21 must-read contemporary books like The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist by Sophie Gonzales

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The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

By: Sophie Gonzales

3.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A fanfic writer brings her favorite TV character to life in this friends-to-enemies-to-lovers novel…

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist by Sophie Gonzales , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

Cover of Second Night Stand by Karelia Stetz-Waters

2. Second Night Stand

By: Karelia Stetz-Waters

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A burlesque performer and a professional ballerina fall in love while competing on a reality TV tal… read more

Similar categories in Karelia Stetz-Waters's Second Night Stand book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • contemporary
  • queer
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3. The Summer Love Strategy

By: Ray Stoeve

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A sweet and swoony YA rom-com about two friends making a pact to find summer romance like they’ve s… read more

Similar categories in Ray Stoeve's The Summer Love Strategy book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
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4. Here We Go Again

By: Alison Cochrun

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The author of Kiss Her Once for Me returns with a new queer rom-com following once childhood best f… read more

Similar categories in Alison Cochrun's Here We Go Again book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • contemporary
  • queer
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5. Late Bloomer

By: Mazey Eddings

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A sapphic opposites-attract romance with Mazey Edding's signature sparkling voice! Winning the l… read more

Similar categories in Mazey Eddings's Late Bloomer book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Fuck anything and anyone that made you have to survive instead of live. You deserve a life so peaceful it feels deliciously boring. A life filled with flowers and sunny days and people who show you a…"

-Mazey Eddings, Late Bloomer

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6. Every Time You Hear That Song

By: Jenna Voris

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

They say to never meet your idols. But they never said anything about upending your life for a ques… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Voris's Every Time You Hear That Song book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The No-Girlfriend Rule by Christen Randall

7. The No-Girlfriend Rule

By: Christen Randall

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Julie Murphy meets Casey McQuiston in this unforgettable queer romance about a teen girl whose fora… read more

Similar categories in Christen Randall's The No-Girlfriend Rule book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • young adult romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
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8. We Got the Beat

By: Jenna Miller

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Jordan Elliot is a fat, nerdy lesbian, and the first junior to be named editor-in-chief of the scho… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Miller's We Got the Beat book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist by Sophie Gonzales

9. The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

By: Sophie Gonzales

3.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A fanfic writer brings her favorite TV character to life in this friends-to-enemies-to-lovers novel… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • young adult romance
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
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10. In the Shallows

By: Tanya Byrne

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this captivating young adult novel, two girls set out to unravel a mystery tied to the sea―and f… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Byrne's In the Shallows book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Playing for Keeps by Jennifer Dugan

11. Playing for Keeps

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Some Girls Do comes another heartfelt YA sapphic romance—starring a baseball pit… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's Playing for Keeps book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Breakup Lists by Adib Khorram

12. The Breakup Lists

By: Adib Khorram

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Love is more complicated than “boy meets boy” in bestselling author Adib Khorram’s sharply funny ne… read more

Similar categories in Adib Khorram's The Breakup Lists book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Director's Cut by Carlyn Greenwald

13. Director's Cut

By: Carlyn Greenwald

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Oscar-winning Valeria Sullivan finds herself trapped in a battle of wits with a sexy professor, but… read more

Similar categories in Carlyn Greenwald's Director's Cut book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts by Adam  Sass

14. Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts

By: Adam Sass

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A swoony contemporary romance from Adam Sass following a boy who is cursed to doom any romantic rel… read more

Similar categories in Adam Sass's Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Wish You Weren't Here by Erin Baldwin

15. Wish You Weren't Here

By: Erin Baldwin

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Juliette doesn’t hate Priya Pendley. At least, not in the way teen movies say she should hate th… read more

Similar categories in Erin Baldwin's Wish You Weren't Here book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • young adult romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Finally Fitz by Marisa Kanter

16. Finally Fitz

By: Marisa Kanter

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A bisexual teen girl tries to make her ex jealous by faking an Instagram romance that leads to surp… read more

Similar categories in Marisa Kanter's Finally Fitz book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • young adult romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
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17. Exes & Foes

By: Amanda Woody

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When two ex-best friends decide to hold a competition for the new girl's heart, they don't expect t… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Woody's Exes & Foes book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet by Molly   Morris

18. Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet

By: Molly Morris

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Every ten years in the strange little town of Lennon, California, one person is chosen to return fr… read more

Similar categories in Molly Morris's Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of True Love and Other Impossible Odds by Christina  Li

19. True Love and Other Impossible Odds

By: Christina Li

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pitched as Nina LaCour meets The Half of It, the story follows a first-year college student Grace T… read more

Similar categories in Christina Li's True Love and Other Impossible Odds book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Last Love Song by Kalie Holford

20. The Last Love Song

By: Kalie Holford

3.73

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

After high school graduation, Mia Peters faces a summer full of painful goodbyes. Songwriting is he… read more

Similar categories in Kalie Holford's The Last Love Song book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Ghost of Us by James L. Sutter

21. The Ghost of Us

By: James L. Sutter

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eighteen-year-old ghost hunter Cara is determined to escape life as a high school outcast by findin… read more

Similar categories in James L. Sutter's The Ghost of Us book and Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer

18 Best audiobook books like The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist by Sophie Gonzales

Transform Your Habits

Dear Wendy

Ann Zhao

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Second Night Stand

Karelia Stetz-Waters

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Summer Love Strategy

Ray Stoeve

3.42

Transform Your Habits

Here We Go Again

Alison Cochrun

4.17

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21 Best fiction books like Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun

Transform Your Habits

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)

Emma R. Alban

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)

Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

Transform Your Habits

At Her Service (Out in Hollywood, #2)

Amy Spalding

3.86

Transform Your Habits

You Should Be So Lucky

Cat Sebastian

4.39

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