It Ends with Us
by Colleen Hoover
Top 10
A young woman falls for a charming surgeon and must face a painful truth about love and cycles of harm. Emotional, gripping, and content-heavy. Read the full description
Best for: Readers ready for an emotional, serious romance
It Ends with Us is #6 on BookWard's Top 100 books for September 2026, with a BookWard Score of 82 out of 100.
It Ends with Us: reading interest over the past 12 months
Sources: Open Library’s public reading-log and ratings data (dump of 2026-08-31), Wikipedia page views and Wikidata. Monthly counts are exact; they show relative interest among readers of these public sources, not total readership.
Ranked against the other books on this list, It Ends with Us’s reading interest has run from #25 to #52 over these 12 months. Interest rank blends shelf adds, Wikipedia page views and rating activity, each compared with the other 99 books that month.
Shelf adds by month
It Ends with Us was added to Open Library readers’ shelves 1,153 times in the past 12 months, peaking in October 2025 with 181 (88% above its monthly average of 96). Over the latest three months (Jun 2026 to Aug 2026) shelf adds were down 29% on the three months before. 88% of the adds were “want to read”, 7% “currently reading” and 4% “already read”.
Want to read Currently reading Already read
Wikipedia page views
Its Wikipedia article was viewed 328,957 times in the past 12 months, peaking in October 2025 with 36,745 views. The latest three months were down 25% on the three before.
Source: Wikimedia monthly page views for the article It Ends with Us.
Adaptations
- It Ends With Us (film), 2024
Adaptations are listed from Wikidata; a release date near a rise in the charts above is context, not proof of a cause.
What the data says about It Ends with Us
- Moderate swings. Monthly shelf adds averaged 96 with some ups and downs.
- Busiest and quietest months. October 2025 was its busiest month (181 adds), about 3.5 times its quietest, June 2026 (51).
- Attention and shelf adds move together. Months with more Wikipedia views for It Ends with Us were also months with more shelf adds (correlation 0.68), which suggests the same events, such as new editions, adaptations or social media, drive both.
- Against its genre. It had 18% more shelf adds than the average Romance book on this list.
- Share of the list. It accounts for 1.1% of all shelf adds recorded for the Top 100 over these 12 months, #25 of 100.
- Its age. First published in 2012 (14 years ago), it is older than 36% of the books on the list.
Each finding is computed from the public data above and shown only when the numbers support it.
It Ends with Us on the Top 100: rank history
First charted in September 2026. The chart gains a point with every monthly update, so its peak, climbs and falls will show here as they happen.
| Month | Rank | Score |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | #6 | 82 |
Is It Ends with Us rising or falling?
Cooling It ranks lower this week than over the past year, so interest is softening from its recent level.
On Open Library, It Ends with Us ranks #32 this week, #31 this month, and #31 over the past year. A longer bar means a higher position. Comparing the three windows shows whether readers are arriving faster than the book's long-term pace. Readings as of 2026-09-30.
Why It Ends with Us made the Top 100
It Ends with Us made the list mainly on momentum (+30.4 points) and being read right now (+23.7 points). Its smallest contribution is rising (+0). The BookWard Score blends five public signals, each scored from 0 to 100 and weighted as shown.
The reading-now, rating and rank signals come from Open Library’s public data, not from BookWard’s own readers. The score measures reading interest, not quality or sales. How the score works.
Open Library reader stats for It Ends with Us
Source: Open Library public reading logs, as of 2026-09-30. BookWard’s own monthly snapshots are added to the picture, and anonymous BookWard reader data will be layered in as the community grows.
More readers have It Ends with Us open right now than 97% of the other books on this list. These counts come from one public source, so they show relative interest rather than total readership.
Where it sits among Romance books
It is #1 of the 11 Romance books on this month’s list.
About It Ends with Us
A young woman falls for a charming surgeon and must face a painful truth about love and cycles of harm. Emotional, gripping, and content-heavy.
Why it’s here: It is a conversation starter that readers press into each other's hands.
Best for: Readers ready for an emotional, serious romance
At a glance
- First published
- 2016-08-02
- Genre
- Romance
- Also described as
- fiction
- Length
- about 384 pages (the median across its editions)
- Original language
- English
- Languages
- editions in 10 languages listed on Open Library
- Editions
- 56 on Open Library
- Setting
- Boston
- Characters listed
- Lily, atlas, Ryle
From Open Library and Wikidata public records. Missing rows mean the records do not list that fact.
Themes
- Love and difficult choices
- Domestic abuse
- Family patterns across generations
What reading it is like
Emotional, character-driven contemporary romance that turns serious. Quick to read.
At about 384 pages it is a longer read: roughly 8 hours at an average reading pace (about 250 words a minute, 300 words a page). Audiobook and edition lengths vary.
Good to know
Deals directly with domestic violence, which some readers will want to know before starting. A follow-up, It Starts with Us, exists.
The premise
Lily Bloom builds a new life in Boston and falls for a charming neurosurgeon, while memories of her first love resurface. The story tackles difficult choices in relationships.
What you’ll get
- An emotional, page-turning story
- A serious look at a hard topic
- Characters who stay with you
You might skip it if you want a light read; it deals with abuse.
More by Colleen Hoover on the Top 100: It Starts with Us
Pairs well with: It Starts with Us
Keep exploring the chart
Also on the chart at #5 and #7
Questions about It Ends with Us
What rank is It Ends with Us on the Top 100 books?
It Ends with Us is #6 on BookWard's Top 100 books for September 2026, with a BookWard Score of 82 out of 100.
Is It Ends with Us rising or falling?
Cooling. It ranks lower this week than over the past year, so interest is softening from its recent level. On Open Library, It Ends with Us ranks #32 this week, #31 this month, and #31 over the past year.
Why is It Ends with Us on the Top 100?
It Ends with Us made the list mainly on momentum (+30.4 points) and being read right now (+23.7 points). Its smallest contribution is rising (+0).
How many people are reading It Ends with Us right now?
Open Library's reading logs show 2,624 readers currently reading It Ends with Us, 40,471 who want to read it and 1,354 who have logged it as read (as of 2026-09-30). These are counts from one public source, not all readers.
How much interest has It Ends with Us had over the past year?
1,153 Open Library shelf adds in the past 12 months (peak October 2025, 181); latest three months down 29% on the prior three; 328,957 Wikipedia views in the past 12 months (down 25% over the latest three months); Adaptations on Wikidata: It Ends With Us (2024). Figures come from Open Library and Wikipedia public data.
Who is It Ends with Us best for?
Readers ready for an emotional, serious romance.
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How we know
This page is built from public data: Open Library’s dated reading-log and ratings dumps, Wikipedia page views, Wikidata, and BookWard’s own monthly Top 100 snapshots. The interest rank blends shelf adds (45%), Wikipedia page views (30%), rating activity (10%) and, for months where a snapshot exists, BookWard’s own score (15%), each as a percentile among the Top 100 books. Every month shown is real data; nothing is estimated. Rankings reflect reading interest, not quality or sales, and can be affected by data gaps. Last updated September 2026. Read the full methodology.
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