Books like Love and Other Words

If you liked Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. PS, I Love You

    Cecelia Ahern · 2004

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    Widowed at thirty, Holly Kennedy follows ten monthly letters left by her late husband Gerry, facing grief, loving family chaos and slow…

  2. After You

    Jojo Moyes · 2015 · Me Before You #2

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    Lou grieves Will, falls from a roof, joins a group, and meets Sam and a surprise from Will's past.

  3. Slammed

    Colleen Hoover · 2012 · Slammed #1

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    Grieving Layken falls for neighbor Will, then learns he is her teacher, and poems carry them.

  4. Just for the Summer

    Abby Jimenez · 2024 · Part of Your World #3

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    Emma and Justin date to break a matching curse, then face sudden guardianship and illness on Lake Minnetonka.

  5. One True Loves

    Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2016

    Because shares tags: romance, second chances.

    Emma Blair loses husband Jesse presumed dead, rebuilds life in Acton with fiance Sam, then Jesse returns alive after years missing, forcing…

  6. All the Bright Places

    Jennifer Niven · 2015

    Because shares tags: grief, romance.

    Grieving Violet and struggling Finch wander Indiana for a school project and each other.

  7. Regretting You

    Colleen Hoover · 2019

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    A mother and daughter grieve the same men differently after a crash, and secrets about paternity test them both.

  8. Persuasion

    Jane Austen · 1817

    Because shares tags: romance, second chances.

    Anne Elliot, twenty-seven and unmarried, meets the sailor she once refused when his fortunes rise.

  9. Norwegian Wood

    Haruki Murakami · 1987

    Because shares tags: grief, romance.

    Toru recalls 1969 Tokyo, torn between fragile Naoko and lively Midori after a friend's suicide.

  10. Every Summer After

    Carley Fortune · 2022

    Because shares tags: romance, second chances.

    Percy returns to Barry's Bay after years away and faces Sam, first love and the mistake that broke them.

  11. All Your Perfects

    Colleen Hoover · 2018

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    Quinn and Graham's perfect love frays under infertility, and they must decide what perfect means now.

  12. If I Stay

    Gayle Forman · 2009 · If I Stay #1

    Because shares tags: romance, grief.

    Mia Hall watches her body after a crash and must decide whether to live for Adam and cello.

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