20 must-read contemporary books like Seven Summer Weekends by Jane L. Rosen

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Seven Summer Weekends

By: Jane L. Rosen

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A woman inherits a beach house, along with a series of weekend guests, while butting heads with the…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Seven Summer Weekends by Jane L. Rosen , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Look on the Bright Side by Kristan Higgins

1. Look on the Bright Side

By: Kristan Higgins

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From the author of Pack Up the Moon comes a funny, romantic, and deeply moving novel about the unex… read more

Similar categories in Kristan Higgins's Look on the Bright Side book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Swan Song (Nantucket, #4) book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • 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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4. 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 Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens 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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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

Similar categories in Katherine Center's The Rom-Commers book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • 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

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6. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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7. The Summer Pact

By: Emily Giffin

3.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends make a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade lat… read more

Similar categories in Emily Giffin's The Summer Pact book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. All the Summers in Between

By: Brooke Lea Foster

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When wealthy, impulsive summer girl Margot meets hardworking and steady local girl Thea in the summ… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Lea Foster's All the Summers in Between book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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9. Summer Fridays

By: Suzanne Rindell

4.04

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

You've Got Mail for a new generation, set in the days of AOL and instant messenger banter, about a … read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Rindell's Summer Fridays book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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

Cover of Seven Summer Weekends by Jane L. Rosen

11. Seven Summer Weekends

By: Jane L. Rosen

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A woman inherits a beach house, along with a series of weekend guests, while butting heads with the… read more

Similar categories in Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • love story
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Husbands & Lovers by Beatriz Williams

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

Similar categories in Beatriz Williams's Husbands & Lovers book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Happier Life by Kristy Woodson Harvey

13. A Happier Life

By: Kristy Woodson Harvey

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Present Day: Keaton Smith is desperate for a fresh start. So when her mother needs someone to put h… read more

Similar categories in Kristy Woodson Harvey's A Happier Life book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"Trends come and go; the simplicity of timeless meals with the ones you love is forever."

-Kristy Woodson Harvey, A Happier Life

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14. 15 Summers Later

By: RaeAnne Thayne

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

15 summers ago, everything changed… Ava Howell seemed to have it all. She moved away from Emeral… read more

Similar categories in RaeAnne Thayne's 15 Summers Later book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Kate Spencer's One Last Summer book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

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

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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

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17. Jackpot Summer

By: Elyssa Friedland

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy liv… read more

Similar categories in Elyssa Friedland's Jackpot Summer book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Same Bright Stars

By: Ethan Joella

3.87

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Joella's The Same Bright Stars book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. A Novel Summer

By: Jamie Brenner

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A bestselling author finds love and second chances in the stacks of a quaint beach town bookshop … read more

Similar categories in Jamie Brenner's A Novel Summer book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Until Next Summer by Ali Brady

20. Until Next Summer

By: Ali Brady

4.00

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Two former best friends each find love at an adults-only summer camp in this romantic and nostalgic… read more

Similar categories in Ali Brady's Until Next Summer book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Serendipity

By: Becky Chalsen

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This summer, will three weekends in a Fire Island share house be enough time for Maggie Monroe to f… read more

Similar categories in Becky Chalsen's Serendipity book and Jane L. Rosen's Seven Summer Weekends

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

21 must-read fiction books like Seven Summer Weekends by Jane L. Rosen

Transform Your Habits

Look on the Bright Side

Kristan Higgins

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Transform Your Habits

This Summer Will Be Different

Carley Fortune

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Summer Romance

Annabel Monaghan

4.10

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21 Best fiction books like A Novel Summer by Jamie Brenner

Transform Your Habits

Look on the Bright Side

Kristan Higgins

4.25

Transform Your Habits

For the Love of Summer

Susan Mallery

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Summer We Started Over

Nancy Thayer

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Summers at the Saint

Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

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