Carpan, Carolyn (2009) Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls' Series Books in America Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press Topic YA/teenage romance
Carpan, Carolyn (2004) Rocked by Romance: A Guide to Teen Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited Topic YA/teenage romance libraries/librarians genre definitions contemporary romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance romantic suspense Christian romance
Broad, Katherine R. (2013) "“The Dandelion in the Spring”: Utopia as Romance in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy " Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers 117–130 DOI:10.4324/9780203084939 Topic YA/teenage romance Suzanne Collins war/armed forces family gender feminism
Basu, Balaka Broad, Katherine R. Hintz, Carrie (2013) Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers New York: Routledge
Hughes, Bill (2013) ‘Two kinds of romance': Generic Hybridity and Epistemological Uncertainty in Contemporary Paranormal Romance : Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance YA/teenage romance Alyxandra Harvey Julie Kagawa science/technology
Allen, Amanda K. (2021) "Young adult romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 168-190 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-7 Topic YA/teenage romance genre definitions readers Samuel Richardson romance scholarship Twilight LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors