21 Best contemporary romance books like The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2) by Sara Desai

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The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

By: Sara Desai

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Daisy Patel is a software engineer who understands lists and logic better than bosses and boyfriend…

"I will never stop loving you. That's why I have to go."

-Sara Desai, The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

"Life was easier without the messy entanglement of emotions."

-Sara Desai, The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

"I have a concealed weapon in my pocket I could show you," he whispered. "Don't you dare..."

-Sara Desai, The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

"How long has it been?" "Ten years, eleven months, thirteen days, thirteen hours, forty-seven minutes, and sixteen seconds."

-Sara Desai, The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

If you liked the contemporary romance plot in The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2) by Sara Desai , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. 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 Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #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)

Cover of Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1) by Tessa Bailey

2. 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 Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #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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3. 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 Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #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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4. 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 Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #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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5. 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 Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #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

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6. The Shaadi Set-Up

By: Lillie Vale

3.45

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In this witty and heartfelt rom-com debut for fans of Jasmine Guillory, Emily Henry, and Tessa Bail… read more

Similar categories in Lillie Vale's The Shaadi Set-Up book and Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"There’s no need to make your bed and lie in it if there’s still a chance to get what you want,"

-Lillie Vale, The Shaadi Set-Up

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7. 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 Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

By: Sara Desai

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Daisy Patel is a software engineer who understands lists and logic better than bosses and boyfriend… read more

Similar categories in Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2) book and Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"I will never stop loving you. That's why I have to go."

-Sara Desai, The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

"Life was easier without the messy entanglement of emotions."

-Sara Desai, The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

"I have a concealed weapon in my pocket I could show you," he whispered. "Don't you dare..."

-Sara Desai, The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

"How long has it been?" "Ten years, eleven months, thirteen days, thirteen hours, forty-seven minutes, and sixteen seconds."

-Sara Desai, The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

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9. The Ex Talk

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.69

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

Shay Goldstein has been a producer at her Seattle public radio station for nearly a decade, and she… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk book and Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"I'm a solid second, but I'm no one's first."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

"I am a solid second, but I'm no one's first."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

"So often, I'm trapped between the pain of remembering and the fear of forgetting."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

"Not everything that comes out of crisis is bad. Sometimes your traumas are the reason you know how to help."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

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10. 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 Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Dating Dr. Dil (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie, #1) by Nisha Sharma

11. Dating Dr. Dil (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie, #1)

By: Nisha Sharma

3.60

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Dating Dr. Dil features a love-phobic TV doctor who must convince a love-obsessed homebody they are… read more

Similar categories in Nisha Sharma's Dating Dr. Dil (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie, #1) book and Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"To each their own"

-Nisha Sharma, Dating Dr. Dil (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie, #1)

"Being single is for white people. You need to stop it."

-Nisha Sharma, Dating Dr. Dil (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie, #1)

"It’s hard to communicate the immigrant experience with those who don’t understand. We want to support and be with our families, and sometimes we sacrifice our mental health and our emotional well-bei…"

-Nisha Sharma, Dating Dr. Dil (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie, #1)

"Romance novels sell an idealized fantasy that we all want to experience. They may be fiction, but there is a reason why so many people connect to love stories. Because that’s the type of feeling we w…"

-Nisha Sharma, Dating Dr. Dil (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie, #1)

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12. The Worst Best Man

By: Mia Sosa

3.55

Format: 368 pages, ebook

USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "A romantic comedy that's fun and flirty, young and fresh." – PopSugar … read more

Similar categories in Mia Sosa's The Worst Best Man book and Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"I fantasize all the way home, and it doesn't make me feel any better."

-Mia Sosa, The Worst Best Man

"Listen, there are different ways of getting closure and one of those ways might be to make someone miserable for the sake of satisfying your petty soul."

-Mia Sosa, The Worst Best Man

"Lina did love Andrew, once upon a time but she certainly doesn't love him now. She wanted to marry him because she didn't love him. Love means breaking down your walls for the person who's willing to…"

-Mia Sosa, The Worst Best Man

"Thing is," he says, his chin resting on my head, "there's no single way to be a badass. Your mother and aunts coming here and making new lives for themselves? Badass. My mother running her own firm e…"

-Mia Sosa, The Worst Best Man

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 Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Practice Makes Perfect (When in Rome, #2) by Sarah       Adams

14. 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 Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Tastes Like Shakkar (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie, #2) by Nisha Sharma

15. Tastes Like Shakkar (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie, #2)

By: Nisha Sharma

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In the hilarious follow-up to the breakout rom-com Dating Dr. Dil, Nisha Sharma adds shakkar and m… read more

Similar categories in Nisha Sharma's Tastes Like Shakkar (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie, #2) book and Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Wedding Crasher

By: Mia Sosa

3.67

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

The USA Today bestselling author of The Worst Best Man is back with another hilarious rom-com about… read more

Similar categories in Mia Sosa's The Wedding Crasher book and Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"I suppose a guilty heart perceives blame even when it isn't warranted."

-Mia Sosa, The Wedding Crasher

Cover of First Love, Take Two (The Trouble with Hating You, #2) by Sajni Patel

17. First Love, Take Two (The Trouble with Hating You, #2)

By: Sajni Patel

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

On the verge of realizing her dream of being a doctor, Preeti Patel should be ecstatic. But between… read more

Similar categories in Sajni Patel's First Love, Take Two (The Trouble with Hating You, #2) book and Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Love is enough. Its society's views and old-world thinking that broke everything."

-Sajni Patel, First Love, Take Two (The Trouble with Hating You, #2)

"I knew this floor plan. I’d never been here before, but I knew every room. “Daniel,"

-Sajni Patel, First Love, Take Two (The Trouble with Hating You, #2)

"He raised himself onto his elbow, his temple cradled in his hand. “I won’t bite. Well, unless you want me to."

-Sajni Patel, First Love, Take Two (The Trouble with Hating You, #2)

"Is this the ring from the gala shopping trip with Brandy? When she told me to try on rings while I was there because she wanted to give Jackson an idea for her engagement ring?"

-Sajni Patel, First Love, Take Two (The Trouble with Hating You, #2)

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18. The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception, #2)

By: Elena Armas

3.81

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly antici… read more

Similar categories in Elena Armas's The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception, #2) book and Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"Remember to pick the boy that will pant a garden for you instead of just getting you the flowers."

-Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception, #2)

"This is not a one-way street, Rosie. You look after me and I look after you. We take care of each other. We're a team."

-Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception, #2)

"Because I was Rosie. Keeping it together was my thing. I planned, rationalized, took a deep breath and adjusted without losing my shit. I was the reliable friend and daughter."

-Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception, #2)

"She used to tell me how the moment I was born, she knew she had found her light in the dark. That one lighthouse that, no matter what, was always up. Lighting up the night and signaling her way home."

-Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception, #2)

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19. The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

By: Helen Hoang

3.94

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected—and the man she enlists to help he… read more

Similar categories in Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3) book and Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A slow me is much better than a sick me"

-Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

"This yearning for her, this craving, it's sunk so deep into me that it's part of me now. This is how Quan is now. He's crazy about this one girl."

-Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

"I want to be the person she thought I was, a confident motherfucker who wouldn't give a shit about any of this. But I do give a shit. I want to be enough —for her, for me, for the people in my life."

-Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

"I don't life that Priscilla blaming herself when she did all that she could, all that anyone could, really. But I guess that's how it must be when someone's standards are so impossibly high and their…"

-Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

Cover of The Trouble with Hating You (The Trouble with Hating You, #1) by Sajni Patel

20. The Trouble with Hating You (The Trouble with Hating You, #1)

By: Sajni Patel

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Liya Thakkar is a successful biochemical engineer, takeout enthusiast, and happily single woman. Th… read more

Similar categories in Sajni Patel's The Trouble with Hating You (The Trouble with Hating You, #1) book and Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"You have to let it go before it completely consumes you."

-Sajni Patel, The Trouble with Hating You (The Trouble with Hating You, #1)

"Do you think you can escape me so easily. What? Just drive off to Dallas and think I won’t find you?"

-Sajni Patel, The Trouble with Hating You (The Trouble with Hating You, #1)

"The plight of a woman has to work to make money, but the purpose of a woman is to help her husband by taking care of the home and his needs…"

-Sajni Patel, The Trouble with Hating You (The Trouble with Hating You, #1)

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21. The Bodyguard

By: Katherine Center

3.97

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

She's got his back. He's got her heart. They've got a secret. What could possibly go wrong? Hannah… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's The Bodyguard book and Sara Desai's The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And I guess there really is something profoundly healing about letting somebody love you."

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

"And it’s like you’re in your life and flying above it at the same time. Like you are both on earth and in the heavens. Like you are all heartbeat and rushing pulse and warmth and softness—but you are…"

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

"When you’re not around, even for a little while, I feel like I have to go find you. I just feel this pull to be near you. I want to know what you’re thinking, and what you’re up to, and how you feel.…"

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

"And in the end, do you ever truly know for sure if you’re lovable? What a question. You don’t. You can’t. Of course not. Life never hands out the answers like that. But maybe that’s not even the righ…"

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

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Lynn Painter

3.88

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Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)

Tessa Bailey

3.90

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4.14

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