Colleen Hoover

Colleen Hoover is an American author who went from self-publishing her debut novel Slammed in 2012 to becoming one of the bestselling fiction writers of the 2020s, with more than one title regularly occupying the New York Times bestseller list at once. She is best known for It Ends with Us and its sequel It Ends with Us: It Starts with Us, an emotionally intense romance dealing with domestic abuse that became a cultural phenomenon on BookTok years after its original release and was adapted into the 2024 film starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. Her other major works include the psychological thriller Verity, and the romances Ugly Love, November 9 and Reminders of Him. New readers are often steered to It Ends with Us for her signature blend of romance and hard-hitting emotional subject matter, or to Verity if they'd prefer to start with her darker, twistier thriller side — the two showcase very different registers within her writing. Hoover's career is a rare modern example of grassroots reader communities, rather than traditional publishing marketing, driving an author to mainstream superstardom. She continues to publish new fiction regularly and remains one of the most-read novelists working today.