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Books like People We Meet on Vacation

Emily Henry · 2021 · US · romance
★ 3.84 Goodreads · 1,989,817 ratings

Poppy and Alex, best friends who could not be more different, took a trip together every summer until two years ago, when something went wrong; now Poppy talks him into one more vacation to win back what they lost.

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12 books for readers of People We Meet on Vacation

Funny Story

Emily Henry · 2024 · US 98% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 1,461,867 ratings
shares: forced proximity, heartbreak, comic, rom com · 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.

Happy Place

Emily Henry · 2023 · US 98% match ★ 3.93 Goodreads · 1,561,714 ratings
shares: heartbreak, dual timeline, friendship, comic · 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 Unhoneymooners

Christina Lauren · 2019 · US 98% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 1,198,003 ratings
shares: forced proximity, travel, comic, rom com · easy read, romance-driven

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.

The Spanish Love Deception

Elena Armas · 2020 · Spain 97% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 852,095 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Spanish Love Deception
shares: forced proximity, slow burn romance, comic, rom com · 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.

One Day

David Nicholls · 2009 · UK 97% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 424,106 ratings
shares: friends to lovers, longing, heartbreak, friendship · romance-driven, easy read

Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew spend one night together after their graduation on 15 July 1988, and the novel returns to them on that same date every year for twenty years, through friendship, missed chances and very different lives.

The Flatshare

Beth O'Leary · 2019 · UK 97% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 477,112 ratings
shares: forced proximity, comic, witty, rom com · 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.

The Hating Game

Sally Thorne · 2016 · Australia 97% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 864,023 ratings
shares: forced proximity, comic, witty, rom com · easy read, romance-driven

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.

Problematic Summer Romance

Ali Hazelwood · 2025 · US 96% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 361,333 ratings
shares: slow burn romance, travel, witty, comic · easy read, romance-driven

Maya has had a crush on Conor, her older brother's best friend, for as long as she can remember, and at her brother's wedding in Sicily, twenty-three and tired of waiting, she sets out to show him she is not a kid anymore.

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

Mariana Zapata · 2016 · US 96% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 317,303 ratings
shares: forced proximity, slow burn romance, witty, comic · easy read, romance-driven

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.

Every Summer After

Carley Fortune · 2022 · Canada 96% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 1,095,432 ratings
shares: friends to lovers, heartbreak, dual timeline, romance · easy read, romance-driven

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.

Hook, Line, and Sinker

Tessa Bailey · 2022 · US 96% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 473,446 ratings
Book 2 of 2 in Bellinger Sisters
shares: friends to lovers, witty, romantic, comic · easy read, romance-driven

The second Bellinger Sisters novel: Hannah Bellinger, a film production assistant, spends a summer in the fishing town of Westport, Washington, staying with her pen pal Fox Thornton, a charming crab fisherman who is sure he is not boyfriend material.

The Cheat Sheet

Sarah Adams · 2021 · US 96% match ★ 3.71 Goodreads · 367,790 ratings
shares: friends to lovers, witty, romantic, comic · easy read, romance-driven

Bree Camden, whose ballet career ended in a car accident, and NFL star Nathan Donelson have been best friends since high school and secretly in love for just as long, until a tipsy confession in a club bathroom to a woman who turns out to be a gossip reporter goes viral.