First Love Books

The first time it happens, before anyone has learned how to do it well. Books about intensity, clumsiness and the ache of not knowing.

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5 books in the catalog

Cover of The Days of our Birth

The Days of our Birth

Charlie Laidlaw

Literary Fiction
Cover of Tabitha Unleashed

Tabitha Unleashed

Robert W Adams

Contemporary
Cover of Ancilla

Ancilla

Sera Maddox Drake

Literary Fiction
Cover of The Last Safehouse, A Love Worth Dying For

The Last Safehouse, A Love Worth Dying For

K.C. Mitchell

Romantic Suspense
Cover of Every Little Thing

Every Little Thing

Kayla Hartness

Contemporary

Genres with First Love

Literary Fiction 12Romance 31Middle Grade, Teen, and YA 3

Often found with First Love

Coming of Age 29Grief and Healing 76Hurt/Comfort 49Loss of Innocence 25Slow Burn 50Found Family 61Ticking Clock 75Conspiracy Unravelled 72Quiet Epiphany 31Unreliable Narrator 15All tropes →

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