25 LIGHT ROMANTIC COMEDY BOOKS

 

25 Light Romantic Comedy Books 

by Asteria Ametes 

Here are 25 light-hearted Contemporary books recommendation that will have rolling on the floor and leave you with a thousand butterflies in your stomach.

You will find books with all different tropes: fake dating, sunshine X grump, enemies to loves and so many more.

Hope you find your next read

Please comment down below: book you are going to read next.

 

1.  The love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

 

 To prove to her best friend that her love life is going well, Olive Smith, a third-year Ph.D. candidate, did what everyone does: panic and kiss the first person she saw.

Should we call it luck or fate that the person she kissed happened to be none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor, and a well-known ass. 

That's why Olive is taken aback when he offers to keep her secret and pretend to be her boyfriend.

2.  The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

She has been unlucky her whole life

Until she had the chance to go on a Hawaiian trip in place of her sister who had food poisoning at her own wedding.

Of course, there is a twist, she has to go with her sworn enemies and pretend that they are newlyweds.

For two sworn enemies, anything can happen during the Hawaiian trip of a lifetime—maybe even love—in this romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling authors of Roomies.

3.  The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Lucy and Joshua HATE each other. They are completely different from each other. Where Joshua is joyless, has an upright approach to his job, and never smiles, Lucy likes to wear overly bright clothes and is a people pleaser.
Now they are competing for the same position. Lucy has had enough; she is going to bring him down.

 

 

4.  The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas

 

Catalina Martin has four weeks to find and bring a boyfriend to her sister’s wedding back in Spain.
Aaron Blackford. The man whose main occupation was making my blood boil had just offered himself to be her date. Right after inserting his nose in my business, calling her delusional, and calling himself her best option. 

 

5.  The American roommate experiments by Elena Armas

Rosie Graham has just quit her well-paid job to pursue her secret career as a romance writer. Now, she has terrible writer’s block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally collapses on her.
Luckily, she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and has an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks.

 

6.  Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Nora is a ruthless literary agent at the pinnacle of her profession. Her entire life revolves around books.

 

Charlie is an editor with a knack for turning out best-sellers. He's also Nora's work enemy.

 

Nora has been through enough break-ups to understand that she is the one-man date before they find their happily ever after. Nora's sister has convinced her to swap her city job for a month's vacation in Sunshine Falls in order to avoid another dating disaster.

 
It's a small town straight out of a romance novel, except Nora keeps running into none other than ...Charlie.

 

7. Beach Read by Emily Henry

January and Gus are both writers.
January is a hopeless romantic who narrates her life like she's the lead in a blockbuster movie. Whereas, Gus is a serious literary type who thinks true love is a fairy tale.
But they have more in common than you'd think:
They're both broke.
They've got crippling writer's block.
And they need to write bestsellers before summer ends.
The result? A bet to swap genres and see who gets published first.

The risk? In telling each other's stories, their worlds might be changed entirely...

 

8. The Roommate by Rosie Danan

 

The Roommate follows Clare, an over-achieving, well-mannered, utterly predictable girl. After a failed attempt to chase her childhood crush in LA, she finds herself sharing a house with Josh, a charming, laid-back LA… porn star.

 

 

 9.  You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry

This book is also known as People We Meet On Vacation
Two friends
Ten summer trips
Their last chance to fall in love
Poppy and Alex have been going on summer trips together for the last 10 years until 2 summers ago, It all goes wrong.

This summer: Poppy asks Alex to join her on one last trip. A trip that will determine the rest of their lives.

 

10.  The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

 

Khai Diep has no big, important emotions—like grief. And love. He thinks he's defective. His family knows better—that his autism means he just processes emotions differently.

When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride. As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place.

11.  The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

 
Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with her bare hands

Jack Stapleton's a Hollywood heartthrob

Hannah is hired as Jack’s bodyguard to protect him from a stalker.

When Jack's mom gets sick, he comes home to the family's Texas ranch to help out. Only one catch: He doesn't want his family to know about his stalker. Or the bodyguard thing. And so, Hannah - against her will and her better judgment - finds herself pretending to be Jack's girlfriend as a cover.

12. Better than the Movies by Lynn Painter

 Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar—and maybe snag him as a prom date—even befriend Wes Bennet.

Liz and Wes an annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she’s shocked to discover that she likes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love—and rethink her own ideas of what Happily Ever After should look like.

 

13.  The Summer of Broken Rules by K.L. Walther

When Meredith Fox lost her sister, Claire, eighteen months ago, she shut everyone out.

Meredith's family's annual game of assassin at Martha's Vineyard during a summer wedding is the perfect chance to honor her sister's legacy and finally join the world again. But when she forms an alliance with a cute groomsman, she's at risk of losing both the game ... and her heart.

14.  Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years?

All Lina wants to do is get back home. But then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina’s uncovered a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries.

A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. It’s a secret that will change everything Lina knew about her mother, her father—and even herself.

15.  Anna and the French Kiss Stephanie Perkins

Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris - until she meets Etienne St. Clair: perfect, Parisian (and English and American, which makes for a swoon-worthy accent), and utterly irresistible. The only problem is that he's taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her almost-relationship back home.

As winter melt into spring, will a year of romantic near-misses end with the French kiss Anna - and readers - have long awaited?

16.  Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer—they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.

17.  The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams

Bree Camden, who is helplessly in love with her longtime best friend and extremely hot NFL legend, Nathan Donelson.

After a car accident ended her chance at becoming a professional ballerina, Bree changed paths and now owns her own dance studio, with big dreams to expand it. But one more rent increase could mean the end of the studio entirely.

Then, as usual, Nathan comes to the rescue and buys the entire building. A stubborn Bree is not happy about it and decides to rebel with a few—okay, maybe more than a few—of tequila shots. Then her plan backfires as she spills her deepest, darkest secret to a TMZ reporter. One viral video later, the world thinks Nathan and Bree are the perfect couple.

 

Before they can really talk about her confession, Nathan’s publicist proposes a big opportunity that could mean financial security for Bree. The catch? They have to pretend to be in love. For three whole weeks.

18.  It Only Happens in the Movies by Holly Bourne

Audrey is over romance. While dealing with her parents’ contentious divorce, a breakup of her own, and shifting friendship dynamics, she has every reason to feel cynical. But then she meets Harry, her fellow coworker at the local cinema. He’s brash, impulsive, and a major flirt. And even though Audrey tries to resist, she finds herself falling for his charms.

But in this funny, insightful, and ultimately empowering novel, love—and life—isn’t what it’s like in the movies.

19.  Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Today, she hates him.

It's the last day of senior year. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals for all of high school, clashing on test scores, student council elections, and even gym class pull-up contests.

Tonight, she puts up with him.

When Neil is named valedictorian, Rowan has only one chance at victory: Howl, a senior class game that takes them all over Seattle, a farewell tour of the city she loves.

But after learning a group of seniors is out to get them, she and Neil reluctantly decide to team up until they're the last players left—and then they'll destroy each other.

As Rowan spends more time with Neil, she realizes he's much more than the awkward linguistics nerd she's sparred with for the past four years.

And, perhaps, this boy she claims to despise might actually be the boy of her dreams.

Tomorrow … maybe she's already fallen for him.

20.  Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes

Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else’s shoes?

Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope—she doesn’t even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in.

That’s because Sam Kemp—in the bleakest point of her life—has accidentally taken Nisha’s gym bag. But Sam hardly has time to worry about a lost gym bag—she’s struggling to keep herself and her family afloat. When she tries on Nisha’s six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes, the resulting jolt of confidence makes her realize something must change—and that thing is herself.

21.  Love at First Spite by Anna E. Collins

Interior designer Dani Porter’s buying the vacant lot next to her ex-fiancé’s house who cheated on her. Dani plans to build a vacation rental that will a) mess with his view and his peace of mind and b) prove that Dani is not someone to be stepped on.

That plan quickly becomes complicated when Dani is forced to team up with Wyatt Montego, the handsome, haughty architect at her firm, and the only person available to draw up blueprints. Wyatt is the kind of man who eats his sandwich with a knife and fork.

But as they spend time together on- and off-site, Dani glimpses something deeper beneath that hard veneer, something surprising, vulnerable, and real. And the closer she gets to her goal, the more she wonders if winning revenge could mean losing something infinitely sweeter…

22.  Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon

A TV meteorologist and a sports reporter scheme to reunite their divorced bosses with unforecasted results in this electrifying romance from the author of The Ex Talk.

Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job as a TV meteorologist. The only person who seems to understand how she feels is sweet but reserved sports reporter Russell Barringer.

In the aftermath of a disastrous holiday party, Ari and Russell decide to team up to solve their bosses’ relationship issues. Between secret gifts and double dates, they start nudging their bosses back together. But their well-meaning meddling backfires when the real chemistry builds between Ari and Russell.

Working closely with Russell means allowing him to get to know parts of herself that Ari keeps hidden from everyone. Will he be able to embrace her dark clouds as well as her clear skies?

23.  The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley

Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten book topping bestseller lists.

But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public.

They haven't spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract.

The last thing they ever thought they'd do again is hole up in the tiny Florida town where they wrote their previous book, trying to finish a new manuscript quickly and painlessly.

24.  You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle

Naomi Westfield has the perfect fiancé. And she is miserably and utterly sick of him.

Naomi wants out, but there's a catch: whoever ends the engagement will have to foot the nonrefundable wedding bill.

When Naomi discovers that Nicholas, too, has been feigning contentment, the two of them go head-to-head in a battle of pranks, sabotage, and all-out emotional warfare.

But with the countdown looming to the wedding that may or may not come to pass, Naomi finds her resolve slipping. Because now that they have nothing to lose, they're finally being themselves - and having fun with the last person they expect: each other.

25.  It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

Piper Bellinger is a wild child. So, her stepfather cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father's dive bar... in Washington.

Piper hasn't even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won't last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can't do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She's determined to show her stepfather—and the hot, grumpy local—that she's more than a pretty face.