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Emily Henry · 2020 · US · romance
★ 3.95 Goodreads · 1,806,606 ratings

January, a romance novelist who no longer believes in love, and Gus, a gloomy literary novelist and her old college rival, are summer neighbours, and they bet each other to swap genres.

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The Hating Game

Sally Thorne · 2016 · Australia 98% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 864,023 ratings
shares: forced proximity, grumpy sunshine, enemies to lovers, comic · easy read, intimate

Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman, assistants to the two chief executives of a newly merged publishing company, share an office and loathe each other, and a promotion only one of them can win turns their war of games personal.

The Spanish Love Deception

Elena Armas · 2020 · Spain 98% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 852,095 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Spanish Love Deception
shares: forced proximity, grumpy sunshine, enemies to lovers, comic · easy read, romance-driven

Catalina Martín needs a date for her sister's wedding in Spain, where her ex will be the best man, and the only volunteer is Aaron Blackford, the tall, infuriating colleague she cannot stand.

Book Lovers

Emily Henry · 2022 · US 98% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 1,704,723 ratings
shares: grumpy sunshine, enemies to lovers, witty, comic · easy read, romance-driven

Nora Stephens, a ruthless New York literary agent, agrees to spend a month in the small town of Sunshine Falls, North Carolina, to please her younger sister, and keeps running into Charlie Lastra, a brooding editor from the city she cannot stand.

Funny Story

Emily Henry · 2024 · US 98% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 1,461,867 ratings
shares: forced proximity, witty, romantic, comic · easy read, romance-driven

When her fiancé leaves her for his best friend, children's librarian Daphne Vincent ends up sharing an apartment in a Michigan lake town with Miles, the jilted ex of that best friend, and the two start posting photos that suggest they are dating.

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

Mariana Zapata · 2016 · US 97% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 317,303 ratings
shares: grumpy sunshine, forced proximity, witty, comic · easy read, intimate

Vanessa Mazur quits her job as assistant to Aiden Graves, the Dallas football star called the Wall of Winnipeg, who has barely said a kind word to her in two years, and weeks later he turns up at her door asking her to marry him so he can stay in the country.

The Unhoneymooners

Christina Lauren · 2019 · US 97% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 1,198,003 ratings
shares: forced proximity, enemies to lovers, witty, comic · easy read, intimate

When everyone at her twin sister's wedding gets food poisoning except Olive Torres and the groom's insufferable brother Ethan, the two take the couple's free honeymoon to Maui, which means pretending to be newlyweds for ten days.

Better Than the Movies

Lynn Painter · 2021 · US 97% match ★ 4.25 Goodreads · 924,014 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Better Than the Movies
shares: enemies to lovers, grief, witty, comic · easy read, intimate

Liz Buxbaum, a high school senior who lives by romantic comedies, asks her irritating next-door neighbour, Wes Bennett, to help her win back her childhood crush, Michael, who has just moved back to town.

Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld · 2023 · US 97% match ★ 3.61 Goodreads · 255,305 ratings
shares: writer, witty, romantic, comic · easy read, intimate

Sally Milz writes sketches for a late-night comedy show and has watched ordinary male colleagues date glamorous stars, but when pop singer Noah Brewster hosts one week and they hit it off, she is sure it cannot be real.

The Flatshare

Beth O'Leary · 2019 · UK 96% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 477,112 ratings
shares: forced proximity, witty, romantic, comic · easy read, romance-driven

Tiffy Moore needs somewhere cheap to live in London, and Leon Twomey, a palliative care nurse on night shifts, needs cash, so they share a one-bedroom flat and a bed at different hours, getting to know each other through Post-it notes.

Icebreaker

Hannah Grace · 2022 · UK 96% match ★ 3.71 Goodreads · 1,407,426 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Maple Hills
shares: forced proximity, grumpy sunshine, romantic, romance · easy read, intimate

Anastasia Allen, a figure skater with Olympic ambitions at a California university, is forced by a facilities mix-up to share her rink time with the hockey team, whose captain, Nate Hawkins, makes the arrangement hard to ignore.

Well Met

Jen DeLuca · 2019 · US 96% match ★ 3.82 Goodreads · 79,073 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Well Met
shares: enemies to lovers, witty, romantic, comic · easy read, intimate

Emily moves to a small Maryland town to help her sister recover from an accident and is roped into volunteering at the local Renaissance Faire, where Simon, the uptight teacher who runs it, plays a swaggering pirate and clashes with her at every turn.

The Wedding Party

Jasmine Guillory · 2018 · US 96% match ★ 3.76 Goodreads · 57,873 ratings
Book 3 of 6 in The Wedding Date
shares: enemies to lovers, witty, romantic, comic · easy read, intimate

Maddie and Theo, the two best friends of Alexa Monroe, have loathed each other for years, but one night together in the months before Alexa's wedding becomes a secret arrangement neither can admit is more.