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Rainbow Rowell · 2024 · US · romance
★ 3.65 Goodreads · 77,889 ratings

Shiloh and Cary were inseparable at their Omaha high school, then lost touch. Fourteen years later, she is a divorced mother of two and he is in the navy, and they meet again at a friend's wedding.

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12 books for readers of Slow Dance

Every Summer After

Carley Fortune · 2022 · Canada 98% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 1,095,432 ratings
shares: friends to lovers, second chance, nostalgic · 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.

Love and Other Words

Christina Lauren · 2018 · US 97% match ★ 4.19 Goodreads · 874,688 ratings
shares: friends to lovers, second chance, dual timeline · easy read, romance-driven

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.

Happy Place

Emily Henry · 2023 · US 97% match ★ 3.93 Goodreads · 1,561,714 ratings
shares: second chance, dual timeline, friendship · 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.

Seven Days in June

Tia Williams · 2021 · US 96% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 241,039 ratings
shares: second chance, dual timeline, romantic · romance-driven, easy read

Eva Mercy, a single mother in Brooklyn who writes a bestselling erotic vampire series, runs into Shane Hall, a reclusive literary novelist, at a New York literary event, fifteen years after the one week they spent in love as teenagers.

Meet Me at the Lake

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

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.

People We Meet on Vacation

Emily Henry · 2021 · US 96% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 1,989,817 ratings
shares: friends to lovers, dual timeline, friendship · easy read, romance-driven

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.

This Time Next Year

Sophie Cousens · 2020 · UK 96% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 112,441 ratings
shares: friends to lovers, second chance, warm · easy read, intimate

Minnie Cooper and Quinn Hamilton were born minutes apart on New Year's Eve in the same London hospital, and he took the prize for the first baby of the year, and her name for it. Thirty years later they meet again.

Attachments

Rainbow Rowell · 2011 · US 96% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 212,847 ratings
shares: Midwest, friendship, 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.

Evvie Drake Starts Over

Linda Holmes · 2019 · US 96% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 166,563 ratings
shares: second chance, warm, friendship · easy read, intimate

Eveleth Drake, a young widow in a small Maine town, rents the apartment behind her house to Dean Tenney, a Major League pitcher who has lost the ability to throw, on condition that neither asks about the other's past.

Him

Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy · 2015 · US 95% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 117,025 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Him
shares: friends to lovers, second chance, romantic · easy read, intimate

Jamie Canning and Ryan Wesley, best friends at hockey camp until a drunken bet ended in a kiss, meet again in their last year of college hockey and spend a summer coaching at the same camp.

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett · 2023 · US 94% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 556,750 ratings
shares: nostalgic, dual timeline, warm · easy read, intimate

In the spring of 2020, Lara and her three grown daughters pick cherries on the family orchard in northern Michigan, and the girls make her tell them about the summer she acted at Tom Lake with a future movie star.

One Day

David Nicholls · 2009 · UK 94% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 424,106 ratings
shares: friends to lovers, friendship, romantic · 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.