21 must-read contemporary romance books like The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3) by Elle Kennedy

Cover of The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3) by Elle Kennedy

The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

By: Elle Kennedy

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

College student Cassie Soul hasn’t spent an entire summer in Avalon Bay in years, not since her par…

If you liked the contemporary romance plot in The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3) by Elle Kennedy , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Funny Story by Emily Henry

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 Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • 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 The Au Pair Affair (Big Shots, #2) by Tessa Bailey

2. The Au Pair Affair (Big Shots, #2)

By: Tessa Bailey

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A sports rom-com about a burly, surly, single dad who falls head-over-hockey-stick for his quirky l… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's The Au Pair Affair (Big Shots, #2) book and Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) by Abby Jimenez

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 Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • 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)

Cover of Wild Love (Rose Hill, #1) by Elsie Silver

4. Wild Love (Rose Hill, #1)

By: Elsie Silver

4.10

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

She's been driving him wild for years . . . the good kind of wild. The kind of wild that comes … read more

Similar categories in Elsie Silver's Wild Love (Rose Hill, #1) book and Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1) by Tessa Bailey

5. 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 Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • 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

6. 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 Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • 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 Wildfire (Maple Hills, #2) by Hannah  Grace

7. Wildfire (Maple Hills, #2)

By: Hannah Grace

3.87

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

The latest in the Maple Hills series follows two summer camp counselors who reconnect after a sizzl… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Grace's Wildfire (Maple Hills, #2) book and Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • college
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"Before I met you, I hadn't considered what my happy ending might look like. I wasn't sure I'd get one. You’re my happy ending, Russ. I fell in love with you in Meadow Springs, and watching you help b…"

-Hannah Grace, Wildfire (Maple Hills, #2)

Cover of This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune

8. 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 Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • 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

Cover of Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan

9. 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 Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • 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

Cover of Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

10. 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 Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • 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

11. 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 Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • 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

Cover of Happily Never After by Lynn Painter

12. 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 Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • 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

Cover of The Rule Book (The Cheat Sheet, #2) by Sarah       Adams

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 Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Long Game (The Long Game, #1) by Elena  Armas

14. The Long Game (The Long Game, #1)

By: Elena Armas

3.59

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a childre… read more

Similar categories in Elena Armas's The Long Game (The Long Game, #1) book and Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3) by Elle Kennedy

15. The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

By: Elle Kennedy

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

College student Cassie Soul hasn’t spent an entire summer in Avalon Bay in years, not since her par… read more

Similar categories in Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3) book and Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • college
  • new adult romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Catch (The Influencer, #3) by Amy  Lea

16. The Catch (The Influencer, #3)

By: Amy Lea

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A grumpy lobster fisherman tosses a fashion influencer’s impeccably curated life overboard in the n… read more

Similar categories in Amy Lea's The Catch (The Influencer, #3) book and Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Told ya. Lobsterfest is wild. The Catch "

-Amy Lea, The Catch (The Influencer, #3)

Cover of Unfortunately Yours  (A Vine Mess, #2) by Tessa Bailey

17. Unfortunately Yours (A Vine Mess, #2)

By: Tessa Bailey

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A down-on-her-luck Napa heiress suggests a mutually beneficial marriage of convenience to a man she… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's Unfortunately Yours (A Vine Mess, #2) book and Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"Your tits look insane."

-Tessa Bailey, Unfortunately Yours (A Vine Mess, #2)

Cover of The Game Changer by Lana Ferguson

18. The Game Changer

By: Lana Ferguson

3.64

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A hockey player and a baker shoot their shot in this steamy new romance. When a very public bre… read more

Similar categories in Lana Ferguson's The Game Changer book and Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Maybe love can only truly be held by two people, because it's too big for just one."

-Lana Ferguson, The Game Changer

"The beautiful thing about life is that no one moment can destroy us, not really, because there will always be another chance to make things right."

-Lana Ferguson, The Game Changer

"Strength isn't measured by how quickly we pick ourselves up after we've fallen. A person's strength is determined by their willingness to keep going once they're back on two feet."

-Lana Ferguson, The Game Changer

"The emotion that swells inside me feels too big for my body; it feels like the impossibility of everything you've ever wanted but never thought you could have all culminated into one explosive thing …"

-Lana Ferguson, The Game Changer

Cover of Wicked Serve (Beyond the Play, #4) by Grace Reilly

19. Wicked Serve (Beyond the Play, #4)

By: Grace Reilly

4.02

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

He’s my brother’s biggest hockey rival… but he’s bringing the heat for me. Nikolai Hockey i… read more

Similar categories in Grace Reilly's Wicked Serve (Beyond the Play, #4) book and Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • college
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • new adult
Cover of Play Along (Windy City, #4) by Liz Tomforde

20. 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 Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Daydream (Maple Hills, #3) by Hannah  Grace

21. Daydream (Maple Hills, #3)

By: Hannah Grace

4.11

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The third in the New York Times bestselling Maple Hills series follows fan-favorite Henry and a boo… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Grace's Daydream (Maple Hills, #3) book and Elle Kennedy's The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)

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

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