20 must-read lesbian books like Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun

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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…

"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

"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

"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

If you liked the lesbian plot in Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)

By: Emma R. Alban

3.82

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from havin… read more

Similar categories in Emma R. Alban's Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1) book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3) by Ashley Herring Blake

2. Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partn… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3) book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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3. For Her Consideration (Out in Hollywood, #1)

By: Amy Spalding

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Meryl Wilsner, a funny, heartwarming, and moving novel abou… read more

Similar categories in Amy Spalding's For Her Consideration (Out in Hollywood, #1) book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Love at First Set by Jennifer Dugan

4. Love at First Set

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Sometimes true love takes a little heavy lifting The gym is Lizzie's life--it's her passion, he… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's Love at First Set book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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5. Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

An interior designer learns to rebuild her love life from the ground up with zero blueprints in thi… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2) book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Sexuality is complicated. It’s not static. People change and sexuality can change too."

-Ashley Herring Blake, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2)

"Astrid Parker was loved, no matter what her mother thought of her. No matter what choices she made. And that love gave her the courage to choose herself."

-Ashley Herring Blake, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2)

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6. Cleat Cute

By: Meryl Wilsner

3.77

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two socce… read more

Similar categories in Meryl Wilsner's Cleat Cute book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Lesbian is important to me," Phoebe says. "The world likes to act like it's a porn category, not an identity. It took me a while to realize it wasn't. I want other girls like me to know it's a beauti…"

-Meryl Wilsner, Cleat Cute

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7. Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.08

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its comp… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1) book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"And Delilah had gotten through life by putting herself first, only concentrating herself with what she knew was true, because she’d learned a long time ago that she couldn’t control anyone but hersel…"

-Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)

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8. Mistakes Were Made

By: Meryl Wilsner

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the critically acclaimed author of Something To Talk About comes a sharp and sexy rom-com abou… read more

Similar categories in Meryl Wilsner's Mistakes Were Made book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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9. Never Ever Getting Back Together

By: Sophie Gonzales

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen ye… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Gonzales's Never Ever Getting Back Together book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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10. How to Excavate a Heart

By: Jake Maia Arlow

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom’s Subaru. Attempted vehicu… read more

Similar categories in Jake Maia Arlow's How to Excavate a Heart book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I didn't use the word lesbian to describe myself until this year, though, which is when I chopped off all my hair and flirted with veganism"

-Jake Maia Arlow, How to Excavate a Heart

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11. The Fiancée Farce

By: Alexandria Bellefleur

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a s… read more

Similar categories in Alexandria Bellefleur's The Fiancée Farce book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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12. Fly with Me

By: Andie Burke

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A sparkling and steamy opposites-attract romance, Fly with Me by Andie Burke is filled with sharp b… read more

Similar categories in Andie Burke's Fly with Me book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1) by Alexandria Bellefleur

13. Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

By: Alexandria Bellefleur

3.86

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

With nods to Bridget Jones and Pride and Prejudice, a charming #ownvoices queer rom-com debut about… read more

Similar categories in Alexandria Bellefleur's Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1) book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"An acquired taste."

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

"It’s the hard knock life."

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

"She wanted all of Elle—the good, the bad, the messy."

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

"Christ on a cracker, couldn't a girl be horny in peace?"

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

Cover of Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun

14. 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 Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"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

Cover of Season of Love (Carrigan’s Christmasland, #1) by Helena Greer

15. Season of Love (Carrigan’s Christmasland, #1)

By: Helena Greer

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Romances of 2022 Miriam Blum has no choice but to face the pas… read more

Similar categories in Helena Greer's Season of Love (Carrigan’s Christmasland, #1) book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"It was so freeing to have someone else be righteously indignant on her behalf. She'd never given herself the space to feel that anger. Somehow, Noelle doing it let her move out of the flashback into …"

-Helena Greer, Season of Love (Carrigan’s Christmasland, #1)

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16. Late Bloomer

By: Mazey Eddings

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A sapphic opposites-attract romance with Mazey Edding's signature sparkling voice! Winning the l… read more

Similar categories in Mazey Eddings's Late Bloomer book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Fuck anything and anyone that made you have to survive instead of live. You deserve a life so peaceful it feels deliciously boring. A life filled with flowers and sunny days and people who show you a…"

-Mazey Eddings, Late Bloomer

Cover of How You Get the Girl (Love & Other Disasters, #3) by Anita Kelly

17. How You Get the Girl (Love & Other Disasters, #3)

By: Anita Kelly

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Chemistry sizzles in this workplace rom-com set in the world of high school basketball from the aut… read more

Similar categories in Anita Kelly's How You Get the Girl (Love & Other Disasters, #3) book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Count Your Lucky Stars (Written in the Stars, #3) by Alexandria Bellefleur

18. Count Your Lucky Stars (Written in the Stars, #3)

By: Alexandria Bellefleur

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Following Written in the Stars and Hang the Moon, national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur… read more

Similar categories in Alexandria Bellefleur's Count Your Lucky Stars (Written in the Stars, #3) book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Do you have somewhere you can stay?"

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars (Written in the Stars, #3)

"You do realize I could be anybody, right?"

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars (Written in the Stars, #3)

"The right person shouldnt complete you, they should love you the way you are. And it's cool if they make you want to be better, but they should never make you feel like you are too much or not enough…"

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars (Written in the Stars, #3)

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19. That Summer Feeling

By: Bridget Morrissey

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Turns out you're never too old for a summer camp romance. Or a change of heart. When a divorced wom… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Morrissey's That Summer Feeling book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Signs didn't just exist to tell me where to go. Sometimes signs reminded me of what I needed to avoid."

-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling

"That's who I was to my core---a person who believed in magic. Who found secrets tucked into the fabric of the universe. Who wished on shooting stars and took leaps of faith based on nothing but feeli…"

-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling

"I'd always known to my parents, love meant suffering. It meant enduring everything, no matter how bad. Only something publicly shameful was worth splitting up over. Even then, a case could be made fo…"

-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling

"Ethan sat besides me, watching as he always did. An observer of life not unlike my sister. A lot of the time, I'd felt it was up to me to be the one who shimmered enough for the both of us. And I did…"

-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling

Cover of In the Event of Love (Fern Falls, #1) by Courtney Kae

20. In the Event of Love (Fern Falls, #1)

By: Courtney Kae

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Fans of Casey McQuiston and Alexandria Bellefleur will adore this queer romcom that combines everyt… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Kae's In the Event of Love (Fern Falls, #1) book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Sometimes, mistakes are the beginning of something wonderful."

-Courtney Kae, In the Event of Love (Fern Falls, #1)

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21. The Pairing

By: Casey McQuiston

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes… read more

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's The Pairing book and Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

21 must-read fiction books like Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun

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Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)

Emma R. Alban

3.82

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Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)

Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

Transform Your Habits

For Her Consideration (Out in Hollywood, #1)

Amy Spalding

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Love at First Set

Jennifer Dugan

3.45

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21 must-read fiction books like Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1) by Emma R. Alban

Transform Your Habits

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)

Emma R. Alban

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)

Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

Transform Your Habits

On the Same Page

Haley Cass

4.40

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Cleat Cute

Meryl Wilsner

3.77

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