21 must-read contemporary books like The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson

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The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

By: Shauna Robinson

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books. If only, I, Maggie Ban…

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1. The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

By: Shauna Robinson

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books. If only, I, Maggie Ban… read more

Similar categories in Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks book and Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
Cover of The Neighbor Favor (The Greene Sisters) by Kristina Forest

2. The Neighbor Favor (The Greene Sisters)

By: Kristina Forest

3.82

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

In this heart-fluttering romance by Kristina Forest, a shy bookworm enlists her charming neighbor t… read more

Similar categories in Kristina Forest's The Neighbor Favor (The Greene Sisters) book and Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"For a moment, Nick was speechless. She thought she needed his help flirting? From what had just happened up- stairs in her kitchen, she was the master and he was the novice. He'd practically fallen a…"

-Kristina Forest, The Neighbor Favor (The Greene Sisters)

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3. 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 Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • 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 Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) by Abby Jimenez

4. Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.40

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he d… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) book and Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'm going to let that tall drink of water slam me like a door."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I swear to God this guy is the epitome of If He Wanted To He Would."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"The best kind of love doesn't happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I’ve been waiting my whole life to feel like this and I thought it was a curse that nobody else ever worked out. But it wasn’t. It’s just that they weren’t you."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

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5. 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 Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • 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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6. 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 Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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

Cover of Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2) by Abby Jimenez

7. Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.32

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A novel of terrible first impressions, hilarious second chances, and the joy in finding your perfec… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2) book and Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You and me? We're different. We agree to be harmless to each other."

-Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)

Cover of Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4) by Elle Cosimano

8. Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4)

By: Elle Cosimano

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero are in sore need of a girls’ weekend away. They … read more

Similar categories in Elle Cosimano's Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4) book and Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We can't go in there, Vero! Do you know what happens to women who go into creepy basements? Murder! Murder happens to women to go into creepy basements."

-Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4)

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9. 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 Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • 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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10. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

4.04

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1) book and Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Littlest Library

By: Poppy Alexander

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A heartwarming literary-themed novel about a woman who turns an ordinary red phone box into the lit… read more

Similar categories in Poppy Alexander's The Littlest Library book and Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"There was a book to cure ever ill and solve every problem that was what Mimi had always thought. It was like a tiny sanctuary providing a balm for all of life’s challenges."

-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

"Manga is a highly respected form of storytelling. Calling it comics doesn’t do it justice. I’ll sort her out with some other graphic novels, too. It’s all stories. It all counts."

-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

"There is that poem. Scott Holland, I think. How does it go? ‘I have only slipped away into the next room’…or something. Yes. ‘I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. What…"

-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

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12. The Wishing Game

By: Meg Shaffer

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Make a wish. . . . Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it’s like to grow up without parents … read more

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Wishing Game book and Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself."

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Another thing I learned in therapy?" Angie said. "The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They're the ones who see that something's wron…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Once, he'd loved the ocean. Loved seeing it every morning, every night. Seeing all its facets, all its faces. Not many people knew what the sea looked like in all seasons, under all phases of the moo…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

Cover of The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley

13. The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

By: Colleen Oakley

4.05

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitt… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Oakley's The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise book and Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He stilled midair, and then a slow grin spread across his lips. “Do you even know how to work that thing?"

-Colleen Oakley, The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

Cover of Hello Stranger by Katherine Center

14. 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 Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore

15. The Lonely Hearts Book Club

By: Lucy Gilmore

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Gilmore's The Lonely Hearts Book Club book and Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"Everywhere I looked was honesty and love. Love most of all."

-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club

"They became a love letter of words and sentiment--and one that was addressed entirely to me."

-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club

"We could only choose which path to take to our destination. What happened along the way was entirely up to chance."

-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club

"More than anything, kuds need to know they have a soft spot to land. Your Bella? She knows. She'll know it until the day she dies."

-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club

Cover of The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven  Rowley

16. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Honeymoon Crashers (Unhoneymooners, #1.5) by Christina Lauren

17. The Honeymoon Crashers (Unhoneymooners, #1.5)

By: Christina Lauren

3.58

Format: 5 pages, Audiobook

4 hours, 47 minutes A perfectionist maid of honor and a carefree, surfer-bro best man team up t… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's The Honeymoon Crashers (Unhoneymooners, #1.5) book and Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Library of Borrowed Hearts by Lucy Gilmore

18. The Library of Borrowed Hearts

By: Lucy Gilmore

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A.J. Fikry meets The Bookish Life of Nina Hill in this charming, hilarious, and moving novel about … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Gilmore's The Library of Borrowed Hearts book and Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
Cover of Better Than Fiction by Alexa  Martin

19. Better Than Fiction

By: Alexa Martin

3.42

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Love isn't always by the books in this charming romantic comedy about a bookseller discovering how … read more

Similar categories in Alexa Martin's Better Than Fiction book and Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
Cover of The Book Haters' Book Club by Gretchen Anthony

20. The Book Haters' Book Club

By: Gretchen Anthony

3.47

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

All it takes is the right book to turn a Book Hater into a Book Lover… That was Elliott’s belief an… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Anthony's The Book Haters' Book Club book and Shauna Robinson's The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
Cover of Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (Finlay Donovan, #3) by Elle Cosimano

21. Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (Finlay Donovan, #3)

By: Elle Cosimano

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Author and single mom Finlay Donovan has been in messes before―after all, she's a pro at removing b… read more

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

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