30 must-read chick lit books like Meant to Be Mine by Hannah Orenstein

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Meant to Be Mine

By: Hannah Orenstein

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the author of Playing with Matches, a sweeping love story in the vein of Rebecca Serle and Chl…

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1. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • 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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2. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • 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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3. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • magical realism
  • 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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4. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • 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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6. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • 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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7. The Rewind

By: Allison Winn Scotch

3.22

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Two exes wake up together with wedding bands on their fingers--and no idea how they got there. They… read more

Similar categories in Allison Winn Scotch's The Rewind book and Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's not like pain just evaporated, she considered. It needed to go somewhere, and maybe shards of it were still lying dormant inside of her, waiting for a resurrection."

-Allison Winn Scotch, The Rewind

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8. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Business or Pleasure

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Chandler Cohen has never felt more like the ghost in "ghostwriter" until she attends a signing for … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's Business or Pleasure book and Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Before I Do

By: Sophie Cousens

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

What would you do if 'the one that got away' turned up the night before your wedding? Head-in-th… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cousens's Before I Do book and Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • 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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15. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • 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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17. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Just Haven't Met You Yet

By: Sophie Cousens

3.76

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Next Year comes a heartwarming and hilariou… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cousens's Just Haven't Met You Yet book and Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Dream On

By: Angie Hockman

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this fresh romantic comedy from the author of Shipped, heralded as an “absolutely sparkling debu… read more

Similar categories in Angie Hockman's Dream On book and Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"With an apologetic grimace, I give his cheek a pat pat, praying a portal to another universe will appear and swallow me up. It doesn’t."

-Angie Hockman, Dream On

"A sob threatens to rip through my chest, but before I can speak another word, he kisses me again and I melt into him. His lips are a promise fulfilled, and a glimpse of adventure-filled days to come."

-Angie Hockman, Dream On

"His arms tighten around me slightly, and my breath catches in my throat. He’s still sitting on his tall barstool, and I’m standing between his legs. Our bodies are fitted together so tightly I can fe…"

-Angie Hockman, Dream On

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20. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • 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

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21. Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

By: Alison Rose Greenberg

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Filled with the romance and angst that defines the years you come to know yourself, with a shifting… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rose Greenberg's Maybe Once, Maybe Twice book and Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • jewish
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. Lease on Love

By: Falon Ballard

3.73

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

Beach Read meets The Flatshare in this warmly funny and delightfully sharp debut rom-com about a do… read more

Similar categories in Falon Ballard's Lease on Love book and Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. In a New York Minute

By: Kate Spencer

3.66

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

A clever, tender, and romantic novel for readers of Christina Lauren, Jasmine Guillory, and Sophie … read more

Similar categories in Kate Spencer's In a New York Minute book and Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. Gilt

By: Jamie Brenner

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A luxurious and richly compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Blush , about a famous f… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Brenner's Gilt book and Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. Island Time

By: Georgia Clark

3.24

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

Love is in the salty sea air in this smart and steamy ensemble romantic comedy set in a tropical pa… read more

Similar categories in Georgia Clark's Island Time book and Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. Just My Type

By: Falon Ballard

3.67

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

To win the job of her dreams, a relationship-prone journalist needs to learn how to stay single in … read more

Similar categories in Falon Ballard's Just My Type book and Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. From the Jump

By: Lacie Waldon

3.68

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

A chronic yes-woman finally admits to what—and who—she really wants in this unforgettable and heart… read more

Similar categories in Lacie Waldon's From the Jump book and Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. Meant to Be Mine

By: Hannah Orenstein

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the author of Playing with Matches, a sweeping love story in the vein of Rebecca Serle and Chl… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine book and Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • magical realism
  • jewish
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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29. The Beach Trap

By: Ali Brady

3.94

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Two best friends torn apart by a life-altering secret. They have one summer to set the record strai… read more

Similar categories in Ali Brady's The Beach Trap book and Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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30. 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 Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • 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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31. Can't Look Away

By: Carola Lovering

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's 2013, and twenty-three-year-old Brooklyn barista Molly Diamond has just locked eyes with Jake … read more

Similar categories in Carola Lovering's Can't Look Away book and Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

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4.14

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This Summer Will Be Different

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