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Sarah Adams · 2021 · US · romance
★ 3.71 Goodreads · 367,790 ratings

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.

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12 books for readers of The Cheat Sheet

Fake Skating

Lynn Painter · 2025 · US 98% match ★ 4.24 Goodreads · 138,351 ratings
shares: fake dating, friends to lovers, sports, comic · easy read, hopeful

Dani moves back to Minnesota hoping to pick up where she left off with Alec, her childhood best friend, but he has become a hockey star in a town that worships its players, and the two end up pretending to be a couple.

Take a Hint, Dani Brown

Talia Hibbert · 2020 · UK 98% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 113,321 ratings
Book 2 of 3 in The Brown Sisters
shares: fake dating, friends to lovers, feel good, comic · easy read, warm

Danika Brown, a PhD student who wants sex without feelings, is rescued from a stuck lift during a fire drill by Zafir Ansari, a security guard and former rugby player, and when the video goes viral as a love story, they agree to fake one.

Better Than the Movies

Lynn Painter · 2021 · US 98% match ★ 4.25 Goodreads · 924,014 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Better Than the Movies
shares: fake dating, feel good, witty, comic · easy read, warm

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 Deal

Elle Kennedy · 2015 · Canada 97% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 1,474,245 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Off-Campus
shares: fake dating, sports, dual perspective, comic · easy read, plain prose

Hannah Wells will tutor Garrett Graham, the star of her college's hockey team, so he can stay eligible to play, if he helps her get the attention of the guy she actually likes by pretending to date her.

Hook, Line, and Sinker

Tessa Bailey · 2022 · US 97% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 473,446 ratings
Book 2 of 2 in Bellinger Sisters
shares: friends to lovers, dual perspective, witty, comic · easy read, hopeful

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 Ex Talk

Rachel Lynn Solomon · 2021 · US 97% match ★ 3.66 Goodreads · 103,837 ratings
shares: fake dating, feel good, witty, comic · 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 Unhoneymooners

Christina Lauren · 2019 · US 97% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 1,198,003 ratings
shares: fake dating, feel good, witty, comic · easy read, plain prose

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 Wall of Winnipeg and Me

Mariana Zapata · 2016 · US 97% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 317,303 ratings
shares: sports, feel good, witty, comic · easy read, hopeful

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.

Funny Story

Emily Henry · 2024 · US 97% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 1,461,867 ratings
shares: fake dating, feel good, witty, comic · 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.

The Wedding Date

Jasmine Guillory · 2018 · US 97% match ★ 3.56 Goodreads · 167,450 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in The Wedding Date
shares: fake dating, dual perspective, witty, comic · easy read, hopeful

Stuck in a hotel elevator with Alexa Monroe, a stranger, paediatric surgeon Drew Nichols asks her to be his date at his ex-girlfriend's wedding that weekend, and the arrangement keeps going long after the cake is cut.

Kulti

Mariana Zapata · 2015 · US 97% match ★ 4.22 Goodreads · 164,264 ratings
shares: celebrity, sports, feel good · easy read, hopeful

Sal Casillas, a defender in the women's professional soccer league, is dismayed when her childhood hero, the German football legend Reiner Kulti, joins her team as assistant coach and turns out to be a grump.

Just for the Summer

Abby Jimenez · 2024 · US 96% match ★ 4.33 Goodreads · 1,246,410 ratings
Book 3 of 3 in Part of Your World
shares: feel good, dual perspective, witty, comic · easy read, warm

Justin and Emma share the same curse, since everyone they date finds true love right after breaking up with them, so they agree to date each other for the summer to cancel it out, on the small Minnesota island where Emma is looking after her half-siblings.