17 must-read chick lit books like The Summer of Yes by Courtney Walsh

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The Summer of Yes

By: Courtney Walsh

4.06

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A near-death experience catapults workaholic junior editor Kelsey Worthington into changing her lif…

If you liked the chick lit plot in The Summer of Yes by Courtney Walsh , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan

1. 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 Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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

Cover of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

2. 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 Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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

Cover of Loyally, Luke by Pepper Basham

3. Loyally, Luke

By: Pepper Basham

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Sometimes love means embracing the good, the bad . . . and even the impossible. Dear Reader, … read more

Similar categories in Pepper Basham's Loyally, Luke book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Cole and Laila Are Just Friends by Bethany Turner

4. Cole and Laila Are Just Friends

By: Bethany Turner

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Cole and Laila have been inseparable since they could crawl. And they've never thought about each o… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Turner's Cole and Laila Are Just Friends book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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5. Sylvia's Second Act

By: Hillary Yablon

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Her husband’s cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn’t going to take it anymore… read more

Similar categories in Hillary Yablon's Sylvia's Second Act book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. A Happier Life

By: Kristy Woodson Harvey

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Present Day: Keaton Smith is desperate for a fresh start. So when her mother needs someone to put h… read more

Similar categories in Kristy Woodson Harvey's A Happier Life book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"Trends come and go; the simplicity of timeless meals with the ones you love is forever."

-Kristy Woodson Harvey, A Happier Life

Cover of Summer Ever After (Falling for Summer) by Kortney Keisel

8. Summer Ever After (Falling for Summer)

By: Kortney Keisel

4.13

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

Falling in love is easy. Finding the right guy to spend happily ever after with... that's the hard … read more

Similar categories in Kortney Keisel's Summer Ever After (Falling for Summer) book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
Cover of The Summer of Yes by Courtney Walsh

9. The Summer of Yes

By: Courtney Walsh

4.06

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A near-death experience catapults workaholic junior editor Kelsey Worthington into changing her lif… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • christian
  • christian fiction
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Beachy Keen (Falling for Summer) by Kasey Stockton

10. Beachy Keen (Falling for Summer)

By: Kasey Stockton

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

He has it all, except the one thing money can't buy: her heart. When Cat Keene finds a medical b… read more

Similar categories in Kasey Stockton's Beachy Keen (Falling for Summer) book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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

Cover of The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella

12. The Same Bright Stars

By: Ethan Joella

3.87

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Joella's The Same Bright Stars book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Plotting Summer (Falling for Summer) by Jess Heileman

13. Plotting Summer (Falling for Summer)

By: Jess Heileman

4.23

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

The book is always better than the movie. But occasionally, life is better than the book. Ten ye… read more

Similar categories in Jess Heileman's Plotting Summer (Falling for Summer) book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
Cover of Until Next Summer by Ali Brady

14. Until Next Summer

By: Ali Brady

4.00

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Two former best friends each find love at an adults-only summer camp in this romantic and nostalgic… read more

Similar categories in Ali Brady's Until Next Summer book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Meet Me at the Starlight by Rachel Hauck

15. Meet Me at the Starlight

By: Rachel Hauck

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Eighties supermodel Harlow Hayes seeks solace in a quaint Florida beach town to hide and heal from … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hauck's Meet Me at the Starlight book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Before We Were Us by Denise Hunter

16. Before We Were Us

By: Denise Hunter

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

She can't remember. He can't forget. Seven months ago, after graduating with a hospitality degree,… read more

Similar categories in Denise Hunter's Before We Were Us book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Beyond Ivy Walls by Rachel Fordham

17. Beyond Ivy Walls

By: Rachel Fordham

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Reminiscent of Beauty and the Beast, a recluse and a young woman discover that the scars of life ar… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Fordham's Beyond Ivy Walls book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Summer Tease (Falling for Summer) by Martha Keyes

18. Summer Tease (Falling for Summer)

By: Martha Keyes

4.19

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

Falling for Beau Palmer would be the ultimate crime Wild horses couldn’t drag me back to the sma… read more

Similar categories in Martha Keyes's Summer Tease (Falling for Summer) book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Beauty and the Beach (Falling for Summer) by Gracie Ruth Mitchell

19. Beauty and the Beach (Falling for Summer)

By: Gracie Ruth Mitchell

4.19

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

Phoenix Park is the man I fantasize about...hitting with my car, that is. He's rich. He's sexy. … read more

Similar categories in Gracie Ruth Mitchell's Beauty and the Beach (Falling for Summer) book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Rebel Summer (Falling for Summer) by Cindy Steel

20. Rebel Summer (Falling for Summer)

By: Cindy Steel

4.47

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

Every good summer has a little bad... I wasn’t supposed to be in Sunset Harbor for more than a w… read more

Similar categories in Cindy Steel's Rebel Summer (Falling for Summer) book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of One Happy Summer (Falling for Summer) by Becky Monson

21. One Happy Summer (Falling for Summer)

By: Becky Monson

4.02

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

Running away from my disastrous career to an island off the Florida coast wasn't part of my summer … read more

Similar categories in Becky Monson's One Happy Summer (Falling for Summer) book and Courtney Walsh's The Summer of Yes

  • romance
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook

21 must-read fiction books like The Summer of Yes by Courtney Walsh

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Summer Romance

Annabel Monaghan

4.10

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The Rom-Commers

Katherine Center

4.15

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Loyally, Luke

Pepper Basham

4.07

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Cole and Laila Are Just Friends

Bethany Turner

3.66

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10 Best fiction books like Summer Ever After (Falling for Summer) by Kortney Keisel

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Betting on the Brainiac (Betting on Love)

Melanie Jacobson

4.27

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Summer Ever After (Falling for Summer)

Kortney Keisel

4.13

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The Perfect Putt (More Than a Game, #2)

Annah Conwell

4.01

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But He's My Fake Fiancé (But He's a Carter Brother #3)

Annah Conwell

4.38

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