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Beth O'Leary · 2019 · UK · romance
★ 3.97 Goodreads · 477,112 ratings

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.

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Funny Story

Emily Henry · 2024 · US 98% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 1,461,867 ratings
shares: forced proximity, feel good, 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.

The Unhoneymooners

Christina Lauren · 2019 · US 98% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 1,198,003 ratings
shares: forced proximity, feel good, 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.

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Sophie Kinsella · 2000 · UK 98% match ★ 3.72 Goodreads · 825,808 ratings
Book 1 of 9 in Shopaholic
shares: feel good, London, comic, rom com · easy read, story-driven

Becky Bloomwood writes about personal finance for a London magazine and cannot stop shopping, and as the letters from her bank grow sterner she tries cutting back, earning more and hiding from her debts, with diminishing success.

Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding · 1996 · UK 98% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 1,041,723 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Bridget Jones
shares: feel good, London, comic, rom com · easy read, story-driven

A year in the diary of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something Londoner counting calories, cigarettes and units of alcohol, torn between her charming, caddish boss Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy, a stiff barrister her mother keeps pushing at her.

Take a Hint, Dani Brown

Talia Hibbert · 2020 · UK 97% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 113,321 ratings
Book 2 of 3 in The Brown Sisters
shares: feel good, dual perspective, comic, rom com · 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.

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.

This Time Next Year

Sophie Cousens · 2020 · UK 97% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 112,441 ratings
shares: dual perspective, London, witty, comic · easy read, romance-driven

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.

People We Meet on Vacation

Emily Henry · 2021 · US 97% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 1,989,817 ratings
shares: forced proximity, comic, witty, rom com · 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.

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, comic, witty, 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.

Just for the Summer

Abby Jimenez · 2024 · US 97% 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.

Well Met

Jen DeLuca · 2019 · US 97% match ★ 3.82 Goodreads · 79,073 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Well Met
shares: feel good, comic, witty, rom com · easy read, warm

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.

Better Than the Movies

Lynn Painter · 2021 · US 97% match ★ 4.25 Goodreads · 924,014 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Better Than the Movies
shares: feel good, comic, witty, rom com · 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.