21 must-read fiction books like Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen

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Lunar Love

By: Lauren Kung Jessen

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This sweet, enemies-to-lovers debut rom-com filled with Chinese astrology will undoubtedly prove to…

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1. Romantic Comedy

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.64

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

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2. 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 Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • 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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3. 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 Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • 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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4. 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 Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • 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

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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 Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • 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. How to End a Love Story

By: Yulin Kuang

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780063310681. Two writers with a complicated history end up wor… read more

Similar categories in Yulin Kuang's How to End a Love Story book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Hello Stranger

By: Katherine Center

3.94

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Love isn’t blind, it’s just a little blurry. Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Li… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's Hello Stranger book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen

8. Lunar Love

By: Lauren Kung Jessen

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This sweet, enemies-to-lovers debut rom-com filled with Chinese astrology will undoubtedly prove to… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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9. Ready or Not

By: Cara Bastone

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A surprise pregnancy leads to even more life-changing revelations in this heartfelt, slow-burn, fri… read more

Similar categories in Cara Bastone's Ready or Not book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Exes and O's (The Influencer, #2)

By: Amy Lea

3.73

Format: 361 pages, Paperback

A romance novel–obsessed social media influencer revisits her exes on her hunt for true love in thi… read more

Similar categories in Amy Lea's Exes and O's (The Influencer, #2) book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'm sorry you feel so threatened by depictions of fictional men doing more than the bare minimum."

-Amy Lea, Exes and O's (The Influencer, #2)

"My dear, you have a lot to learn about relationships if you think all problems can be solved by a single conversation."

-Amy Lea, Exes and O's (The Influencer, #2)

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11. Kiss Her Once for Me

By: Alison Cochrun

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The author of The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an… read more

Similar categories in Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I have Andrew, who walked back into my life and then kindly refused to walk back out again."

-Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me

"You're not my beard. Everyone knows my sexuality is like a Rorschach test." "What does that even mean?" "What you see when you look at me says a lot more about you than it does about me."

-Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me

"We are two queer women, and we're going to use this drive back to the cabin to do what queer women do." Blood pressure: rising. "And, uh, what's that?" "We're going to talk about our feelings" Well. …"

-Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me

"I'm demi," I say. Then stupidly, I clarify "-sexual. Not demiromantic or a demigirl or a demigod like Hercules." [...] "I didn't think you were coming out to me as the mythological hero Hercules." "S…"

-Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me

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12. 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 Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • 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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13. Georgie, All Along

By: Kate Clayborn

3.80

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A wise and witty new novel that echoes with timely questions about love, career, reconciling with t… read more

Similar categories in Kate Clayborn's Georgie, All Along book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The Second Chance Year

By: Melissa Wiesner

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this unforgettable story full of charm, wit—and just a bit of magic—a woman down on her luck is … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Wiesner's The Second Chance Year book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Nothing that starts with ‘come on, it will be fun’ is ever fun."

-Melissa Wiesner, The Second Chance Year

"I click over to Instagram, the only thing that can make me feel worse."

-Melissa Wiesner, The Second Chance Year

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15. A Winter in New York

By: Josie Silver

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love—and life—she’s been… read more

Similar categories in Josie Silver's A Winter in New York book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's the swoon-worthy climax of our showreel moment, this beautiful, achingly sexy kiss, slow and electric, full of pure, vulnerable kiss-me-forever magic."

-Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

"You guys have enough baggage to fill a gosh dang carousel at JFK, but isn't that kind of the point of love, that you help each other carry the bags? Fresh starts are for Hallmark movies, not real lif…"

-Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

"By my reckoning, everyone gets a handful of movie-worthy moments in their lives. Some people would probably pick out their wedding day or the birth of their child for their showreel, but for most of …"

-Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

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16. One-Star Romance

By: Laura Hankin

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A struggling writer is forced to walk down the aisle at her best friend’s wedding with the man who … read more

Similar categories in Laura Hankin's One-Star Romance book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I mean... There have been moments when I read something in a book that feels like it was written just for me. Like the author reached inside my brain, took all the thoughts I didn't know how to expre…"

-Laura Hankin, One-Star Romance

Cover of Advika and the Hollywood Wives by Kirthana Ramisetti

17. Advika and the Hollywood Wives

By: Kirthana Ramisetti

3.14

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning tale of marriage, scandal, and fame, perfect for readers of Taylor Jenkins Reid: “Th… read more

Similar categories in Kirthana Ramisetti's Advika and the Hollywood Wives book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Everyone's grief is on a different timetable. You'll know when you're ready. ... I lost my grandmother when I was nine, and while it's not the same as your grief, the loss was like a piece of gum. Th…"

-Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

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18. This Spells Love

By: Kate Robb

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A young woman tries to heal her heartbreak by casting a spell to erase her ex from her past, but sh… read more

Similar categories in Kate Robb's This Spells Love book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's like Hot Tub Time Machine without the hot tub."

-Kate Robb, This Spells Love

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19. The Reunion

By: Kayla Olson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When two former teen stars reconnect at the reunion for their hit TV show, they discover their feel… read more

Similar categories in Kayla Olson's The Reunion book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Ana María and the Fox (The Luna Sisters, #1) by Liana De la Rosa

20. Ana María and the Fox (The Luna Sisters, #1)

By: Liana De la Rosa

3.46

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd British politician makes for a tantalizing … read more

Similar categories in Liana De la Rosa's Ana María and the Fox (The Luna Sisters, #1) book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. You, Again

By: Kate Goldbeck

3.60

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Can they stop hating each other long enough to fall in love? A commitment-phobe and a hopeless … read more

Similar categories in Kate Goldbeck's You, Again book and Lauren Kung Jessen's Lunar Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's impossible to catch feelings on a Bow Flex."

-Kate Goldbeck, You, Again

"I think I found the other half of my black and white cookie, and someone else might be eating it right now."

-Kate Goldbeck, You, Again

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