This is a list of enemies to lovers books built from reader data rather than memory. Every one of the 36 titles below is on the Goodreads Enemies To Lovers shelf and is named as the trope in reviews we hold. For the trope on its own, see the enemies to lovers trope page.
The trope is simple to state: the leads begin against each other, and the relationship the book is about grows out of that opposition. The rivalry can be professional, political, personal or a feud between families or factions. What makes it enemies to lovers, and not just a slow burn, is that readers describe the opposition itself as the thing they came for.
So we did not pick books by cover copy or our own reading. A title is on this page only if readers tagged it and named the trope in their reviews. How that check works is under how we checked every title.
Enemies to lovers is in 2.1% of reader-review signals and 6.4% of TikTok comment signals. 32% of the demand signals that mention it are tagged underserved or novel by Tropesmith's classifier, compared with 39% across all demand signals.
Counted 16 October 2026, 02:40 UTC. A demand signal is one specific thing a reader asked for or praised in a review, comment or post, taken from Goodreads reviews, Amazon reviews, BookTok comments and captions, Reddit posts and Amazon Q&A, and tagged by trope. One review can give several. Each signal gets a rarity tag (common, underserved or novel) from the text of that review or post alone; the classifier is never shown what is on the shelf. A tag points at where to look; it does not prove that no book answers the signal. How we count.
A trope can be common and still leave room: the share of its demand signals tagged underserved or novel shows how often readers name something specific that they feel they are not getting. Compare it with the 39% across all demand signals, then check the comp titles in your own lane.
The free lane score rates a lane on demand and competition. Start with enemies to lovers.
Score my lane, freeRomance with a fantasy world around it. These are the titles in our data filed under romantasy.
Within each section, books are ordered by Goodreads ratings count, highest first. That is popularity, not a quality ranking.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 5 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 7 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 7 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 14 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 5 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 11 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 9 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 8 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 7 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 25 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 9 reviews we hold.
Present-day settings. These are the titles in our data filed under contemporary romance.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 7 reviews we hold; also carries the tag in our book-trope data.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 11 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 12 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 9 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 36 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 7 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 6 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 16 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 11 reviews we hold; also carries the tag in our book-trope data.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 20 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 8 reviews we hold.
Darker, higher-intensity romance. These are the titles in our data filed under dark romance; the wider list is on dark romance books.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 5 reviews we hold; also carries the tag in our book-trope data.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 10 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 10 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 5 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 11 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 6 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 5 reviews we hold.
Sports romance. These are the titles in our data filed under sports.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 5 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 13 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 20 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 8 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 7 reviews we hold.
Historical is short: only two titles met our check, which says more about the data we hold than about the shelf.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 21 reviews we hold.
Tagged Enemies To Lovers on Goodreads; readers name the trope in 14 reviews we hold.
A title is listed only if all three of these hold:
Titles with review mentions only were left out. We added no title from memory, and the year shown is the publication year Goodreads holds, which can reflect a later edition.
What to keep in mind. The review counts are small (five to a few dozen per book) because they come from the review sample we hold, not from every review ever written; they show that readers name the trope, not how many readers do. The Goodreads label is a reader-made shelf, not an editor’s judgment. Some well-known titles are missing because they did not clear the bar in our data, and foreign-language edition rows were excluded.
If you write the trope rather than read it, the question is whether the lane you write it in is worth entering. The free lane score rates a lane on demand and competition, and these comp books show you what readers in that lane already name.
Free, no sign-up. See demand and competition for the lane before you commit to a version of the trope.
Score my lane, freeAn enemies to lovers book is a romance in which the two leads start as opponents, rivals or people with a real reason to dislike each other, and the story turns that friction into attraction. Readers shelve and search by the trope, so on this page a book counts only if our data shows readers naming it.
Enemies to lovers is in 2.1% of reader-review signals and 6.4% of TikTok comment signals. 32% of the demand signals that mention it are tagged underserved or novel by Tropesmith's classifier, compared with 39% across all demand signals. Counted 16 October 2026, 02:40 UTC. A demand signal is one specific thing a reader asked for or praised in a review, comment or post.
Of the 36 books that passed our check, 11 are romantasy, 11 contemporary, 7 dark, 5 sports and 2 historical. The mix reflects the books we hold data on, not the whole shelf.
Each title had to be in our book tables, be named as enemies to lovers in at least five reader reviews we hold, and have a second source: the Goodreads Enemies To Lovers shelf label, a mention in the book description, or a match in our book-trope data. Titles with review mentions only were left out.
Figures on this page were counted on 16 October 2026 from Tropesmith’s demand-signal engine; see how we count.