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Colleen Hoover · 2022 · US · romance
Book 2 of 2 in It Ends with Us
★ 3.83 Goodreads · 2,209,184 ratings

The sequel to It Ends with Us, told by Lily and Atlas: a chance meeting on a Boston street gives Lily Kincaid and her first love, Atlas Corrigan, the second chance they have both imagined, if the life she has built can make room for it.

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12 books for readers of It Starts with Us

Reminders of Him

Colleen Hoover · 2022 · US 99% match ★ 4.32 Goodreads · 1,866,692 ratings
shares: second chance, dual perspective, romantic · easy read, plain prose

After five years in prison for the car accident that killed her boyfriend Scotty, Kenna Rowan returns to Laramie, Wyoming, hoping to meet the daughter she gave birth to behind bars, but Scotty's parents, who are raising her, want nothing to do with her, and Scotty's best friend is caught in between.

The Mistake

Elle Kennedy · 2015 · Canada 98% match ★ 3.91 Goodreads · 871,361 ratings
Book 2 of 5 in Off-Campus
shares: second chance, series middle, dual perspective · easy read, earnest

John Logan, a Briar University hockey player hung up on his best friend's girlfriend, meets Grace Ivers, a freshman, when she walks into his room by mistake.

The Light We Lost

Jill Santopolo · 2017 · US 98% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 207,519 ratings
shares: emotional, second chance, romantic · 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.

Long Shot

Kennedy Ryan · 2018 · US 98% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 84,711 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Hoops
shares: domestic abuse, dual perspective, romantic · easy read, earnest

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.

Love and Other Words

Christina Lauren · 2018 · US 97% match ★ 4.19 Goodreads · 874,688 ratings
shares: second chance, 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.

Eleanor & Park

Rainbow Rowell · 2012 · US 97% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 1,285,397 ratings
shares: domestic abuse, dual perspective, tender · 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.

Every Summer After

Carley Fortune · 2022 · Canada 97% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 1,095,432 ratings
shares: second chance, romantic · 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.

Happy Place

Emily Henry · 2023 · US 97% match ★ 3.93 Goodreads · 1,561,714 ratings
shares: second chance, romantic · easy read, romance-driven

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.

The Notebook

Nicholas Sparks · 1996 · US 97% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 1,877,420 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Notebook
shares: second chance, tender, romantic · easy read, earnest

An old man reads a faded notebook to a woman in a nursing home who has lost her memory, the story of two young people who fell in love one summer in North Carolina.

Archer's Voice

Mia Sheridan · 2014 · US 97% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 722,827 ratings
shares: dual perspective, tender, romantic · easy read, earnest

Bree Prescott runs from her grief and the memory of one terrible night to the lakeside town of Pelion, Maine, where she is drawn to Archer Hale, a silent, scarred young man the town has written off.

Ugly Love

Colleen Hoover · 2014 · US 97% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 2,423,450 ratings
shares: dual perspective, romantic · easy read, earnest

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.

Meet Me at the Lake

Carley Fortune · 2023 · Canada 96% match ★ 3.67 Goodreads · 429,109 ratings
shares: second chance, romantic · easy read, earnest

Fern Brookbanks, running her late mother's lakeside resort, finds Will Baxter, the stranger she spent one perfect day with in Toronto years ago, turning up at the resort.