21 Top contemporary books like One Night on the Island by Josie Silver

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One Night on the Island

By: Josie Silver

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Spending her thirtieth birthday alone is the last thing that dating columnist Cleo wanted, but she …

"I'm a sea queen. I'm a force of nature."

-Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

"Not many people make you feel as if you've swallowed stars."

-Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

"...today is about self-acceptance, and that means it's about love, so I'm starting the day as I mean to go on."

-Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

"I don't know yet...if it'll feel like a book I shouldn't open, a sealed chapter that only we ever know was written."

-Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

If you liked the contemporary plot in One Night on the Island by Josie Silver , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The No-Show

By: Beth O'Leary

3.80

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Siobhan is a quick-tempered life coach with way too much on her plate. Miranda is a tree surgeon us… read more

Similar categories in Beth O'Leary's The No-Show book and Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Most people are shit, it reads. What are you going to do about it?"

-Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

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2. 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 Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • 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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3. 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 Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • 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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4. 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 Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • 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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5. 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 Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • 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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6. 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 Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • 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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7. 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 Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • 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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9. 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 Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • 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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10. Flying Solo

By: Linda Holmes

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Smarting from her recently cancelled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to he… read more

Similar categories in Linda Holmes's Flying Solo book and Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You don't have to be single to be independent. And you don't have to be married to be loved."

-Linda Holmes, Flying Solo

Cover of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

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 Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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 Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Something Wilder

By: Christina Lauren

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily with… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's Something Wilder book and Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Before I Do by Sophie Cousens

14. Before I Do

By: Sophie Cousens

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

What would you do if 'the one that got away' turned up the night before your wedding? Head-in-th… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cousens's Before I Do book and Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of One Night on the Island by Josie Silver

15. One Night on the Island

By: Josie Silver

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Spending her thirtieth birthday alone is the last thing that dating columnist Cleo wanted, but she … read more

Similar categories in Josie Silver's One Night on the Island book and Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • travel
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • ireland
  • audiobook
"I'm a sea queen. I'm a force of nature."

-Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

"Not many people make you feel as if you've swallowed stars."

-Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

"...today is about self-acceptance, and that means it's about love, so I'm starting the day as I mean to go on."

-Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

"I don't know yet...if it'll feel like a book I shouldn't open, a sealed chapter that only we ever know was written."

-Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

Cover of The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

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 Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • 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. 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 Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • romance
  • adult 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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18. Mrs. Nash's Ashes

By: Sarah Adler

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A starry-eyed romantic, a cynical writer, and (the ashes of) an elderly woman take the road trip of… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Adler's Mrs. Nash's Ashes book and Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Just Haven't Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens

19. Just Haven't Met You Yet

By: Sophie Cousens

3.76

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Next Year comes a heartwarming and hilariou… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cousens's Just Haven't Met You Yet book and Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • travel
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Suite Spot (Beck Sisters, #2) by Trish Doller

20. The Suite Spot (Beck Sisters, #2)

By: Trish Doller

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Trish Doller’s The Suite Spot is a charming romance novel about taking a chance on a new life and a… read more

Similar categories in Trish Doller's The Suite Spot (Beck Sisters, #2) book and Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Mamihlapinatapai Yaghan A meaningful, but wordless, exchange between two people who both desire to initiate something but are hesitant to act upon it."

-Trish Doller, The Suite Spot (Beck Sisters, #2)

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21. The Bodyguard

By: Katherine Center

3.97

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

She's got his back. He's got her heart. They've got a secret. What could possibly go wrong? Hannah… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's The Bodyguard book and Josie Silver's One Night on the Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And I guess there really is something profoundly healing about letting somebody love you."

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

"And it’s like you’re in your life and flying above it at the same time. Like you are both on earth and in the heavens. Like you are all heartbeat and rushing pulse and warmth and softness—but you are…"

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

"When you’re not around, even for a little while, I feel like I have to go find you. I just feel this pull to be near you. I want to know what you’re thinking, and what you’re up to, and how you feel.…"

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

"And in the end, do you ever truly know for sure if you’re lovable? What a question. You don’t. You can’t. Of course not. Life never hands out the answers like that. But maybe that’s not even the righ…"

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

21 Top fiction books like One Night on the Island by Josie Silver

Transform Your Habits

The No-Show

Beth O'Leary

3.80

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

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21 must-read fiction books like Something Wilder by Christina Lauren

Transform Your Habits

Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

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

Abby Jimenez

4.40

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Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)

Tessa Bailey

3.90

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This Summer Will Be Different

Carley Fortune

4.02

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