18 Best fiction books like Love & Other Great Expectations by Becky Dean

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Love & Other Great Expectations

By: Becky Dean

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An American girl embarks on a competitive scavenger hunt in England—and along the way, meets up wit…

"Want to be a knight, Al?"

-Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

"Would you rather eat poison ivy or a handful of bumblebees?"

-Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

"Maybe I just wanted to spend time with a pretty, crazy American."

-Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

"Books are like adventures. They take you to new places and let you be new people. The best ones teach you about life or inspire you."

-Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

If you liked the fiction plot in Love & Other Great Expectations by Becky Dean , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. Roadside Assistance (Roadside Assistance #1)

By: Amy Clipston

4.00

Format: None pages,

A very bumpy ride. Emily Curtis is used to dealing with her problems while under the hood of an old… read more

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2. Begin Again

By: Emma Lord

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

As usual, Andie Rose has a plan: Transfer from community college to the hyper competitive Blue Ridg… read more

Similar categories in Emma Lord's Begin Again book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Anything worth doing starts with a mess."

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

"My favorite flavor is indiscriminate fruit."

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

"I don't want to hurt anymore. I just want to understand."

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

"Yeah, but aren’t all books kind of self-insert fanfiction?"

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

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3. Places We've Never Been

By: Kasie West

3.88

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary Young Adult novel about a cross-country family road trip that puts one girl and her … read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Places We've Never Been book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • travel
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Have you heard the saying that when God closes a door, he opens a window?"

-Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

"But failure in life is inevitable. It’s only a problem if we let it keep us from progressing."

-Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

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4. Ride with Me

By: Lucy Keating

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this charming, contemporary YA novel, neighborhood rideshare driver Charlie Owens embarks on a c… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Keating's Ride with Me book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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5. Borrow My Heart

By: Kasie West

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

When a girl overhears a guy getting verbally destroyed by his friend for being catfished, she jumps… read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Borrow My Heart book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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6. Love from Scratch

By: Kaitlyn Hill

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This summer, Reese Camden is trading sweet tea and Southern hospitality for cold brew and crisp coa… read more

Similar categories in Kaitlyn Hill's Love from Scratch book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"We met just a few minutes ago and he's already making fun of how I talk," I say. "All required ingredients in a recipe for success." "Don't get your petticoats in a twist, Scarlett O'Hara," Benny sho…"

-Kaitlyn Hill, Love from Scratch

"Reese," I say, still in a daze. I am totally dead-fishing our handshake, but he doesn't seem to notice. "Like Reese's Cups, the best candy in the history of the world?" He gives me a lopsided grin an…"

-Kaitlyn Hill, Love from Scratch

"I've ended up with what are essentially dinner rolls that tried to dress as pretzels for Halloween. Benny's, meanwhile, are mall-food-court-level perfection. Apparently the boiling part---plus baking…"

-Kaitlyn Hill, Love from Scratch

"I'm pouring the nuts into the food processor when I notice Benny is already pulling a bowl out from under the stand mixer and starting to fold in dry ingredients by hand. "Why do I feel like you're w…"

-Kaitlyn Hill, Love from Scratch

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7. It's All in How You Fall

By: Sarah Henning

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Gymnast Caroline Kepler has three state balance beam titles, a new trick even most elites can’t do,… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Henning's It's All in How You Fall book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
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8. Not Here to Stay Friends

By: Kaitlyn Hill

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This friends-to-lovers spin on The Bachelor follows two childhood besties reuniting to spend the su… read more

Similar categories in Kaitlyn Hill's Not Here to Stay Friends book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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9. The Charmed List

By: Julie Abe

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After spending most of high school as the quiet girl, Ellie Kobata is ready to take some risks and … read more

Similar categories in Julie Abe's The Charmed List book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"I brought some Honey & Butter."

-Julie Abe, The Charmed List

"And please, you know you’re cute."

-Julie Abe, The Charmed List

"But we can’t leave without a book,"

-Julie Abe, The Charmed List

"Is that—is that the Enchanted Forest?"

-Julie Abe, The Charmed List

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10. Spells for Lost Things

By: Jenna Evans Welch

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Willow has never felt like she belonged anywhere and is convinced that the only way to find a true … read more

Similar categories in Jenna Evans Welch's Spells for Lost Things book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Families splitting are like earthquakes. Yes, they are happening every day all over the world, but that doesn't make them any less shocking when they happen to you."

-Jenna Evans Welch, Spells for Lost Things

"It’s Willow, but like a fairy-tale version of Willow. She’s barefoot and wearing a coral-pink dress that somehow makes everything about her more her. More freckles, more pinkish tones to her skin, ev…"

-Jenna Evans Welch, Spells for Lost Things

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11. Long Story Short

By: Serena Kaylor

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Growing up homeschooled in Berkeley, California, Beatrice Quinn is a statistical genius who has dre… read more

Similar categories in Serena Kaylor's Long Story Short book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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12. The Edge of Summer

By: Erica George

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Sarah Dessen and Morgan Matson will be swept away by this big-hearted novel about one girl … read more

Similar categories in Erica George's The Edge of Summer book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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13. The Getaway List

By: Emma Lord

3.58

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes two things: One, that she has spent the last … read more

Similar categories in Emma Lord's The Getaway List book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"The longer I'm in New York, the more I get the impression that it isn't the shiny new universe I expected it to be. It's just the home of 100,000 little universes... that all exist rubbing up against…"

-Emma Lord, The Getaway List

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14. Love & Other Great Expectations

By: Becky Dean

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An American girl embarks on a competitive scavenger hunt in England—and along the way, meets up wit… read more

Similar categories in Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • teen
  • travel
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Want to be a knight, Al?"

-Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

"Would you rather eat poison ivy or a handful of bumblebees?"

-Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

"Maybe I just wanted to spend time with a pretty, crazy American."

-Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

"Books are like adventures. They take you to new places and let you be new people. The best ones teach you about life or inspire you."

-Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

Cover of My Favorite Color is Your Something Blue by Eva Austin

15. My Favorite Color is Your Something Blue

By: Eva Austin

4.05

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for fans of Kasie West, this fun, light-hearted, and sweet summer romance book is great for… read more

Similar categories in Eva Austin's My Favorite Color is Your Something Blue book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
Cover of Exactly Where You Need to Be by Amelia Diane Coombs

16. Exactly Where You Need to Be

By: Amelia Diane Coombs

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Turtles All the Way Down meets Love and Luck in this “lively” ( Publishers Weekly ), romantic road … read more

Similar categories in Amelia Diane Coombs's Exactly Where You Need to Be book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • travel
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"My OCD is a speed bump, not a barrier, to happiness."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Exactly Where You Need to Be

"My OCD is a speed bumb, not a barrier, to happiness."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Exactly Where You Need to Be

"As people, as humans, we constantly make mistakes. But we're allowed to grow, to change. There's beauty in that."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Exactly Where You Need to Be

"Lauren the therapist always tells me that the only person I can compare myself to are the former versions of myself."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Exactly Where You Need to Be

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17. Suspended in the Stars (Xerus Galaxy Saga, #1)

By: E.A. Hendryx

4.43

Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition

A girl in hiding. A boy on the run. The fate of the galaxy between them. When Talie Zarna is forced… read more

Similar categories in E.A. Hendryx's Suspended in the Stars (Xerus Galaxy Saga, #1) book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
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18. The Nightmare Virus

By: Nadine Brandes

4.54

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Some viruses go after the body. But the Nightmare Virus goes after the mind.When dream technology g… read more

Similar categories in Nadine Brandes's The Nightmare Virus book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"You serve the Creator, right?' She nods but seems anxious. 'So create with Him."

-Nadine Brandes, The Nightmare Virus

"Nole used to say turning to God wasn't weakness. That being weak is where the true strength came from."

-Nadine Brandes, The Nightmare Virus

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19. Sky of Seven Colors

By: Rachelle Nelson

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In a strange part of the forest, the divide between worlds grows thin.   After the accident, Meg wo… read more

Similar categories in Rachelle Nelson's Sky of Seven Colors book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Winter's Maiden (The Nordic Wars, #1) by Morgan L. Busse

20. Winter's Maiden (The Nordic Wars, #1)

By: Morgan L. Busse

4.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Warrior. Survivor. Daughter of the North. From the moment she is born, Brighid fights to survive… read more

Similar categories in Morgan L. Busse's Winter's Maiden (The Nordic Wars, #1) book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Near Misses & Cowboy Kisses by Katrina Emmel

21. Near Misses & Cowboy Kisses

By: Katrina Emmel

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A swoon-worthy YA rivals-to-lovers romance between a Nebraskan cowboy and California girl, thrust t… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Emmel's Near Misses & Cowboy Kisses book and Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary

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