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Books like Something Borrowed

Emily Giffin · 2005 · US · romance
Book 1 of 2 in Something Borrowed
★ 3.89 Goodreads · 620,435 ratings

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.

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12 books for readers of Something Borrowed

The Light We Lost

Jill Santopolo · 2017 · US 99% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 207,519 ratings
shares: love triangle, New York, romantic, romance · easy read, romance-driven

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.

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Jenny Han · 2009 · US 98% match ★ 3.73 Goodreads · 1,210,592 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Summer I Turned Pretty
shares: love triangle, friendship, romantic, romance · easy read, intimate

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.

Heart the Lover

Lily King · 2025 · US 98% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 516,458 ratings
shares: love triangle, friendship, witty, romance · romance-driven, easy read

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.

Bared to You

Sylvia Day · 2012 · US 98% match ★ 4.12 Goodreads · 557,249 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Crossfire
shares: New York, female perspective, romantic, romance · easy read, intimate

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.

Summer Sisters

Judy Blume · 1998 · US 97% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 146,850 ratings
shares: love triangle, friendship, female perspective · easy read, earnest

In 1977 Caitlin Somers, rich and reckless, chooses Victoria Leonard, quiet and from a struggling family in Santa Fe, to spend the summer with her family on Martha's Vineyard, beginning a friendship that runs through the next two decades.

It Ends with Us

Colleen Hoover · 2016 · US 97% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 4,859,751 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in It Ends with Us
shares: love triangle, romantic, romance · easy read, plain prose

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.

Fifty Shades of Grey

E. L. James · 2011 · UK 97% match ★ 3.67 Goodreads · 2,935,411 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Fifty Shades
shares: female perspective, romantic, romance · easy read, intimate

Anastasia Steele, a shy literature student in Washington State, fills in for her roommate to interview Christian Grey, a young billionaire, and is drawn into an affair on terms he wants set out in a contract.

One Day in December

Josie Silver · 2018 · UK 96% match ★ 3.82 Goodreads · 371,442 ratings
shares: love triangle, friendship, romantic · easy read, romance-driven

Laurie sees a man from the top deck of a London bus one December day and falls for him on sight, and a year later her best friend introduces him as her new boyfriend.

Happy Place

Emily Henry · 2023 · US 96% match ★ 3.93 Goodreads · 1,561,714 ratings
shares: friendship, witty, romantic, romance · 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.

Check & Mate

Ali Hazelwood · 2023 · US 96% match ★ 3.93 Goodreads · 400,275 ratings
shares: female perspective, witty, romantic, romance · easy read, intimate

Mallory Greenleaf, a former chess prodigy who quit the game after her family fell apart, agrees to one charity match and beats Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champion, and the win drags her back into the game and into his orbit.

Writers & Lovers

Lily King · 2020 · US 96% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 243,292 ratings
shares: love triangle, witty, romantic, romance · intimate, easy read

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.

Seven Days in June

Tia Williams · 2021 · US 96% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 241,039 ratings
shares: New York, witty, romantic, romance · 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.