21 must-read chick lit books like The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley

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The Roughest Draft

By: Emily Wibberley

3.58

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside dow…

If you liked the chick lit plot in The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley , 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 Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • 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. 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 Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • 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

3. 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 Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • 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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4. 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 Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • 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

5. 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 Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • 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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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 Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • 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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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 Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • 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

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8. The Roughest Draft

By: Emily Wibberley

3.58

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside dow… read more

Similar categories in Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft book and Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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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 Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • 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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10. 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 Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • 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

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

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 Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Weather Girl

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's Weather Girl book and Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. How to Fake It in Hollywood

By: Ava Wilder

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A talented Hollywood starlet and a reclusive A-lister enter into a fake relationship . . . and disc… read more

Similar categories in Ava Wilder's How to Fake It in Hollywood book and Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
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14. Something Wilder

By: Christina Lauren

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily with… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's Something Wilder book and Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new 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 Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

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

17. 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 Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new 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)

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18. 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 Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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 Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

19. Funny You Should Ask

By: Elissa Sussman

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Then. Twentysomething writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing b… read more

Similar categories in Elissa Sussman's Funny You Should Ask book and Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"Glad I can trust the two of you with steak knives. Let's eat."

-Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

"It's almost like I'm coming home. Not to a place, necessarily, but to a feeling. To a possibility of more."

-Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

"He laughed. It was a great laugh, all low and dark and rich. If chocolate cake had a laugh, it would be like that."

-Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

"Thank you to my parents for taking me to the library whenever I needed to refresh my stacks of paperback romances."

-Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

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 Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • books about books
  • 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 Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

21. The Dead Romantics

By: Ashley Poston

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593336489. Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the mo… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's The Dead Romantics book and Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I feel like we’ve done a few of these . . ."

-Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

" Would've, should've, could've. Hindsight is such a bitch."

-Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

"Buying books always make me feel better, even if I never read them."

-Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

"Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them. - Florence Day"

-Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

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4.27

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Abby Jimenez

4.40

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