20 best-selling chick lit books like What You Wish For by Katherine Center

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What You Wish For

By: Katherine Center

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Samantha Casey is a school librarian who loves her job, the kids, and her school family with passio…

"If you never let yourself want anything,"

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

"We made a choice to do joy on purpose. Not in spite of life’s sorrows. But because of them."

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

"...courage makes everything easier next time. And I'm not going to let you live your life in fear."

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

"I'm telling you. I know all about darkness. That's why I am so hell-bent, every damn day, on looking for the light."

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

If you liked the chick lit plot in What You Wish For by Katherine Center , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. 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 Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • 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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2. 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 Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • 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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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 Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • 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. 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 Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • 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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5. Expiration Dates

By: Rebecca Serle

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper yo… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Serle's Expiration Dates book and Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We have to be cracked open sometimes. We have to be cracked open sometimes to let anything good in. What I see now, emerging in the mirror, is this one, simple truth: learning to be broken is learnin…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"Joel and I don’t work because he’s my person, we work because I feel like I can be every bad and impossible version of myself with him. I can change. And it’s not even that I know he’ll still love me…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness, Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselv…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

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6. Same Time Next Summer

By: Annabel Monaghan

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Beach Rules: Do take long walks on the sand. Do put an umbrella in every cocktail. Do NOT run in… read more

Similar categories in Annabel Monaghan's Same Time Next Summer book and Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Summer Romance

By: Annabel Monaghan

4.10

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Benefits of a summer romance: it’s always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken. … read more

Similar categories in Annabel Monaghan's Summer Romance book and Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I am the architect of my own experience."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

"It's a lot easier to work through other people's problems. I think I must be very attached to my own."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

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8. 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 Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • 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)

Cover of Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4) by Elle Cosimano

9. Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4)

By: Elle Cosimano

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero are in sore need of a girls’ weekend away. They … read more

Similar categories in Elle Cosimano's Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4) book and Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We can't go in there, Vero! Do you know what happens to women who go into creepy basements? Murder! Murder happens to women to go into creepy basements."

-Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4)

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10. 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 Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • 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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11. 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 Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of What You Wish For by Katherine Center

13. What You Wish For

By: Katherine Center

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Samantha Casey is a school librarian who loves her job, the kids, and her school family with passio… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's What You Wish For book and Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If you never let yourself want anything,"

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

"We made a choice to do joy on purpose. Not in spite of life’s sorrows. But because of them."

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

"...courage makes everything easier next time. And I'm not going to let you live your life in fear."

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

"I'm telling you. I know all about darkness. That's why I am so hell-bent, every damn day, on looking for the light."

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

Cover of The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1) by Abby Jimenez

14. 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 Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • 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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15. 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 Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • 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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17. The Honeymoon Crashers (Unhoneymooners, #1.5)

By: Christina Lauren

3.58

Format: 5 pages, Audiobook

4 hours, 47 minutes A perfectionist maid of honor and a carefree, surfer-bro best man team up t… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's The Honeymoon Crashers (Unhoneymooners, #1.5) book and Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Nora Goes Off Script

By: Annabel Monaghan

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Nora's life is about to get a rewrite... Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than an… read more

Similar categories in Annabel Monaghan's Nora Goes Off Script book and Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"To write is to re-create something as you'd like it to be."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

" Maybe he really likes me , I think in my tiniest thinking voice."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

"What if this is my new normal—showing people my heart and having them applaud it?"

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

"There's nothing more shameful than this retrospective knowing, because it reminds you how blind you can be to things that don't jibe with the reality you're trying to believe in."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

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19. The Good Part

By: Sophie Cousens

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

By the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet, a downtrodden twenty-six-year… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cousens's The Good Part book and Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2) by Abby Jimenez

20. 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 Katherine Center's What You Wish For

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

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

Cover of Life’s Too Short (The Friend Zone, #3) by Abby Jimenez

21. Life’s Too Short (The Friend Zone, #3)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.16

Format: 384 pages, ebook

A brilliant and touching romantic comedy about two polar opposites, one adorable dog, and living ea… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Life’s Too Short (The Friend Zone, #3) book and Katherine Center's What You Wish For

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I don’t pretend to be happy. I just refuse to be sad."

-Abby Jimenez, Life’s Too Short (The Friend Zone, #3)

"Apparently dogs are the answer to all life’s problems."

-Abby Jimenez, Life’s Too Short (The Friend Zone, #3)

"I don’t think things are preordained or written in the stars. I believe we make our own destiny."

-Abby Jimenez, Life’s Too Short (The Friend Zone, #3)

"I liked that she didn’t feel the need to impress me and I didn’t feel the need to impress her. There was something comforting about it, about just being you in whatever state you happened to be in."

-Abby Jimenez, Life’s Too Short (The Friend Zone, #3)

21 must-read fiction books like What You Wish For by Katherine Center

Transform Your Habits

Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

Transform Your Habits

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

Abby Jimenez

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Paradise Problem

Christina Lauren

4.14

Transform Your Habits

This Summer Will Be Different

Carley Fortune

4.02

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21 Best fiction books like Life’s Too Short (The Friend Zone, #3) by Abby Jimenez

Transform Your Habits

Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Paradise Problem

Christina Lauren

4.14

Transform Your Habits

This Summer Will Be Different

Carley Fortune

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Summer Romance

Annabel Monaghan

4.10

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