The Love Hypothesis is one of the most sought after books by our readers at the moment. In these strange uncertain times perhaps everyone is looking for a bit of romance and escapism. The story follows Olive, a PhD Student, and not a believer in lasting romantic relationships. In order to get her best friend off her case, she enters into a 'fake' relationship with hot shot professor and reigning bad guy at the lab, Adam. When this fake relationship between the two scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws Olive's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos.
While you are waiting to read The Love Hypothesis, you might enjoy these other authors who write in a similar style, and other stories mixing romance with a bit of science/STEM or academia.
The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
Single mom Jessica Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. Jess has been left behind too often to feel comfortable letting anyone in; she holds her loved ones close, but working constantly to stay afloat is hard... and lonely. GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company, claims to find soulmates through DNA. Her test shows an unheard-of 98 percent compatibility with another subject in the database: one of GeneticAlly's founders, Dr. River Peña. She already knows Dr. Peña, and this stuck-up, stubborn man is without a doubt not her soulmate. As the pair are dragged from one event to the next, Jess begins to realize that there might be more to the scientist than she thought.
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases - a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. Stella also has Asperger's. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice--with a professional. Which is why she hires a Vietnamese and Swedish man Michael Phan to help her tick off all the relationship boxes.
Their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic.
Beach Read by Emily Henry (eBook, audiobook)
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. But as the summer stretches on, January discovers a gaping plot hole in the story she's been telling herself about her own life, and begins to wonder what other things she might have gotten wrong, including her ideas about the man next door.
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Meet Don Tillman. Don is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to help him find the perfect woman. One thing he already knows, though, is that it's not Rosie. Absolutely, completely, definitely not. Don Tillman is a socially challenged genetics professor who's decided the time has come to find a wife. His questionnaire is intended to weed out anyone who's unsuitable. The trouble is, Don has rather high standards and doesn't really do flexible so, despite lots of takers - he looks like Gregory Peck - he's not having much success in identifying 'the one'. When Rosie Jarman comes to his office, Don assumes it's to apply for the 'wife project' - and duly discounts her on the grounds she smokes, drinks, doesn't eat meat, and is incapable of punctuality. However, Rosie has no interest in becoming Mrs Tillman and is actually there to enlist Don's assistance in a professional capacity: to help her find her biological father. Sometimes, though, you don't find love, love finds you...
Well Met by Jen DeLuca
Emily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, for the summer to help her sister recover from an accident, but who could anticipate getting roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire alongside her teenaged niece? Or that the irritating and inscrutable schoolteacher in charge of the volunteers, Simon, would be so annoying that she finds it impossible to stop thinking about him? Simon's makes it clear he doesn't have time for Emily's lighthearted approach to life. Yet on the faire grounds he becomes a different person, flirting freely with Emily. But is this attraction real, or just part of the characters they're portraying?
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