21 must-read romance books like Barely Even Friends by Mae Bennett

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Barely Even Friends

By: Mae Bennett

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A grumpy, rich recluse meets his match in this steamy Beauty and the Beast retelling—with a Success…

If you liked the romance plot in Barely Even Friends by Mae Bennett , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of The Art of Catching Feelings by Alicia Thompson

1. The Art of Catching Feelings

By: Alicia Thompson

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A professional baseball player and his heckler prove that true love is worth going to bat for. … read more

Similar categories in Alicia Thompson's The Art of Catching Feelings book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
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2. The Slowest Burn

By: Sarah Chamberlain

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Love could be a recipe for disaster, or the best thing they ever cooked up... Kieran O'Neill sh… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Chamberlain's The Slowest Burn book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
"I'd parboiled potatoes for too long and wrecked my plan to roast them and serve them alongside prime rib. But I'd thought fast, crushing the potatoes and frying them into little cakes topped with sou…"

-Sarah Chamberlain, The Slowest Burn

" Cookie, I thought when I looked at Ellie. Not that I wanted to eat her. I wasn't a cannibal or anything. But she reminded me of the cookies my mother baked when her bridge group came to our house. T…"

-Sarah Chamberlain, The Slowest Burn

Cover of Match Me If You Can by Swati Hegde

3. Match Me If You Can

By: Swati Hegde

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A young magazine writer in Mumbai must prove her matchmaking skills—and contend with growing feelin… read more

Similar categories in Swati Hegde's Match Me If You Can book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • retellings
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
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4. Rules for Second Chances

By: Maggie North

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Liz Lewis has tried everything to be what people want, but she’s always been labeled different in … read more

Similar categories in Maggie North's Rules for Second Chances book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
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5. Hearts on Thin Ice

By: Katie Kennedy

3.38

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A pro hockey player falls for an interior designer in this charming debut sports romance. This flir… read more

Similar categories in Katie Kennedy's Hearts on Thin Ice book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
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6. Finding Mr. Write

By: Kelley Armstrong

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A  fun romantic comedy about a woman writing under a male pseudonym and the man she hires to play t… read more

Similar categories in Kelley Armstrong's Finding Mr. Write book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
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7. The Game Changer

By: Lana Ferguson

3.64

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A hockey player and a baker shoot their shot in this steamy new romance. When a very public bre… read more

Similar categories in Lana Ferguson's The Game Changer book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
"Maybe love can only truly be held by two people, because it's too big for just one."

-Lana Ferguson, The Game Changer

"The beautiful thing about life is that no one moment can destroy us, not really, because there will always be another chance to make things right."

-Lana Ferguson, The Game Changer

"Strength isn't measured by how quickly we pick ourselves up after we've fallen. A person's strength is determined by their willingness to keep going once they're back on two feet."

-Lana Ferguson, The Game Changer

"The emotion that swells inside me feels too big for my body; it feels like the impossibility of everything you've ever wanted but never thought you could have all culminated into one explosive thing …"

-Lana Ferguson, The Game Changer

Cover of Name Your Price by Holly   James

8. Name Your Price

By: Holly James

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Sparks ignite as a pair of broke exes get locked in a house together on a reality show for a chance… read more

Similar categories in Holly James's Name Your Price book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
Cover of How to Help a Hungry Werewolf (The Sanctuary for Supernatural Creatures, #1) by Charlotte Stein

9. How to Help a Hungry Werewolf (The Sanctuary for Supernatural Creatures, #1)

By: Charlotte Stein

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

What We Do in the Shadows with the small town feels of Gilmore Girls in this swoon-worthy romance t… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Stein's How to Help a Hungry Werewolf (The Sanctuary for Supernatural Creatures, #1) book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
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10. The Next Best Fling (Librarians in Love, #1)

By: Gabriella Gamez

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Two broken hearts decide that the best way to get over their first loves is with a no-strings-attac… read more

Similar categories in Gabriella Gamez's The Next Best Fling (Librarians in Love, #1) book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
Cover of The Irish Goodbye by Amy Ewing

11. The Irish Goodbye

By: Amy Ewing

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

It’s hate-at-first-sight when a jilted Irish chef returns home to Inishmore and immediately clashes… read more

Similar categories in Amy Ewing's The Irish Goodbye book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
Cover of Barely Even Friends by Mae Bennett

12. Barely Even Friends

By: Mae Bennett

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A grumpy, rich recluse meets his match in this steamy Beauty and the Beast retelling—with a Success… read more

Similar categories in Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • retellings
  • fairy tale retellings
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • beauty and the beast
Cover of That Prince Is Mine by Jayci Lee

13. That Prince Is Mine

By: Jayci Lee

3.50

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A love-averse Korean royal court cuisine instructor in search of a perfect-on-paper husband is wayl… read more

Similar categories in Jayci Lee's That Prince Is Mine book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
Cover of Haunted Ever After (Boneyard Key, #1) by Jen DeLuca

14. Haunted Ever After (Boneyard Key, #1)

By: Jen DeLuca

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

It's love at first haunting in a seaside town that raises everyone’s spirits from USA Today bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Jen DeLuca's Haunted Ever After (Boneyard Key, #1) book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
Cover of Prime Time Romance by Kate Robb

15. Prime Time Romance

By: Kate Robb

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Is love on the small screen better than the real thing? Brynn’s happy ending has gone up in flam… read more

Similar categories in Kate Robb's Prime Time Romance book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
Cover of Can't Help Falling in Love by Sophie Sullivan

16. Can't Help Falling in Love

By: Sophie Sullivan

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A struggling waitress and the heir to a major Seattle company stumble into a high-profile fake enga… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Sullivan's Can't Help Falling in Love book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
"Having a membership somewhere doesn't really make a person belong."

-Sophie Sullivan, Can't Help Falling in Love

Cover of Not You Again by Ingrid Pierce

17. Not You Again

By: Ingrid Pierce

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Wedding gown designer Andie Dresser is hanging on by a thread. Gaining a following on TikTok for he… read more

Similar categories in Ingrid Pierce's Not You Again book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
Cover of No One Does It Like You by Katie   Shepard

18. No One Does It Like You

By: Katie Shepard

3.25

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

College sweethearts reunite to restore more than just an old inn in this new romance by Katie Shepa… read more

Similar categories in Katie Shepard's No One Does It Like You book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • contemporary romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Great Dating Fake Off by Livy Hart

19. The Great Dating Fake Off

By: Livy Hart

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

One over-the-top Italian wedding. Two fake couples. And a million hilariously disastrous possibilit… read more

Similar categories in Livy Hart's The Great Dating Fake Off book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
Cover of The Backtrack by Erin La Rosa

20. The Backtrack

By: Erin La Rosa

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Life, rewound…Nearly twenty years ago, Sam Leto left her small hometown of Tybee Island, Georgia, t… read more

Similar categories in Erin La Rosa's The Backtrack book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
"Having Nostalgia is romantic. It's the ability to Never forget something you love"

-Erin La Rosa, The Backtrack

Cover of A Jingle Bell Mingle (A Christmas Notch, #3) by Julie   Murphy

21. A Jingle Bell Mingle (A Christmas Notch, #3)

By: Julie Murphy

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

What happens when there’s no room at the inn and you and your potentially demonic cat become roomma… read more

Similar categories in Julie Murphy's A Jingle Bell Mingle (A Christmas Notch, #3) book and Mae Bennett's Barely Even Friends

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult

21 Top fiction books like Barely Even Friends by Mae Bennett

Transform Your Habits

The Art of Catching Feelings

Alicia Thompson

3.81

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The Slowest Burn

Sarah Chamberlain

3.88

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Match Me If You Can

Swati Hegde

3.56

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Rules for Second Chances

Maggie North

3.62

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21 must-read fiction books like The Game Changer by Lana Ferguson

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The Au Pair Affair (Big Shots, #2)

Tessa Bailey

3.71

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Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)

Tessa Bailey

3.90

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Not in Love

Ali Hazelwood

3.68

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Body Check

Elle Kennedy

3.49

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