21 Best fiction books like To Sir, with Love by Lauren Layne

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To Sir, with Love

By: Lauren Layne

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Romantic comedy following two thirty-somethings who meet on a blind dating app—only to realize that…

"But I also know that we get only so many trips around the sun."

-Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love

"Because you said you loved him. Because you deserve your fairy-tale ending. And because I’d do anything for you, Gracie Cooper. Even if it means letting you go."

-Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love

"And I’d be lying if I didn’t take a lot of pride in what I think of as my personal superpower: the ability to accept and embrace things as they are, not as I wish they could be."

-Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love

If you liked the fiction plot in To Sir, with Love by Lauren Layne , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2) by Lynn Painter

1. The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

By: Lynn Painter

3.88

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bott… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2) book and Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She had piercings everywhere, but cried like a baby if she needed to get a shot."

-Lynn Painter, The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

"Rejection feels like shit, even when it comes from someone who might not matter that much."

-Lynn Painter, The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

"Everything with him was great, but it was great in the way a Hallmark Christmas movie was great. Everything looked perfect—the clothing, the setting, the words—but none of it felt . . . real."

-Lynn Painter, The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

Cover of To Sir, with Love by Lauren Layne

2. To Sir, with Love

By: Lauren Layne

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Romantic comedy following two thirty-somethings who meet on a blind dating app—only to realize that… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love book and Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • retellings
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But I also know that we get only so many trips around the sun."

-Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love

"Because you said you loved him. Because you deserve your fairy-tale ending. And because I’d do anything for you, Gracie Cooper. Even if it means letting you go."

-Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love

"And I’d be lying if I didn’t take a lot of pride in what I think of as my personal superpower: the ability to accept and embrace things as they are, not as I wish they could be."

-Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love

Cover of Funny Story by Emily Henry

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 Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • 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 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 Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • 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)

Cover of The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

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 Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • 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 Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan

6. 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 Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • 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

Cover of Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

7. 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 Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

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

8. 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 Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • 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

Cover of Happily Never After by Lynn Painter

9. 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 Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

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

Cover of Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa    Ferguson

10. Meet Me in the Margins

By: Melissa Ferguson

3.61

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

Savannah Cade's dreams are coming true. The Claire Donovan, editor-in-chief of the most successful … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Ferguson's Meet Me in the Margins book and Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"His smile grows. ''After all, not everyone at Pennington shares the same appreciation of the more ... adventurous fiction as you and me."

-Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

Cover of Love Interest by Clare Gilmore

11. Love Interest

By: Clare Gilmore

3.74

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

A sparkling adversaries-to-lovers romcom set at a magazine publisher in Manhattan. When Casey and A… read more

Similar categories in Clare Gilmore's Love Interest book and Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
"Beside me (he always sits next to me, and I never understand why)"

-Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

"But just because you don’t make art doesn’t mean you don’t inspire it."

-Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

"I won’t be good at it,' I admit to Alex softly, biting my lip. 'Even worse, I’ll probably choke.' His expression goes soft and open, and maybe even a little bit tortured, like my words have bothered …"

-Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

"The funny part is my gut reaction is to come up with something to say next that won't make him uncomfortable. What would I do otherwise? Cause a scene? Claim harassment by a man who likely helped pay…"

-Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

Cover of The Rule Book (The Cheat Sheet, #2) by Sarah       Adams

12. 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 Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Shipped by Angie Hockman

13. Shipped

By: Angie Hockman

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Unhoneymooners meets The Hating Game in this witty, clever, and swoonworthy novel following a w… read more

Similar categories in Angie Hockman's Shipped book and Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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 Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Practice Makes Perfect (When in Rome, #2) by Sarah       Adams

15. Practice Makes Perfect (When in Rome, #2)

By: Sarah Adams

4.02

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

A small-town sweetheart and an emotionally unavailable bad boy try to find some common ground in th… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Adams's Practice Makes Perfect (When in Rome, #2) book and Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of When in Rome (When in Rome, #1) by Sarah       Adams

16. When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)

By: Sarah Adams

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Opposites certainly attract for the stranded pop star and small-town baker in this charming slice o… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Adams's When in Rome (When in Rome, #1) book and Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No one loves anything they're miserably chained to."

-Sarah Adams, When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)

"I tell you what makes me madder than a hornet. When people tell other people how they should feel."

-Sarah Adams, When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)

"Care is reckless because it doesn’t come with the seat belt that selfishness offers. Care has so much to lose, and almost always ends in heartbreak."

-Sarah Adams, When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)

"Dry your tears and kick this gloomy attitude in the pants, Amelia!" I say out loud to myself because who else does a girl talk to when she's alone in the car in the middle of a mental breakdown?"

-Sarah Adams, When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)

Cover of You, with a View by Jessica  Joyce

17. You, with a View

By: Jessica Joyce

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Two weeks on the road... stuck in a car with your high-school enemy.Noelle Shepard is grieving the … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Joyce's You, with a View book and Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1) by Lynn Painter

18. Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1)

By: Lynn Painter

3.68

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Things get textual when a steamy message from a random wrong number turns into an anonymous relatio… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1) book and Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
""

-Lynn Painter, Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1)

"It was like the line in You've Got Mail. "All this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings."

-Lynn Painter, Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1)

"When things don't go as planned, we can either pout and behave like a reticent child, or take some time to reconsider our choices. Ruminate over what we've done in our past, and how best to move forw…"

-Lynn Painter, Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1)

"Instead of handing it over, I tossed it onto the floor and said, "I keep telling Mr. Wrong Number I don't need him anymore but he just won't let me go." He tossed his phone beside mine and rolled on …"

-Lynn Painter, Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1)

Cover of The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

19. The Bodyguard

By: Katherine Center

3.97

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

She's got his back. He's got her heart. They've got a secret. What could possibly go wrong? Hannah… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's The Bodyguard book and Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And I guess there really is something profoundly healing about letting somebody love you."

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

"And it’s like you’re in your life and flying above it at the same time. Like you are both on earth and in the heavens. Like you are all heartbeat and rushing pulse and warmth and softness—but you are…"

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

"When you’re not around, even for a little while, I feel like I have to go find you. I just feel this pull to be near you. I want to know what you’re thinking, and what you’re up to, and how you feel.…"

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

"And in the end, do you ever truly know for sure if you’re lovable? What a question. You don’t. You can’t. Of course not. Life never hands out the answers like that. But maybe that’s not even the righ…"

-Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

Cover of A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston

20. 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 Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

  • 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 Ex Vows by Jessica  Joyce

21. The Ex Vows

By: Jessica Joyce

4.28

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Estranged exes must stick close together to save their best friend’s wedding after a string of disa… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Joyce's The Ex Vows book and Lauren Layne's To Sir, with Love

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

21 must-read contemporary books like To Sir, with Love by Lauren Layne

Transform Your Habits

The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

Lynn Painter

3.88

Transform Your Habits

To Sir, with Love

Lauren Layne

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

Transform Your Habits

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

Abby Jimenez

4.40

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21 must-read fiction books like Love Interest by Clare Gilmore

Transform Your Habits

Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

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The Paradise Problem

Christina Lauren

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Summer Romance

Annabel Monaghan

4.10

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Not in Love

Ali Hazelwood

3.68

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