11 must-read romance books like The Love of my Life by Rosie Walsh

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The Love of my Life

By: Rosie Walsh

3.89

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an u…

"...it's only when something's damaged beyond repair that we realize how beautiful it was. [LEO PHILBET]"

-Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

If you liked the romance plot in The Love of my Life by Rosie Walsh , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Five-Star Weekend

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend … read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's The Five-Star Weekend book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She weighs the decision for a moment, then butters the baguette and pops it in her mouth. It's so delicious that she doesn't care if they have to roll her off the island in a wheelbarrow."

-Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

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2. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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3. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. She's Not Sorry

By: Mary Kubica

3.81

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller. Megha… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kubica's She's Not Sorry book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. None of This Is True

By: Lisa Jewell

4.12

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's None of This Is True book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Acting as if there is something wrong with me, when there isn't. It's the world that's wrong, you and I both know that."

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

"Being with so many people felt right, and afterward at the wake thrown by Nathan's company at a huge bar in Paddington overlooking the canal, with seats outside and bottomless champagne and a playlis…"

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

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6. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

Cover of Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

7. Listen for the Lie

By: Amy Tintera

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if… read more

Similar categories in Amy Tintera's Listen for the Lie book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Men say shit,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"What are you doing here?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"We were all so repressed in our twenties,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"Lucy, didn’t you want to be a writer once?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

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8. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Hello Beautiful

By: Ann Napolitano

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person wh… read more

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

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10. One Perfect Couple

By: Ruth Ware

3.68

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Runtime: 14 hours and 9 minutes Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's One Perfect Couple book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Heiress

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.87

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Heiress book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"One rarely finds salvation in Florida."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

"Sometimes it's fun to give people enough rope with which to hang themselves."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

Cover of Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) by Abby Jimenez

12. 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 Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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13. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Swan Song (Nantucket, #4) book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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15. Darling Girls

By: Sally Hepworth

4.04

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER... Sally Hepworth’s new novel has it all. For as long as they… read more

Similar categories in Sally Hepworth's Darling Girls book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She didn’t do well out of her routine."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"[…] the dogs burst out into the night in search of nocturnal animals to torment."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"She had a very specific routine that she had to follow if she was to have the slightest hope of drifting off."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"Today had involved far too much talking. Norah appreciated the great wonder of communication as much as the next person, but she despised it in excess."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

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16. Someone Else's Shoes

By: Jojo Moyes

3.96

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from #1 N… read more

Similar categories in Jojo Moyes's Someone Else's Shoes book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Love of my Life by Rosie Walsh

17. The Love of my Life

By: Rosie Walsh

3.89

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an u… read more

Similar categories in Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...it's only when something's damaged beyond repair that we realize how beautiful it was. [LEO PHILBET]"

-Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

Cover of The Last Love Note by Emma Grey

18. The Last Love Note

By: Emma Grey

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again. Kate is a bit of … read more

Similar categories in Emma Grey's The Last Love Note book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She's one of the golden threads running through each of our lives. Hope, in human form."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"If I stay very still and very open, our energies feel so close it's as if we can almost touch in this place where love is infinite. Limitless."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"I've learned that love outlives death. It holds steady through despair. It won't fade, even as time elapses and distance increases and your world shifts."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

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19. All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker

4.44

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more

Similar categories in Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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21. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Rosie Walsh's The Love of my Life

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

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