13 Top adult fiction books like Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren

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Love and Other Words

By: Christina Lauren

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The story of the heart can never be unwritten.Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotio…

"You're my best everything"

-Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

"You're my best everything"

-Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

"You're my best everything"

-Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

"I’ll take anything you give me. Is that pathetic?"

-Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

If you liked the adult fiction plot in Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. If He Had Been with Me

By: Laura Nowlin

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August ni… read more

Similar categories in Laura Nowlin's If He Had Been with Me book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. One True Loves

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Maybe in Another Life--named a PeopleMagazine pick and a "Best Book of the Summe… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Jenkins Reid's One True Loves book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

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

3. Archer's Voice

By: Mia Sheridan

3.79

Format: 160 pages, ebook

A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling book. Archer's Voice is a full-len… read more

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4. The Things We Leave Unfinished

By: Rebecca Yarros

4.30

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia Stanton has to start over after she gave up almost everything in a br… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Yarros's The Things We Leave Unfinished book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You are the culmination of every lightning strike and twist of fate."

-Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

"Personally, I think she liked living there, between the pages with him. Always adding little bits of memory but never closing the door."

-Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

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5. Happy Place

By: Emily Henry

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt a… read more

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Happy Place book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You, you, you."

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

"How many universes do you think we’re together in?"

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

"Love means constantly saying you're sorry, and then doing better."

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

"I mean that you have the weirdest laugh of anyone I’ve ever met, Harriet,"

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

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6. Funny Story

By: Emily Henry

4.27

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne … read more

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No, no, no,"

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

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7. Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.40

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he d… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'm going to let that tall drink of water slam me like a door."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I swear to God this guy is the epitome of If He Wanted To He Would."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"The best kind of love doesn't happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I’ve been waiting my whole life to feel like this and I thought it was a curse that nobody else ever worked out. But it wasn’t. It’s just that they weren’t you."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

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8. Love, Theoretically

By: Ali Hazelwood

4.11

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Love, Theoretically book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
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9. This Summer Will Be Different

By: Carley Fortune

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won’t give into temptation. This summer wi… read more

Similar categories in Carley Fortune's This Summer Will Be Different book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,"

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've waited so long for this. You feel so fucking right."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've been burned in the past, which you know. I rebuilt my life once. I can't rebuild it again. I make sure I get things right at the first time. Going slow is good for me, too."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

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10. Meet Me at the Lake

By: Carley Fortune

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent jus… read more

Similar categories in Carley Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"One day you'll find your heart's too big for just you"

-Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

"Let me tell you something about me: I am extremely picky about people. Most of them, I don't particularly like. I have very high standards for the ones I let into my life these days. And you, Will Ba…"

-Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

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11. Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.32

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A novel of terrible first impressions, hilarious second chances, and the joy in finding your perfec… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2) book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You and me? We're different. We agree to be harmless to each other."

-Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)

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12. Icebreaker (UCMH, #1)

By: Hannah Grace

3.83

Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition

Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is goin… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Grace's Icebreaker (UCMH, #1) book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"You already make me happy. Just let me have you"

-Hannah Grace, Icebreaker (UCMH, #1)

"I-"Fuck. "Well, I am angry at you, Nathan." "Good." "So fucking angry." "Perfect."

-Hannah Grace, Icebreaker (UCMH, #1)

"I'm in love with her determination and her commitment, her soft side, the way she manages to tell me exactly how she's feeling and why, no matter how uncomfortable it might make her at first. She's t…"

-Hannah Grace, Icebreaker (UCMH, #1)

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13. The Seven Year Slip

By: Ashley Poston

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love wit… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's The Seven Year Slip book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I kept him at arm's length because at least there he wouldn't be able to see how broken I was. I could keep lying."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"But mostly because he was very handsome, and I was very much attracted to him, and that was the kind of surprise that I did not see coming."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't just a quick drop -- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new br…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"Romance wasn't in chocolate, it was in the gasp of breath as we came up for air. It was in the way he cradled my face, the way I traced my finger over the crescent-shaped birthmark on his collarbone.…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

Cover of Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren

14. Love and Other Words

By: Christina Lauren

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The story of the heart can never be unwritten.Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotio… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"You're my best everything"

-Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

"I’ll take anything you give me. Is that pathetic?"

-Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

"His kiss is an aching prayer; devotion pours from him."

-Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

"Eleven years later, and he still aches for what we had."

-Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

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15. The Summer of Broken Rules

By: K.L. Walther

3.91

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Meredith Fox has been going to Martha's Vineyard for the summer as long as she can remember. But th… read more

Similar categories in K.L. Walther's The Summer of Broken Rules book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Your wicked,"

-K.L. Walther, The Summer of Broken Rules

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16. Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

By: Lynn Painter

4.29

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

In this rom-com about rom-coms, in the spirit of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, a hopeless romantic t… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1) book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"She's not you." "What?" "She.Isn't.You"

-Lynn Painter, Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

"I pulled back and let myself stare at his handsome face, at the person who had always been there for me, even when I hadn’t wanted him to be."

-Lynn Painter, Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

"Here’s how it usually went: I would see a cute guy, daydream about him for weeks and totally build him up in my mind to be my one-and-only soul mate."

-Lynn Painter, Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

"I fell in love with teasing you in the second grade, when I first discovered that I could turn you cheeks pink with just a word. Then I fell in love with you."

-Lynn Painter, Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

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17. Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

After a wild bet, gourmet grilled-cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, Alexis Montgomery h… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1) book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The world is ending, Alexis. That’s what this feels like. So come with me now."

-Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

"I know it hurts, but just think, now you know what it feels like for a man with a cold"

-Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

"I know it hurts, but just think, now you’ll know what it feels like for a man with a cold."

-Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

"You know, reading makes your penis look bigger - don't quote me on it, the science is really new."

-Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

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18. The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

By: Abby Jimenez

3.91

Format: 372 pages, ebook

Kristen Petersen doesn't do drama, will fight to the death for her friends, and has no room in her … read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1) book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"Even duct tape can’t fix stupid."

-Abby Jimenez, The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

"...drunks and leggings always tell the truth."

-Abby Jimenez, The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

"The only things you like sprung on you are snacks."

-Abby Jimenez, The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

"Nothing offended me except for cauliflower and stupidity."

-Abby Jimenez, The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

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19. Every Summer After

By: Carley Fortune

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mi… read more

Similar categories in Carley Fortune's Every Summer After book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You and me are special,"

-Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

"Betrayals don’t cancel each other out. They just hurt more."

-Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

"I loved you so much that the word 'love' didn't seem big enough for how I felt."

-Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

"I liked how each book was both predictable and unique, comforting and unexpected. Safe but never boring."

-Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

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20. Beach Read

By: Emily Henry

4.00

Format: 361 pages, Paperback

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a su… read more

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Beach Read book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"For now, more swoon and less doom, babycakes"

-Emily Henry, Beach Read

"You never get the paper umbrellas you were promised in this world."

-Emily Henry, Beach Read

"If you think the story has a sad ending, it's because it's not over yet."

-Emily Henry, Beach Read

"For January, I don't care how the story ends as long as I spend it with you."

-Emily Henry, Beach Read

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21. The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.18

Format: 401 pages, ebook

This is the second book in the companion series The Friend Zone. Two years after losing her fian… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2) book and Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"You can start over again. Start now."

-Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

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Laura Nowlin

3.31

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Taylor Jenkins Reid

3.47

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The Things We Leave Unfinished

Rebecca Yarros

4.30

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Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

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Lisa Jewell

4.12

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Ashley Elston

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