21 Top contemporary romance books like The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

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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…

"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

If you liked the contemporary romance plot in The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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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 Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • 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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2. 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 Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • 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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3. Check & Mate

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays. After the sport led to the destru… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Check & Mate book and Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"— Потому что, когда я с тобой, Мэллори, все по-другому. Когда я с тобой, я больше хочу играть, чем выигрывать."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

"Because when I´m with you, Mallory, everything is different. When I´m with you, I want to play more than I want to win."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

"Nolan?' 'Hmm?' 'Why did you come to Vegas?' His fingers tighten around mine. my heart cartwheels. 'Mallory. I came because you did."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

"I think about a deserted chessboard. Only the white king on it, standing on the home square. Alone, untethered, safe from threats. Free to roam."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

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4. Love, Theoretically

By: Ali Hazelwood

4.11

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Love, Theoretically book and Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • 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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6. 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 Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • 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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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 Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • 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 Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • 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. Meet Me at the Lake

By: Carley Fortune

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent jus… read more

Similar categories in Carley Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake book and Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"One day you'll find your heart's too big for just you"

-Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

"Let me tell you something about me: I am extremely picky about people. Most of them, I don't particularly like. I have very high standards for the ones I let into my life these days. And you, Will Ba…"

-Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

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10. Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.32

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A novel of terrible first impressions, hilarious second chances, and the joy in finding your perfec… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2) book and Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You and me? We're different. We agree to be harmless to each other."

-Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)

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11. 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 Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

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

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12. 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 Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • 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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13. The Seven Year Slip

By: Ashley Poston

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love wit… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's The Seven Year Slip book and Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I kept him at arm's length because at least there he wouldn't be able to see how broken I was. I could keep lying."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"But mostly because he was very handsome, and I was very much attracted to him, and that was the kind of surprise that I did not see coming."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't just a quick drop -- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new br…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"Romance wasn't in chocolate, it was in the gasp of breath as we came up for air. It was in the way he cradled my face, the way I traced my finger over the crescent-shaped birthmark on his collarbone.…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

Cover of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

14. 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 Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Practice Makes Perfect (When in Rome, #2) by Sarah       Adams

17. Practice Makes Perfect (When in Rome, #2)

By: Sarah Adams

4.02

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

A small-town sweetheart and an emotionally unavailable bad boy try to find some common ground in th… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Adams's Practice Makes Perfect (When in Rome, #2) book and Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

18. 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 Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • 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

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

19. 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 Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

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

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

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20. 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 Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. You, with a View

By: Jessica Joyce

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Two weeks on the road... stuck in a car with your high-school enemy.Noelle Shepard is grieving the … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Joyce's You, with a View book and Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment

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

21 Top fiction books like The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

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

Check & Mate

Ali Hazelwood

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Love, Theoretically

Ali Hazelwood

4.11

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The Five-Star Weekend

Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

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None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

4.12

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First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

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The Things We Leave Unfinished

Rebecca Yarros

4.30

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