18 Best romance books like More Than Words by Jill Santopolo

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More Than Words

By: Jill Santopolo

3.53

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost comes a tender and moving new novel…

"Grief felt like it mixed up her brain and her heart, put them back in the wrong places. She wasn’t sure how she’s set that right ever again."

-Jill Santopolo, More Than Words

"She was not only grateful but angry. At life, at the way things turned out, and, illogically, at her father. How dare you leave me before I've figured out my life, she thought. How dare you leave me before I'm ready to let you go."

-Jill Santopolo, More Than Words

If you liked the romance plot in More Than Words by Jill Santopolo , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. After I Do

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of Forever, Interruptedcomes a breathtaking new novel about modern marriage, the de… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Jenkins Reid's After I Do book and Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Tujuin terkuin ope

By: Aino Leppänen

3.46

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Koulumaailman ihastuttavan samaistuttava kuvaus saa jatkoa! Yksi runoilee, toinen keimailee, kolmas… read more

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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 Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • 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. 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 Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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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5. 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 Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • 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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6. 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 Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • 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 Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • 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 Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • 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 Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • 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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11. Meet Me at the Lake

By: Carley Fortune

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent jus… read more

Similar categories in Carley Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake book and Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"One day you'll find your heart's too big for just you"

-Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

"Let me tell you something about me: I am extremely picky about people. Most of them, I don't particularly like. I have very high standards for the ones I let into my life these days. And you, Will Ba…"

-Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

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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 Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • 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. 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 Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The Last Love Note

By: Emma Grey

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again. Kate is a bit of … read more

Similar categories in Emma Grey's The Last Love Note book and Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She's one of the golden threads running through each of our lives. Hope, in human form."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"If I stay very still and very open, our energies feel so close it's as if we can almost touch in this place where love is infinite. Limitless."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"I've learned that love outlives death. It holds steady through despair. It won't fade, even as time elapses and distance increases and your world shifts."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

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15. 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 Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Good Part

By: Sophie Cousens

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

By the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet, a downtrodden twenty-six-year… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cousens's The Good Part book and Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Dinner List

By: Rebecca Serle

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

We’ve been waiting for an hour. That’s what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Serle's The Dinner List book and Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It never occurred to me that fate might not be forever."

-Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List

"Consistent contentment rarely makes for good storytelling."

-Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List

"We're so close to the previous minute; how hard would it be to just turn back the clock? To just quickly undo what has just been done?"

-Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List

"That's the thing about life -- these moments that define us emerge out of nothing. A missed call. A trip down the stairs. A car accident. They happen in a moment, a breath."

-Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List

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18. More Than Words

By: Jill Santopolo

3.53

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost comes a tender and moving new novel… read more

Similar categories in Jill Santopolo's More Than Words book and Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • new york
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Grief felt like it mixed up her brain and her heart, put them back in the wrong places. She wasn’t sure how she’s set that right ever again."

-Jill Santopolo, More Than Words

"She was not only grateful but angry. At life, at the way things turned out, and, illogically, at her father. How dare you leave me before I've figured out my life, she thought. How dare you leave me …"

-Jill Santopolo, More Than Words

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19. In Five Years

By: Rebecca Serle

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Where do you see yourself in five years? When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan is asked this qu… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Serle's In Five Years book and Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Love doesn't require a future."

-Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

"Happiness. The enemy of all suffering."

-Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

"It is not love, this feeling. It is grief."

-Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

"Whether this is the beginning of goodbye for us, too. I do not know. I have no idea what happens now."

-Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

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20. Odottamattomin terkuin ope

By: Aino Leppänen

3.57

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Aisku on taas täällä! Väsyneempänä ja ärtyneempänä kuin koskaan! Miten olla se tiukka mutta kannust… read more

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21. Happiness Hacks: 100% Scientific! Curiously Effective!

By: Alex Palmer

3.51

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Highly Effective Hacks From Totally True Facts! Could you be happier at work . . . in love . . . i… read more

Similar categories in Alex Palmer's Happiness Hacks: 100% Scientific! Curiously Effective! book and Jill Santopolo's More Than Words

  • audiobook

18 Best fiction books like More Than Words by Jill Santopolo

Transform Your Habits

After I Do

Taylor Jenkins Reid

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

Abby Jimenez

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Paradise Problem

Christina Lauren

4.14

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31 must-read fiction books like Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune

Transform Your Habits

The Five-Star Weekend

Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

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None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

4.12

Transform Your Habits

First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Things We Leave Unfinished

Rebecca Yarros

4.30

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