21 Best romance books like Begin Again by Emma Lord

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Begin Again

By: Emma Lord

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

As usual, Andie Rose has a plan: Transfer from community college to the hyper competitive Blue Ridg…

"Anything worth doing starts with a mess."

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

"My favorite flavor is indiscriminate fruit."

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

"I don't want to hurt anymore. I just want to understand."

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

"Yeah, but aren’t all books kind of self-insert fanfiction?"

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

If you liked the romance plot in Begin Again by Emma Lord , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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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 Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • new 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)

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2. The Do-Over

By: Lynn Painter

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this riotous young adult romp for fans of Recommended for You and A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea an… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's The Do-Over book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Everybody likes cats in sweaters"

-Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

" I had a marvelous time ruining everything "

-Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

"I know that I'm the only one who truly cares about my happiness, so I make it a priority"

-Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

"I fell in love with you on Valentine’s day, Emilie, but I need more than just seven minutes."

-Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

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3. Begin Again

By: Emma Lord

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

As usual, Andie Rose has a plan: Transfer from community college to the hyper competitive Blue Ridg… read more

Similar categories in Emma Lord's Begin Again book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • college
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"Anything worth doing starts with a mess."

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

"My favorite flavor is indiscriminate fruit."

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

"I don't want to hurt anymore. I just want to understand."

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

"Yeah, but aren’t all books kind of self-insert fanfiction?"

-Emma Lord, Begin Again

Cover of Places We've Never Been by Kasie West

4. Places We've Never Been

By: Kasie West

3.88

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary Young Adult novel about a cross-country family road trip that puts one girl and her … read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Places We've Never Been book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Have you heard the saying that when God closes a door, he opens a window?"

-Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

"But failure in life is inevitable. It’s only a problem if we let it keep us from progressing."

-Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

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5. Check & Mate

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays. After the sport led to the destru… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Check & Mate book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"— Потому что, когда я с тобой, Мэллори, все по-другому. Когда я с тобой, я больше хочу играть, чем выигрывать."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

"Because when I´m with you, Mallory, everything is different. When I´m with you, I want to play more than I want to win."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

"Nolan?' 'Hmm?' 'Why did you come to Vegas?' His fingers tighten around mine. my heart cartwheels. 'Mallory. I came because you did."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

"I think about a deserted chessboard. Only the white king on it, standing on the home square. Alone, untethered, safe from threats. Free to roam."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

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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 Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • 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 Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • 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

Cover of You Wouldn't Dare by Samantha Markum

8. You Wouldn't Dare

By: Samantha Markum

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A rom com about trying to have the summer of your life before everything changes - only to realize … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Markum's You Wouldn't Dare book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Borrow My Heart by Kasie West

9. Borrow My Heart

By: Kasie West

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

When a girl overhears a guy getting verbally destroyed by his friend for being catfished, she jumps… read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Borrow My Heart book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Not Here to Stay Friends by Kaitlyn Hill

10. Not Here to Stay Friends

By: Kaitlyn Hill

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This friends-to-lovers spin on The Bachelor follows two childhood besties reuniting to spend the su… read more

Similar categories in Kaitlyn Hill's Not Here to Stay Friends book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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12. Betting on You

By: Lynn Painter

4.10

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to … read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's Betting on You book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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13. Seven Percent of Ro Devereux

By: Ellen O'Clover

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A clever, charming, and poignant debut novel about a girl who must decide whether to pursue her dre… read more

Similar categories in Ellen O'Clover's Seven Percent of Ro Devereux book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"We're always just looking for each other."

-Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux

"You will become people you can’t even fathom yet. I wish I could be here to meet every version of you, Rosie. I know I would love each one more than the last"

-Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux

"We heard each other in that language between two people who’ve never known a life without the other in it. He didn’t have to speak to tell me he was upset. I didn’t have to show him my hurt for him t…"

-Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux

Cover of What Happens After Midnight by K.L. Walther

14. What Happens After Midnight

By: K.L. Walther

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Lily Hopper has two more weeks until she's officially finished with boarding school. With graduatio… read more

Similar categories in K.L. Walther's What Happens After Midnight book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • 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 Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • new adult
  • audiobook
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16. Long Story Short

By: Serena Kaylor

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Growing up homeschooled in Berkeley, California, Beatrice Quinn is a statistical genius who has dre… read more

Similar categories in Serena Kaylor's Long Story Short book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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17. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

By: Talia Hibbert

3.72

Format: 336 pages, ebook

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud sto… read more

Similar categories in Talia Hibbert's Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Are you worried about me, love?"

-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

"She's a pop of scarlet in the November fog."

-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

"Jesus H. Christ. It's like drowning in a bath of hormones."

-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

"You're allowed anywhere you want, as long as you're right next to me."

-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

Cover of A Guide to Being Just Friends (Jansen Brothers, #3) by Sophie Sullivan

18. A Guide to Being Just Friends (Jansen Brothers, #3)

By: Sophie Sullivan

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A playful and emotional romantic comedy from the author of Ten Rules for Faking It Hailey Sharp … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Sullivan's A Guide to Being Just Friends (Jansen Brothers, #3) book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"He'd finally put all those damn pieces back into the right place and now she was touching him, looking up at him with those eyes, standing in that dress."

-Sophie Sullivan, A Guide to Being Just Friends (Jansen Brothers, #3)

Cover of Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2) by Rachel Lynn Solomon

19. Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2)

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

They fell for each other in just twenty-four hours. Now Rowan and Neil embark on a long-distance re… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil, #2) book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • college
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • new adult
  • audiobook
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20. Just My Type

By: Falon Ballard

3.67

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

To win the job of her dreams, a relationship-prone journalist needs to learn how to stay single in … read more

Similar categories in Falon Ballard's Just My Type book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • new adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Never Vacation with Your Ex by Emily Wibberley

21. Never Vacation with Your Ex

By: Emily Wibberley

3.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old volleyball star Kaylee Jordan lives a life of player rankings, constant training… read more

Similar categories in Emily Wibberley's Never Vacation with Your Ex book and Emma Lord's Begin Again

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

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Lynn Painter

3.88

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3.94

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Begin Again

Emma Lord

3.71

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Kasie West

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Rebecca Ross

4.20

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Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

Rebecca Ross

4.05

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Emily Henry

4.27

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Stephanie Garber

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