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Do you prefer books rather than movies? Are you a bookworm? Do you love reading books? If so, then are you looking for the best romcom books to read? If your answer to all these questions is a BIG YES, then this article is for you.
This article highlights just the right best rom com novels that you need. But before that, let's dive into why reading is essential, which other genres are there and what rom com is all about?
You must be wondering why your English teacher always advises you to read as much as you can. Reading not only helps you to gain different perspectives, it embraces your language and helps you learn new words and improve your general knowledge.
Reading helps you to improve your speaking skills as it improves your literacy and enhances your writing skills. "One cannot fully understand the story if not concentrated."
In today's world, where mobiles phones distract our focus, reading helps to regain your attention and focus which improves your ability to concentrate.
In today's world, all of us spend much more screen time than we ever did. Due to this, we lose sleep and are not able to concentrate well.
Reading helps you create a bedtime routine with less amount of screen time which helps to stimulate your brain and keep a calm mind.
Reading books helps one to reduce stress as it has the extraordinary power to transfer one into a whole different world. Moreover, reading has the power to motivate one to stay positive and never give up regardless of its genre.
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Best Rom Com Books To Read
Rom com books are stories which combine romantic and comedy genres and are fun love stories which leave a wide smile on your face.
1. The Hating Game
The hating game is a fiction rom-com book written by well known author Sally Thorne and published on August 9 2016.
It has 345 pages and is written in only the English language.
Who doesn't love a simple yet funny office love story?
This story revolves around a charming, nice and lovable lady Lucy Hutton who is loved by everyone except a cold hearted intimidating desirable man Joshua Templeman.
The story begins with Lucy and Joshua (who are trapped in an office together 40 hours a week)
who both become entrenched in an ever lasting game of one-upmanship, games like Staring game, mirror game and the HR game.
Both can't let each other win, especially with a huge promotion at stake. But why does Lucy suddenly start having steamy dreams about Joshua?
And why do they share a long enchanting kiss in the elevator if they hate each other? Is it love or just another game? How far will they both go in order for their pride and promotion? Read the book to find out.
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2. The Unhoneymooners
The Unhoneymooners is an instant New York Times BESTSELLER.
It is written by one of the bestselling authors Christina Lauren.
It was published on May 14 2019.
The book consists of 244 pages. This story revolves around Olive who is an unlucky twin in everything which includes her career, her love and her life.
On the other hand, her sister Ami is the luckiest twin who managed to finance her whole wedding with her handsome and adorable fiance.
When the entire family gets food poisoning, Olive must spend her time on an all expense paradise paid honeymoon with her one and only sworn enemy and the best man, Ethan ,since they are the only lucky 2 saved from the food poisoning.
Those who cannot spend 2 minutes next to each other, how will Olive and Ethan survive the whole trip to Hawaii, especially act as a married couple since Olive runs into her boss and must pretend at all costs to save her job?
Will they be able to manage or will things turn for good? Read the book to find out.
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3. The Love Hypothesis
The Love Hypothesis is a BuzzFeed Best Summer read of 2021.
Written by Ali Hazelwood and published on September 14 2021,
this fiction romance novel revolves around the story of Olive smith (a Ph.D. candidate) who doesn't believe in long lasting romance relationships,
kisses the first man she looks at in order to prove to her best friend (who believes in forever love) that she is dating.
The man being none other than Adam Carslen who is a hottie and well known professor.
Agreeing to being her fake boyfriend, Adam and Olive become a fake couple. However, when everything goes haywire in a huge conference, Adam fully supports his fake girlfriend in order to protect her career.
Suddenly, both of them feel a spark inside them, but will this spark continue or will it burn everything? Read the book to find out.
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4. Love in the city
Written by Jen Morris and published on October 5 2020, the book contains 392 pages.
This romance novel is all about a Kiwi girl who ventures into a big city from a small New Zealand home in order to chase after her dreams,
which is until she starts dreaming about a boy who lives upstairs.
Michael, a charming single dad, is cold hearted and grump. But ever since she has seen him, she can't stop fantasizing about him.
Trying to forget him by telling her heart that it's a tiny crush, she starts focusing on building her career and swearing off men for a while.
But can she live without dreaming about Michael? Is this the only happy ending she gets or is there something more?
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5. Room-maid
Written by one of the best selling authors Sarah Wilson, Room-maid is a romance adult fiction novel published on September 10 2020.
This story is about Madison Huntington, a girl from a wealthy family, who is determined to set her own course for life.
She leaves all her wealth, business, and her home in order to live her dreams and make a name for herself.
But soon after she finds that the real world isn't as humble and easy as she thought, Living on a teachers salary, will she be able to survive in this world and complete her dreams?
In order to get a place of her own, Madison accepts a position of a room maid of a finance whiz. Tyler Roth is a rich privileged charming guy with a stomach fluttering smile.
Will Madison be able to maintain her job, or will she fall in love which may ruin everything for her? Read the book to find out.
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6. Beach Read
The Beach Read is a contemporary romance novel written by Emily Henry and published on May 2 2020.
This 312 page novel is based on two writers, Augustus Everett and January Andrews, who are both polar opposites.
One likes to write about happily ever after while the other one likes to plot murder stories.
Until one evening, where both strike a deal to pull each other out of their creative boundaries and force them to write about each other's genres.
While Augustus embarks upon writing a happy ending novel, January must write the next great American novel.
Both help each other with writing their novels. But in doing so, will they finish their story or start a new love story? Read the book to find out.
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7. It happened one summer
It Happened One Summer is a USA Today bestseller which is written by Tessa Bailey and was published on July 13 2021.
This story revolves around Piper Bellinger who is a famous, fashionable influencer.
When everything goes haywire during a party landing drunk Piper out of control, her step father decides to send her to Washington where she meets huge,
handsome sea captain Brendan who thinks that Piper won't last Washington over a week?
So what will ambitious Piper who wants to prove to her step father that she is more than just a pretty face do?
It's a small town and where she keeps bumping into Brendan. But slowly they start feeling a spark, something more, some attraction.
Piper tries to ignore her feelings for Brendan but this town and Brendan already has her heart. So what will Piper do next?
Will she stay with Brendan in this town and create beautiful memories or will she listen to her mind and return to her old yet glamorous life?
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8. The flatshare
Written by Beth O’Leary, The Flat Share is published on April 10 2019.
This 401 page book is based on Tiffy Moore who requires a low cost flat as soon as possible.
Leon Twomey works at nights and requires cash. Isn't that the best idea? They both live under the same roof.
However, with both their different lives, their crazy exes, wrongly imprisoned brothers, they are about to discover that in order to have a perfect home,
they need to not follow any rules and live out their lives. Will they be able to handle the craziness or will the craziness handle them?Read the book to find out which is available at amazon.
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9. You Deserve Each Other
Written by Sarah Hogle, this book was published on April 7 2020.
This story revolves around Naomi Westfield who is sick of her perfect fiance, Nicholas Rose, who does everything for her (from holding the doors to never fighting).
Three months away from their lavish wedding, Noami finds out that Nicholas also wants out. However,
the person who ends the wedding has to pay a huge nonrefundable wedding bill.
Both of them participate in battles of pranks, sabotages.
In doing so, they both come close while being themselves and have fun. So who loses the battle and has to pay or is the wedding back on? Read the book to find out.
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10. The Soulmate Equation
The famous author of the NYT best selling book UNHONEYMOONERS is back with another humorous romance novel.
The Soulmate Equation, written by Christina Lauren, was published on May 18 2021.
This story is about a single mom, Jess Davis, who is a science wizard but is too afraid to step back in the dating world.
This is until she tries in a company and finds a compatible match, Dr Pena, who is a stubborn man and not at all a soulmate material for her.
But as the company pays her to hangout with Dr. Pena, she starts to wonder and realize that there is more to this equation.
Will she be interested and get back to dating Dr. Pena or will she get back with her old self making ends barely meet? Read the book to find out.
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11. Made in Manhattan
The novel is about a spoiled and affluent Manhattan socialite who must educate
an unpolished and denim-loving nobody from the Louisiana Bayou on how to fit in with New York City's upper crust.
Fans of Christina Lauren and Sally Thorne will enjoy this novel.
The novel revolves around Violet Townsend who has always been a people pleaser.
Her grandmother asks her to teach her how to fit in with New York City's elite.
And Cain Stone who was born and raised in rural Louisiana and now makes his way in New Orleans. The novel shows how the finest things in life may often come from the most unexpected places.
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12. People We Meet on Vacation
A great romantic novel by the author Emily Henry who writes stories about love and family suitable for both teens and adults.
This novel is about two best friends who have completely different personalities, Alex and Poppy.
Even though they are so different there is something that keeps them so close.
Alex and Poppy have a long-distance friendship; however, they have a tradition where
they spent one blissful week of vacation together every summer for the past decade.
Until something happens on the trip that distances them. But when Poppy convinces Alex to take one more trip to resolve the tension, what happens next is exciting.
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13. The Spanish Love Deception
This romantic novel by Elena Armas has the perfect enemies to lovers trope.
What happens is the protagonist named Catalina Martín is desperate to find a date for her sister’s wedding.
She had told a lie about having an American boyfriend and now everyone eagerly waits to see him.
The tricky part is that the wedding is in Spain and it doesn’t make it any easier to find a fake American boyfriend who is ready to fly to Spain.
Just when she was hopeless, Aaron Blackford offers her help. She is skeptical since he gets on her nerves, though as their fake dating begins her mind and heart change their opinion.
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14. The Kiss Quotient
The novel written by Helen Hoang is about a 30-year-old girl who has almost no experience or charm when it comes to love life.
She’s the type to believe that the world works on math and logic and there is nothing that calculations cannot solve.
A nerd that has no experience in love life surprisingly excels at her career.
Her life takes a turn for the better when she hires an escort, Michael Phan.
Michael, being the professional, teaches a lot of things to Stella.
Stella soon learns not just to love his kisses, but also to want everything else he makes her feel. Do you think the feelings are mutual?
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15. Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston's 2019 LGBT romance novel named Red, White, and Royal Blue revolves around Alex Claremont-Diaz,
the United States' First Son, and his romantic relationship with Prince Henry, a British prince.
It is about discovering and realizing one’s sexuality.
Alex Claremont-Diaz, the protagonist, is the son of America's first female president who is preparing to compete for re-election in 2020.
Following a mishap at a royal wedding, Alex is forced to pretend to be friends
with Britain's Prince Henry in order to prevent a diplomatic and media crisis from distracting from his mother's election campaign. The goal is to minimize the damage, and the two eventually become friends.
When Henry confesses that he is gay and Alex discovers he is bisexual, they finally become romantically connected. This romance needs to be balanced with keeping Alex’s mother’s reputation.
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16. Little Women
Little Women is a novel that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from childhood to adulthood, and it is written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott.
The story addresses three primary themes: "domesticity, profession, and real love,
all of them interconnected and each crucial to the achievement of its protagonist's individual identity."
According to Sarah Elbert, Alcott invented a new genre of literature by combining components from romantic children's fiction with others from emotional novels, resulting in a completely new genre.
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17. Just Friends
The Agency series is set in the fascinating world of advertising and is centered in London.
The series is a delightful blend of dramatic romance and laugh-out-loud humor that follows the linked lives of a group of powerful businesswomen.
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18. It Ends with Us (Volume 1)
Colleen Hoover It Ends with Us is a romance novel released on August 2, 2016 by Atria Books is based on Hoover's mother and father's relationship.
Ends with Us is about Lily Bloom, a recent college graduate who relocates to Boston and starts her own floral shop.
She falls for physician Ryle Kincaid, who is at first hesitant to pursue a meaningful relationship with her.
As their friendship develops, Lily has an unexpected run-in with her first love, Atlas Corrigan.
Atlas' reappearance endangers her relationship with Ryle and compels her to confront the traumas of her past and present. Lily is forced to choose between her two loves and what is best for her, what do you think her choice would be?
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19. A Plane Story
The novel is fictitious, however, the event/ conditions in which the story occurs are factual.
It is about the Iceland volcanic eruption in 2010 that cost millions of euros in damage. Air travel was disrupted for up to a month, with medical and financial consequences.
The protagonist is Dev, whose ex is about to get married. However, he still wants to pursue his ex and break off the wedding.
A similar is the case with the groom’s ex i.e., Tara. Dev and Tara are left trapped at Heathrow when Iceland's volcanic explosion affects worldwide air transport.
The two of them might find their future when they started pursuing their past, some might say they failed successfully.
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20. The Ex Talk
The novel by Rachel Lynn Solomon is great if you want enemies to love a crispy storyline.
Shay Goldstein, the main character, has worked as a producer for over a decade.
But there's been a continual fight between her and her newest coworker, Dominic Yun, who just finished a journalism master's degree and believes he knows all there is to know about public radio.
The plot and the feelings change as their employer determines Shay and Dominic are the ideal co-hosts for the show named “The Ex Talk.”
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21. In a Holidaze
The book is written by Christina Lauren about a girl named Maelyn Jones and how nothing in her life is going right.
The problems in her life include no professional success, romantic error, and she has to live with her parents.
And the biggest problem occurs when she can’t visit the snowy Utah cabin with her family anymore.
But soon something happens that changes her life and her perception of reality. Is it magic? Or an illusion?
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22. Hook, Line, and Sinker
This novel by Tessa Bailey has the typical boy whose charm no girl can resist,
he likes to keep it casual with girls and just likes to have fun.
The guy’s name is Fox Thornton and he is dedicated to meaningless flings till he meets Hannah Bellinger who doesn’t seem to find him romantically appealing and they become pals.
However, Thornton already starts falling for her and can’t sacrifice what they have.
Things get interesting when Hannah moves in with Thornton and he has to resist the way he’s feeling as maybe the feelings are one-sided.
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23. The Worst Best Man
This novel by Mia Sosa depicts the love tale of Carolina, a wedding planner who was abandoned at the altar, and Max, the fugitive groom's brother.
The story begins with how Carolina Santos is left at the altar and evolves as she has to work with the brother of his ex-fiancé.
Though she hates his guts and can’t bear to be in the same room as him, she has to work with them anyway.
As they work together, they both realize the other one is not as bad as they once thought. Soon enough there are butterflies in my stomach.
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24. Boyfriend Material
The book by Alex Hall revolves around Luc, who has never had the life of an ordinary person, he’s a famous man and has to keep things in order for the media.
Recently something has happened that might leave a stain on his image and so he has to find a pleasant, normal relationship to repair his image.
Then he finds Oliver Blackwood- as sweet and normal as they get. Luc and Oliver have nothing in common other than being gay, single, and desperate for a partner for a large event.
As a result, they agree to be lovers in the public eye until the dust settles. But wouldn’t it be a dream come true if the fake relationship becomes a real one?
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25. Act Your Age, Eve Brown
The storyline revolves around Eve Brown, whose life is chaotic- in a word.
Everything she does gets ruined somehow, and she’s tired of it.
And then there is her love interest, completely opposite, everything in control, and a perfectionist.
The love interest doesn’t start off with romantic feelings in mind, but they evolve eventually as the story goes further.
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Conclusion
As said in the article, reading rom com books not only impacts your mental as well as physical health in a positive way but also gives you a source of entertainment and helps you to improve and widen your imagination.
Romcom books aren't just stories, they are your imagination and just the right amount of drama and spice that one might need in their life. The rom com novel industry is a $1.08 billion dollars a year industry.
Mystery novel industry plus the science fiction industry combined make up the size of the rom com industry. Above listed are the top best rom com novels that you might just need to find. All of these romcom books are available on Amazon.
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
1. What is the best Romcom of all time?
Picking a single book within a huge genre can be very difficult indeed. However, in our opinion, all the 10 books listed above can be considered to be among the best RomCom books to be ever published.
2. What is the most read romance book?
To get the true essence of romance, I recommend reading It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey to begin with. You can conduct your own research to select a book that meets all your RomCom requirements as well.
Here are the best rom com books to read
