7 Top high school books like Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4) by Lynn Painter

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Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

By: Lynn Painter

4.25

Format: 6 pages, ebook

Wes has a dream about Liz coming to him in her prom dress, telling him he is the one she wants. But…

If you liked the high school plot in Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4) by Lynn Painter , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

1. The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.06

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Get caught up in the puzzles, games, danger, romance, and riches of this lush new chapter in the #1… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1) book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Congratulations, by the way," he called after Nash. "On the babies."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

"Trying to write trick questions backfires if the person taking the test knows how to look for tricks."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

"Trying to write trick questions backfires if the person taking the test knows who to look for tricks."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

"Beside Avery, Jameson was looking at her like she was the sun and the moon and the stars and eternity, all rolled into one."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

Cover of I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang

2. I Hope This Doesn't Find You

By: Ann Liang

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Snarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lar… read more

Similar categories in Ann Liang's I Hope This Doesn't Find You book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
"No,"

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"I think you're obsessed with me, Sadie Wen."

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"She clucks her tongue at me. “Where’s your confidence disappeared to?"

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost."

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

Cover of A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3) by Stephanie Garber

3. A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

By: Stephanie Garber

4.13

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Two villains, one girl, and a deadly battle for happily ever after. Evangeline Fox ventured to t… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Garber's A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3) book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"My turn again."

-Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

"Being yours does not make you mine."

-Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

"You could never look awful,' he said faintly."

-Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

"His heart was racing again, and now so was hers."

-Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

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4. 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 Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
"— 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

Cover of If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2) by Laura Nowlin

5. If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

By: Laura Nowlin

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

If only I’d told her that I loved her years ago, then I wouldn’t be here now. Finn has always lo… read more

Similar categories in Laura Nowlin's If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2) book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • love
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
"I'll love her even if she turns out to be cruel. That's my curse."

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

"Finn, it's high school. It's an ecosystem, and you just stot right to the top of the food pyramid!"

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

"Why did you have to leave me like that?" is what comes out . "I was tired. You were reading." "No." I'm not holding back. I say it. "After we turned thirteen. Why did you leave me like that?"

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

"Like, fairy-tale love? Cartoon character with hearts floating all around him? Or a movie montage with the best song? That's what you were to him. You were the biggest, most impossible dream for him."

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

Cover of The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly  Jackson

6. The Reappearance of Rachel Price

By: Holly Jackson

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A new true-crime fueled mystery thriller about a girl determined to uncover the shocking truth abou… read more

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's The Reappearance of Rachel Price book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Family first", Bel said. Not a threat, but a promise."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"The people who loved you, the ones who really cared, they would always come back. Sometimes, they even came back from the dead."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"They hadn't had time to say one word to each other, which was fine, because it was hard to be rude to someone with just one word."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"A little insensitive", she whispered, loud enough that Bel and Carter could hear. "Giving the man with dementia a book called The Memory Thief."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

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7. Layover

By: Emily Henry

4.53

Format: 9 pages, ebook

This is an extended Beach Read epilogue. read more

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Layover book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
Cover of Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5) by Lauren  Roberts

8. Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)

By: Lauren Roberts

4.16

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

Set during the time of the New York Times bestseller Powerless, fan favorite Adena gets a story all… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Roberts's Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5) book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • novella
  • fiction
  • young adult
"If darkness is the absence of light, then that is what I am when she is not around. And I wonder how I’ve stumbled this long without her to guide me."

-Lauren Roberts, Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)

Cover of Kill Joy (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #0.5) by Holly  Jackson

9. Kill Joy (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #0.5)

By: Holly Jackson

3.78

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Find out where it all started for Pip in this prequel novella to the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.… read more

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's Kill Joy (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #0.5) book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • novella
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Smallpox,' ' Zach read aloud when the page was passed to him. 'It was eradicated by the nineteen eighties,' Pip said. 'Oi, no time travel.' Jamie whacked her on the head with his master booklet."

-Holly Jackson, Kill Joy (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #0.5)

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10. 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 Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • contemporary romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Taming 7 (Boys of Tommen, #5) by Chloe Walsh

11. Taming 7 (Boys of Tommen, #5)

By: Chloe Walsh

4.24

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

Taming 7 is an epic and unforgettable love story in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenom… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Walsh's Taming 7 (Boys of Tommen, #5) book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
"I swear you shine even in the darkness"

-Chloe Walsh, Taming 7 (Boys of Tommen, #5)

"Remember when I told you that beautiful boys with big muscles complicate everything?"

-Chloe Walsh, Taming 7 (Boys of Tommen, #5)

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12. Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)

By: Chloe Walsh

4.43

Format: 887 pages, Kindle Edition

His first, last, and only true love has always been rugby.Until now.He wants to save her.She wants… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Walsh's Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1) book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
"Boom fucking boom da"

-Chloe Walsh, Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)

"Boom, boom, fucking boom, Da. I'm done for..."

-Chloe Walsh, Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)

"I didn’t have anything to offer this boy. Nothing at all."

-Chloe Walsh, Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)

"¨I think I need you for keeps.¨ ¨I think I need you for keeps, too.¨"

-Chloe Walsh, Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)

Cover of Keeping 13 (Boys of Tommen, #2) by Chloe Walsh

13. Keeping 13 (Boys of Tommen, #2)

By: Chloe Walsh

4.51

Format: 938 pages, Kindle Edition

His first, last, and only true love has always been rugby. Until now. Following a devastating inju… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Walsh's Keeping 13 (Boys of Tommen, #2) book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
"You teach people how to treat you by setting boundaries, lad. If you let someone walk all over you, they're going to think it's okay."

-Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13 (Boys of Tommen, #2)

"I can't handle it, Shannon," he whispered. "You have no idea how fucked up in the head it makes me, not knowing if he's back or whether or not you're safe. Every time I think about you in that house,…"

-Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13 (Boys of Tommen, #2)

"You didn't have to do that," I whispered, mortified. "Buy me food, I mean." Johnny stared at me for a long moment before blowing out a breath. "Yeah, we're not doing this anymore." "Huh?" I stared at…"

-Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13 (Boys of Tommen, #2)

Cover of Rival Darling: A Young Adult Hockey Romance (The Darling Devils Series) by Alexandra Moody

14. Rival Darling: A Young Adult Hockey Romance (The Darling Devils Series)

By: Alexandra Moody

3.74

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

She's got one rule: never date a jock. He'll do whatever it takes to break it. When seventeen-ye… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Moody's Rival Darling: A Young Adult Hockey Romance (The Darling Devils Series) book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
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15. What Happens After Midnight

By: K.L. Walther

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Lily Hopper has two more weeks until she's officially finished with boarding school. With graduatio… read more

Similar categories in K.L. Walther's What Happens After Midnight book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
Cover of Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4) by Lynn Painter

16. Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

By: Lynn Painter

4.25

Format: 6 pages, ebook

Wes has a dream about Liz coming to him in her prom dress, telling him he is the one she wants. But… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4) book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult romance
  • love
  • novella
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
Cover of Second First Date (Rowan & Neil, #1.5) by Rachel Lynn Solomon

17. Second First Date (Rowan & Neil, #1.5)

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

4.13

Format: 36 pages, ebook

Graduation has come and gone, and there’s one major milestone Rowan and Neil haven’t yet hit in the… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's Second First Date (Rowan & Neil, #1.5) book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult romance
  • novella
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
Cover of Picking Daisies on Sundays by Liana Cincotti

18. Picking Daisies on Sundays

By: Liana Cincotti

3.98

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for fans of Lynn Painter and Jenny Han, this romantic comedy follows a hopeless romantic fi… read more

Similar categories in Liana Cincotti's Picking Daisies on Sundays book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • love
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
"The whole book,"

-Liana Cincotti, Picking Daisies on Sundays

"Don’t worry if the flowers pass, I’ll be right there to plant you more"

-Liana Cincotti, Picking Daisies on Sundays

"She lives in between the pinks and yellows of the world, where a beautiful color is unknown to others, and when she speaks, I become a bee enthralled in a field of daisies."

-Liana Cincotti, Picking Daisies on Sundays

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19. Just So You Know

By: Sarah Hogle

3.85

Format: 26 pages, ebook

You Deserve Each Other Christmas short story set years into the future. Found in Sarah Hogle's webs… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hogle's Just So You Know book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • contemporary romance
  • short stories
  • contemporary
Cover of Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2) by Lauren  Roberts

20. Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)

By: Lauren Roberts

4.09

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

The kingdom of Ilya is in turmoil… After surviving the Purging Trials, Ordinary-born Paedyn Gra… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Roberts's Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2) book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"Tell me you hate me, and I'll still count every heartbeat, every freckle, every shiver of your body, if only you say it with a smile."

-Lauren Roberts, Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)

"I'd be a fool to not fear something so fierce." I swallow. "And are you not? A fool, that is." He stands then, holding my gaze until he's the one looking down on me. "Not anymore."

-Lauren Roberts, Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)

"I may be a monster, but if you cut me, I'll bleed. And if you break my heart, Pae, you'll break me. So, if even a sliver of your soul longs for mine, I'll spend the rest of my life trying to deserve …"

-Lauren Roberts, Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)

"You asked me what my favorite color was once. I'd never even pondered the answer to that question before you. And yet, I realized in that moment that it was blue." He bends to brush a kiss to my temp…"

-Lauren Roberts, Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)

Cover of The Story Of Us by Zarin Madiyha

21. The Story Of Us

By: Zarin Madiyha

3.69

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

When Violet Ayaz and Isaac Evans discover they share a birthday, they don't expect it to lead to a … read more

Similar categories in Zarin Madiyha's The Story Of Us book and Lynn Painter's Wes Bennett's Vivid Dream (Better than the Movies, #1.4)

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance

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