18 must-read contemporary books like What I Like About You by Marisa Kanter

Cover of What I Like About You by Marisa Kanter

What I Like About You

By: Marisa Kanter

3.59

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Can a love triangle have only two people in it? Online, it can... but in the real world, it's more …

"First, my books need to breathe–in alphabetical order, by genre."

-Marisa Kanter, What I Like About You

"First, my books need to breathe–in alphabetical order, by genre."

-Marisa Kanter, What I Like About You

"It’s knowing the world might be a trash fire, but it’s less trash when there are people to help navigate the darkness. Friendship is messy. Hard. Infuriating. Awesome. Fragile. Durable. Impossible. Worth it. Always worth it."

-Marisa Kanter, What I Like About You

"It’s knowing the world might be a trash fire, but it’s less trash when there are people to help navigate the darkness. Friendship is messy. Hard. Infuriating. Awesome. Fragile. Durable. Impossible. Worth it. Always worth it."

-Marisa Kanter, What I Like About You

If you liked the contemporary plot in What I Like About You by Marisa Kanter , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Fathomless (Fairytale Retellings, #3) by Jackson Pearce

1. Fathomless (Fairytale Retellings, #3)

By: Jackson Pearce

3.61

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Celia Reynolds is the youngest in a set of triplets and the one with the least valuable power. Anne… read more

Similar categories in Jackson Pearce's Fathomless (Fairytale Retellings, #3) book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us."

-Jackson Pearce, Fathomless (Fairytale Retellings, #3)

"It's hard to believe sometime, but hope never lets you truly stop believing. - Lo"

-Jackson Pearce, Fathomless (Fairytale Retellings, #3)

Cover of Alex + Ada, Vol. 3 by Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn

2. Alex + Ada, Vol. 3

By: Jonathan Luna , Sarah Vaughn

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

The last thing in the world Alex wanted was an X5, the latest in realistic androids. But after Ada … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Luna's Alex + Ada, Vol. 3 book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • fiction

3. Veiled Desire (Veiled, #1)

By: Alisha Rai

3.81

Format: None pages, ebook

Look, but don t touch Leyla Karimi can t keep her eyes off the hunky guy living in the house behind… read more

Similar categories in Alisha Rai's Veiled Desire (Veiled, #1) book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

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4. Tweet Cute

By: Emma Lord

3.89

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. Her family may … read more

Similar categories in Emma Lord's Tweet Cute book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"XOXO gossip wolf"

-Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

"Are you a witch?"

-Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

"I won't think any less of you if you break it"

-Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

"You know, for someone named Pepper, you're pretty salty about losing."

-Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

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5. Maybe This Time

By: Kasie West

3.69

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One year. Nine events. Nine chances to . . . fall in love?Weddings. Funerals. Barbecues. New Year's… read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Maybe This Time book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Young man, this is the face of a woman who wants you to move along. Study it because I sense you see it a lot and are oblivious to what it means."

-Kasie West, Maybe This Time

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6. A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide)

By: Laura Taylor Namey

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this highly anticipated companion to the New York Times bestseller A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea a… read more

Similar categories in Laura Taylor Namey's A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide) book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Why is it so hard to choose a direction? Part of it is that I've lost the ability to trust any of my own decisions. But there's another gap here, one I can't name. It's a Polaroid I shake and shake, …"

-Laura Taylor Namey, A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide)

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7. More Than Maybe

By: Erin Hahn

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Growing up under his punk rocker dad's spotlight, eighteen-year-old Luke Greenly knows fame and wan… read more

Similar categories in Erin Hahn's More Than Maybe book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"one day the word will come. hopefully, ill be ready for them."

-Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

"It sounds lonelier than it is. But I'd rather lose myself in a sea of strangers than find myself one-on-one with an acquaintance."

-Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

"Lyrics do that sometimes. They find their home at just the right time. Like a secret message in a bottle, floating on a current for decades, only to wash up at someone's feet when the words are neede…"

-Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

"theres absolutly no coming back from this. science shows once you start noticeing consdtellations in freckles your fu****. i need to put a stop to this befor i do something mental like press a kiss t…"

-Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

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8. Announcing Trouble

By: Amy Fellner Dominy

3.91

Format: 306 pages, ebook

I may know everything there is to know about baseball, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. Or … read more

Similar categories in Amy Fellner Dominy's Announcing Trouble book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood

9. It Sounded Better in My Head

By: Nina Kenwood

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From debut author Nina Kenwood comes a tender, funny, and compulsively readable novel about first l… read more

Similar categories in Nina Kenwood's It Sounded Better in My Head book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"I am an adult now (sort of, kind of, not really)."

-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

"I do like to be out doing things and talking to people.' 'I like to be home, not doing things, talking to no one."

-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

"Maybe I've never smiled or laughed at an appropriate time in my entire life and I just didn't realise until this moment."

-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

"People aren’t all good or all bad. You can learn from mistakes. Or you can keep making them. You can always become a better person."

-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

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10. Harley in the Sky

By: Akemi Dawn Bowman

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Harley Milano has dreamed of being a trapeze artist for as long as she can remember. With parents w… read more

Similar categories in Akemi Dawn Bowman's Harley in the Sky book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Stars shine their brightest in the dark. So take this opportunity, and supernova the shit out of it."

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Harley in the Sky

"When you live with wolves, you learn to howl,' he says . . . 'the wolf is dangerous, and the howl is a kind of pain. If you spend too much time around people whose souls are hurting, eventually your …"

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Harley in the Sky

"It's good to stay motivated, but if you're putting so much pressure on yourself that you're making yourself unhappy, that's not good. Try not to be so hard on yourself, okay? Set a pace you're comfor…"

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Harley in the Sky

"And the more I think about it, the more frustrated I get by the entire concept of a backup plan. Because it only ever seems to pertain to people who are interested in art, music, theater--and yes, th…"

-Akemi Dawn Bowman, Harley in the Sky

Cover of By the Book by Amanda Sellet

11. By the Book

By: Amanda Sellet

3.50

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

As a devotee of classic novels, Mary Porter-Malcolm knows all about Mistakes That Have Been Made, e… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Sellet's By the Book book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"You said she had a condition?"

-Amanda Sellet, By the Book

"To my fellow readers: I hope you never run out of good books."

-Amanda Sellet, By the Book

"When's the last time you took a risk? I'm talking IRL, not in your reading material."

-Amanda Sellet, By the Book

"Your life," she corrected. "It's the nature of existence. To err is human. We screw up, and then screw up some more."

-Amanda Sellet, By the Book

Cover of You Say It First by Katie Cotugno

12. You Say It First

By: Katie Cotugno

3.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Meg has her entire life set up perfectly: her boyfriend Mason is sweet and supportive, she and her … read more

Similar categories in Katie Cotugno's You Say It First book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Nice is overrated."

-Katie Cotugno, You Say It First

Cover of Recommended for You by Laura  Silverman

13. Recommended for You

By: Laura Silverman

3.49

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before meets You’ve Got Mail in this charming and hilarious rom-com foll… read more

Similar categories in Laura Silverman's Recommended for You book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • jewish
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of We Can't Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon

14. We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A wedding harpist disillusioned with love and a hopeless romantic cater-waiter flirt and fight thei… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's We Can't Keep Meeting Like This book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • jewish
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of The Code for Love and Heartbreak by Jillian Cantor

15. The Code for Love and Heartbreak

By: Jillian Cantor

3.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new take on Jane Austen's classic Emma. Emma Woodhouse is a genius at math, but clueless about… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Cantor's The Code for Love and Heartbreak book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Fake It Till You Break It by Jenn P. Nguyen

16. Fake It Till You Break It

By: Jenn P. Nguyen

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Mia and Jake have known each other their whole lives. They’ve endured summer vacations, Sunday brun… read more

Similar categories in Jenn P. Nguyen's Fake It Till You Break It book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Technically, You Started It by Lana Wood Johnson

17. Technically, You Started It

By: Lana Wood Johnson

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a guy named Martin Nathaniel Munroe II texts you, it should be obvious who you're talking to. … read more

Similar categories in Lana Wood Johnson's Technically, You Started It book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2) by Rachel Lynn Solomon

18. Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2)

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

They fell for each other in just twenty-four hours. Now Rowan and Neil embark on a long-distance re… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2) book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Shipped by Meredith Tate

19. Shipped

By: Meredith Tate

3.88

Format: 362 pages, ebook

Can two IRL enemies find their happily ever after online? Stella Greene and Wesley Clarke are Ge… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Tate's Shipped book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
"If you’re so afraid of rejection that you won’t take risks, you’ll miss out on a lot in life."

-Meredith Tate, Shipped

Cover of What I Like About You by Marisa Kanter

20. What I Like About You

By: Marisa Kanter

3.59

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Can a love triangle have only two people in it? Online, it can... but in the real world, it's more … read more

Similar categories in Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • jewish
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"First, my books need to breathe–in alphabetical order, by genre."

-Marisa Kanter, What I Like About You

"It’s knowing the world might be a trash fire, but it’s less trash when there are people to help navigate the darkness. Friendship is messy. Hard. Infuriating. Awesome. Fragile. Durable. Impossible. W…"

-Marisa Kanter, What I Like About You

Cover of Social Intercourse by Greg  Howard

21. Social Intercourse

By: Greg Howard

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Beckett Gaines, a gay teen living in South Carolina, has his world turned upside-down by a jock in … read more

Similar categories in Greg Howard's Social Intercourse book and Marisa Kanter's What I Like About You

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

12 must-read realistic fiction books like What I Like About You by Marisa Kanter

Transform Your Habits

Tweet Cute

Emma Lord

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Maybe This Time

Kasie West

3.69

Transform Your Habits

A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Girl’s Guide)

Laura Taylor Namey

3.62

Transform Your Habits

More Than Maybe

Erin Hahn

3.92

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20 Best fiction books like Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2) by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Transform Your Habits

The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Not in Love

Ali Hazelwood

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Rom-Commers

Katherine Center

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Happily Never After

Lynn Painter

3.72

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