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Getting Started With Romantic Comedy 2024

Romantic Comedy is hard to define. It depends on each reader's sense of humor, and their desire for a character-driven story. If one had to define it, you could say that the balance between the romance and the comedy is even, each feeding off of the other. If you're looking to explore the vast world of Romantic Comedy, here are some good books to start with. Of course, as with any comedy, your motion may vary! (Many of these authors have several other books. If you're interested in the title listed, click through to see what other books the author has available and what other formats they might be offered in.)

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  • Catalina Martín's lie about her American boyfriend may have gotten away from her, but when Aaron Blackford, her tall, handsome, condescending, infuriating colleague, offers to step in, the two find themselves in a fake relationship that…
    BookNew York : Atria Paperback, 2022. — Fiction Armas
  • Can love beat the odds when the odds are two mothers dead-set against it? A forced-proximity, friends-to-lovers romantic comedy.
    eBookKobo Originals, 2022
  • As a bookshop owner fights against censorship with an underground book club, she also finds small town secrets and unexpected romance.
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2022] — Fiction Robinson
  • When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos.
    BookNew York : Jove, 2021. — Fiction Hazelwood
  • Claire depends upon a life without surprises. And Delilah Green is an unwelcome surprise…at first. Delilah swore she would never go back to Bright Falls, but while she's here she may as well have some fun.
    BookNew York : Jove, 2022. — Fiction Blake
  • Olive (the maid of honor) and Ethan (the best man) are sworn enemies. But when a free honeymoon is on the table, these enemies become fake newlyweds on a vacation full of mishaps, misunderstandings, and maybe love?
    BookNew York : Gallery Books, 2019. — Fiction Lauren
  • A love-phobic TV doctor who must convince a love-obsessed homebody they are destined to be together in this contemporary retelling of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.
    BookNew York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — Fiction Sharma
  • Nora Stephens is definitely not the heroine she reads about in books. Charlie is certainly not anyone's hero. But when this cutthroat literary agent and book editor find themselves in a small Hallmark movie-esque town, their stories may be…
    BookNew York : Berkley, [2022] — Fiction Henry
  • Florence Day is a disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own. Romance is most certainly dead... but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she’s…
    BookNew York : Jove, 2022. — Fiction Poston
  • Chloe Brown is determined to reclaim her life and confront her past. But it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the…
    BookNew York, NY : Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — Fiction Hibbert
  • What starts out as a forced friendship after a royal mishap slowly turns into something else.
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2019. — Fiction McQuiston
  • When a young woman has to join a Renaissance Faire cast in order for her younger niece to do the same, sparks fly with the Faire's director.
    BookNew York : Jove, 2019. — Fiction Deluca
  • "A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected-and the man she enlists to help her." This is the third book in a series, and while it's recommended to read all three, this one can stand alone.
    BookNew York : Berkley, [2021] — Fiction Hoang
  • "A Schitt's Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood "It Girl" who's cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn't belong."
    BookNew York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — Fiction Bailey
  • When spice farmer Cin (short for Cinnamon) drunkenly saves herself from a demon using her namesake, she ends up saving him as well—from a haze placed upon him by a witch masquerading as a god. When he asks her to help him defeat her and…
    Book[United States] : [publisher cannot be identified] [2021] — Fiction Lemming
  • "Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom."
    BookNew York : Berkley Romance, 2023. — Fiction Hazelwood
  • When author Lawrence speaks at Zora's DC bookstore, they hit it off immediately. But his snarky friend can't seem to stop getting in the way.
    BookToronto, Ontario, Canada : Harlequin MIRA, [2023] — Fiction McCoy
  • This over the top romp introduces us to Valentine, an uptight lord, and Bonny, who is anything but. When Valentine proposes to Bonny's sister, the woman literally runs away. Valentine and Bonny must venture out to retrieve her, and the…
    BookSeattle : Montlake, [2022] — Fiction Hall
  • Sophie Kinsella has written many a romantic comedy, including CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET, which was adapted to film by HBO. In THE BURNOUT, two burned-out adults find frustration, company, and solace in each other at a seaside resort.
    BookNew York : The Dial Press, [2023] — Fiction Kinsella
  • The first in Disney Hyperion's Meant to Be series, IF THE SHOE FITS is a contemporary adult reimagining of Cinderella. This time, it's in the world of reality television.
    BookLos Angeles : Hyperion Avenue, 2021. — Fiction Murphy