Where to Start with Colleen Hoover
- Best entry point → Verity
- Best standalone → November 9
- Start the It Ends with Us series → It Ends with Us
- What fans keep coming back to → Ugly Love
- Best narrator for Colleen Hoover → Maybe Someday
- Highest rated by listeners → Confess
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Verity
Narrated by Vanessa Johansson, Amy Landon
★ 4.74 ABR Score (4.0M ratings)★ 4.29 Goodreads (3.9M) ★ 4.51 Audible (137.0K)8h 10m listening time • Released 2019The dual narration transforms this psychological thriller into something genuinely unnerving—each narrator pulls you deeper into a twisted conspiracy that rewires everything you thought you knew.
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It Ends with Us
It Ends with Us • Book 1
Narrated by Olivia Song
★ 4.65 ABR Score (4.8M ratings)★ 4.08 Goodreads (4.7M) ★ 4.67 Audible (87.8K)11h 18m listening time • Released 2016 - 3
November 9
Narrated by Zachary Webber, Angela Goethals
★ 4.60 ABR Score (1.4M ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (1.3M) ★ 4.7 Audible (25.0K)9h 46m listening time • Released 2015Webber and Goethals trade off chapters in dual narration that makes the once-a-year meetings hit harder, and the final twist lands like a gut punch.
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Confess
Narrated by Elizabeth Louise, Sebastian York
★ 4.48 ABR Score (627.7K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (619.8K) ★ 4.67 Audible (7.9K)7h 50m listening time • Released 2015Sebastian York and Elizabeth Louise bring electric chemistry to dual narration that makes CoHo's signature emotional gut-punches hit even harder.
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Ugly Love
Narrated by Deacon Lee, Grace Grant
★ 4.46 ABR Score (2.4M ratings)★ 3.99 Goodreads (2.3M) ★ 4.58 Audible (32.3K)9h 14m listening time • Released 2014 - 6
Regretting You
Narrated by Tanya Eby, Lauren Ezzo
★ 4.42 ABR Score (982.0K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (962.0K) ★ 4.48 Audible (20.0K)11h 17m listening time • Released 2019 - 7
Reminders of Him
Narrated by Brittany Pressley, Ryan West
★ 4.37 ABR Score (43.8K ratings)★ 3.55 Goodreads (20) ★ 4.74 Audible (43.8K)10h 17m listening time • Released 2022 - 8
All Your Perfects
Hopeless • Book 3
Narrated by Angela Goethals
★ 4.32 ABR Score (720.6K ratings)★ 3.99 Goodreads (711.6K) ★ 4.53 Audible (9.0K)12h 34m listening time • Released 2013CoHo's most emotionally brutal romance, and Goethals narrates the heartbreak with a raw intimacy that makes it hit even harder.
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Too Late
Narrated by Ryan Gray, Maxine Mitchell, Joe Arden
★ 4.31 ABR Score (562.6K ratings)★ 4.03 Goodreads (556.5K) ★ 4.32 Audible (6.1K)10h 19m listening time • Released 2023 - 10
Point of Retreat
Slammed • Book 2
Narrated by Kamran R. Khan
★ 4.29 ABR Score (298.2K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (296.9K) ★ 4.57 Audible (1.3K)6h 48m listening time • Released 2022Khan's narration adds emotional gravity to Hoover's gut-punch sequel, making the messy side of young love feel raw and achingly real.
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Losing Hope
Hopeless • Book 2
Narrated by Kirby Heyborne
★ 4.29 ABR Score (278.8K ratings)★ 4.09 Goodreads (275.9K) ★ 4.53 Audible (2.9K)10h 33m listening time • Released 2013Kirby Heyborne brings raw vulnerability to Holder's POV, making this companion novel hit harder than the original for fans who thought they knew the whole story.
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Maybe Someday
Maybe • Book 1
Narrated by Zachary Webber, Angela Goethals
★ 4.21 ABR Score (677.6K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (667.2K) ★ 4.43 Audible (10.4K)10h 40m listening time • Released 2014Webber and Goethals nail the guilty-crush tension in dual POV, making this one of Hoover's most addictive listens.
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Layla
Narrated by Brian Pallino
★ 4.16 ABR Score (630.2K ratings)★ 3.63 Goodreads (616.1K) ★ 4.29 Audible (14.1K)8h 10m listening time • Released 2020Brian Pallino captures the creeping dread and emotional fracture of this grief-haunted love story with unsettling restraint—his performance transforms ambiguity into genuine unease.
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Never Never: Part one of three
Never Never • Book 1
by Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher
Narrated by Kevin Free, Elizabeth Evans
★ 3.89 ABR Score (147.0K ratings)★ 3.76 Goodreads (144.4K) ★ 4.29 Audible (2.6K)4h 23m listening time • Released 2015 - 15
Woman Down
Narrated by Sarah Naughton
★ 3.70 ABR Score (115.8K ratings)★ 3.47 Goodreads (112.9K) ★ 3.86 Audible (2.9K)11h 38m listening time • Released 2026 - 16
This Girl
Slammed • Book 3
Narrated by Kirby Heyborne
★ 3.42 ABR Score (185.9K ratings)★ 3.69 Goodreads (184.4K) ★ 3.81 Audible (1.5K)9h 18m listening time • Released 2013Heyborne brings Layken and Will's story full circle with a male perspective that reframes everything you thought you knew about the first two books.
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Never Never
Never Never #1-3 • Book 1
by Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher
Narrated by Kevin R. Free, Elizabeth Evans
★ 3.24 ABR Score (219.4K ratings)★ 3.29 Goodreads (218.7K) ★ 3.75 Audible (747)9h 48m listening time • Released 2024
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