18 must-read romance books like Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3) by Jenna Evans Welch

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Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

By: Jenna Evans Welch

4.00

Format: 506 pages, Hardcover

Santorini felt like an island holding its breath. As if it were keeping in a secret... Liv Varan…

"Sometimes moving forward is as simple as admitting what you already know."

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

"What was there to worry about? It's not like I was an active aquaphobic carrying nine years of emotional baggage onto a boat held together by duct tape."

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

"There’s an awkward like, Can we continue on our merry little way and pretend this never happened? and then there’s an awkward like, Do you happen to know of any nondormant volcanoes that I could throw myself into, because that seems to be my only remaining option? "

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

If you liked the romance plot in Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3) by Jenna Evans Welch , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer, #1)

By: Jenny Han

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months … read more

Similar categories in Jenny Han's The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer, #1) book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. It's Not Summer Without You (Summer, #2)

By: Jenny Han

3.73

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Belly finds out what comes after falling in love in this follow-up to The Summer I Turned Pretty fr… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Han's It's Not Summer Without You (Summer, #2) book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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3. Killer Instinct (The Naturals, #2)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Killer Instinct (The Naturals, #2) book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary

4. We'll Always Have Summer (Summer, #3)

By: Jenny Han

3.19

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

It's been two years since Conrad told Belly to go with Jeremiah. She and Jeremiah have been insepar… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Han's We'll Always Have Summer (Summer, #3) book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

5. The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Naturals (The Naturals, #1) book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

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6. Tweet Cute

By: Emma Lord

3.89

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. Her family may … read more

Similar categories in Emma Lord's Tweet Cute book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Are you a witch?"

-Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

"XOXO gossip wolf"

-Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

"I won't think any less of you if you break it"

-Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

"You know, for someone named Pepper, you're pretty salty about losing."

-Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

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7. The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.06

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Get caught up in the puzzles, games, danger, romance, and riches of this lush new chapter in the #1… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1) book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Congratulations, by the way," he called after Nash. "On the babies."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

"Trying to write trick questions backfires if the person taking the test knows how to look for tricks."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

"Trying to write trick questions backfires if the person taking the test knows who to look for tricks."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

"Beside Avery, Jameson was looking at her like she was the sun and the moon and the stars and eternity, all rolled into one."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

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8. The Do-Over

By: Lynn Painter

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this riotous young adult romp for fans of Recommended for You and A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea an… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's The Do-Over book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Everybody likes cats in sweaters"

-Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

" I had a marvelous time ruining everything "

-Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

"I know that I'm the only one who truly cares about my happiness, so I make it a priority"

-Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

"I fell in love with you on Valentine’s day, Emilie, but I need more than just seven minutes."

-Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

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9. The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.94

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Four brothers. Two missions. One explosive read. Jennifer Lynn Barnes returns to the world of her #… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4) book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Heiress"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

"Four Hawthornes, four suits. Avery wore black."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

"Then why haven’t you noticed I’m not your only tail?"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

"Nash." The gleam in Jamie's eyes was downright wicked, "I dare you to eat your hat."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

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10. Places We've Never Been

By: Kasie West

3.88

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary Young Adult novel about a cross-country family road trip that puts one girl and her … read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Places We've Never Been book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • travel
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Have you heard the saying that when God closes a door, he opens a window?"

-Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

"But failure in life is inevitable. It’s only a problem if we let it keep us from progressing."

-Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

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11. Sunkissed

By: Kasie West

3.81

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Will the stars align? Avery has always used music as an escape. But after her best friend betray… read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Sunkissed book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"He gave me a slow smile. 'If she likes me back, she probably doesn't do a lot of thinking."

-Kasie West, Sunkissed

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12. Float

By: Kate Marchant

3.92

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

A heartfelt summer read for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han about holding on and letting go. … read more

Similar categories in Kate Marchant's Float book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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13. The Reappearance of Rachel Price

By: Holly Jackson

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A new true-crime fueled mystery thriller about a girl determined to uncover the shocking truth abou… read more

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's The Reappearance of Rachel Price book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Family first", Bel said. Not a threat, but a promise."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"The people who loved you, the ones who really cared, they would always come back. Sometimes, they even came back from the dead."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"They hadn't had time to say one word to each other, which was fine, because it was hard to be rude to someone with just one word."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"A little insensitive", she whispered, loud enough that Bel and Carter could hear. "Giving the man with dementia a book called The Memory Thief."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

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14. Kisses and Croissants

By: Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Mia, an American girl at an elite summer ballet program, has six weeks to achiev… read more

Similar categories in Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau's Kisses and Croissants book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • travel
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"The only way to make it in this world is to want it more than anyone else"

-Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau, Kisses and Croissants

"The thing is, ballet is a collaborative experience. Each dancer sets the scene for the next one. Even when you’re doing a solo, it’s not just about you: you are simply borrowing everyone’s attention …"

-Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau, Kisses and Croissants

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15. Betting on You

By: Lynn Painter

4.10

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to … read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's Betting on You book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

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

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

Cover of Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3) by Jenna Evans Welch

17. Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

By: Jenna Evans Welch

4.00

Format: 506 pages, Hardcover

Santorini felt like an island holding its breath. As if it were keeping in a secret... Liv Varan… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3) book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • travel
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Sometimes moving forward is as simple as admitting what you already know."

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

"What was there to worry about? It's not like I was an active aquaphobic carrying nine years of emotional baggage onto a boat held together by duct tape."

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

"There’s an awkward like, Can we continue on our merry little way and pretend this never happened? and then there’s an awkward like, Do you happen to know of any nondormant volcanoes that I could thro…"

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

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18. Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

4.06

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

The Hating Game meets Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by way of Morgan Matson in this unforgetta… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1) book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"You like it,"

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

"QUIDQUID LATINE DICTUM, ALTUM VIDETUR."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

"There’s this word in Japanese: tsundoku,"

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

"People change , Rowan. Thank God they do."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

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19. 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 Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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20. What Happens After Midnight

By: K.L. Walther

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Lily Hopper has two more weeks until she's officially finished with boarding school. With graduatio… read more

Similar categories in K.L. Walther's What Happens After Midnight book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Picking Daisies on Sundays by Liana Cincotti

21. Picking Daisies on Sundays

By: Liana Cincotti

3.98

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for fans of Lynn Painter and Jenny Han, this romantic comedy follows a hopeless romantic fi… read more

Similar categories in Liana Cincotti's Picking Daisies on Sundays book and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
"The whole book,"

-Liana Cincotti, Picking Daisies on Sundays

"Don’t worry if the flowers pass, I’ll be right there to plant you more"

-Liana Cincotti, Picking Daisies on Sundays

"She lives in between the pinks and yellows of the world, where a beautiful color is unknown to others, and when she speaks, I become a bee enthralled in a field of daisies."

-Liana Cincotti, Picking Daisies on Sundays

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3.89

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