What To Read While You Wait for 'Funny Story' by Emily Henry
With five rom coms under her belt, Emily Henry has become one of the most popular writers of contemporary romances. Her latest, Funny Story, promises the snappy dialogue and relatable characters her readers have come to love. For anyone patiently waiting for your turn to borrow the book, we wanted to offer some suggested reads until your number is up. We previously shared 17 Readalikes for Emily Henry Books, and below are over 20 titles with similar tropes as Funny Story including roommates-to-romance, fake relationships, and opposites attract. Enjoy!
Funny Story
by Emily Henry
After being dumped for her boyfriend’s lifelong best friend, Petra, Daphne agrees to room with Petra’s freshly heartbroken ex, Miles Nowak, until she can figure things out. Scruffy and chaotic, Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne and the roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them? But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex…right?
Roommates-to-Romance
The Flatshare
by Jana Casale
Tiffy and Leon share an apartment, but they've never met. After a bad breakup, Tiffy needs a place to live, but everything is out of her budget. Desperate, she answers an ad for a flatshare. Leon, a night worker, will take the apartment during the day and Tiffy can have it nights and weekends. As they start writing each other notes, they become friends. And then maybe more.
The Roommate Pact
by Allison Ashley
When her commitment-phobic roommate and friend, Graham, suffers multiple injuries from a rock-climbing accident, ER nurse Claire Harper stays home to care for him and starts to fall for this man whose views on life and love are very different from her own.
Count Your Lucky Stars
by Alexandria Bellefleur
When a series of unfortunate events leaves her ex Olivia without a place to stay, Margot offers up her spare room. As they spend time in close quarters, Margot starts to question her no-strings stance. Olivia is everything she’s ever wanted, but Margot let her in once and it ended in disaster. Will history repeat itself or should she count her lucky stars that she gets a second chance with her first love?
First Love, Take Two
by Sajni Patel
A doctor doing her residency, Preeti Patel, discovers too late that her new roommate is her ex-boyfriend, Daniel, who is still super-hot and an amazing cook but was driven away by her traditional and strict family. Original. Can Preeti and Daniel find a way to stand up and fight for each other one last time . . . before they lose their second chance?
The Roommate
by Rosie Danan
When Clara’s childhood crush invites her to move cross-country, the offer is too tempting to resist. Unfortunately, it’s also too good to be true. After a bait-and-switch, Clara finds herself sharing a lease with a charming stranger. Josh might be a bit too perceptive—not to mention handsome—for comfort, but there’s a good chance he and Clara could have survived sharing a summer sublet if she hadn’t looked him up on the Internet...
Lease on Love
by Falon Ballard
When, after one drink too many, she mixes up a dating app with a roommate-finding app, Sadie ends up renting a room in Jack Thomas’s brownstone where she, while pursuing her floristry side hustle, realizes she has found a home with this man who is her polar opposite.
The American Roommate Experiment
by Elena Armas
Suffering from writer’s block, romance author Rosie Graham, with her own apartment under construction, shares a space with Lucas, her best friend’s cousin on whom she has a crush, who offers to take her on a series of experimental dates to jump-start her inspiration.
Fake Relationships
The Love Script
by Toni Shiloh
Hollywood hair stylist Nevaeh loves making those in the spotlight shine. But when a photo of her and Hollywood heartthrob Lamont goes viral for all the wrong reasons, they suddenly find themselves in a fake relationship to save their careers. In a world where nothing seems real, can Nevaeh be true to herself...and her heart?
Change of Heart
by Clare Lydon
When Erin Stewart hires a fake date for her parents’ anniversary party, she gets more than she bargained for. First, she snags Steph Mitchell, a professional actor with a side order of drop-dead gorgeous. Second, she runs into a brick wall of family tension. Erin doesn’t expect the fake romance with the charming Steph to feel so incredibly real. She also doesn’t predict their sizzling attraction will spiral out of control, with dizzying consequences for everyone. Is Steph Erin’s destiny, or will she be her downfall?
Funny Feelings
by Tarah DeWitt
Farley Jones is a rising comedian who hides her true feelings hidden from her hot, older manager, Meyer, who is also a dear friend. When the biggest opportunity of Farley's career comes along and forces the pair to fake-date in order to stir up publicity, it doesn't take long for their act to bring all those other funny feelings out into the open.
D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding
by Chencia C. Higgins
To elevate her brand, a closeted social media influencer goes on a reality TV show where she must convince her family and friends she's getting married to the love of her life in six weeks. If anyone guesses they're not for real, they're out. Selling their chemistry on camera is surprisingly easy, and it's still there when no one else is watching, which is an unexpected bonus.
Faking It
by Beth Reekles
When lifelong singleton Sophie lies about having a plus-one for her sister’s wedding, she enlists the sexy and charming Harry to pose as her boyfriend. He agrees to help her save face in front of her family, if she’ll help him look good to his friends after the recent implosion of his marriage. Their chemistry is undeniable, but even if Sophie has sparks with Harry, they’re both just using their fake relationship to hide from their own problems, right?
Unrealistic Expectations
by Andie J. Christopher
Dumped right before her new dating handbook hits shelves, relationship therapist Jessica Gallagher, to avoid a PR nightmare, fake dates her old crush, but after hookups “for science” and some seriously sweet gestures, she realizes their “pretend” relationship feels more real than any previous relationship ever did.
Boyfriend Material
by Alexis J. Hall
Fabricating a respectable relationship with a man with whom he shares nothing in common when his rock-star father’s comeback leads to unwanted attention, Luc stages publicity-friendly dates that become complicated by all-too-real feelings.
Opposites Attract
What is Love?
by Jen Comfort
When she and her rival, Teddy Ferguson, enter a high-stakes trivia tournament against all-time Answers! winners, including undefeated champion Hercules McKnight, they decide to combine their strengths to take down the competition, discovering just how scintillating learning can be.
The Comeback
by Lily Chu
If Ariadne Hui is going to make partner in Toronto's most prestigious law firm, she needs to stay focused at all times. But focus is the last thing on her mind when she finds her roommate's cousin, Choi Jihoon, camped out in her living room while he mends a broken heart. Jihoon is kindness and chaos personified, and it isn't long before she's falling, hard. But when she learns his real identity and is thrust onto the world stage as the mystery woman on his arm, Ari will have to find the truth of her relationship and discover the Araidne Hui she's finally ready to be.
Secretly Yours
by Tessa Bailey
Returning home to his family's California winery, Professor Julian Vos, on sabbatical from his Ivy League job, finds himself distracted from his plans to write a novel by eccentric, chronically late, unbelievably beautiful gardener Hallie Welch, who is a burst of color in his gray-scale life.
Stars in Your Eyes
by Kacen Callender
To create positive buzz about their new romantic comedy, Hollywood bad boy Logan Gray, a talented but troubled actor who the public loves to hate, and Mattie Cole, an up-and-coming golden boy, are persuaded into a fake-dating scheme. While both need the movie to be a success for their own reasons, neither thought opposites would really attract—will they have the courage to chase their own happily ever after?
Part of Your World
by Abby Jimenez
ER doctor Alexis Montgomery’s world is turned upside down by a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s 10 years younger, than her and as casual as they come—the complete opposite of sophisticated city-girl Alexis. As their short-term fling turns into a relationship, Alexis must choose between her ultra-wealthy parents and true love.
Last Call at the Local
by Sarah Grunder Ruiz
Opposites attract when Raine Hart, a free-spirited American singer-songwriter with ADHD, teams up with Jack Dunne, a charming Irishman with OCD, to revitalize his family's pub. As the end of their business collaboration draws near, they’ll have to find a way past the limits they’ve placed on themselves or let go of a love that could last a lifetime.
In a New York Minute
by Kate Spencer
Becoming media sensations after a meet-cute moment in lower Manhattan, Franny Doyle and Hayes Montgomery III are the most disastrous match until repeated chance meetings lead to unexpected love.
Summaries provided via NYPL’s catalog, which draws from multiple sources. Click through to each book’s title for more.