21 must-read fiction books like It Had to Be You by Georgia Clark

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It Had to Be You

By: Georgia Clark

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The author of the novel The Bucket List returns with a witty and heartfelt romantic comedy featurin…

"I like this... Let's always believe in the best in each other. That's how we'll make it work."

-Georgia Clark, It Had to Be You

"I like this... Let's always believe in the best in each other. That's how we'll make it work."

-Georgia Clark, It Had to Be You

If you liked the fiction plot in It Had to Be You by Georgia Clark , 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 Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

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

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 Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • 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. 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 Georgia Clark's It Had to Be 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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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 Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • 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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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 Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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. 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 Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • 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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8. The Breakaway

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new no… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Weiner's The Breakaway book and Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Georgia Clark's It Had to Be 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

Cover of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

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 Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Hello Stranger by Katherine Center

11. 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 Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Meet Me in Paradise

By: Libby Hubscher

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Marin Cole has never: Seen the ocean Climbed a mountain Taken a risk on love ....But if her siste… read more

Similar categories in Libby Hubscher's Meet Me in Paradise book and Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Your dad said that you are the best man he knows. That you are honorable and brave, that anyone could trust you with her life. So I’m entrusting my sister to you. I am guessing you probably are think…"

-Libby Hubscher, Meet Me in Paradise

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13. Something Wilder

By: Christina Lauren

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily with… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's Something Wilder book and Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Before I Do

By: Sophie Cousens

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

What would you do if 'the one that got away' turned up the night before your wedding? Head-in-th… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cousens's Before I Do book and Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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

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16. Georgie, All Along

By: Kate Clayborn

3.80

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A wise and witty new novel that echoes with timely questions about love, career, reconciling with t… read more

Similar categories in Kate Clayborn's Georgie, All Along book and Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. 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 Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. 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 Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Just Haven't Met You Yet

By: Sophie Cousens

3.76

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Next Year comes a heartwarming and hilariou… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cousens's Just Haven't Met You Yet book and Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of It Had to Be You by Georgia Clark

20. It Had to Be You

By: Georgia Clark

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The author of the novel The Bucket List returns with a witty and heartfelt romantic comedy featurin… read more

Similar categories in Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You book and Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • queer
"I like this... Let's always believe in the best in each other. That's how we'll make it work."

-Georgia Clark, It Had to Be You

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21. In a New York Minute

By: Kate Spencer

3.66

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

A clever, tender, and romantic novel for readers of Christina Lauren, Jasmine Guillory, and Sophie … read more

Similar categories in Kate Spencer's In a New York Minute book and Georgia Clark's It Had to Be You

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

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