20 best-selling chick lit books like A Winter in New York by Josie Silver

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A Winter in New York

By: Josie Silver

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love—and life—she’s been…

"It's the swoon-worthy climax of our showreel moment, this beautiful, achingly sexy kiss, slow and electric, full of pure, vulnerable kiss-me-forever magic."

-Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

"You guys have enough baggage to fill a gosh dang carousel at JFK, but isn't that kind of the point of love, that you help each other carry the bags? Fresh starts are for Hallmark movies, not real life."

-Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

"By my reckoning, everyone gets a handful of movie-worthy moments in their lives. Some people would probably pick out their wedding day or the birth of their child for their showreel, but for most of us it's the unexpected moments life occasionally gifts our way that make for the best memories."

-Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

If you liked the chick lit plot in A Winter in New York by Josie Silver , here is a list of 20 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 Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • 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

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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 Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • 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)

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3. 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 Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • 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

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4. 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 Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • 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

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5. Expiration Dates

By: Rebecca Serle

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper yo… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Serle's Expiration Dates book and Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We have to be cracked open sometimes. We have to be cracked open sometimes to let anything good in. What I see now, emerging in the mirror, is this one, simple truth: learning to be broken is learnin…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"Joel and I don’t work because he’s my person, we work because I feel like I can be every bad and impossible version of myself with him. I can change. And it’s not even that I know he’ll still love me…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness, Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselv…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

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6. 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 Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • 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

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7. 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 Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • 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

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8. Love, Holly

By: Emily Stone

3.90

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman tries to heal a rift in her elderly pen pal’s family in time for Christmas, all while… read more

Similar categories in Emily Stone's Love, Holly book and Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • romance
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • romance
  • 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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10. 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 Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Ready or Not by Cara Bastone

11. Ready or Not

By: Cara Bastone

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A surprise pregnancy leads to even more life-changing revelations in this heartfelt, slow-burn, fri… read more

Similar categories in Cara Bastone's Ready or Not book and Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • romance
  • new york
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Last Love Note

By: Emma Grey

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again. Kate is a bit of … read more

Similar categories in Emma Grey's The Last Love Note book and Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She's one of the golden threads running through each of our lives. Hope, in human form."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"If I stay very still and very open, our energies feel so close it's as if we can almost touch in this place where love is infinite. Limitless."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"I've learned that love outlives death. It holds steady through despair. It won't fade, even as time elapses and distance increases and your world shifts."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

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13. The Christmas Orphans Club

By: Becca Freeman

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From bookfluencer and host of the BAD ON PAPER podcast, a riotous holiday rom-com about four friend… read more

Similar categories in Becca Freeman's The Christmas Orphans Club book and Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • romance
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Second Chance Year by Melissa Wiesner

14. The Second Chance Year

By: Melissa Wiesner

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this unforgettable story full of charm, wit—and just a bit of magic—a woman down on her luck is … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Wiesner's The Second Chance Year book and Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • romance
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Nothing that starts with ‘come on, it will be fun’ is ever fun."

-Melissa Wiesner, The Second Chance Year

"I click over to Instagram, the only thing that can make me feel worse."

-Melissa Wiesner, The Second Chance Year

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15. A December to Remember

By: Jenny Bayliss

3.71

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Three bickering half sisters. One unique antiques shop. The coziest holiday season of their lives. … read more

Similar categories in Jenny Bayliss's A December to Remember book and Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • romance
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Winter in New York by Josie Silver

16. A Winter in New York

By: Josie Silver

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love—and life—she’s been… read more

Similar categories in Josie Silver's A Winter in New York book and Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • romance
  • new york
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's the swoon-worthy climax of our showreel moment, this beautiful, achingly sexy kiss, slow and electric, full of pure, vulnerable kiss-me-forever magic."

-Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

"You guys have enough baggage to fill a gosh dang carousel at JFK, but isn't that kind of the point of love, that you help each other carry the bags? Fresh starts are for Hallmark movies, not real lif…"

-Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

"By my reckoning, everyone gets a handful of movie-worthy moments in their lives. Some people would probably pick out their wedding day or the birth of their child for their showreel, but for most of …"

-Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

Cover of The Good Part by Sophie Cousens

17. The Good Part

By: Sophie Cousens

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

By the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet, a downtrodden twenty-six-year… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cousens's The Good Part book and Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. One-Star Romance

By: Laura Hankin

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A struggling writer is forced to walk down the aisle at her best friend’s wedding with the man who … read more

Similar categories in Laura Hankin's One-Star Romance book and Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I mean... There have been moments when I read something in a book that feels like it was written just for me. Like the author reached inside my brain, took all the thoughts I didn't know how to expre…"

-Laura Hankin, One-Star Romance

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19. Wreck the Halls

By: Tessa Bailey

3.43

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

A sexy, hilarious standalone holiday rom-com about the adult children of two former rock stars who … read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's Wreck the Halls book and Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • romance
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Acknowledgement. Apparently that was all it took to want to forgive someone. Just to have them acknowledge that you were hurt, out loud."

-Tessa Bailey, Wreck the Halls

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20. This Spells Love

By: Kate Robb

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A young woman tries to heal her heartbreak by casting a spell to erase her ex from her past, but sh… read more

Similar categories in Kate Robb's This Spells Love book and Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's like Hot Tub Time Machine without the hot tub."

-Kate Robb, This Spells Love

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21. You, Again

By: Kate Goldbeck

3.60

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Can they stop hating each other long enough to fall in love? A commitment-phobe and a hopeless … read more

Similar categories in Kate Goldbeck's You, Again book and Josie Silver's A Winter in New York

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's impossible to catch feelings on a Bow Flex."

-Kate Goldbeck, You, Again

"I think I found the other half of my black and white cookie, and someone else might be eating it right now."

-Kate Goldbeck, You, Again

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