30 must-read chick lit books like Birds of California by Katie Cotugno

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Birds of California

By: Katie Cotugno

3.46

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Former child actor Fiona St. James dropped out of the spotlight after a spectacularly public crash …

If you liked the chick lit plot in Birds of California by Katie Cotugno , here is a list of 30 books like this:

1. My Oxford Year

By: Julia Whelan

3.87

Format: 515 pages, ebook

Major Motion Picture Already in Development with Temple Hill Entertainment Set amidst the breathtak… read more

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2. Will They or Won't They

By: Ava Wilder

3.59

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

On screen, they're in love. Off screen, they can't stand each other. Two co-stars with a complex hi… read more

Similar categories in Ava Wilder's Will They or Won't They book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • 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

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4. Romantic Comedy

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.64

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

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5. 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 Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • mental health
  • 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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6. 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 Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • 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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7. 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 Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • 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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8. 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 Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • 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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9. 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 Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • 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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11. The Roughest Draft

By: Emily Wibberley

3.58

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside dow… read more

Similar categories in Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • 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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13. Happily Never After

By: Lynn Painter

3.72

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Two love sceptics agree to work together as professional wedding disruptors. But fate has more roma… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's Happily Never After book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"You have to get hurt to get the good stuff, don't you see?...When you're a baby, you don't stop taking steps just because you've fallen once, or you'd never walk. The falls help you learn how to walk…"

-Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

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14. Flying Solo

By: Linda Holmes

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Smarting from her recently cancelled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to he… read more

Similar categories in Linda Holmes's Flying Solo book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You don't have to be single to be independent. And you don't have to be married to be loved."

-Linda Holmes, Flying Solo

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15. 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 Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. How to Fake It in Hollywood

By: Ava Wilder

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A talented Hollywood starlet and a reclusive A-lister enter into a fake relationship . . . and disc… read more

Similar categories in Ava Wilder's How to Fake It in Hollywood book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
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18. Ready or Not

By: Cara Bastone

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A surprise pregnancy leads to even more life-changing revelations in this heartfelt, slow-burn, fri… read more

Similar categories in Cara Bastone's Ready or Not book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. 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 Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. 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 Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • 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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21. Right on Cue

By: Falon Ballard

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the beloved author of Just My Type and Lease on Love comes a new romantic comedy in which a fo… read more

Similar categories in Falon Ballard's Right on Cue book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. Once More with Feeling

By: Elissa Sussman

3.56

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Then. Katee Rose is living the dream as America's number one pop star, caught in a whirlwind of sol… read more

Similar categories in Elissa Sussman's Once More with Feeling book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. Nora Goes Off Script

By: Annabel Monaghan

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Nora's life is about to get a rewrite... Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than an… read more

Similar categories in Annabel Monaghan's Nora Goes Off Script book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"To write is to re-create something as you'd like it to be."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

" Maybe he really likes me , I think in my tiniest thinking voice."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

"What if this is my new normal—showing people my heart and having them applaud it?"

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

"There's nothing more shameful than this retrospective knowing, because it reminds you how blind you can be to things that don't jibe with the reality you're trying to believe in."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

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24. Thank You for Listening

By: Julia Whelan

4.00

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

For Sewanee Chester, being an audiobook narrator is a long way from her old dreams, but the days of… read more

Similar categories in Julia Whelan's Thank You for Listening book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You have a gray hair!"

-Julia Whelan, Thank You for Listening

"Of course there should be an HEA. I’m so sick of this question. It’s a Romance! That’s the deal we make with our readers. It’s misogyny, plain and simple. You don’t see anyone telling Mystery readers…"

-Julia Whelan, Thank You for Listening

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25. The Other Side of Disappearing

By: Kate Clayborn

3.76

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of Georgie, All Along and Love Lettering, a pitch-perfect, radiantly tran… read more

Similar categories in Kate Clayborn's The Other Side of Disappearing book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. Birds of California

By: Katie Cotugno

3.46

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Former child actor Fiona St. James dropped out of the spotlight after a spectacularly public crash … read more

Similar categories in Katie Cotugno's Birds of California book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
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27. The Bodyguard

By: Katherine Center

3.97

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

She's got his back. He's got her heart. They've got a secret. What could possibly go wrong? Hannah… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's The Bodyguard book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And I guess there really is something profoundly healing about letting somebody love you."

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

"And it’s like you’re in your life and flying above it at the same time. Like you are both on earth and in the heavens. Like you are all heartbeat and rushing pulse and warmth and softness—but you are…"

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

"When you’re not around, even for a little while, I feel like I have to go find you. I just feel this pull to be near you. I want to know what you’re thinking, and what you’re up to, and how you feel.…"

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

"And in the end, do you ever truly know for sure if you’re lovable? What a question. You don’t. You can’t. Of course not. Life never hands out the answers like that. But maybe that’s not even the righ…"

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

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28. Funny You Should Ask

By: Elissa Sussman

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Then. Twentysomething writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing b… read more

Similar categories in Elissa Sussman's Funny You Should Ask book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"Glad I can trust the two of you with steak knives. Let's eat."

-Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

"It's almost like I'm coming home. Not to a place, necessarily, but to a feeling. To a possibility of more."

-Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

"He laughed. It was a great laugh, all low and dark and rich. If chocolate cake had a laugh, it would be like that."

-Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

"Thank you to my parents for taking me to the library whenever I needed to refresh my stacks of paperback romances."

-Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

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29. 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

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's A Novel Love Story book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

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

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30. The Dead Romantics

By: Ashley Poston

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593336489. Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the mo… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's The Dead Romantics book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I feel like we’ve done a few of these . . ."

-Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

" Would've, should've, could've. Hindsight is such a bitch."

-Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

"Buying books always make me feel better, even if I never read them."

-Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

"Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them. - Florence Day"

-Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

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31. The Break-Up Pact

By: Emma Lord

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two best friends who haven’t spoken in ten years pretend to date after break-ups with their respect… read more

Similar categories in Emma Lord's The Break-Up Pact book and Katie Cotugno's Birds of California

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"life is both too short and too long for being something you're not"

-Emma Lord, The Break-Up Pact

"Do you think gouda gets upset about getting older? No. It just gets more expensive at Trader Joe's."

-Emma Lord, The Break-Up Pact

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