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Rainbow Rowell · 2013 · US · romance · young adult
★ 3.93 Goodreads · 792,685 ratings

Cath, who writes hugely popular fan fiction about a boy wizard named Simon Snow, starts university in Nebraska without her outgoing twin sister, who wants a life of her own, and has to find out who she is offline.

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12 books for readers of Fangirl

Book Lovers

Emily Henry · 2022 · US 96% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 1,704,723 ratings
shares: bookish, sisterly, witty, siblings · easy read, intimate

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.

Deep End

Ali Hazelwood · 2025 · US 95% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 534,179 ratings
shares: college, mental health, witty, campus · easy read, intimate

Scarlett Vandermeer, a Stanford diver sidelined by an injury and a crisis of nerve, starts a secret no-strings arrangement with Lukas Blomqvist, star of the men's swim team, to explore desires she has never shared with anyone.

Turtles All the Way Down

John Green · 2017 · US 95% match ★ 3.91 Hardcover · 831 ratings
shares: mental health, introspective, young adult · easy read, intimate

Aza Holmes, sixteen and caught in spirals of obsessive thought, is talked by her best friend into hunting for a missing Indianapolis billionaire, whose son she once knew, for the hundred-thousand-dollar reward.

Attachments

Rainbow Rowell · 2011 · US 95% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 212,847 ratings
shares: witty, romantic · easy read, intimate

In 1999, Lincoln O'Neill is hired to read the flagged emails of a Nebraska newspaper's staff, and instead of reporting Beth and Jennifer, two friends who chat about everything, he finds himself falling for Beth before he has ever seen her.

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Rachel Cohn and David Levithan · 2010 · US 94% match ★ 3.74 Goodreads · 103,073 ratings
shares: bookish, young adult, witty · easy read, intimate

Over Christmas in New York, Lily leaves a red notebook of dares on a shelf at the Strand bookshop, and Dash, a cynical teenager who hates the holidays, picks it up.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Jenny Han · 2014 · US 94% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 1,107,297 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in To All the Boys I've Loved Before
shares: sisterly, young adult, witty, siblings · easy read, intimate

Lara Jean Song Covey writes a secret letter to every boy she has ever loved and keeps them in a hatbox, until the letters are mailed and she has to face five boys at once, including her older sister's boyfriend.

Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld · 2023 · US 94% match ★ 3.61 Goodreads · 255,305 ratings
shares: writer, witty, romantic · 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.

Just for the Summer

Abby Jimenez · 2024 · US 94% match ★ 4.33 Goodreads · 1,246,410 ratings
Book 3 of 3 in Part of Your World
shares: mental health, witty, romantic · easy read, intimate

Justin and Emma share the same curse, since everyone they date finds true love right after breaking up with them, so they agree to date each other for the summer to cancel it out, on the small Minnesota island where Emma is looking after her half-siblings.

Heart the Lover

Lily King · 2025 · US 94% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 516,458 ratings
shares: bookish, writer, witty, campus · easy read, intimate

Years later, a writer looks back at her final year of college, when she fell in with Sam and Yash, two brilliant best friends from her seventeenth-century literature class, and at the love triangle and the choices after graduation that changed all three lives.

Eleanor & Park

Rainbow Rowell · 2012 · US 94% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 1,285,397 ratings
shares: young adult, romantic · easy read, intimate

In Omaha in 1986, Eleanor, the new girl with wild red hair and a hard home life, ends up sharing a school bus seat with Park, a quiet half-Korean boy, and over comics and mixtapes they fall slowly in love.

Great Big Beautiful Life

Emily Henry · 2025 · US 94% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 896,483 ratings
shares: writer, witty, romantic · easy read, plain prose

Two writers, hopeful Alice Scott and Pulitzer winner Hayden Anderson, are invited to a balmy island by the reclusive heiress Margaret Ives, who will tell her life story to only one of them after a one-month trial.

The Charm Offensive

Alison Cochrun · 2021 · US 94% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 85,203 ratings
shares: mental health, witty, romantic · easy read, intimate

Dev Deshpande, a producer on a dating reality show, is put in charge of its new star, Charlie Winshaw, a tech millionaire with anxiety who can't get through a scene.