21 Top contemporary books like The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2) by Ashley Winstead

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The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

By: Ashley Winstead

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

As a shy school librarian, Alexis Stone is comfortable keeping out of the spotlight. But when she's…

"Fuck leading anyone. I want to follow you on my hands and knees across the desert."

-Ashley Winstead, The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

"I never realized how much I loved the color green until I met you," he said quickly, and my heart raced."

-Ashley Winstead, The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2) by Ashley Winstead , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Will They or Won't They

By: Ava Wilder

3.59

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

On screen, they're in love. Off screen, they can't stand each other. Two co-stars with a complex hi… read more

Similar categories in Ava Wilder's Will They or Won't They book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
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2. The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

By: Lynn Painter

3.88

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bott… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2) book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"She had piercings everywhere, but cried like a baby if she needed to get a shot."

-Lynn Painter, The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

"Rejection feels like shit, even when it comes from someone who might not matter that much."

-Lynn Painter, The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

"Everything with him was great, but it was great in the way a Hallmark Christmas movie was great. Everything looked perfect—the clothing, the setting, the words—but none of it felt . . . real."

-Lynn Painter, The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

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3. The Au Pair Affair (Big Shots, #2)

By: Tessa Bailey

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A sports rom-com about a burly, surly, single dad who falls head-over-hockey-stick for his quirky l… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's The Au Pair Affair (Big Shots, #2) book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1) by Tessa Bailey

4. Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)

By: Tessa Bailey

3.90

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey launches a super sexy sports romance series with … read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1) book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I just…have this pretty intense need to make sure everyone knows you’re very fucking important. Okay? Could you kindly just go along with it?"

-Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)

"She jackknifed on the couch, screaming so loud that it could be heard clear to Orlando. This was it. Her Dateline moment. A robbery gone wrong. Or was it?, questioned Keith Morrison."

-Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)

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5. The Paradise Problem

By: Christina Lauren

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Christina Lauren, returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery ch… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's The Paradise Problem book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When we care about someone, they deserve the benefit of the doubt. We have to consider not only what they did, but also why they did it. Intent matters"

-Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

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6. Not in Love

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science. Rue Siebert might not ha… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Not in Love book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"I'd been an odd child, then an odd teenager. Then I'd become, maybe as a result, maybe unavoidably, an odd adult."

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"I'd never felt more beautiful than when he looked at me. Like I was the final prototype of someone's entire fantasy life."

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"Eli was entranced. Her servant. Spellbound. He considered begging her to let him touch her. To let him go down on her in the hallway. He would go grocery shopping and make her dinner off a YouTube re…"

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"I'm going to want to see you every day. I'm going to learn more dishes and pack your lunch and write cute little notes on it. I'm going to ask you if you want to sleep at your place or mine and alway…"

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

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7. The Rom-Commers

By: Katherine Center

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma Wheeler desperately longs to … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's The Rom-Commers book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"If my life were a screenplay, I'd end the story right there and roll credits - and then maybe rewind and watch it again."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"But, it was okay. We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"Humanity at its worst is an easy story to tell - but it's not the only story. Because the more we can imagine our better selves, the more we can become them."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

Cover of Happily Never After by Lynn Painter

8. Happily Never After

By: Lynn Painter

3.72

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Two love sceptics agree to work together as professional wedding disruptors. But fate has more roma… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's Happily Never After book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"You have to get hurt to get the good stuff, don't you see?...When you're a baby, you don't stop taking steps just because you've fallen once, or you'd never walk. The falls help you learn how to walk…"

-Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

Cover of The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2) by Ashley Winstead

9. The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

By: Ashley Winstead

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

As a shy school librarian, Alexis Stone is comfortable keeping out of the spotlight. But when she's… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2) book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • politics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"Fuck leading anyone. I want to follow you on my hands and knees across the desert."

-Ashley Winstead, The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

"I never realized how much I loved the color green until I met you," he said quickly, and my heart raced."

-Ashley Winstead, The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

Cover of The Rule Book (The Cheat Sheet, #2) by Sarah       Adams

10. The Rule Book (The Cheat Sheet, #2)

By: Sarah Adams

3.92

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

College exes break all the rules when they reunite years later in this enemies-to-lovers, second-ch… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Adams's The Rule Book (The Cheat Sheet, #2) book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Business or Pleasure

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Chandler Cohen has never felt more like the ghost in "ghostwriter" until she attends a signing for … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's Business or Pleasure book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Roommate Pact

By: Allison Ashley

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

All of the fun, none of the heartache…as long as they stick to the agreement. The proposition is… read more

Similar categories in Allison Ashley's The Roommate Pact book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Long Game (The Long Game, #1) by Elena  Armas

13. The Long Game (The Long Game, #1)

By: Elena Armas

3.59

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a childre… read more

Similar categories in Elena Armas's The Long Game (The Long Game, #1) book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Better Hate than Never (The Wilmot Sisters, #2) by Chloe Liese

14. Better Hate than Never (The Wilmot Sisters, #2)

By: Chloe Liese

3.68

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

Childhood enemies discover the fine line between love and loathing in this heartfelt reimagining of… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Liese's Better Hate than Never (The Wilmot Sisters, #2) book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Catch (The Influencer, #3) by Amy  Lea

15. The Catch (The Influencer, #3)

By: Amy Lea

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A grumpy lobster fisherman tosses a fashion influencer’s impeccably curated life overboard in the n… read more

Similar categories in Amy Lea's The Catch (The Influencer, #3) book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Told ya. Lobsterfest is wild. The Catch "

-Amy Lea, The Catch (The Influencer, #3)

Cover of Practice Makes Perfect (When in Rome, #2) by Sarah       Adams

16. Practice Makes Perfect (When in Rome, #2)

By: Sarah Adams

4.02

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

A small-town sweetheart and an emotionally unavailable bad boy try to find some common ground in th… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Adams's Practice Makes Perfect (When in Rome, #2) book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

17. The True Love Experiment

By: Christina Lauren

4.11

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

Sparks fly when a romance novelist and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the perfect Hol… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He is the stillness to my storm, the shadow to my bright sunlight, the Styles to my Harry."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

"...tight, hyperaware realization that I want him close to me every second of every day from here on out."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

"I'm consumed by a distracting ache, a sharp want, a desperation for this thing I already have in my arms."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

"Romance isn't gratuitous bodice ripping. It can be, there's nothing wrong with that, but in the end, romance isn't about the fantasy of being wealthy or beautiful or even being tied to the bed."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

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18. Right on Cue

By: Falon Ballard

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the beloved author of Just My Type and Lease on Love comes a new romantic comedy in which a fo… read more

Similar categories in Falon Ballard's Right on Cue book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Unfortunately Yours  (A Vine Mess, #2) by Tessa Bailey

19. Unfortunately Yours (A Vine Mess, #2)

By: Tessa Bailey

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A down-on-her-luck Napa heiress suggests a mutually beneficial marriage of convenience to a man she… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's Unfortunately Yours (A Vine Mess, #2) book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"Your tits look insane."

-Tessa Bailey, Unfortunately Yours (A Vine Mess, #2)

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20. You, with a View

By: Jessica Joyce

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Two weeks on the road... stuck in a car with your high-school enemy.Noelle Shepard is grieving the … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Joyce's You, with a View book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Ex Vows

By: Jessica Joyce

4.28

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Estranged exes must stick close together to save their best friend’s wedding after a string of disa… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Joyce's The Ex Vows book and Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook

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Emily Henry

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