Colleen Hoover went from BookTok ’s “It Girl” to Hollywood’s hottest get. The author is known for her emotional novels, but the books are making even more headway now that there are film adaptations in the works. Hoover’s most famous novel , perhaps, is It Ends With Us , which was originally published in 2016.
Due to its popularity on BookTok, it became the top-selling print book of 2022 — which seemed to get the ball rolling on the film adaptation. Justin Baldoni optioned the book’s rights in 2019, and Hoover made the first official casting announcement in January 2023, revealing that Blake Lively would star as heroine Lily Bloom. Hoover faced some backlash over the film’s casting — and Lily’s outfits — due to the age difference between the film and book characters.
The author has addressed this, explaining that the changes were made after some careful consideration. “Back when I wrote It Ends With Us , the new adult [genre] was very popular. You were writing college-age characters.
That’s what I was contracted to do. I made Lily very young. I didn’t know that neurosurgeons went to school for 50 years.
There’s not a 20-something neurosurgeon,” she told Today in June 2023. “As I started making this movie, I’m like, we need to age them out, because I messed up. So that’s my fault.
” The film hit theaters in August 2024. Keep scrolling to see which of Hoover’s novels are getting the Hollywood treatment: The book follows the story of Lily.