What could possibly be better than having a best friend? Having a best friend who is your soulmate and the love of your life! From the power of first love in young adult reads to adult romances where lifelong friends grow to realize there’s something more to their relationship, this list is for all the friends-to-lovers fans.
Just Another Epic Love Poem by Parisa Akhbari
For five years there have been two steady pieces to Mitra Esfahani’s life: Bea Ortega, her best friend, and The Book. The two of them have been writing in The Book since they were thirteen, filling it with one long poem about everything that has happened in their lives. The Book is Mitra’s safe place, where she can write all her feelings and sort them out. This friendship is as solid as the book that binds them together. But there is one secret that hasn’t been revealed, Mitra has fallen in love with Bea.
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The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist by Sophie Gonzales
When Ivy Winslow gets the house all to herself for an entire week, all she plans to do is watch her favorite show H-Mad, hang out with her bestie Henry, and avoid her ex-best friend, Mack, at all costs. But when she wakes up one morning and her favorite fictional character, Weston, has come to life and is in her room, she is going to need all the help she can get to figure out what is going on. Teaming up with both Henry and Mack, Ivy attempts to solve the mystery of how Weston came to life and how they can get him back into his own fictional world. This is a story of reconnection and building back a friendship with someone distant, but as Ivy and Mack work closely their newfound friendship may bloom into something more.
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The No-Girlfriend Rule by Christen Randall
It’s senior year and Hollis Beckwith is just trying to make it. Being overweight and having anxiety, paired with the desperation to keep her boyfriend Chris after high school isn’t helping. To keep her boring, but comfortable, relationship Hollis sets out to learn Chris’s favorite tabletop game, Secrets & Sorcery. There’s only one problem, the “No Girlfriends at the Table” rule. Still determined, Hollis finds her own group where she meets Gloria Castañeda, Aini Amin-Shaw, and an amazing group of girls to play with. As they play, Hollis begins to believe in herself and as an in-game romance develops between her and Aini’s character, Hollis begins to long for something more.
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The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett
There is nothing that Jesse Logan longs for more than his old life. He wants to go back to being who he was before his injury took away his dreams of being a firefighter and Alzheimer’s took away his grandfather’s recognition and memories. When a friend recommends Jesse to a paid psychological study, he may just have a way to get back to who he was and make a little money doing it. Lulu Banks just wants to find herself and someone who understands her. An application to the friendship study seems like the perfect place to make that connection until she is paired up with Jesse Logan, who was a recent blind date gone wrong. Now brought together through the program, the two of them explore their connection and see the improvement. But can they keep up their secret affair with the strict “no romance” rule in place?
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The Night Market by Jesikah Sundin
Filena ran away to the Night Market to escape but is now finding herself trapped by the stunning purple eyes of Rhylen Lonan. Every Night Market, Filena longs for the moment when Rhylen will visit her fortune-telling tent, bringing her a delicious slice of cake and an even more delicious piece of gossip. But every Night Market she is shattered by the same question, “Does my mate love me back?” Until tonight, when Rhylen asks the question and Filena sees a fire and forced marriage. But not the face nor the name of the mystery woman that he will have to marry. As the visions continue, Filena begins to suspect that she is the mystery woman in her visions. But will she be his mate or will she be his ruin?
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The Moment Promised by Amber Evergreen
Adeline Miller has never experienced love, except in the form of her childhood best friend, Finn Walker. Their friendship got her through their adolescence, but now that he and everyone else is gone at college she fills her days with work and taking care of her mother. But when Finn returns as a changed man, Adeline’s feelings start to change from that of friendship to something more. But as secrets and past sorrows resurface, Adeline will have to decide if the romance is worth the risk of hurting Finn.
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Out on a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young
Winnifred McNulty has always been independent, not taking her disability as an excuse to be coddled. Win has proved that she can do everything by herself and she has gotten along just fine. But after attending a friend’s costume party, Win and a charming man named Bo hook up and Win finds herself pregnant. Deciding to keep the baby, Win and Bo both decide to parent together and become friends in the process. But life is full of surprises and these two may be in for a big one.
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The Brightest Light of Sunshine by Lisina Coney
Grace Allen is determined to escape her traumatic past and make some friends, even go on a few dates. But Samuel ‘Cal’ Callaghan isn’t the man she would have ever imagined being her first friend. A muscular, tattoo-covered, eight-years-older man who is taking care of his little sister and running a tattoo parlor. But as their friendship grows, Grace begins to believe that she has found exactly who she needs. Cal, however, has no time for romance. Between work and caring for his sister, he has a lot on his plate. But when he meets Grace, a sweet blonde-haired woman with a mysterious past, he starts to think that he might have room for a little more on his plate.
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From Storm and Shadow by Rachel Morgan
When the Guild of Guardians murdered Silver’s parents for a crime they did not commit, she ran away. Escaping into the human world, Silver learned to live among humans who did not believe in magic or faeries. But now the Guild has found her again and he has found her. The boy who was once her best friend, the boy she once loved, and the boy who tried to murder her. But this time he desperately needs her help.
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Kamila Knows Best by Farah Heron
Kamila’s life is as close to perfect as possible, with her Bollywood movie parties, internet famous dog, an amazing job, and friends whom she helps with their love lives. Nothing could get any better, except her own love life. But Kamila has Rohan, her childhood best friend, and a stunningly handsome and successful man. They’ve always playfully flirted, but recently those flirtatious jokes have been making Kamila’s heart beat a little faster. Between her work events and planning the local shelter’s puppy prom, Kamila doesn’t have time for romance. That is until her nemesis returns to town and starts flirting with Rohan. Can Kamila balance her life and her romance to win Rohan over or will he be taken from her forever?
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The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams
Everything is going well for Britta Colby. She works at a lifestyle website, and with this new review she is writing for a new fitness app called FitMi she finally has a chance at a full-time position. Wes Lawson is the CEO of the FitMi app and has finally achieved financial security and everything he has ever dreamed of, so why does he feel so alone? He decides to go back to coaching for his app, and there he meets Britta. They form an instant connection through their online training and feelings start to form. But when the training moves from in-app to in-person things get dicey. If Britta is caught in a relationship with the trainer she is supposed to be reviewing she could lose all credibility, and if Wes is not even supposed to be training clients. The best thing to do would be for them to walk away, but how can they do that when running together feels so good?
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Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison
With the trees dying, raccoons taking over the Santa barn, and shipments going missing, Lovelight Farms is dying. To save the Christmas tree farm that she has loved since childhood, Stella Bloom enters an Instagram contest that could give the farm much-needed publicity and a $100,000 cash prize. But to make the farm seem like a nice romantic destination, she lies on her application and says that she owns the farm with her boyfriend. One problem, she doesn’t have a boyfriend. Not to worry, her best friend Luke Peters steps in. Now they find themselves in a serious relationship, but this might turn out to be the best Christmas present either of them could have asked for.
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People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Poppy and Alex are complete opposites but have been best friends for years. They live apart most of the time but have one week together every summer for the most fun vacations. That is, until two years ago when they ruined it all and have not spoken or traveled since. Now, after years apart Poppy realizes that the last time she was truly happy was that final summer with Alex. She reaches back out and asks to go on one final vacation to see if they can make things right. Now, with one week to fix everything and bring back that happiness, can the two make up and come to terms with that one thing that has stood in the middle of their perfect relationship?
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The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams
Bree Camden has been in love with her best friend, and impossibly hot NFL player, Nathan Donelson, for as long as she can remember. But she knows that he does not feel the same and Bree doesn’t want to ruin their great friendship. After a tragic car accident took away her chances at becoming a professional ballerina she opened a dance studio, but is struggling to pay the rent. No worries, Nathan buys the whole building out. But Bree is not happy and goes out, taking quite a few shots of tequila to rebel. Her plan goes horribly wrong and when she sobers up Bree realizes that she just spilled her secret crush to a TMZ reporter. Now everyone is gossiping about how perfect Bree and Nathan’s romance would be. When Nathan’s publicist comes to Bree with a plan that involves the two fake dating for three weeks, she accepts. But can she keep from giving in to her long-felt feelings?
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Unbreak Me by Michelle Hazen
Andra Lawler stays within the confines of her family’s horse ranch where she is safe from the outside world and her traumatic memories of an assault at college. But when the new farm foals become too much for her, she hires LJ Delisle, a Haitian-Creole with a warm laugh and even more warm and delicious cooking. As he realizes how lonely and afraid Andra is, he slowly bakes his way into her heart and home. But when LJ is called back home to New Orleans, Andra must decide to stay within the safety of her farm or risk everything for a possible future with LJ.
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Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Maddy has not left her house in seventeen years due to a rare disease that makes her allergic to the outside world. The only people she sees are her mother and her nurse. But when Maddy spots a moving truck outside her window one day and a tall and handsome young man moving in next door everything changes. Molly knows it is certain that she and the boy next door, Olly, will fall in love. And she is almost certain that it will end in tragedy.
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Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor and Park are two star-crossed misfits who know that first love rarely works out, but they are desperate to try. In this New York Times bestseller, you’ll follow this charming pair on a journey of one school year in 1986 that will remind you of your first love and that feeling of hopeless and reckless romance.
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