Ali Hazelwood Reveals Surprise Sequel to ‘The Love Hypothesis,’ ‘The Two-Body Problem’

While we have already gotten small glimpses at Adam and Olive’s love story via other Ali Hazelwood books, she’s officially diving back into their relationship and giving us an official sequel book!The author announced the big news on Instagram, writing, “‘I wrote a sequel to The Love Hypothesis,’ is not a sentence I thought I’d say a year or so ago, but now I weirdly can’t imagine a world in which The Two-Body Problem doesn’t exist. I’m really eager to talk more about this book and how it came about in the next few months. For now let me just say that the TLH movie and its cast made me fall for Adam and Olive all over again, that revisiting them was an absolute pleasure.”The cover was also revealed and features Adam and Olive hugging each other in a lab. Lilly, who also designed the cover for The Love Hypothesis and continues to work with Ali across her books, created the cover!Ali’s publisher, Berkley, also revealed the official description for the book in a press release:Olive Smith finally has her PhD, and she’s living her happy ever after. Well, not quite her ever after, since postdoctoral fellowships are temporary by nature, but she doesn’t mind: she has her friends, her research, and best of all, she has Dr. Adam Carlsen. Intense, brilliant, endlessly undaunted by the chaos Olive has smuggled into their shared house, Adam is determined to spend his future by her side.And yet, there are no fairy tales in academia. Being in love with another researcher means navigating the hard reality of clashing schedules, an increasingly grim and ultracompetitive job market, and Olive’s desire to be seen as a formidable scientist in her own right.Being with Adam is the most real thing Olive has ever known. As the pressure tightens and the stakes rise, she’ll have to set all confounding variables aside and learn to trust her heart.Ali also revealed that a film adaptation is already in development from MRC for Amazon MGM Studios, the same producers and studio that released the adaptation for The Love Hypothesis starring Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman.The Two-Body Problem is set to be released on February 2, 2027, and is already available for preorder.The Two-Body Problem, by Ali Hazelwood will be released on February 2, 2027, from Berkley. To preorder the book, click on the retailer of your choice:AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE BOOKS-A-MILLION BOOKSHOP TARGET WALMART POWELL'S BOOKS HUDSON BOOKSELLERS