21 best-selling fiction books like The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2) by Abby Jimenez

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The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.18

Format: 401 pages, ebook

This is the second book in the companion series The Friend Zone. Two years after losing her fian…

"You can start over again. Start now."

-Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

"You can start over again. Start now."

-Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

If you liked the fiction plot in The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2) by Abby Jimenez , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • 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

Cover of The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

2. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • 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

Cover of This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune

3. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • 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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4. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • 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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5. Not in Love

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science. Rue Siebert might not ha… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Not in Love book and Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"I'd been an odd child, then an odd teenager. Then I'd become, maybe as a result, maybe unavoidably, an odd adult."

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"I'd never felt more beautiful than when he looked at me. Like I was the final prototype of someone's entire fantasy life."

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"Eli was entranced. Her servant. Spellbound. He considered begging her to let him touch her. To let him go down on her in the hallway. He would go grocery shopping and make her dinner off a YouTube re…"

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"I'm going to want to see you every day. I'm going to learn more dishes and pack your lunch and write cute little notes on it. I'm going to ask you if you want to sleep at your place or mine and alway…"

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

Cover of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

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 Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • 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. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • 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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8. The Seven Year Slip

By: Ashley Poston

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love wit… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's The Seven Year Slip book and Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I kept him at arm's length because at least there he wouldn't be able to see how broken I was. I could keep lying."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"But mostly because he was very handsome, and I was very much attracted to him, and that was the kind of surprise that I did not see coming."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't just a quick drop -- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new br…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"Romance wasn't in chocolate, it was in the gasp of breath as we came up for air. It was in the way he cradled my face, the way I traced my finger over the crescent-shaped birthmark on his collarbone.…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

Cover of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

9. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Rule Book (The Cheat Sheet, #2) by Sarah       Adams

10. The Rule Book (The Cheat Sheet, #2)

By: Sarah Adams

3.92

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

College exes break all the rules when they reunite years later in this enemies-to-lovers, second-ch… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Adams's The Rule Book (The Cheat Sheet, #2) book and Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Rosie and the Dreamboat (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #3) by Sally  Thorne

12. Rosie and the Dreamboat (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #3)

By: Sally Thorne

3.42

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

For a hopeful and hopeless romantic, it’s love at first sight—with a little twist—in a hilarious sh… read more

Similar categories in Sally Thorne's Rosie and the Dreamboat (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #3) book and Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Bridesmaid for Hire (Bridesmaid for Hire, #1) by Meghan Quinn

13. Bridesmaid for Hire (Bridesmaid for Hire, #1)

By: Meghan Quinn

3.89

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Sometimes the wedding of the century calls for desperate measures. And sometimes those desperate m… read more

Similar categories in Meghan Quinn's Bridesmaid for Hire (Bridesmaid for Hire, #1) book and Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Drop, Cover, and Hold On (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #4) by Jasmine Guillory

14. Drop, Cover, and Hold On (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #4)

By: Jasmine Guillory

2.96

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

It takes nothing less than a fateful natural disaster to throw two opposites together in a ground-s… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Guillory's Drop, Cover, and Hold On (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #4) book and Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • 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

Cover of The Exception to the Rule (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #1) by Christina Lauren

16. The Exception to the Rule (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #1)

By: Christina Lauren

4.22

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

On February 14, an accidental email to a stranger opens the door to an unexpected relationship in a… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's The Exception to the Rule (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #1) book and Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
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17. 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 Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • 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

Cover of The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2) by Abby Jimenez

18. The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.18

Format: 401 pages, ebook

This is the second book in the companion series The Friend Zone. Two years after losing her fian… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2) book and Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • music
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"You can start over again. Start now."

-Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

Cover of Play Along (Windy City, #4) by Liz Tomforde

19. Play Along (Windy City, #4)

By: Liz Tomforde

4.52

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Kennedy I’m the only woman on staff for the Windy City Warriors, and after years of putting up w… read more

Similar categories in Liz Tomforde's Play Along (Windy City, #4) book and Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Bridesmaid Undercover (Bridesmaid for Hire, #2) by Meghan Quinn

20. Bridesmaid Undercover (Bridesmaid for Hire, #2)

By: Meghan Quinn

4.43

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Everly Plum is delighted to be heading up the Bridesmaid for Hire program at Magical Moments by Mag… read more

Similar categories in Meghan Quinn's Bridesmaid Undercover (Bridesmaid for Hire, #2) book and Abby Jimenez's The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Wild Eyes (Rose Hill, #2) by Elsie Silver

21. Wild Eyes (Rose Hill, #2)

By: Elsie Silver

4.39

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A rugged mountain town seemed like the perfect escape from a life in shambles. But on day one I ran… read more

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

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