks to her history of self-publishing her own books. Without the traditional restrictions of sticking to one genre, she was able to essentially carve out her own niche, and become a household name for readers everywhere in the process.
Hoover has been quite open with the fact that she takes inspiration from her own life for her works. Even though her themes often touch on dark topics such as abusive relationships, infidelity, and miscarriage, she has taken her own experiences and knowledge and weaved them into her craft.
In 2015, she and her family founded a non-profit called The Bookworm Box, a bookstore and monthly book subscription service. Today, she lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys.
She writes mainly romance, young adult, and thrillers, often blending those genres within a single book.
Popular titles include It Ends With Us, Verity, Ugly Love, Hopeless, November 9, and All Your Perfects. It Ends With Us is one of her best-known works and has been adapted into a film starring Blake Lively.
Yes. She is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and has won Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Romance for Confess (2015), It Ends With Us (2016), and Without Merit (2017).
Read each series in publication order. For example, the Slammed series begins with Slammed followed by Point of Retreat, and the Maybe Someday storyline concludes with Maybe Now. When in doubt, start with the first book of the series.
Her novels often explore intense and mature themes, including abusive relationships, infidelity, loss, and miscarriage. Readers looking for emotionally charged stories should be prepared for frank portrayals of these subjects.