21 must-read chick lit books like Much Ado About You by Samantha Young

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Much Ado About You

By: Samantha Young

3.67

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

The cozy comforts of an English village bookstore open up a world of new possibilities for Evie Sta…

"Such benign little words — ‘what if.’ But at some point in life, those two words become the scariest two words in the English language."

-Samantha Young, Much Ado About You

"Viola, you're allowed to be confident and to think that you're smart and pretty and deserving of the best. Unfortunately, we live in a society where we tell our kids to be confident and successful and then as soon as they are, we tell them to shut up about it and be humble, Especially women. Guys can get away with cockiness until the end of time, but if a woman is cocky, she's arrogant and superior. "Even worse, women are just as likely as men to condemn a confident woman for not being modest enough. The only way we can change that attitude is to change among ourselves. If you're smart, then demand that other people treat you as someone of intelligence. If you look in the mirror and like what you see, then halle-fucking-lujah!" I exclaimed. "Believe me, I spent way too much of my youth, and still do, picking apart my appearance instead of being grateful for what I have. Grateful that all my limbs are intact and my body is healthy." I leaned toward Viola, who was wide-eyed as she listened to me. "Do not ever apologize for liking who you are. It's a beautiful mindset. And that asshole who cheated o you doesn't deserve to come in touching distance of your life."

-Samantha Young, Much Ado About You

If you liked the chick lit plot in Much Ado About You by Samantha Young , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. A Love Catastrophe

By: Helena Hunting

3.44

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

The fur is about to fly between a cheerful cat sitter and a grumpy hockey nerd in this hilarious an… read more

Similar categories in Helena Hunting's A Love Catastrophe book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

By: Yvonne Korshak

4.29

Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition

STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more

Similar categories in Yvonne Korshak's Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • contemporary romance
  • chick lit
  • fiction
"Temples are for the gods,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"But  Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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3. The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

By: Lynn Painter

3.88

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bott… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2) book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She had piercings everywhere, but cried like a baby if she needed to get a shot."

-Lynn Painter, The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

"Rejection feels like shit, even when it comes from someone who might not matter that much."

-Lynn Painter, The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

"Everything with him was great, but it was great in the way a Hallmark Christmas movie was great. Everything looked perfect—the clothing, the setting, the words—but none of it felt . . . real."

-Lynn Painter, The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

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4. 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 Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • 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)

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5. 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 Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • 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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6. 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 Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • 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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7. Two Wrongs Make a Right (The Wilmot Sisters, #1)

By: Chloe Liese

3.81

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

Opposites become allies to fool their matchmaking friends in this swoony reimagining of Shakespeare… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Liese's Two Wrongs Make a Right (The Wilmot Sisters, #1) book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • 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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9. The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

By: Ashley Winstead

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

As a shy school librarian, Alexis Stone is comfortable keeping out of the spotlight. But when she's… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Winstead's The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2) book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Fuck leading anyone. I want to follow you on my hands and knees across the desert."

-Ashley Winstead, The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

"I never realized how much I loved the color green until I met you," he said quickly, and my heart raced."

-Ashley Winstead, The Boyfriend Candidate (Fool Me Once, #2)

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10. Make a Wish (Spark House, #3)

By: Helena Hunting

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Ever have a defining life moment you wish you could do over? Harley Spark has one. The time she alm… read more

Similar categories in Helena Hunting's Make a Wish (Spark House, #3) book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Twice Shy

By: Sarah Hogle

3.67

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Can you find real love when you've always got your head in the clouds? Maybell Parish has alway… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hogle's Twice Shy book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It was hidden behind a heavy floral curtain that I’d assumed was just another window. I’ll never trust a curtain again."

-Sarah Hogle, Twice Shy

"I want to be commanding, stern, intimidating, but I am raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. My resolve is dandelion fluff."

-Sarah Hogle, Twice Shy

"You ever think you were single for no reason and then you meet someone and realize you’ve been waiting for them without knowing it?"

-Sarah Hogle, Twice Shy

"It bothers me. There’s a stigma, especially for guys. Especially for guys who are about to hit thirty. It’s not that I want to be a . . . you know . . ."

-Sarah Hogle, Twice Shy

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12. Meet Cute

By: Helena Hunting

3.73

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Talk about an embarrassing introduction. On her first day of law school, Kailyn ran quite literally… read more

Similar categories in Helena Hunting's Meet Cute book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Sometimes the biggest mistakes are made with the best of intentions."

-Helena Hunting, Meet Cute

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13. 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 Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. When Sparks Fly (Spark House, #1)

By: Helena Hunting

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Running the Spark House, a hotel/event space that has been in her family for years, has been Avery … read more

Similar categories in Helena Hunting's When Sparks Fly (Spark House, #1) book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We need to learn how to stand on our own before we learn how to stand together again."

-Helena Hunting, When Sparks Fly (Spark House, #1)

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15. Business or Pleasure

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Chandler Cohen has never felt more like the ghost in "ghostwriter" until she attends a signing for … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's Business or Pleasure book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
Cover of Much Ado About You by Samantha Young

16. Much Ado About You

By: Samantha Young

3.67

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

The cozy comforts of an English village bookstore open up a world of new possibilities for Evie Sta… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Young's Much Ado About You book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"Such benign little words — ‘what if.’ But at some point in life, those two words become the scariest two words in the English language."

-Samantha Young, Much Ado About You

"Viola, you're allowed to be confident and to think that you're smart and pretty and deserving of the best. Unfortunately, we live in a society where we tell our kids to be confident and successful an…"

-Samantha Young, Much Ado About You

Cover of Better Hate than Never (The Wilmot Sisters, #2) by Chloe Liese

17. Better Hate than Never (The Wilmot Sisters, #2)

By: Chloe Liese

3.68

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

Childhood enemies discover the fine line between love and loathing in this heartfelt reimagining of… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Liese's Better Hate than Never (The Wilmot Sisters, #2) book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Only and Forever (Bergman Brothers, #7) by Chloe Liese

18. Only and Forever (Bergman Brothers, #7)

By: Chloe Liese

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s a room-mance for the books in this tender, steamy story about unexpectedly finding love and be… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Liese's Only and Forever (Bergman Brothers, #7) book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Well Matched (Well Met, #3) by Jen DeLuca

19. Well Matched (Well Met, #3)

By: Jen DeLuca

3.85

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

Single mother April Parker has lived in Willow Creek for twelve years with a wall around her heart.… read more

Similar categories in Jen DeLuca's Well Matched (Well Met, #3) book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Plus One (A Brush with Love, #3) by Mazey Eddings

20. The Plus One (A Brush with Love, #3)

By: Mazey Eddings

3.68

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Some facts are indisputable. The sun rises in the east, sets in the west. Gravity exits. Indira doe… read more

Similar categories in Mazey Eddings's The Plus One (A Brush with Love, #3) book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can hurt and also be loved. You can feel sadness and also laugh and feel joy. Good emotions can coexist with hard ones. You can struggle and suffer and learn to heal while you also love."

-Mazey Eddings, The Plus One (A Brush with Love, #3)

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21. Well Traveled (Well Met, #4)

By: Jen DeLuca

3.79

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

A high-powered attorney from a success-oriented family, Louisa "Lulu" Malone lives to work, and eve… read more

Similar categories in Jen DeLuca's Well Traveled (Well Met, #4) book and Samantha Young's Much Ado About You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook

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