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 …
Want to Read $ 12.99"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 express, and put them into a perfect paragraph. And in those moments, I've felt so utterly connected to a person I didn't know that it made me think, 'Yes, the world can be hard, and people can be awful to each other. But there is also so much beauty in the fact that we can recognize each other like that.'" She diffled with her straw. "I want to be able to give that feeling to other people."-Laura Hankin, One-Star Romance
If you liked the chick lit plot in One-Star Romance by Laura Hankin , here is a list of 17 books like this:
1. Margo's Got Money Troubles
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"I’m just saying,"-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles
2. 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
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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- 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
3. 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
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- 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
4. 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
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- 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
5. 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
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- 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
6. 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
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
7. Just Some Stupid Love Story
By: Katelyn Doyle
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A debut about a rom-com screenwriter who doesn't believe in love and a divorce attorney who does, f… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
8. House of Glass
By: Sarah Pekkanen
3.99
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perf… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
9. 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
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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- books about books
- 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
10. Such a Bad Influence
By: Olivia Muenter
3.52
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A razor-sharp debut about what happens when one of the first child stars of the social media age gr… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
11. The Art of Catching Feelings
By: Alicia Thompson
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A professional baseball player and his heckler prove that true love is worth going to bat for. … read more
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- romance
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
12. Husbands & Lovers
By: Beatriz Williams
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover … read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
13. Honey
By: Isabel Banta
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age story that follows the meteoric rise of singer Amber Young as she navigates fame in… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"The truth is my dad was always singing […]"-Isabel Banta, Honey
"I wasn’t good enough—what a mortifying thing to discover about yourself."-Isabel Banta, Honey
"[…] she remains enigmatic, unbreachable; she unlocks herself only for certain people."-Isabel Banta, Honey
"Mike wants me to say I’m a normal girl. But I’m not, I never was. I always felt I had to prove I was better."-Isabel Banta, Honey
14. The Lost Story
By: Meg Shaffer
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale fo… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
15. One Last Summer
By: Kate Spencer
3.52
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the cohost of the award-winning Forever35 podcast comes a dreamy, laugh-out-loud summer romanc… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
16. The Wedding People
By: Alison Espach
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
17. A Novel Love Story
By: Ashley Poston
3.72
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction… literally. Eileen Merri… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"I was hungover and halfway dead, and still my heart had the audacity to be horny."-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story
"I could treat you to dinner as a thank-you..." Don't you mean I could treat you?" "You're already a treat, sweetie."-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story
"It's when Darcy tells Elizabeth he loves her most ardently, when Mark brings Bridget her new dairy, when Harry tells Sally he loves her, when Will buys Junie the inn."-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story
"He was close enough that I caught a note of his cologne--- cedar and black tea and, faintly, the subtle scent of a well-loved paperback. Familiar and yearning. It was mystifying."-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story
18. Not Another Love Song
By: Julie Soto
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Two string players fight their attraction for each other as they compete for center stage in this s… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
19. The Love of My Afterlife
By: Kirsty Greenwood
4.16
Format: 369 pages, Paperback
A recently deceased woman meets “the one” in the afterlife waiting room, scoring a second chance at… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
"I don't just hang around with people. Especially strangers. The woman pulls another face. "Then they will always be strangers if you never hang out with them. Never friends."-Kirsty Greenwood, The Love of My Afterlife
"Were you aware that emotional tears have a higher protein concentration than tears that comes from irritation? I read online that the higher protein content makes them fall down your cheeks more slow…"-Kirsty Greenwood, The Love of My Afterlife
20. Four Weekends and a Funeral
By: Ellie Palmer
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A tender, laugh-out-loud debut romance about a woman who ends up in over her head after a little wh… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
21. The Ex Vows
By: Jessica Joyce
4.28
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
Estranged exes must stick close together to save their best friend’s wedding after a string of disa… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
