Ali Hazelwood is a bestselling romance author known for STEM heroines, academic settings, clever banter and slow-burn relationships. Before becoming a full-time writer, she earned a PhD in neuroscience and worked as a professor.

Knyzhkovyi Lev stocks her books in Ukrainian and English, including The Love Hypothesis, Love on the Brain, Love, Theoretically, Check & Mate, Bride, Mate, Deep End and Problematic Summer Romance.

Start with The Love Hypothesis

A biology PhD student, Olive Smith, enters a fake relationship with professor Adam Carlsen.

Best for: fake dating, academic romance and classic Ali Hazelwood.

This is still the easiest introduction to her writing.

Love on the Brain

Another STEM romance built around professional rivalry and attraction.

Best for: readers who want science, workplace tension and rivals-to-lovers.

Love, Theoretically

A romance set against academic competition, career pressure and the different identities people perform for others.

Best for: academia and enemies-to-lovers.

Check & Mate

Hazelwood’s YA romance follows a young chess player drawn back into competitive chess after an unexpected victory.

Best for: YA readers and sports-style rivalry.

Bride

Hazelwood moves into paranormal romance with a political marriage between Vampyre Misery Lark and Were Alpha Lowe Moreland.

Best for: romantasy, arranged marriage, vampires and werewolves.

Mate

A companion novel to Bride, centred on Serena Paris, the first known Human-Were hybrid.

Reading order: Bride → Mate.

Deep End and Problematic Summer Romance

For readers already familiar with Hazelwood, Deep End and Problematic Summer Romance expand her contemporary-romance catalogue.

Problematic Summer Romance follows 23-year-old Maya and 38-year-old Conor and plays with age-gap and brother’s-best-friend tropes.

Both English editions are available from Knyzhkovyi Lev.

Which Ali Hazelwood Book Should You Read?

Best first book: The Love Hypothesis
STEM romance: Love on the Brain
Academic romance: Love, Theoretically
YA: Check & Mate
Paranormal romance: Bride → Mate
Newer contemporary romance: Deep End or Problematic Summer Romance