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Curtis Sittenfeld · 2023 · US · romance · literary fiction
★ 3.61 Goodreads · 255,305 ratings

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.

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12 books for readers of Romantic Comedy

Beach Read

Emily Henry · 2020 · US 97% match ★ 3.95 Goodreads · 1,806,606 ratings
shares: writer, witty, romantic, comic · easy read, intimate

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.

The Charm Offensive

Alison Cochrun · 2021 · US 97% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 85,203 ratings
shares: television, celebrity, comic · 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.

Great Big Beautiful Life

Emily Henry · 2025 · US 96% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 896,483 ratings
shares: celebrity, writer, witty · easy read, hopeful

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.

Well Met

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

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 Ex Talk

Rachel Lynn Solomon · 2021 · US 96% match ★ 3.66 Goodreads · 103,837 ratings
shares: comic, witty, romantic, rom com · easy read, hopeful

Shay Goldstein, a producer at Seattle's public radio station, is told to co-host a new show about relationships with Dominic Yun, the newcomer she resents, on one condition from the station: they have to pretend to be exes.

The Hating Game

Sally Thorne · 2016 · Australia 96% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 864,023 ratings
shares: comic, witty, romantic, rom com · easy read, hopeful

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.

Better Than the Movies

Lynn Painter · 2021 · US 96% match ★ 4.25 Goodreads · 924,014 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Better Than the Movies
shares: comic, witty, romantic, rom com · 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.

The Cheat Sheet

Sarah Adams · 2021 · US 96% match ★ 3.71 Goodreads · 367,790 ratings
shares: celebrity, witty, romantic, comic · easy read, hopeful

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.

The Spanish Love Deception

Elena Armas · 2020 · Spain 96% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 852,095 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Spanish Love Deception
shares: comic, witty, romantic, rom com · easy read, hopeful

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.

Attachments

Rainbow Rowell · 2011 · US 96% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 212,847 ratings
shares: comic, witty, romantic, rom com · easy read, hopeful

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.

The Unhoneymooners

Christina Lauren · 2019 · US 96% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 1,198,003 ratings
shares: comic, witty, romantic, rom com · easy read, hopeful

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 Flatshare

Beth O'Leary · 2019 · UK 96% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 477,112 ratings
shares: comic, witty, romantic, 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.