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Books like It Ends with Us

Colleen Hoover · 2016 · US · romance
Book 1 of 2 in It Ends with Us
★ 4.06 Goodreads · 4,859,751 ratings

Lily Bloom has left her small Maine town to open a flower shop in Boston, where she falls for Ryle Kincaid, a confident neurosurgeon, just as Atlas Corrigan, the first boy she ever loved, comes back into her life.

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12 books for readers of It Ends with Us

Ugly Love

Colleen Hoover · 2014 · US 98% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 2,423,450 ratings
shares: heartbreak, trauma, romantic · easy read, wrenching

Tate Collins moves into her brother's San Francisco apartment and into an arrangement with his neighbour, Miles Archer, an airline pilot who has two rules: never ask about his past, and never expect a future.

The Light We Lost

Jill Santopolo · 2017 · US 98% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 207,519 ratings
shares: love triangle, romantic, epistolary, romance · easy read, earnest

Lucy and Gabe meet as students at Columbia on the morning of September 11, 2001, and over the next thirteen years their lives keep pulling them together and apart.

Writers & Lovers

Lily King · 2020 · US 98% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 243,292 ratings
shares: Boston, love triangle, romantic, romance · easy read, wrenching

In the summer of 1997, Casey Peabody, thirty-one, grieving her mother, deep in debt and waiting tables in Massachusetts while she works on the novel she has been writing for six years, finds herself torn between two very different writers.

Something Borrowed

Emily Giffin · 2005 · US 97% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 620,435 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Something Borrowed
shares: love triangle, romantic, romance · easy read, plain prose

On the night of her thirtieth birthday, Rachel White, a dutiful Manhattan lawyer, ends up in bed with Dex, her best friend Darcy's fiancé, and spends the summer before their wedding in the Hamptons torn between the friendship and him.

Long Shot

Kennedy Ryan · 2018 · US 97% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 84,711 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Hoops
shares: domestic abuse, romantic · easy read, wrenching

Iris DuPree, a college student with plans of her own, meets August West, a rising basketball star, the night before the national championship, but she is already with his rival, Caleb Bradley, and that relationship is not what it seems.

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Jenny Han · 2009 · US 97% match ★ 3.73 Goodreads · 1,210,592 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Summer I Turned Pretty
shares: love triangle, romantic, romance · easy read, earnest

Every summer Belly goes with her mother and brother to the beach house of her mother's best friend and her two sons, Conrad and Jeremiah, and the summer she turns sixteen, everything between them changes.

Bared to You

Sylvia Day · 2012 · US 95% match ★ 4.12 Goodreads · 557,249 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Crossfire
shares: trauma, romantic, romance · easy read, plain prose

Eva Tramell, newly moved to Manhattan for a job at an advertising agency, meets Gideon Cross, the billionaire who owns the building, and they begin an intense affair that forces each of them to face the damage in their pasts.

Heart the Lover

Lily King · 2025 · US 93% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 516,458 ratings
shares: love triangle, romantic, romance · easy read, wrenching

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.

Happy Place

Emily Henry · 2023 · US 93% match ★ 3.93 Goodreads · 1,561,714 ratings
shares: heartbreak, romantic, romance · easy read, plain prose

Harriet and Wyn broke off their engagement months ago and have not told their friends, so when the group gathers for its annual week at a cottage on the Maine coast, they pretend to still be a couple.

Every Summer After

Carley Fortune · 2022 · Canada 92% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 1,095,432 ratings
shares: heartbreak, romantic, romance · easy read, earnest

Persephone Fraser spent six summers at a lake in Ontario falling for Sam Florek, the boy next door, until one mistake ended everything, and now, years later, a funeral brings her back for a single weekend.

Mad Honey

Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan · 2022 · US 92% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 617,847 ratings
shares: domestic abuse, romantic, romance · easy read, earnest

Olivia McAfee left an abusive marriage to take over her father's beekeeping business in a small New Hampshire town, and her teenage son Asher falls for Lily Campanello, who is new in town. Months later Lily is dead and Asher is charged with her murder.

Love and Other Words

Christina Lauren · 2018 · US 92% match ★ 4.19 Goodreads · 874,688 ratings
shares: heartbreak, romantic · easy read, earnest

Macy Sorensen, a paediatrics resident in San Francisco engaged to an older man, runs into Elliot Petropoulos, the bookish boy she loved through her teens at her father's weekend house, eleven years after she stopped speaking to him.