19 Best short stories books like If the Fates Allow by Rainbow Rowell

Cover of If the Fates Allow by Rainbow Rowell

If the Fates Allow

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.49

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

After a long, lonely year, two people stumble toward each other in this holiday short story by the …

"We’re socially distanced over here,"

-Rainbow Rowell, If the Fates Allow

If you liked the short stories plot in If the Fates Allow by Rainbow Rowell , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of The Lover by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

1. The Lover

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.80

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

During a brutal winter, a young woman longing for love finds more than she expected in the woods, i… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Lover book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • romance
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of I Choose Darkness by Jenny  Lawson

2. I Choose Darkness

By: Jenny Lawson

3.97

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

From cheap costumes to creepy dolls to questionable candy, number one New York Times bestselling au… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Lawson's I Choose Darkness book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • christmas
  • holiday
  • short stories
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cleaners (Faraway Collection) by Ken Liu

3. The Cleaners (Faraway Collection)

By: Ken Liu

3.48

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Touch the past or wash it away? Two sisters have a choice in this unforgettable short story of ever… read more

Similar categories in Ken Liu's The Cleaners (Faraway Collection) book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • novella
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Oh. What. Fun. by Chandler Baker

4. Oh. What. Fun.

By: Chandler Baker

3.14

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone is home for the holidays, clamoring for all the Christmas cheer only their mother can whip… read more

Similar categories in Chandler Baker's Oh. What. Fun. book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • romance
  • novella
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of If the Fates Allow by Rainbow Rowell

5. If the Fates Allow

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.49

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

After a long, lonely year, two people stumble toward each other in this holiday short story by the … read more

Similar categories in Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • romance
  • novella
  • holiday
  • young adult
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"We’re socially distanced over here,"

-Rainbow Rowell, If the Fates Allow

Cover of Rosie and the Dreamboat (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #3) by Sally  Thorne

6. Rosie and the Dreamboat (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #3)

By: Sally Thorne

3.42

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

For a hopeful and hopeless romantic, it’s love at first sight—with a little twist—in a hilarious sh… read more

Similar categories in Sally Thorne's Rosie and the Dreamboat (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #3) book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • romance
  • novella
  • holiday
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Drop, Cover, and Hold On (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #4) by Jasmine Guillory

7. Drop, Cover, and Hold On (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #4)

By: Jasmine Guillory

2.96

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

It takes nothing less than a fateful natural disaster to throw two opposites together in a ground-s… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Guillory's Drop, Cover, and Hold On (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #4) book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • romance
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of With Any Luck (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #5) by Ashley Poston

8. With Any Luck (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #5)

By: Ashley Poston

3.25

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

Every person she kisses finds their true love, and it’s never her—until now, in this funny and magi… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's With Any Luck (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #5) book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • romance
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Worst Wingman Ever (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #2) by Abby Jimenez

9. Worst Wingman Ever (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #2)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.00

Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition

They’re falling in love, yet they’ve never met. Maybe fate can intervene in a heartwarming “what-if… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Worst Wingman Ever (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #2) book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • romance
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"We need to manifest our own destiny. I never accepted less than what I deserved ever again."

-Abby Jimenez, Worst Wingman Ever (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #2)

"I don't know how, but it felt like this stranger was a guardian angel. Like the universe, had put him here to be there when i needed him, with his small giant acts of kindness. That's the thing about…"

-Abby Jimenez, Worst Wingman Ever (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #2)

Cover of The Wedding Setup: A Short Story by Sonali Dev

10. The Wedding Setup: A Short Story

By: Sonali Dev

3.78

Format: 67 pages, Kindle Edition

From USA Today bestselling author Sonali Dev comes a heartfelt short story about one woman’s journe… read more

Similar categories in Sonali Dev's The Wedding Setup: A Short Story book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • romance
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood

11. My Evil Mother

By: Margaret Atwood

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Atwood's My Evil Mother book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Hazel and Gray (Faraway Collection) by Nic Stone

12. Hazel and Gray (Faraway Collection)

By: Nic Stone

3.47

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

Two anxious young lovers lost in the woods. A beckoning mansion in a dark clearing. A short modern-… read more

Similar categories in Nic Stone's Hazel and Gray (Faraway Collection) book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • romance
  • novella
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Fangirl, Vol. 2: The Manga by Sam Maggs

13. Fangirl, Vol. 2: The Manga

By: Sam Maggs

4.40

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

Cath just wants to hang out with her twin sister and write fanfiction. But now that they’re at coll… read more

Similar categories in Sam Maggs's Fangirl, Vol. 2: The Manga book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Resting Scrooge Face by Meghan Quinn

14. Resting Scrooge Face

By: Meghan Quinn

3.62

Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition

From USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a festive short romance abou… read more

Similar categories in Meghan Quinn's Resting Scrooge Face book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • romance
  • novella
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of The Shadow: A Horror Short Story by Andrew S. French

15. The Shadow: A Horror Short Story

By: Andrew S. French

2.93

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

Darkness lies at the heart of humanity, and only the strongest can survive. Will you? read more

Similar categories in Andrew S. French's The Shadow: A Horror Short Story book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • short stories
Cover of Model Home by J. Courtney Sullivan

16. Model Home

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.19

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

Not happy? No problem. Fake it. From New York Times bestselling author J. Courtney Sullivan comes a… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's Model Home book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • romance
  • novella
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Princess Game (Faraway Collection) by Soman Chainani

17. The Princess Game (Faraway Collection)

By: Soman Chainani

3.51

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

There are no happy endings for the Princesses of Chaminade High in this short, twisty tale of teena… read more

Similar categories in Soman Chainani's The Princess Game (Faraway Collection) book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • novella
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wickeds (Faraway Collection) by Gayle Forman

18. The Wickeds (Faraway Collection)

By: Gayle Forman

3.67

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

The reviled villainesses of Snow White, Cinderella, and Rapunzel team up to set the record straight… read more

Similar categories in Gayle Forman's The Wickeds (Faraway Collection) book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • novella
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Same Time Next Year by Tessa Bailey

19. Same Time Next Year

By: Tessa Bailey

3.40

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey comes a steamy novella full of hope and humor t… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's Same Time Next Year book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • romance
  • novella
  • holiday
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Before Her (The One #1) by Jacqueline Woodson

20. Before Her (The One #1)

By: Jacqueline Woodson

3.60

Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition

In this transportive memoir, the National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming traces t… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Woodson's Before Her (The One #1) book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • contemporary
Cover of The Visitor (The One, #5) by Dodai Stewart

21. The Visitor (The One, #5)

By: Dodai Stewart

3.40

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Maybe it’s true: love is just around the corner. But in this bittersweet true story, what’s a hopef… read more

Similar categories in Dodai Stewart's The Visitor (The One, #5) book and Rainbow Rowell's If the Fates Allow

  • romance
  • short stories
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Movies, TV shows, and romance novels are always subtly (and not so subtly) preaching that, for fairy-tale princesses, happily every after means leaving Home. That none of the details matter if you're…"

-Dodai Stewart, The Visitor (The One, #5)

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3.48

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Oh. What. Fun.

Chandler Baker

3.14

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Joe Hill

3.77

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Grady Hendrix

3.74

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3.77

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Best of Luck

Jason Mott

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