21 must-read fiction books like The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1) by Abby Jimenez

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

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 …

"Even duct tape can’t fix stupid."

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

"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)

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

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

If you liked the fiction plot in The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1) by Abby Jimenez , here is a list of 21 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 Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • 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

Cover of Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1) by Tessa Bailey

2. Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)

By: Tessa Bailey

3.90

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey launches a super sexy sports romance series with … read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1) book and Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I just…have this pretty intense need to make sure everyone knows you’re very fucking important. Okay? Could you kindly just go along with it?"

-Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)

"She jackknifed on the couch, screaming so loud that it could be heard clear to Orlando. This was it. Her Dateline moment. A robbery gone wrong. Or was it?, questioned Keith Morrison."

-Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)

Cover of The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

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 Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • 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

Cover of This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune

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 Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • 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. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • adult 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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6. Not in Love

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science. Rue Siebert might not ha… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Not in Love book and Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"I'd been an odd child, then an odd teenager. Then I'd become, maybe as a result, maybe unavoidably, an odd adult."

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"I'd never felt more beautiful than when he looked at me. Like I was the final prototype of someone's entire fantasy life."

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"Eli was entranced. Her servant. Spellbound. He considered begging her to let him touch her. To let him go down on her in the hallway. He would go grocery shopping and make her dinner off a YouTube re…"

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"I'm going to want to see you every day. I'm going to learn more dishes and pack your lunch and write cute little notes on it. I'm going to ask you if you want to sleep at your place or mine and alway…"

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

Cover of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

7. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • 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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8. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new 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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9. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • 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

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10. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Rule Book (The Cheat Sheet, #2) by Sarah       Adams

11. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid, #3) by Freida McFadden

13. The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid, #3)

By: Freida McFadden

3.90

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

“You must be our new neighbors!” Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my … read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid, #3) book and Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Rosie and the Dreamboat (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #3) by Sally  Thorne

14. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1) by Abby Jimenez

15. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • 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)

Cover of Bridesmaid for Hire (Bridesmaid for Hire, #1) by Meghan Quinn

16. Bridesmaid for Hire (Bridesmaid for Hire, #1)

By: Meghan Quinn

3.89

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Sometimes the wedding of the century calls for desperate measures. And sometimes those desperate m… read more

Similar categories in Meghan Quinn's Bridesmaid for Hire (Bridesmaid for Hire, #1) book and Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Drop, Cover, and Hold On (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #4) by Jasmine Guillory

17. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

18. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • 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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19. The Exception to the Rule (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #1)

By: Christina Lauren

4.22

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

On February 14, an accidental email to a stranger opens the door to an unexpected relationship in a… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's The Exception to the Rule (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #1) book and Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
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20. A Novel Love Story

By: Ashley Poston

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction… literally. Eileen Merri… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's A Novel Love Story book and Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was hungover and halfway dead, and still my heart had the audacity to be horny."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

"I could treat you to dinner as a thank-you..." Don't you mean I could treat you?" "You're already a treat, sweetie."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

"It's when Darcy tells Elizabeth he loves her most ardently, when Mark brings Bridget her new dairy, when Harry tells Sally he loves her, when Will buys Junie the inn."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

"He was close enough that I caught a note of his cologne--- cedar and black tea and, faintly, the subtle scent of a well-loved paperback. Familiar and yearning. It was mystifying."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

Cover of Play Along (Windy City, #4) by Liz Tomforde

21. Play Along (Windy City, #4)

By: Liz Tomforde

4.52

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Kennedy I’m the only woman on staff for the Windy City Warriors, and after years of putting up w… read more

Similar categories in Liz Tomforde's Play Along (Windy City, #4) book and Abby Jimenez's The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook

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Emily Henry

4.27

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Tessa Bailey

3.90

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Christina Lauren

4.14

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Carley Fortune

4.02

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Ana Huang

4.00

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Elsie Silver

4.10

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Elle Kennedy

4.20

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Laura Pavlov

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