17 Readalikes for Emily Henry Books

by Jennifer Weiner

On her stepdaughter's wedding day to her pandemic boyfriend—the last gathering at the family's beach house in Cape Cod—Sarah is faced with lovers being revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings, and secrets, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.

by Farah Heron

Determined to marry for love in spite of her parents’ interfering matchmaking schemes, Reena Manji pretends to be engaged to a neighbor in her father’s employ in the hopes of winning a couples’ cooking competition.

by Emily Giffin

Cate and Joe are golden children of destiny, fame, and beauty who unexpectedly cross paths one afternoon with a connection that is instant and intense. But can their relationship survive the glare of the spotlight or is it doomed before it even begins?

by Katherine Center

Hannah Brooks is a bodyguard who may look like a kindergarten teacher but she knows how to use a ballpoint pen as a weapon. When she gets assigned to guard reclusive movie star Jack Stapleton during a trip to his family's ranch he has an odd request—she must also pretend to be his girlfriend. What could possibly go wrong?

by Elin Hildebrand

Mallory and Jake meet in 1993 and have a torrid, brief weekend together on Nantucket. Not wanting to disrupt their lives any more than they have to, they begin a one-weekend-a-year affair that enriches their lives but brings lasting repercussions for their families, friends, and lovers.

by Judy Blume

Caitlin and Vivian become fast friends despite their very different families. Inseparable companions during summers on Martha's Vineyard during their teens years, forging the bonds of a lifelong, complicated friendship that weathers growing up, marriage, children, careers, and betrayal. An utter classic that still holds up!

by Sally Thorne

For Lucy and Josh, executive assistants to the CEOs of newly merged Bexley-Gamin Publishing and complete opposites, it's hate-at-first-sight. So begins a series of daily passive-aggressive maneuvers and mind games each played with the intensity of a gladiator fight. Their mutual antipathy grows even higher when they both go up for the same promotion. Let the high-stakes games begin! One of my all time favorite enemies-to-lovers romances!

by Mia Sosa

The top wedding coordinator in Washington, D.C., Carolina Santos is offered an opportunity of a lifetime, but there is just one hitch—she has to collaborate with the best man from her own failed nuptials—and decides to dish out a little payback of her own until the unexpected happens.

by Sonia Hartl

Ex grad school star Brinkley Saunders works for Heartbreak for Hire, a secret service that specializes in revenge for jilted lovers, frenemies, long-suffering coworkers, and men who need to be taken down a notch. For Brinkley, it's not just a job but a mission. And she might just have met her match in Mark, the new Heartbreak male employee who also happens to be a recent ex-target of Brinkley. Suddenly the mix of business and pleasure has never been so complicated. 

by Alexis Daria

Michelle Amato has built a thriving graphic design business, so what if her love life is nonexistent? Gabriel Aguilar left the Bronx at eighteen to escape his parents' demanding expectations, but it also meant saying goodbye to Michelle, his best friend and longtime crush. Now, he's the successful co-owner of LA's hottest celebrity gym, with an investor who insists on opening a New York City location and Michelle is brought on board to spearhead the new marketing campaign. As they work together, old feelings resurface—can they resolve their past mistakes, or is it only a matter of time before Gabe says adiós again?

by Holly Peterson

Single mom Katie moves to the Hamptons for summer employment and finds herself in a whirlwind romance with George, a wealthy New York investor, and a front seat to lavish parties, elite country clubs, extramarital affairs, and crazy shopping sprees. However, the more she immerses herself in her new lifestyle the more unsure she is of what she wants and where she belongs. It's only when she meets handsome, local Luke that her world starts to make sense.

by Kate Spencer

When Franny meets Hayes, it's the opposite of a meet-cute—she's just been laid off, and her dress is caught in the subway doors. As if her day could get any worse, the flimsy fabric rips exposing her entire backside. Hayes is the rich, rude guy who offers to give Franny his coat—alongside an unwelcome zing of attraction. He may have saved her but that one act seems to be his only redeeming quality. Unfortunately, the entire encounter is caught on camera and goes viral and suddenly Franny and Hayes must reluctantly play along as the city roots for the #subwaybaes. But could love IRL be just one stop away for the feels reluctant lovers?

by Alexandria Bellefleur

A free-spirited social media astrologer agrees to a fake relationship with a grumpy, no-nonsense actuary to appease their respective families during the holidays. Their arrangement expires on New Year’s Eve, but maybe opposites can attract when true love is written in the stars?

by Tia Williams

Fifteen years ago, bestselling authors Eva and Shane, as teens, spent one crazy, torrid, mind-bending week together being in love and then never seeing each other again. And unknowingly they have used each other and that week as literary inspiration. Now all these years later, they have one hot and steamy week in New York City to reconnect and figure out who they are to each other, to themselves, and to their families and friends.

by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Shay Goldstein and Dominic Yun are two Seattle public radio station producers who can't stand each other. As the two battle it out, their mutual antipathy and sexual tension lead them to doing a radio show/podcast as exes doling out relationship advice. Except, of course, they're not exes. They don't like lying to their audience but they like unemployment even less. But the more popular the show becomes, the less farfetched the relationship between them begins to seem. 

by Kosoko Jackson

Pretending to still be his ex’s current boyfriend in front of his parents, Kian reluctantly winds up being Hudson’s plus-one at a splashy Georgia wedding and the pair find themselves in need of hashing out their true feelings. 

by Carley Fortune

When Persephone's parents bought the lake house next to Sam's when she was 12 she had no idea just how much it would impact her life. She and Sam spent the next five summers falling in love and it took just one for it to all fall apart. Now, twelve years later, they have one weekend to make it right.

"This love is good, this love is bad
This love is alive back from the dead, oh-oh, oh
These hands had to let it go free, and
This love came back to me" - This Love by Taylor Swift

*Note*: This book may have as many holds as Emily Henry's books, but it's the perfect readalike and completely worth the wait!